The Washington Capitals take their 13 game point streak into action against the Montreal Canadiens tonight at Capital One Arena. The Caps will also be looking to sustain their 8-0-1 record against Eastern Conference opposition this season.
They’ll drop the puck at 7 PM and you’re stuck with me on recap again.
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| Record | 10-5-3 | 14-2-4 |
| Shot Attempt % | 52.6% | 51.7% |
| PDO | 101.8 | 101.3 |
| Power Play | 20.7% (15th) | 22.9% (9th) |
| Penalty Kill | 73.7% (28th) | 84.9% (8th) |
Projected Lines
The Caps have some injury woes and have called up defenseman Tyler Lewington from Hershey. They will be rolling with only 11 forwards tonight to go along with seven defensemen:
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Vrana – Kuznetsov – Wilson
Stephenson – Eller – Panik
Leipsic – Hathaway
Kempny – Carlson
Orlov – Gudas
Siegenthaler – Jensen
Lewington
Samsonov
Something in the water in Edmonton
Top scorers in the NHL.
Draisaitl is 15 points ahead of every player in the league except four. He is 10 points up on everyone except McDavid. Wow. #NHL pic.twitter.com/BPDQlzTJfX
— Jason Gregor (@JasonGregor) November 15, 2019
Storylines
- Ovi making a pizza delivery while in the backseat of a car? Sign me up.
- As stated above, the Caps have injury issues tonight. To be specific, Nic Dowd and Carl Hagelin will miss tonight’s game against the Canadiens and potentially tomorrow’s against the Bruins.
- Peter has a must read for you on the Capitals penalty kill through twenty games this season.
- TJ Oshie, Nick Jensen, and Garnet Hathaway joined the families of fallen soldiers for Courage Caps skate.
- Connor McDavid is unfathomably good at hockey.
- The Washington Capitals have more wins than any other NHL team since the ‘Save The Caps’ campaign in 1982.
- The Colorado Avalanche believe that Tom Wilson raised Andre Burakovsky and Willy agrees.
- Can you keep up with all of these secret Caps handshakes?
- Here is Alex Ovechkin waving to Nastya in the crowd again after a win.
- Former Caps player and part of the worst trade in franchise history, Michael Latta has signed with SHL club Färjestad BK.
Caps goal songs
Mini cheat sheet re Caps goal songs:
Oshie – Country Roads
Kuznetsov – Get Low
Ovechkin – Still D.R.E.
Backstrom – Here I Go Again ‘87
Leipsic – Levels
Dowd – You Can Call Me Alhttps://t.co/6pJjm6vU4P— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) November 14, 2019
Some of the boys now have individual goal songs. What would yours be? As for me, I’d go with ‘Cult of Personality’ by Living Colour. Because I have an ego and would be scoring goals in the NHL.
Full RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Canadiens
Headline photo: NBC Sports Washington
