Capitals vs Senators pregame: Please win

February 27, 2018 5:37 pm

The Ottawa Senators are one of the worst teams in the league right now and tonight they are facing off against the Washington Capitals in DC. In fact, the Sens are sitting at #29 in the league standings. We have Jakub Jerabek debuting, Philipp Grubauer in net, Christian Djoos sitting out, and morale is high…ish.

Now, I don’t want to be dramatic or anything, but if we do not win this game I will personally show up to Capital One Arena and do absolutely nothing….but ohhhhhh boy, I’ll be mad as heck. I was already a tad irritated after the Capitals didn’t make even a single little gesture during trade deadline day, but then I was really mad after the showing the Capitals gave last night (if we no longer talk about it…it’s like it never happened).

So, in conclusion, I don’t want to be more than “really mad”. I want to be okay. I want the Capitals to make the playoffs, I want the defense to pick it up, I want everyone to stop being so hard on Braden Holtby, and I want to stick to the script and play Pittsburgh again in the second round. But, then we have to lose because I genuinely don’t think my heart could handle us getting through the second round. I’m too young for stress issues.

Game’s at 7 PM on NBC Sports Washington. Pat has your recap tonight and I’m hoping he brings better luck than Peter did yesterday *shakes head*.


Record	21-30-10	35-21-7
Shot Attempt %	46.2%	48.0%
PDO	98.9	101.3
Power Play	16.7%	21.9%
Penalty Kill	75.3%	79.4%

Projected Lines

We have another optional skate, but some exciting things are happening! Vrana? Back in. Other scratches tonight? Djoos, Bowey, Boyd and Chiasson:

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

Orlov – Niskanen
Kempny – Carlson
Orpik – Jerabek

Grubauer

Pride Night

Tonight’s game at Capital One Arena recognizes the LGBTQ community and the Monumental Foundation is hosting an auction to benefit the You Can Play team! You can bid on many thing including an autographed, player-used stick wrapped in the rainbow colored pride tape. The Monumental Foundation also just added some other great items to the auction:

🚨 New Items Alert 🚨

All autographed 🏳️‍🌈 @Capitals logo puck photos are now on @handbid. Also, a @Holts170 autographed Pride T-shirt and pucks from the new #Caps + Coach Trotz have been added to the auction.#HockeyIsForEveryone #HIFE #ALLCAPS

➡https://t.co/9T2B0iYpi2 pic.twitter.com/jyQnDjPVZu

— MSE Foundation (@MSEFndn) February 27, 2018

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Storylines

My hero, Alex Ovechkin, tried to fight John Tortorella last night and that’s the only good thing that happened.
But, according to Ovi, all he and Torts talked about was “how’s everything, what’s going on”. Suuuure, Ovi. Suuuuure.
The Gold medal-winning US hockey gals stopped by the Golden Knights-Kings game last night to drop the puck! To be honest, I kiiinda hoped they would play…
WWE’s Luke Harper wore a Capitals shirt during a round of video games with his boys.
Marc-Andre Fleury should’ve just been a curler.
I know, we don’t want to talk about last night, but if you’re feeling up to it we have a morning afters number post!!! Cmon, do it. It’ll be fun.
Patrice Bergeron is out with a fractured right foot and Bruins fans are being totally chill about it.