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Pride Night: Capitals vs Wild live analysis and updates (January 17, 2023)

By Ian Oland

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January 17, 2023 7:00 pm

This is your place to check for updates and comment along with the Washington Capitals vs. Minnesota Wild game on January 17, 2023.

The Washington Capitals are back in action for a second consecutive night, finishing their back-to-back with a home date against the Minnesota Wild. The Capitals are coming off a 4-3 overtime win after TJ Oshie (game-tying goal) and Dmitry Orlov (OTGWG) played the heroes at UBS Arena.

The Caps will have another wild lineup as head coach Peter Laviolette cannot. stop. tinkering. with. his. lines. Anthony Mantha will be scratched for the third time as Nicholas Aube-Kubel will play on the top line. YOLO. Lars Eller will replace Nic Dowd after the fourth-line center suffered an injury against the Isles. Evgeny Kuznetsov will skate on the fourth line. Charlie Lindgren will get the start since Darcy Kuemper played last night.

The Capitals are celebrating Pride Night at Capital One Arena.

NBC Sports Washington will air the game. The opening faceoff will be a little after 7:00 pm.

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1st Period

Congrats to Marcus Johansson for playing in his 800th career game.

Milano-Backstrom-Wilson and Gustafsson-TVR get the start. It’s Charlie Lindgren against Filip Gustavsson in net.

The Capitals, to the shock of no one, have no chemistry or shots 5 minutes in.

Capitals get the first power play of the night after the Minnesota Wild have a bad change and have too many men.

Evgeny Kuznetsov takes a penalty ending the power play early.

There have been no scoring chances in this game 12 minutes in.

NAK gets in a fight with Brandon Duhaime. Nothing happened. You know a fight was bad when both guys threw their gloves off but get matching minors for roughing.

🚨 1-0 Capitals. It’s a Marty Party on Pride Night. Martin Fehervary activates into the play from the point, gets a pass from Alex Ovechkin, and scores from the slot. The goal came at the 18:57 mark of the period.

Alex Ovechkin nearly scored on Gustavsson at the buzzer. Both players could be seen laughing as they skated off the ice. Whatever Ovi said, it had Gustavsson cracking up.

The Capitals picked up their play towards the end of the period, but they threw a lot of, what Joe Beninati called “lollipops”, on net. The Caps have a 13-3 shots on goal advantage and a 21-8 5v5 shot attempts advantage. The Capitals have a 1.46 to 0.13 expected goals advantage through one period.

The three shots allowed in the first period is a team low this season.

2nd Period

🚨 1-1 tie. A long point shot from Jared Spurgeon beats Charlie Lindgren through traffic. The goal came at the 50-second mark of the second period.

🚨 2-1 Capitals. Dylan Strome scores after a great centering pass from Martin Fehervary. Alex Ovechkin has assists on both Capitals goals tonight so far. The goal came at the 5:05 mark.

🚨 2-2 tie. Jonas Brodin goes on a skate and scores with Ryan Reaves setting a big screen in front of the net. “He’s as wide as he is tall,” Craig Laughlin said of Reaves. The goal came at the 13:12 mark.

Lars Eller to the box after a hook on Kirill Kaprizov in front of the net.

🚨 3-2 Wild. Jared Spurgeon from the point again. Lindgren was screened in front of the net.

The Wild dominated that period, taking the body to the Caps and screening Lindgren relentlessly. The Caps had no answer.

The Capitals lead in shots on goal 21-14 and 5v5 shot attempts, 39-32. They also lead in expected goals 2.55 to 0.79.

3rd Period

Erik Gustafsson’s stick was slashed in half by Joel Eriksson Ek as he activated to the front of the net. Alex Ovechkin screamed and basically called the penalty!

A Dmitry Orlov slap shot nails Tom Wilson directly in the rib cage. Wilson is bent over at the bench.

Matt Irwin takes a high stick from Jordan Greenway and draws a penalty.

Charlie Lindgren with a huge save on Sam Steel during a Wild breakaway. Steel was free and clear from the center red line.

Filip Gustavsson appears injured after a Capitals chance in front of the net where he kicked the puck with the back of his right pad across the goal line and out.

🚨 4-2 Wild. Joel Eriksson Ek gets around TJ Oshie and sprints in for the empty-net goal.

Capitals end the game with a 35-22 shots on goal advantage and a 58-42 edge in 5v5 shot attempts. The Caps edged the Wild in expected goals 4.37 to 1.48.

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