Caps at Devils pregame: Double date

April 2, 2021 2:44 pm

The Washington Capitals have headed to New Jersey to play their final two games against the Devils. The game that took place last night against the Islanders was an April Fools joke. I’m not going to hear any other opinions on the matter.

Puck will be dropping at 7 PM and Peter will have your recap.


Record	13-16-5	23-9-4
Shot Attempt %	51.0%	50.0%
PDO	99.5	102.5
Power Play	13.1%	24.7%
Penalty Kill	72.7%	81.7%

Projected Lines

The lines below are from the previous game, we will know more closer to game time. Thinking we probably won’t see Samsonov in goal, he might need a rest especially after the hit in the head he took:

Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Oshie
Sheary – Backstrom – Wilson
Vrana – Eller – 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	5/11
NJD	🌮	🌮	🌮	🌮	🌮	🌮	4/2	4/4
PHI	🚽	🌮	🌮	🌮	4/13	4/17	5/7	5/8
NYI	🌮	🌮	🌮	🚽	4/6	4/22	4/24	4/27
PIT	🤷	🤷	🚽	🌮	🤷	🌮	4/29	5/1
NYR	🚽	🚽	🌮	🚽	🌮	🚽	5/3	5/5
BUF	🌮	🌮	🌮	🤷	🌮	🌮	4/9	4/15

Legend: 🌮 = win; 🚽 = loss; 🤷 = OTL

Close one

I haven’t stopped thinking about this save. Reminds me of another very good save that also took place against the Vegas Golden Knights…

sheeeeeesh pic.twitter.com/AgTrj9D0uL

— Dimitri Filipovic (@DimFilipovic) April 2, 2021

Storylines

Brandon Dubinsky: Captain of Team Ovechkin.
*tips hat* ah, yes, a gentlemanly fight between Zdeno Chara and Matt Martin.
Check out the morning after numbers for the game last night that definitely didn’t happen. Sort of. Ugh.
Finally! McNuggets for all! Thank you, John Carlson!
Congratulations to the Buffalo Sabres on, uh, winning a game?
The Nationals had to postpone their opening day game due to COVID. Please continue to wear your mask and be careful!
We have the Q2 results from the happiness survey. How happy are YOU with the current Washington Capitals roster?
Thatcher Demko signed a huge extension with the Canucks and I think Thatcher should consider venmo-ing me some money.

BOINK

There is an angel on Twitter that took the video of Nathan MacKinnon throwing his helmet and dubbed different sounds over it. Please take a scroll through the thread, but wanted to take a moment to highlight one of my personal favorites: