The Capitals are still in New Jersey to play in the second game of a back-to-back weekend series against the Devils. The Capitals are currently 5-1-1 in their past seven games and are leading the MassMutual NHL® East Division with 26 points. Keep it up, boys.
Evgeny Kuznetsov will not be playing again today (upper body injury) and Ilya Samsonov will start in goal.
Puck drop is at 3 PM and Christopher from the comments will have your recap.
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| Record | 7-7-2 | 11-5-4 |
| Shot Attempt % | 51.6% | 49.5% |
| PDO | 100.9 | 102.0 |
| Power Play | 17.0% | 30.8% |
| Penalty Kill | 60.0% | 79.1% |
Projected Lines
Daniel Sprong will be in for Kuznetsov again and Samsonov will be in goal. Vanecek will back him up. News on the Devils’ side, Nico Hischier won’t be playing today:
Ovechkin – Eller – Sheary
Vrana – Backstrom – Wilson
Panik – Oshie – Sprong
Hagelin – Dowd – Hathaway
Dillon – Carlson
Orlov – Schultz
Chara – Jensen
Samsonov
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 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 2/28 | 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 | 🤷 | 🤷 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 4/29 | 5/1 |
| NYR | 🚽 | 🚽 | 3/19 | 3/20 | 3/28 | 3/30 | 5/3 | 5/5 |
| BUF | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 😷 | 4/13 | 4/15 |
Legend: 🌮 = win; 🚽 = loss; 🤷 = OTL; 😷 = postponed
Storylines
- The Florida Panthers have placed Brett Connolly on waivers.
- All aboard, we’re back on the #Johnny4Norris train.
- Ilya Samsonov stopped 25 out of 28 shots for the Bears in his recent start!
- Coach Laviolette has officially tied Jim Schoenfeld for winningest start in franchise history as a new head coach! Let’s keep winning forever.
- Missed the Devils/Caps game yesterday? No sweat, get caught up with the morning after numbers post.
- Jakub Vrana responded to being benched in the best way possible. A breakaway goal.
- Our boy Pete has a new record dropping soon!
Birthday for Baby V
Casual little shout out (including one from Vitek Vanecek) to our small, mischievous prince- Jakub Vrana. Live it up, baby V. We love ya.
In honor of Vrana scoring on Joe B’s birthday… 🙊 pic.twitter.com/rmBFCSwYcJ
— NBC Sports Capitals (@NBCSCapitals) November 15, 2018
drunk & dancing vrana lovers, you’re welcome pic.twitter.com/whWwlDsK2W
— 𝘯𝘩𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘺. (@vranaftpastrnak) January 1, 2019
drunk vrana is back pic.twitter.com/D9B3lfLpYb
— 𝘯𝘩𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘺. (@vranaftpastrnak) July 17, 2019
RMNB Coverage of Caps at Devils
Headline image: Elizabeth Kong/RMNB
