This is your place to check for updates and comment along with the Capitals vs. St. Louis Blues game on November 17, 2022.
The Washington Capitals have won only two of their last eight games and are currently sitting 12th in the Eastern Conference.
The Caps will hope to reverse their losing ways against St. Louis where they will conclude their three-game road trip. Charlie Lindgren will get the start in goal over Darcy Kuemper. The Blues have won four-straight games.
Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington and puck drop is a little after 8 pm.
Links
- New from the morning skate including #FirstLineProtas
- A few broadcast and time changes for Caps games
- Not-Capital Vitek Vanecek is on the hottest streak of his career
- Kuzy names the NHL’s 3 best players
- How to land TJ Snoshie
- Alex Semin is coming to America when Ovi gets close to #99
- The Caps’ 2022 first-round pick is dominating in Russia
Tunnel shenanigans
Bring 'em out in the Lou#ALLCAPS | @CaesarsSports pic.twitter.com/pOd4olBrkK
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) November 18, 2022
Lines
Lineys!#CapsBlues | @JackDaniels_US pic.twitter.com/xIsWIwzeNj
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) November 18, 2022
1st Period
Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Protas with Gustafsson-Carlson got the start for the Capitals.
🚨 1-0 Blues. Turnover by John Carlson at the blue line. Erik Gustafsson sags on the odd-man rush giving Brayden Schenn a lot of space and time to hit the short side. Lindgren was upset he missed it.
🚨 2-0 Blues. Pavel Buchenvich beats John Carlson on a wraparound. It looks like Carlson’s fault, but Evgeny Kuznetsov stopped checking his man on the dump-in.
Capitals call timeout. Peter Laviolette pulled down his mask to yell at the players.
Conor Sheary hit the post on the Caps first shift on the ice after the TO.
🚨 3-0 Blues. Torey Krug scored on a point shot on a power play after a Caps slashing penalty. This is really bad hockey by the Caps.
The Blues have goals in three of their first six shots.
Props to Charlie Lindgren who is doing all that he can. He made a save on another Blues wraparound while facing Backwards to the goal. Sure, why not?
The game seems close but it’s not. The Caps had an advantage in shots on goal 9-7 in the first period and 13-8 with attempts at 5v5.
2nd Period
Alex Ovechkin knocks over Blues goaltender Thomas Greiss on a rebound attempt and then draws a penalty as half the Blues team whacks and hacks him.
🚨 3-1 Blues. Ovi was left wide open in front of the net by the Blues and he roofed it past Thomas Greiss. That’s career goal number 789. Ovechkin averages 1.41 points per game against the Blues, which is the second-most of any franchises he’s played against.
🚨 3-2 Blues. John Carlson scores on a two-on-one shorthanded.
🚨 4-2 Blues. Ryan O’Reilly answers less than a minute later with a backhand while he’s skating backward towards the net!!
The Capitals have a 26-16 shots on goal advantage through two periods.
3rd Period
The Capitals pulled Charlie Lindgren with around 4:45 remaining in the third period with the Caps on the power play.
🚨 4-3 Blues. John Carlson scores on a one-timer on the power play with the goalie pulled. Ovechkin, who had a Blues player playing him man-to-man, skated out to the point to give the Caps open space for the play.
🚨 4-4 Blues. Conor Sheary ties it up after a great pass by Evgeny Kuznetsov.
No goal. Nic Dowd scored in front of the net, but not only did he check Greiss before the puck crossed the goal line, but he also hit the puck with a high stick above the crossbar.
The Capitals forced overtime after being down 3-0 at the end of the first period. The Blues were wilting play in a b2b.
Overtime
St Louis had five shots in overtime to the Caps’ 2.
Shootout
❌ Jordan Kyrou stopped by Charlie Lindgren with his left toe.
✔️ Evgeny Kuznetsov uses his super slow shootout move to beat Greiss. Locker counted 21 dekees.
❌ Vladimir Tarasenko grazes the outside of the net with his shot.
❌ Alex Ovechkin goes to his backhand and is stopped by Gress.
✔️ Ryan O’Reilly beats Charlie Lindgren to the top corner far side.
❌ John Carlson gets a rare chance. He dekes but the puck bounces away from his stick. To extras!
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❌ Brayden Schenn goes to the same corner as O’Reilly but hits the post.
❌ Anthony Mantha breaks his stick with his shot.
❌ Robert Thomas misses the net on his forehand.
❌ Dylan Strome is stopped by Greiss on his shot as he curled to the slot.
✔️ Pavel Buchnevich beats Lindgren to the far top corner just like O’Reilly.
❌ Conor Sheary tries to beat Greiss on the glove-side, but can’t. Caps lose in the bottom of the sixth.
A much-deserved L for the Caps. 5-4 SO. The Caps have won one of their last five games. In November, their record is 2-5-2.
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