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.
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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% |
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
WSH | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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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
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
Enjoy these before Mantha makes his Caps debut tonight.
RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Flyers
Headline photo: Elizabeth Kong/RMNB
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