The week is kicking off with the Capitals at home playing host to the Carolina Hurricanes. That’s it! All done with the Canes after tonight! This is the fourth and final regular season rumble between these two teams. Such a weird schedule, but hopefully the Capitals can pull out a win tonight to finish the Canes series tied up at 2-2.

Puck drop is at 7:00 PM. The recap will be coming to you from Peter Hassett.

Record	27-16-2	30-11-5
Shot Attempt %	55.5%	51.9%
PDO	99.2	100.7
Power Play	22.5% (8th)	21.0% (11th)
Penalty Kill	82.4% (9th)	83.8% (3rd)

Projected Lines

An optional morning skate took place today. Todd Reirden said there will be no changes to the lineup tonight. Sammy is in net.

Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson
Vrana – Kuznetsov – Oshie
Hagelin – Eller – Panik
Leipsic – Dowd – Hathaway

Kempny – Carlson
Orlov – Jensen
Siegenthaler – Gudas

Samsonov

Auston Matthews Magic

This is one of my favorite things I’ve seen all year. Reminds me of a fight scene in a movie where everyone just happens to know where the other person is? I don’t know, I chalk it up to wizardry.

Auston Matthews casually returns a dropped stick to his teammate with a no-look behind the back flip pic.twitter.com/qK2JIaxFLZ

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) January 13, 2020

Storylines

• The New Jersey Devils have fired their GM Ray Shero.
• If you didn’t catch the last game, don’t worry about it. If you are starving for the morning after numbers, Chris has you covered as usual.
• Tom Wilson is the youngest forward in Caps history to play 500 games tonight. While this is very cool, it is also very rude because it makes me feel old. How in the world has it already been 500 games for him???
• Jakub Vrana power play comin’ in HOT.
• Peter has provided us with a great recent snapshot post! Take a peek and see how things are lookin’ these days.
• Connor McMichael had a gorgeous 30th goal in his last 30 games.
• Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly is being placed on injured reserve and will be reevaluated in eight weeks time.

(1/2) The @MapleLeafs announced today that defenceman Morgan Rielly underwent a CT scan this afternoon after sustaining an injury in last night’s game against Florida and will be out a minimum of eight weeks with a fractured foot.

— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) January 13, 2020

(2/2) Rielly will be placed on injured reserve and will be reassessed after eight weeks by the Maple Leafs medical staff. #LeafsForever

— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) January 13, 2020

Hall of Fame Surprises

This past weekend was huge for football with some exciting playoff games. It was also a huge weekend for two people in particular that some of us are used to seeing every football Sunday. Former coaches and current broadcasters Jimmy Johnson and Bill Cowher were surprised on live TV that they were the newest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Take a look, I dare you not to cry.

Incredible moment.

Legendary @dallascowboys coach @JimmyJohnson finds out live on TV he is the newest member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame! pic.twitter.com/GK3jlSlWRz

— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) January 13, 2020

The newest member of the @ProFootballHOF: Bill Cowher.
Congratulations, @CowherCBS! #PFHOF20 pic.twitter.com/s5f1gXuDfO

— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) January 12, 2020

Twitter Experiment

Apparently Twitter is toying with the idea of allowing users to send each other money. Not sure if you’ll catch me hookin’ my credit card up to my twitter account, but the thought of getting some change for a bad pun tweet? Might be a pretty promising career situation for me!

“Twitter is considering a feature that will allow users to tip—sending each other money from their tweets” https://t.co/4Od6Vvof39

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 13, 2020

Full RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Canes

Headline photo: NHL