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    Caps vs Flyers pregame: New beginnings

    By Chris Cerullo

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    April 13, 2021 3:22 pm

    The Washington Capitals will play their first game since quite an eventful and crazy trade deadline. They parted with a handful of key roster players and added two new ones. We’ll likely see one of those two new faces make his debut tonight.

    Puck drops against the Philadelphia Flyers at 7 PM. Peter will have your recap and great tweets.

    Record 19-16-6 27-11-4
    Shot Attempt % 50.4% 49.7%
    PDO 97.8 102.7
    Power Play 20.0% 25.5%
    Penalty Kill 75.0% 82.8%

    Projected Lines

    Here’s how the first post trade deadline Caps lineup will look. Samsonov will be in net:

    Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Wilson
    Mantha – Backstrom – Oshie
    Sheary – Eller – Sprong
    Hagelin – Dowd – Hathaway

    Orlov – Carlson
    Dillon – Schultz
    Chara – Jensen

    Samsonov

    The Season

    WSH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    BOS 🌮 🚽 🌮 🚽 🚽 🌮 4/18 5/11
    NJD 🌮 🌮 🌮 🌮 🌮 🌮 🌮 🌮
    PHI 🚽 🌮 🌮 🌮 4/13 4/17 5/7 5/8
    NYI 🌮 🌮 🌮 🚽 🚽 4/22 4/24 4/27
    PIT 🤷 🤷 🚽 🌮 🤷 🌮 4/29 5/1
    NYR 🚽 🚽 🌮 🚽 🌮 🚽 5/3 5/5
    BUF 🌮 🌮 🌮 🤷 🌮 🌮 🌮 4/15

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

    The Kraken are coming

    Ron Francis told TSN the Kraken hope to be officially part of the NHL toward the end of this month (whey they make final expansion payment). They can talk to teams now but can't make deals.

    — Nick Cotsonika (@cotsonika) April 12, 2021

    Storylines

    • Caps players penned their goodbyes after a Cup winning teammate and beloved goofball was dealt westward.
    • Peter has you covered on why the trade that was made yesterday had to be made.
    • Brian MacLellan says that Jakub Vrana was a “frustrated player” under Peter Laviolette and that the Caps “moved on from it”.
    • The obvious, blockbuster, huge move that the Caps made was the trade that saw Vrana, Richard Panik, and two future draft picks sent to the Detroit Red Wings for Anthony Mantha.
    • The Caps first acquisition at the deadline was of Michael Raffl from this Flyers team in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick.
    • Before they made the deal for Mantha, the Caps had reported interest in Taylor Hall before he was dealt to Boston.
    • The Capitals first home game with fans will be on April 27 against the New York Islanders. Season-ticket holders will have priority on tickets.
    • Want to know what it is like attending an NHL hockey game during the pandemic? Here you are.

    Anthony Mantha highlights

    Enjoy these before Mantha makes his Caps debut tonight.

    RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Flyers

    Headline photo: Elizabeth Kong/RMNB

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