This is your place to check for updates and comment along with the Washington Capitals vs. Winnipeg Jets game on December 23, 2022.
Friends, it’s cold and windy as heck. The electricity has been out most of the day at my house. I’m frigid and my son is beginning to lose it. Temperatures are in the single digits.
Basically, it’s been A Day which is a great setup for tonight’s Capitals game. It’s the last three periods of hockey you’ll get before Washington’s three-day-long holiday break. So let’s end on a good note. This region needs it.
The Capitals are coming off a 3-2 overtime win against the Ottawa Senators where Marcus Johansson played the hero. The win gave the Capitals victories in eight of their last nine games. Since November 24, they’ve earned at least one point in 12 of their last 15 games (11-3-1).
Caps-Jets will mark Alex Ovechkin’s fifth opportunity to try and tie or pass Gordie Howe for second on the NHL’s all-time goals list.
Charlie Lindgren will get the start in net after Darcy Kuemper got the win against Ottawa.
Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington and puck drop is a little after 7 pm.
Links
- Holy F, the Weagle is finally going to be the main logo of a jersey!!!
- The Capitals’ 2022 holiday card wasn’t a holiday card and it was the best one yet
- Another NHL record for Alex Ovechkin
- Have you followed us on Facebook?
- How about the ‘gram?
- Caps’ prospect Haakon Hanelt made Germany’s WJC team
- Chris’s analysis of Caps-Senators
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— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) December 23, 2022
1st Period
Capitals start Ovechkin-Strome-Sheary and Gustafsson-Carlson. Charlie Lindgren is in net and is facing David Rittich. It’s the first time Rittich has faced the Capitals in his seven-year NHL career.
Capitals get an early power play after Mark Scheifele takes a hooking penalty four minutes into the period.
Slow first 10 minutes to this one. Both teams played last night.
Caps to another power play after a tripping penalty committed by Karson Kuhlman.
Huge glove save by Lindgren late in the period on Scheifele.
🚨 1-0 Capitals! Alex Ovechkin goes five-hole and ties Gordie Howe for the second-most goals in NHL history. The goal was assisted by Dylan Strome and came 18:22 into the first period.
Goal no. 801: Alex Ovechkin ties Gordie Howe for second on the NHL’s all-time goals list
The Capitals outshot the Jets 10-7 and out-attempted them 22-11 at 5v5. The Capitals also had an edge in expected goals 0.77 to 0.73.
2nd Period
Ovechkin had a breakaway early in the second period but Rittich stopped Ovi on the backhand.
Erik Gustafsson takes a high-sticking penalty giving the Jets a power play.
Dylan DeMelo in the box for holding Marcus Johansson.
🚨 2-0 Capitals. It’s always Sonny in DC. Milano scores from the crease just as the Capitals power play ends. Ovi gets an assist.
Scheifele gets a two-minute minor for interference after angrily shooting the puck off an official. Scheifele thought he a won a race to negate an icing call.
Ovi looking to the heavens after Rittich stops one of his one-timers on the power play.
The Capitals are outshooting the Jets 20-10 and out-attemping them at 5v5, 36-19. The Capitals have the edge in expected goals 1.89 to 1.58.
3rd Period
John Carlson gets hit in the face with a slap shot off a face off. It hit him in the right side of the face. Capital One Arena is silent. It happened 55 seconds into the period.
🚨 3-0 Capitals. Nic Dowd scores again after working a give and go with Garnet Hathaway.
🚨 3-1 Capitals. Kevin Stenlund gets the Jets on the board. Former Capital Axel Jonsson-Fjallby got an assist on the play.
Marcus Johansson just left the game after going sideways into the boards. Johansson was in a puck race with DeMelo and was hipped as he approached.
🚨 4-1 Capitals. Alex Ovechkin just passed Gordie Howe for second on the all-time goals list. He did it on an empty-netter.
Goal no. 802: Alex Ovechkin passes Gordie Howe with no-look empty-net goal
Caps win 4-1!
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