Caps at Bruins pregame: The Boston Rag

December 14, 2017 4:51 pm

The Washington Capitals are up in snowy, gross Boston to face the Bruins. The last time the Bruins beat the Capitals was March 29, 2014. I need this trend to keep going, especially since the Celtics and the Patriots are always winning. The Bruins stayed up late last night taking home a W after a 3-2 overtime win against Detroit, while the Capitals have had a bit more rest.

No pressure or anything, but judging from history and the amount of rest each team has received, I’m pulling for a win. I’m also very sorry if everything is jinxed and we lose 38-0.

Game is at 7PM. Be sure to follow along with us on the twitter dot com (while you still can). Patrick will have your recap.


Record	15-9-4	19-12-1
Shot Attempt %	53.2%	48.0%
PDO	100.1	101.3
Power Play	19.1%	20.6%
Penalty Kill	84.9%	80.7%

Projected Lines

Nooooo changes, gang. Braden Holtby is starting and is 12-2-0 against the Bruins with a .944 save percentage. Again, no pressure.

Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson
Vrana – Kuznetsov – Chiasson
Connolly – Eller – Burakovsky
Stephenson – Beagle – DSP

Orpik – Carlson
Orlov – Niskanen
Djoos – Bowey

Holtby

Happy Highlights

Every single time the Capitals face the Boston Bruins, I think of one thing and one thing only: an absolutely unfazed Braden Holtby.

Such a beautiful time. What else happened that night? Oh yeah, I openly declared my love and allegiance to Joel Ward forever and always. I also almost blew my friend’s eardrums out.

Storylines

Why does everyone always have to talk about Sidney Crosby? What did we do to deserve this life?
Alex Ovechkin? Still as obsessed with us as we are of him.
You can get a Capitals signed ornament! I’m going to get the Nathan Walker signed one and in 20 years forget he ever existed, but tell everyone it’s Alex Ovechkin.
Karl Alzner is still a very good human. He’s just now a very good human with no hair.
Do you need a quick pep talk? Don’t take it from me, mainly because I have no words of wisdom for you, but take it from this fabulous sign from the Avs game!
These Caps fans have probably the coolest save the dates ever. Not only are these awesome, but the couple also seems cool. I’m going to show up to their ceremony.
How the heck do you say Jakub Vrana‘s first name?
2017-18 John Tortorella is slowly turning back into 2013-14 John Tortorella and the content should be…interesting.
Being totally honest, if I were to nominate someone on the Washington Capitals to create a board game fan club, it would absolutely be Jay Beagle.
Johnny Gaudreau is total, pure magic. Check this goal out.
HATs off to Evgeny Kuznetsov for his hat trick of assists during the Avs game. Get it? HATs off? Like a HAT trick?

Favorites of 2017

Back at it again with the faves of 2017. I’m going with the best viral video of 2017. The internet can be a bad place, but what many videos have shown is that it can also be a really good place. For example, my cousin thinks the video of Wendy Williams fainting was the best. Jimmy Kimmel cited the video of that football player that thanked both his wife AND his girlfriend after a match. Personally, I (as well as those on the RMNB slack and across the world) believe this should take the cake: