The Capitals have swept the Bruins during the last three seasons. That 9-0-0 record will be challenged as the Caps return to the road for a Saturday night date against the big bad Bs, who are not big anymore but are also not really bad anymore either.
The game starts is on NBCSNDCR+L=J. It starts at 7 PM, and I, Peter (hi), will be assembling your recap. Please be gentle with me.
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| Record | 5-3-3 | 6-6-1 |
| Shot Attempt % | 52.3% | 47.7% |
| PDO | 99.2 | 102.5 |
| Power Play | 29.1% | 19.5% |
| Penalty Kill | 80.6% | 74.5% |
Projected Lines
By way of the intrepid Isabelle Khurshudyan of WaPo, the lines are changed not at all from their victory over Long Island, but…. well scroll down.
Vrana – Backstrom – Oshie
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – DSP
Stephenson – Eller – Wilson
Walker – Beagle – Chiasson
Djoos – Carlson
Orpik – Bowey
Orlov – Chorney
Holtby
Here’s this:
Trotz just said there would "possibly" be a change and it's "game-time" decision, but certainly seems O'Brien is playing. Walker took rushes
— Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) November 4, 2017
So maybe Walker is out and LOB is in?
We were all wrong about Brad Marchand
Old-school tweet:
Brad Marchand is the Sean Avery of hockey.
— RMNB (@rmnb) June 13, 2013
Whoops. Our bad. We all thought that Marchand was a pest whose only skills were in instigating and diving. Nope, turns out he’s a genuine top-tier offensive forward, and boy do we feel silly.
He’s still a diver.
Storylines
- The Caps beat the Isles, but it was ugly. That’s about as bad as you can play while winning.
- Tom Wilson hit someone.
- Maybe Ovi’s best ever other winger, Viktor Kozlov, is now coach of a KHL team — for now at least.
- Only 300 comments on this story about Alex Ovechkin not sticking to sports.
- The great Kerry Fraser has been diagnosed with an untreatable form of leukemia.
- Big hit to Caps goalie depth: Ilya Samsonov has suffered an apparent concussion in the K. Meanwhile, Vitek Vanecek is rehabbing in South Carolina.
- Bs lines, courtesy of the Boston Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa:
Corrected forwards:
Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak
Heinen-Szwarz-Bjork
DeBrusk-Nash-Schaller
Beleskey-Kuraly-Czarnik— Fluto Shinzawa (@FlutoShinzawa) November 2, 2017
Defense:
Chara-McAvoy
Krug-Carlo
Postma-Miller— Fluto Shinzawa (@FlutoShinzawa) November 2, 2017
