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The Washington Capitals are back home after a horror-filled three-game road trip. They lost every game and gave up five-or-more goals each night. The Caps will hope to turn things around against… oh no, this can’t be right… the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche.
Two players from that championship team will face off against their former mates tonight, Caps starting goaltender Darcy Kuemper and Nicolas Aubé-Kubel, who just returned from a three-game suspension.
The Caps lines have been blenderized, which is a new word I made up just now.
Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington and puck drop is a little after 7 pm. It’s Hockey Fights Cancer Night. Join us in the comments, won’t you?
Links
- The Caps new lines
- Nicklas Backstrom skated with a non-contact jersey
- The 12 most concerning numbers that define the Capitals poor play early this season
- Could the Capitals be a fit for Erik Karlsson and/or Bo Horvat?
- Ivan Miroshnichenko talks about his cancer diagnosis, being inspired by a conversation with Mario Lemieux, and his return to hockey
- Kuzy’s got Gretzky jokes
- Coverage from the Toys For Tots event in Prince Frederick. I saw Backy there.
Tunnel shenanigans<
we want you babyyyy#CapsAvs | @CaesarsSports pic.twitter.com/XQ5vvIDDtE
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) November 19, 2022
Lines
Lineys!#CapsAvs | @JackDaniels_US pic.twitter.com/JKLm6kewMU
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) November 19, 2022
Game #️⃣1️⃣6️⃣#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/6JErU4m4Xr
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 19, 2022
1st Period
Johansson-Dowd-Hathaway and Fehervary-Jensen get the start. Erik Gustafsson hit the post with a big shot from the slot early. Nick Jensen takes the game’s first penalty, a trip.
Heading into tonight, Alex Ovechkin has scored 8 goals in 6 career games against Alexandar Georgiev.
Capitals have a 14-2 shots on goal advantage since the start of the game.
Avalanche get a 1:26 long 5-on-3 power play.
🚨 1-0 Avalanche. Cale Makar with a sick one-timer that no one on this planet would stop. (Video)
Capitals out-shot the Avs 14-7 and out-attempted them at 5v5, 23-12.
2nd Period
Avs mostly dominated the first half of the period.
Garnet Hathaway draws a penalty on a breakaway.
🚨 2-0 Avalanche. Absolutely bananas goal by Nathan MacKinnon. NAK got dangled.
nO, you don't understand-
absolutely disgustinggggg.#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/wFSyt5t9yx
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 20, 2022
Thus concludes a boring second period which saw the Avalanche control most of the period. It feels like these stats are lying. Each team had eight shots a piece. 5v5 shot attempts were 13-10.
3nd Period
Capitals are facing a four-game losing streak (1 point) if they can’t rally here.
🚨 3-0 Avalanche. Jacob MacDonald’s close-up one-timer from the top of the slot, deflects off Andrew Cogliano and in. Yikes. (Video)
🚨 4-0 Avalanche. Alex Ovechkin steals the puck and clears it right to Artturi Lehkonen who scores. (Video)
Capitals outshoot the Avs 32-29, but fall 4-0. Alexandar Georgiev gets the shutout.
It's official. With their 4-0 L to the Avalance, the Capitals have lost 9 of their last 11 games and 4 in a row. pic.twitter.com/bZkSACPZhs
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) November 20, 2022
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