The Washington Capitals will take just a small jog down south from Manitoba to take on another Western Conference foe in the Minnesota Wild. This isn’t the same Wild team that was winning twelve games in a row last year, but Bruce Boudreau still has his bunch firmly in the playoff picture.

Another 8PM start on the ole NBCSWA. Pat will be your recapper.

Record	31-19-6	32-17-7
Shot Attempt %	46.8%	47.7%
PDO	100.9	102.2
Power Play	21.4%	21.4%
Penalty Kill	80.6%	80.0%

Projected Lines

Young Jakub is back, young Madison is not, and Philipp Grubauer will get the start. Isabelle with your full lines.

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

Djoos – Carlson
Orlov – Niskanen
Orpik – Chorney

Grubauer

Girls Still Rule

More Olympic dominance from a US woman. Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in yesterday’s Giant Slalom event. She goes for gold again tonight in her best event, the women’s slalom.

If you went to bed early, you missed @MikaelaShiffrin take her first #gold medal in giant slalom! Relive her rise from 5th place in Sochi to the top of the podium in PyeongChang. pic.twitter.com/w5YQhsnbXh

— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 15, 2018

Storylines

• Wojtek Wolski scores twice for Team Canada 16 months after breaking his neck.
• Justin Williams and his hair twin, momma Williams have reunited for the Canes mom’s trip.
• Bruce Boudreau trolls Alex Ovechkin about the latter’s Olympic hopes.
• The Capitals have some really interesting pregame rituals to say the least.
• Swedes on a log in the Mall of America.
• Both Dustin Byfuglien and Madison Bowey fined for different fouls during the Caps last game in Winnipeg.
• Barry Trotz thinks Jay Beagle has been a good pup.

Celebrity Big Brother

This is NBA Champion Metta World Peace, also known as Ron Artest, in the Celebrity Big Brother house making two “ducks” fight in a hot tub.

Full RMNB Coverage of Caps at Wild

Headline image: Hannah Foslien