As your government prepares to shutdown, it appears that your favorite hockey team has got a head start. The Washington Capitals, in the back half of a back to back and coming off of a bye week (thanks NHL), matched up with the struggling Montreal Canadiens at Capital One Arena. A game that would normally star Canadian beauts Braden Holtby and Carey Price instead gave us Philipp Grubauer and Antti Niemi. Which backup would come out on top?
Nothing happened in the first. Max Pacioretty and John Carlson traded power play goals in the second. Paul Byron put the Habs up one in the third. Pacioretty would get another on an empty netter. Lars Eller breathed new life in a game with a marker of his own, but that was it.
Canadiens beat Caps 3-2.
the panthers just had a bunch of shots turned aside by subban a goal for us would be good right about meow
— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) January 20, 2018
Is Manny Machado still an Oriole? pic.twitter.com/9xjoInPkhU
— cara (@carabahniuk) January 20, 2018
After a week off, we are spoiled with two nights in a row of Caps hockey #JoeBSuitOfTheNight #CapsHabs pic.twitter.com/xgZeRSJ8p7
— cara (@carabahniuk) January 20, 2018
Joe B suit of the night
See you Sunday afternoon for a match up with a crowd favorite, the Philadelphia Flyers.
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