Fresh off a three-game sweep against the New York Islanders, the Caps are hosting their old rivals, the Pittsburgh Penguins, at home. The Caps will be missing Alex Ovechkin and the Penguins have Evgeni Malkin as a game-time decision. Does this even count as a classic Caps/Pens rivalry game if Ovi and Malkin are out? We’ll see.
Puck drop will be at 7 PM and Pete is back with your recap.
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| Record | 32-15-3 | 32-13-4 |
| Shot Attempt % | 51.1% | 51.1% |
| PDO | 101.5 | 102.3 |
| Power Play | 22.6% | 26.3% |
| Penalty Kill | 77.8% | 82.9% |
Projected Lines
Alex Ovechkin is still out, John Carlson is a game-time decision, Vitek Vanecek is in net:
Sprong – Kuznetsov – Wilson
Mantha – Backstrom – Oshie
Sheary – Eller – Raffl
Hagelin – Dowd -Hathaway
Orlov – Schultz
Dillon – TvR
Chara – Jensen
Vanecek
The Season
| WSH | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 5/11 |
| NJD | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 |
| PHI | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 5/7 | 5/8 |
| NYI | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 |
| PIT | 🤷 | 🤷 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 4/29 | 5/1 |
| NYR | 🚽 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 🌮 | 🚽 | 5/3 | 5/5 |
| BUF | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🤷 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🌮 | 🚽 |
Legend: 🌮 = win; 🚽 = loss; 🤷 = OTL
In other news
Auston Matthews? Still not too bad at this whole hockey thing!
Auston Matthews is good at hockey pic.twitter.com/JPcjTSSQSh
— Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) April 29, 2021
Storylines
- The Caps will be rocking some Military-themed jerseys during tonight’s warm-ups.
- The Washington Spirit played their first home game with fans since 2019!
- We aren’t the only ones that are excited to see fans back in the stands, Tom Wilson was also over the moon to see some red jerseys coming back to Capital One Arena.
- The Capitals took all three games in the mini series against the New York Islanders. Check out the morning after numbers from Chris to get caught up on how the Caps looked.
- Get your Stanley Cup champions jersey while you can! There’s a huge sale going on that will probably not be around for long.
- Why do players continue to challenge Zdeno Chara or Tom Wilson?
- In fact, Zee is the oldest player in NHL history to fight.
- The cool kids in the neighborhood always had trampolines. The Alex Ovechkin household is certified cool.
Devilish history
I don’t pay much attention to the New Jersey Devils, but I could’ve easily come up with multiple other things that are more embarrassing than this????
According to Bar Down, this is the most embarrassing moment in the history of the New Jersey Devils. In all the years of their history, this is the most embarrassing thing. According to Bar Down. pic.twitter.com/VNgTgHPyJk
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) April 29, 2021
Headline photo: Elizabeth Kong/RMNB
