The Washington Capitals are back home and finally ready to play some hockey in the District…of Champions. This will be the first major DC sporting event played after the Washington Nationals captured their first World Series title. Expect a lively arena.
Puck drop is at 7PM tonight and Peter graciously took the recap for me so I could attend this one in person.
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| Record | 9-2-2 | 9-2-3 |
| Shot Attempt % | 47.8% | 50.3% |
| PDO | 103.3 | 99.9 |
| Power Play | 29.8% (2nd) | 25.5% (5th) |
| Penalty Kill | 79.5% (20th) | 85.2% (6th) |
Projected Lines
Nic Dowd is out day-to-day. Tonight’s probable lineup comes from the Washington Post’s Samantha Pell:
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Vrana – Kuznetsov – Wilson
Hagelin – Eller – Hathaway
Leipsic – Stephenson – Boyd
Kempny – Carlson
Orlov – Gudas
Siegenthaler – Jensen
Holtby
Campeones
Simple.
D.C., this one's for you.
The Nationals are bringing home the World Series title for the first time in franchise history 🎉 pic.twitter.com/XJ7iADoEtO
— ESPN (@espn) October 31, 2019
Storylines
- The Washington Nationals are your 2019 World Series Champions and if you want some good ole RMNB coverage of everything Nationals, check out the post tag.
- Oh you want links to some more sick DC championship merch? We got that and then some.
- Did we create our some shirt for the occasion and maybe some fountain swimming too? YUP.
- The Caps went certifiably nuts the second the last out of the World Series was recorded. TJ Oshie even tweeted out his fountain recommendations based off Yelp with only 2-percent of his phone battery remaining.
- The cutest pup in the gosh darn world was really happy to see his buddies return from their very long road trip.
- Remember when Dmitry Orlov destroyed Matt Duchene with that hip check a few seasons back? This pumpkin sure does.
- Mr. National got to carry the Commissioner’s Trophy off of the plane into rainy and windy Dulles Airport.
- The Caps are honoring those champion Nationals at Sunday’s home game against the Calgary Flames.
- Capitals recall Liam O’Brien as insurance with Evgeny Kuznetsov and Nic Dowd nursing minor injuries.
- Tom Wilson modeling Courage Caps. Pretty sure that’s all I need to put.
- John Carlson is the NHL’s first star of October.
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Full RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Sabres
Headline photo: NBC Sports Washington
