The Capitals are at home and hosting the Buffalo Sabres on this wintery evening. After the win on Tuesday night, the Capitals are hoping they can keep the good vibes going and extend their streak. Personally, I would appreciate that as well. Winning is way more fun than losing.
Puck drops at 7 PM and Peter will be your recapper. How lucky are you?
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| Record | 4-6-2 | 7-4-3 |
| Shot Attempt % | 49.1% | 48.6% |
| PDO | 96.3 | 101.9 |
| Power Play | 30.2% | 30.6% |
| Penalty Kill | 81.5% | 81.3% |
Projected Lines
No changes to the lines. Big shout out to Samantha Pell at the Washington Post, as always. Vanecek is getting his 12th straight start:
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Oshie
Vrana – Backstrom – Wilson
Sheary – Eller – Panik
Hagelin – Dowd – Hathaway
Dillon – Carlson
Chara – Schultz
Orlov – Jensen
Vanecek
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 | 🚽 | 😷 | 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 | 🤷 | 🤷 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 2/23 | 2/25 | 4/29 | 5/1 |
| NYR | 🚽 | 2/20 | 2/21 | 3/19 | 3/28 | 3/30 | 5/3 | 5/5 |
| BUF | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 😷 | 😷 | 4/13 | 4/15 |
Legend: 🌮 = win; 🚽 = loss; 🤷 = OTL; 😷 = postponed
Storylines
- Does anyone have some spare change for me so that I can purchase this Alex Ovechkin watch?
- Evgeny Kuznetsov is talking about his tricky bout with COVID-19. Wear your mask, folks.
- Baby Ovi’s big day out!
- Ilya Samsonov is heading back to Washington, DC ahead of this weekend’s back-to-back games.
- Speaking of Sammy, he made 22 saves in the Hershey Bears’ win over Binghamton!
- The Washington Spirit recently gained some new investors with names you might recognize.
- Update on Henrik Lundqvist…spoiler alert: he’s doing well!
Welcome to Mars
The NASA Perseverance rover landed on Mars today after a seven month journey. For the next few years, Perseverance will gather data on ancient microbial life and will bring back samples from Mars to Earth so that, one day, humans can visit. Space is very cool, check out its first image:
Hello, world. My first look at my forever home. #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/dkM9jE9I6X
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
Looks like there might actually already be signs of human life on the mysterious planet?! Who knew!
ground control to major tom!!!!#ManRocket | #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/zLvHoe3PUv
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) February 18, 2021
RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Sabres
Headline image: Elizabeth Kong/RMNB
