After a four-day break that felt more like forty days, the Washington Capitals are primed to get right back into the action against the New Jersey Devils tonight in DC.
They’ll drop the vulcanized disk of rubber at 7 PM and Peter is on your recap.
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| Record | 12-14-4 | 20-7-4 |
| Shot Attempt % | 51.5% | 50.0% |
| PDO | 99.7 | 102.9 |
| Power Play | 14.0% | 25.6% |
| Penalty Kill | 70.8% | 81.1% |
Projected Lines
These were the lines at yesterday’s practice via WaPo’s Samantha Pell. Alex Ovechkin had been deemed “day-to-day” but will take the ice and Vitek Vanecek gets the starter nod:
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Oshie
Vrana – Backstrom – Wilson
Sheary – Sgarbossa – Panik/Sprong
Hagelin – Dowd – Hathaway
Dillon – Carlson
Orlov – Schultz
Chara – Jensen
Vanecek
The Season
| WSH | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 4/8 | 4/11 | 4/18 | 4/20 |
| NJD | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 3/25 | 3/26 | 4/2 | 4/4 |
| PHI | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 4/13 | 4/17 | 5/7 | 5/8 |
| NYI | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 4/1 | 4/6 | 4/22 | 4/24 | 4/27 |
| PIT | 🤷 | 🤷 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 4/29 | 5/1 |
| NYR | 🚽 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 3/28 | 3/30 | 5/3 | 5/5 |
| BUF | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 4/9 | 4/15 |
Legend: 🌮 = win; 🚽 = loss; 🤷 = OTL
Things are going poorly in Buffalo
The Sabres have hit a new low 😬 pic.twitter.com/BW7fEVqM4g
— Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) March 25, 2021
Storylines
- Check out Ovi’s sweet art.
- Tom Wilson and Clyde’s have collaborated to create the ’43 Burger’ to help raise money for DC Central Kitchen.
- The Anaheim Ducks arrived to their game in Mighty Ducks jerseys to celebrate the pending release of a new Disney+ TV series.
- Watch TJ Oshie be an insane and hilarious person during warmups before a game against the New York Rangers.
- NHL official (now former), Tim Peel was fired by the league after getting caught on hot mic admitting to bogus penalty call against the Nashville Predators.
- The NHL has announced changes to their draft lottery process.
- A Capitals fan had a chance encounter with Alex Ovechkin at a grocery store and told him that he named his dog after him.
- Wilson met and held Adam Kempny and now wants matching bear onesies.
- In the AHL, Devante Smith-Pelly, Quinton Byfield, and Akil Thomas formed hockey’s first all-Black line since the ’40s.
- Some Arizona State lacrosse players perfectly reenacted Wilson and Oshie’s famous pregame routine.
- Travis Boyd is joining Braden Holtby, Nate Schmidt, and Jay Beagle in Vancouver with the Canucks after being claimed off waivers from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- Go get your Nicklas Backstrom point-counting bobblehead to help track Nicky’s way to 1,000 career points.
- Connor McMichael was up to multiple last-second heroics in Hershey in a game against the Binghamton Devils.
- Here’s a look at how the Capitals did in their Reverse Retro jerseys this season. I sure hope this isn’t the last we see of the screaming eagle.
- Since the Caps last played, current reserve defenseman Trevor van Riemdsyk signed a two-year, $1.9 million contract extension with the team.
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RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Devils
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