Good late evening, friends. Here comes the last late-night game of the season, a roadie in Glendale before the Coyotes have to move into a college arena next season.
Pittsburgh won on Thursday, so the stakes are high: Washington needs to close ground on them in order to draw a more favorable first-round opponent.
Vitek Vanecek is in net as the team has completely abandoned the notion of a number-one goaltender. Catch the action on NBCSN Washington, and hang out with us here.
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Capitals lines
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Wilson
Johansson – Backstrom – Sheary
Mantha – Eller – Oshie
Larsson – Dowd – Hathaway
Fehervary – Carlson
Orlov – Jensen
TvR – Schultz
Vanecek
No Beagle
Jay Beagle, 36, is out with a lower-body injury. We might be looking at the end of an era here. I’m putting beagle.jpg in here just because.
Tom Wilson meme pic, part 17820182541
the Tom Wilson content funnel keeps producing pic.twitter.com/v1zkHNi6kW
— Peter Hassett (@peterhassett) April 23, 2022
Coyotes since the deadline
I just looked this up and I have to share it. Since the trade deadline, during all situations, the Coyotes have been outscored 72 to 27. They’ve been apocalyptically bad.
Tonight is therefore a trap game. Individual stats mode is activated.
1-0 Caps
Conor Sheary sweeps the puck in — or maybe helps a Yotes defender sweep the puck in.
SHEARS pic.twitter.com/1Nkk3Leggy
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) April 23, 2022
No goal
Hathaway played the puck over the top of the crossbar, so his goal is not a goal at all.
The double doink. pic.twitter.com/8ySprJWEES
— Ted Starkey (@TedStarkey) April 23, 2022
Still 1-0.
Caps 0 for 4 on power play
Just getting nothing going, besides seven shots on goal,.
Welp.
That was certainly a game. I’ll leave the last wrinkle of the night for Chris’s recap.
John Carlson ENG
From like 150 feet. He’s got a career-high in goals now.
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