The Caps’ swing through western Canada continues tonight in Edmonton. For just the fourth time, Washington will get a closeup look at Connor McDavid, who has scored one goal and four assists in his previous three meetings with the Caps.
For their part, the Caps roster is still a mostly improvised thing, stitched together out of hall-of-famers, also-rans, AHLers, and fellows who might be just a few hours removed from intense diarrhea.
Puck drop is a little after 10 PM. Chris from the Comments will be recapping, so it’ll surely be hundo.
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| Record | 3-5-1 | 4-5-1 |
| Shot Attempt % | 55.7% | 49.2% |
| PDO | 97.6 | 100.9 |
| Power Play | 13.8% | 22.9% |
| Penalty Kill | 70.3% | 73.3% |
Projected Lines
Our pets heads are falling off. From ya girl Izzy in Edmonton.
Vrana – Backstrom – Oshie
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – DSP
Stephenson – Eller – Wilson
Peluso – Beagle – Chiasson
Djoos – Carlson
Orpik – Bowey
Orlov – Chorney
Holtby
Stranger Things?
We are a spoiler free zone until, I dunno, Tuesday-ish. Here is that banging intro theme though.
For the record, I enjoyed the heck out of season one, but the ending pulled its punches, and that undercut the whole series for me. Sean T. Collins had a scathing take on how Stranger Things commits cultural theft without sharing the gravitas of its sources. I think he’s right, but I hope season two will have a little more heft to it.
Onward, binge!
Storylines
- Edmonton has the 31st best PK in the league and the 25th best power play. Washington has its own special teams problems though.
- Nick Backstrom is expected to play tonight after his bout with the ol’ north and south.
- Tyler Graovac has been placed on IR, and Anthony Peluso has been called up from Hershey.
- Alex Ovechkin gave his winter jacket to a homeless person in Edmonton, where the low temperature is right around freezing. Good on him.
- Ian went in-depth on the Tom Wilson fight on, well, I guess it was Friday morning?
- Riley Barber finally scored up in Hershey.
- Welcome to the scoring logs, Madison Bowey and Chandler Stephenson. Enjoy your commemorative shards of puck.
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