It all comes down to this. Win and you have a date with the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Finals. Lose and all you get is a worse draft pick than all of the other playoff teams that lost before you.
It’s Game Seven, tune in at 8PM on NBCSN, CBC, SN1, or TVA Sports for the action. Lets. Go. Caps.
The final regular season stats:
| Record | 54-23-5 | 49-26-7 |
| Shot Attempt % | 52.3% | 48.3% |
| PDO | 102.1 | 101.4 |
| Power Play | 23.9% | 22.5% |
| Penalty Kill | 76.1% | 80.3% |
Projected Lines
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Wilson
Vrana – Backstrom – Oshie
Burakovsky – Eller – Connolly
Stephenson – Beagle – DSP
Kempny – Carlson
Orlov – Niskanen
Orpik – Djoos
Holtby
Memories of 1998
Will the next Joey Juneau be wearing a Caps jersey tonight? God, I hope so.
Storylines
- There’s a big ole viewing party down at Capital One Arena for tonight’s game and you still have plenty of time to get down there for it.
- A road playoff game means another hot lap.
- Alex Ovechkin and I are totally still not over that 2008 playoff series where the refs decided to let the Flyers do as they pleased, eliminating the Caps in the process.
- Here’s Braden Holtby looking real suave before pitching a shutout in Game Six.
- Caps head coach Barry Trotz learned from last year’s Game Seven against the Penguins that you really need to win game sevens.
- Jim Rutherford spewed some nonsense about Tom Wilson and some guy named Jamie Oleksiak.
- Cara designed a new shirt dedicated to how badly you guys pummel the website right after games.
- The home crowd was real raucous for Game Six. John Walton and Pierre McGuire have both said it’s the loudest they’ve ever heard the place.
Reflection
Well, this is the biggest game in franchise history. Whatever the result may be, I will be very proud of what this team has accomplished this season. I don’t think many envisioned this kind of year back in October and what better way to cap this thing off than to just keep playing into June?
Headline photo: Bruce Bennett
