It’s freezing outside, the NHL holiday break is over, the World Junior Classic has started, the Winter Classic is close, and we had a matchup of Metro-Division foes. The end of December is definitely fun for the hockey world, but would it be fun for Caps fans on Wednesday rivalry night?
We got sloppy nothingness through twenty minutes. And then some failed power plays on both sides, but more of the same sloppy nothingness through forty minutes. Philipp Grubauer stood on his head to keep the third…also scoreless. Overtime? Nothing there either.
So here’s some shootout bullets.
- Zuccarello put the biscuit in the basket.
- Oshie did not put the biscuit in the basket.
- Zibanejad put the biscuit in the basket.
- Ovechkin did not put the biscuit in the basket.
Rangers beat Caps 1-0.
- The ice in MSG sucks and that’s normally without a basketball game being played in the arena hours before. There was a really necessary Harlem Globetrotters game prior to this hockey match and I’m feeling a little cranky tonight so that frustrated me more than normal. Ban basketball on the same day as hockey games. Thanks.
- Combine that with a whole lot of this:
If you like passes to no one in particular this game is the game for you
— RMNB (@russianmachine) December 28, 2017
- I wrote that first bullet within the first five minutes of the period. The ice only got worse. A complete joke surface for the quality of athletes on display.World class skaters falling on their butts eleventy-trillion times, face-offs being won solely by ice bounces, bobbles right in front of both goaltenders. Just bad.
- The Capitals are now scoreless for six straight periods, plus two overtime sessions. Not ideal.
- Philipp Grubauer was otherworldly, stopping all 37 shots and earning a rare shutout loss. Player of the game, tremendous effort. His teammates just apparently hate him because he gets zero goal support whatsoever.
How to increase your trade value in less than four minutes https://t.co/v63DKZa5wU
— RMNB (@russianmachine) December 28, 2017
- The first half of the third period was miserable, horrific, blech from the Caps.
- Tom Wilson – “Holy f-bomb”.
- Troy Brouwer‘s last minute game-winning goal was the named the fifth best moment in NHL Winter Classic history. What an awesome day that was.
- Zac Rinaldo was only suspended six games for sucker punching an unknowing 19 year old rookie defenseman. Maybe one day the department of NHL Player Safety will be competent, but today is not that day.
Zac Rinaldo career goals: 11
Zac Rinaldo career games suspended: 25
The number of fucks the league seems to give: 0
— Dimitri Filipovic (@DimFilipovic) December 28, 2017
More shots of the un-starting goaltenders pic.twitter.com/A0kbQRlC3m
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) December 28, 2017
Goaltender beard update of the night
Caps have the Bruins tomorrow night back at home. One Braden Holtby will return to the net.
Full Coverage of Caps at Rangers
Headline photo: Jared Silber
