The Washington Capitals and Arizona Coyotes battled to the death in a hockey war that not one human has ever seen prior. Sike, this game was real boring and the sleeping pets everyone sent in on Twitter were the only things keeping me awake.
First period? Just skip it. Nobody did anything. TJ Oshie, definitely spurred on by the cat pics, opened the scoring six minutes into the second.
Christian Dvorak tied things up on a power play. Evgeny Kuznetsov broke that tie minutes later. Fischer re-tied it very late.
Keller finished it in overtime.
Coyotes beat Caps 3-2.
- There were a grand total of seven shots in the first period of this game at Gila River Arena. Due to this, I had time to ask Twitter for Gila monster facts. Study these most important ones for the eventual pop quiz:
The word Gila spelled backwards is alig
— 🎄em (5-9)🎄 (@e_munson) December 23, 2017
a group of gila monsters is called a lounge lol
— Alex Ervin (@AlexErvin928) December 23, 2017
Did you know:
Gila monsters spend nearly all of their time in burrows underground, either ones they have dug themselves or more likely, those stolen from other animals.— Todd Corbin (@ToddCorbin2) December 23, 2017
This one time I saw a Gila monster on a field trip #GilaMonsterFacts
— Muzzah (@MuzzMuzzington) December 23, 2017
a cobra once bit a Gila monsters leg. After 5 days of excruciating pain, the cobra died
— Bernie (@tbdtbh) December 23, 2017
The Gila monster is one of only two venomous lizards in the world
— Sean O'Leary (@soleary053) December 23, 2017
There is a drug for the management of Type 2 diabetes based on a protein from Gila monster saliva
— JGH64 (@JennGH_CapsFan) December 23, 2017
- Evgeny Kuznetsov was the first Capitals forward to tally a shot on goal. He did so 21 minutes into the game. About 25 minutes later he would score his 12th of the season. #92 was the best player on the ice Friday night for my money.
- Despite the loss, great night for Philipp Grubauer. He made 24 stops, his biggest on Tobias Rieder’s shorthanded breakaway. He has had a fantastic December after a very rocky beginning of the season.
- Do yourself a favor and check out this thread of the best pets being sleepy pets:
There were a grand total of seven shots in that period. You're probably falling asleep, which means your pets are asleep. Please send us pics of your sleeping animals.
— RMNB (@russianmachine) December 23, 2017
- The Caps out-attempted the Coyotes 28 to 9 in the second period. That’s domination, but only one goal to show for it.
- TJ Oshie had the only goal in that period and it was a beauty. It was Oshie’s first since returning from his concussion and featured a very heady play by Jakub Vrana to assist.
- The last time the Caps won in Arizona? January 16, 2006. You may remember that date as the day “The Goal” was scored by a certain rookie Russian. That “streak” continues.
- That’s one disappointing loss against a very bad team. Worst overtime period I’ve ever seen the Caps play.
- But hey, that SpaceX launch earlier looked pretty sick:
I could see fairing deploy from the ground. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/YTNdIGI2I5
— tiny baby fingers (@kevins_fingers) December 23, 2017
#JoeBSuitOfTheNight #CapsYotes pic.twitter.com/MQPv3OcILp
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) December 23, 2017
Joe B suit of the night
See you tomorrow for Nate Schmidt and company.
Full Coverage of Caps at Coyotes
Headline photo: NatGeo
