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    Caps vs Flyers pregame: The super bowl nooner

    By Peter Hassett

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    February 7, 2021 10:18 am

    Good morning. Happy snow.

    So I don’t watch football. I am probably gonna watch some British costume drama while you’re watching the super bowl. But before then, you and I and everyone else will watch the depleted Washington Capitals play the Philadelphia Flyers for the first time this season.

    It’s a nooner at home. It’s going to be a mess. I’ve got your recap.

    Record 7-3-2 6-2-3
    Shot Attempt % 43.9% 47.7%
    PDO 98.0 104.5
    Power Play 23.7% 34.6%
    Penalty Kill 72.1% 79.5%

    Projected Lines

    I always get pregame duty on early weekend games. I never know what the lines will be. You don’t either. Here’s what Samantha Pell reported from practice on Saturday:

    Ovechkin – Backstrom – Wilson
    Panik – Eller – Carr
    Hagelin – Dowd – Hathaway
    Maillet – Sgarbossa – Sprong

    Chara – Carlson
    Dillon – TvR
    Orlov – Jensen

    Vanecek

    I have no idea what a maillet is.

    The Season

    WSH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    BOS 🌮 🚽 3/3 3/5 4/8 4/10 4/18 4/20
    NJD 2/27 3/1 3/7 3/9 3/25 3/26 4/2 4/4
    PHI 2/7 2/9 3/11 3/13 4/17 4/27 5/7 5/8
    NYI 🌮 🌮 3/15 3/16 4/1 4/6 4/22 4/24
    PIT 🤷 🤷 2/14 2/16 2/23 2/25 4/29 5/1
    NYR 🚽 2/20 2/21 3/19 3/28 3/30 5/3 5/5
    BUF 🌮 🌮 🌮 🤷 2/11 2/13 4/13 4/15

    Legend: 🌮 = win; 🚽 = loss; 🤷 = OTL

    Just a Quick Rundown of Injuries

    • Forward Jakub Vrana (COVID-19 unavailability)
    • Forward Evgeny Kuznetsov (COVID-19 unavailability)
    • Goalie Ilya Samsonov (COVID-19 unavailability)
    • TJ Oshie (upper-body injury)
    • Justin Schultz (upper-body injury)
    • Conor Sheary (lower-body injury)
    • Brian Pinho (I forget)

    If someone plays under eight minutes today, I’m gonna flip out. Everyone pulls the rope.

    Storylines

    • Jakub Vrana has been added to the COVID-19 availability list. Ugh. TJ Oshie is also out with an upper-body injury.
    • But Lars Eller might be back.
    • A bunch of Caps games have been rescheduled due to COVID.
    • Guess who was great number eight on the most powerful hockey people list?
    • Michael Latta is still the best.
    • No fines to the Bruins for breaking social distancing, eh?
    • Please read Chris’s post mortem on the loss to NYR.
    • Poor Braden Holtby.

    Birthdays!

    HBD Bonzai!

    BONZAI

    Happy Birthday to an #ALLCAPS legend! pic.twitter.com/UL4Re6VUon

    — Washington Capitals (@Capitals) February 7, 2021

    (Can he still play? They could use him.)

    HBD Panik!

    Have a Super Birthday, Richie!#ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/f3QVqFlG1N

    — Washington Capitals (@Capitals) February 7, 2021

    I looked it up and it’s also the birthdays of Steven Stamkos, Ashton Kutcher, Garth Brooks, Charles Dickens, Chris Rock, James Spader, and four billion social-media kids I’ve never heard of.

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