Tonight the Caps will return to west coast time and your personal bedtime will suffer.
Their opponent is the Colorado Avalanche and based on the league standings this is the worst team in the league. The Capitals based on league standings just so happen to be the very best team in the league. We have a worst vs. first matchup on our hands ladies and gentlemen.
Puck drop is at 10 PM on CSN.
| Team | Record | SA% | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Capitals | 50-17-8 | 53.0% | 103.2 | 22.7% (3rd) | 84.5% (7th) |
| Colorado Avalanche | 20-52-3 | 46.1% | 96.9 | 12.6% (30th) | 76.9% (28th) |
Projected Lines
We assume nothing will change other than the netminder.
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Johansson – Kuznetsov – Williams
Connolly – Eller – Burakovsky
Winnik – Beagle – Wilson
Alzner – Carlson
Orlov – Niskanen
Orpik – Shattenkirk
Grubauer
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLY BABY
Happy birthday to this little nugget. Hope you will have a great day. By the way 10 years later and your hair still sucks! @tom_wilso pic.twitter.com/4yCzUoZlo3
— andre burakovsky (@andreburakovsky) March 29, 2017
Storylines
- Tom Wilson bled his own blood after high-sticking Minnesota Wild forward, Zach Parise.
- Numbers for the morning after Capitals vs Wild.
- Expansion draft protected and available lists will now be made public, final date to be determined.
- If you are a Caps fan who threw their hat on the ice for Ovechkin’s hat trick against the Wild, Caps owner Ted Leonsis has offered to replace it.
- TJ Oshie had another multi-goal game and his second goal ended up being the overtime game winner.
- Braden Holtby becomes third player in NHL history to post three consecutive 40-win seasons.
- Alex Ovechkin scores hat trick of power play goals from his office against former bench boss Bruce Boudreau.
- As the season beings to wind down, Alex Ovechkin is winding up.
- How would coach Barry Trotz handle the playoff seeding question? Answers, here.
- Why do Alex Ovechkin’s shots keep going in when he and all of us know exactly where they are coming from?
Question for the Comments from Chris from the Comments
How was/is your day? What did you eat for lunch and/or dinner?
Photo: Doug Pensinger
