Brennin Weiswerda

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Brennin has a dog, an MFA in directing, and an encyclopedic knowledge of hockey hugs.

Marcus Johansson named ‘second star’ in first career Stanley Cup Final game

Former Capital Marcus Johansson had a huge impact for the Boston Bruins in the first game of the Stanley Cup Final against the St. Louis Blues. While he didn’t register any points in the Bruins 4-2 win, his play, especially during the first half of the game, earned him second star of the night.

Johansson was traded to the Devils the summer before the Capitals’ successful run to the Cup in 2017-18, then in February 2019 was traded to the Bruins, making this the 28-year-old Swede’s first Stanley Cup Final game.

He is the last former Capitals player left in the playoffs.

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These World Championship ref cams give close-up view of frenetic, funny, on-ice action

The IIHF has put cameras on their referees since 2017 to show the speed, impact, confusion, and ridiculousness of the action from ice-level. It lets the audience hear the warnings referees give, wince at the eardrum-blasting whistles, and glory in the arguments (and, occasionally, compliments) from the players.

“I think it’s a good thing to have,” said IIHF Swedish referee Linus Ohlund in 2017 when the cameras were introduced. “Show the audience the view from our perspective.”

But it’s not only informative–it’s also entertaining. Here are the best moments so far from the 2019 World Championship.

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Alex Ovechkin scores second goal of World Championship after fantastic drop pass by Evgeni Malkin

Team Russia played Team Sweden on Tuesday, and Alex Ovechkin scored his second goal of the 2019 IIHF World Championship during the second period.

Pittsburgh Penguins’ center Evgeni Malkin tallied the primary assist.

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The Blues-Sharks game was a messy, injury-filled debacle

The Sharks and Blues entered Game Five of the Western Conference Final tied with two wins apiece. And while the game started off relatively evenly–the Sharks had eleven shots in the first period, but the Blues had one goal on four shots–the Sharks sank pretty quickly after that.

The Blues ended up with twice as many shots as the Sharks (40-21) while the Sharks had six times as many penalty minutes (36-6).

By the end of the game, the Sharks’ bench was six players short: Erik Karlsson, Joe Pavelski, Tomas Hertl, and Joonas Donskoi with injuries, and Micheal Haley and Evander Kane for misconducts.

Halfway through the third period the Sharks even tweeted out a picture of their depleted bench with an emoji version of the sarcastic “this is fine” meme.

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Jakub Vrana scores fourth goal of World Championship in Czech Republic’s 8-0 shutout of Austria

Sunday, the Czech Republic faced off against Team Austria at the IIHF World Championship.

In the third period Jakub Vrana scored the team’s eighth goal in a shutout win. Capitals teammate Dmitrij Jaskin had the primary assist and the Dallas Stars’ Radek Faksa had the secondary assist.

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Evgeny Kuznetsov scores twice, Alex Ovechkin nets first goal of World Championship in Russia’s 10-0 win over Italy

After a quiet start to the 2019 IIHF World Championship, the Capitals’ troika of Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, and Dmitry Orlov combined for 7 points in Russia’s 10-0 stomping of Italy. 7!

Kuznetsov registered four points in the win, including two goals. Ovechkin also scored his first goal of the tournament.

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Lars Eller has four points in Denmark’s 9-0 beatdown of Great Britain

Oh, Great Britain. Everyone loves an underdog, but it’s hard watching a loveable underdog get shut out 9-0–even if it comes at the hands of Team Denmark, led by Capitals’ center Lars Eller.

Eller paced Denmark with four points on the night, tallying one goal and three assists.

It was the biggest game by a Capitals player in the tournament thus far.

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Philipp Grubauer leaves game for Team Germany with ‘muscle tweak,’ does not return

Tuesday, Philipp Grubauer dressed for his first game of the IIHF World Championship for Team Germany against France. Halfway through the match, Grubauer left the game and was replaced with backup goaltender Niklas Treutle.

TSN commentators during intermission reported that it was a “muscle tweak.”

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We can’t all just get along: Capitals players on teams for Russia and Czech Republic face off

Even though they’re not playing on North American ice, it’s nice to see a bunch of Capitals playing together. (It’s less nice when the Capitals play against each other–but it still looked like they all had fun.)

Monday morning, Team Russia faced off against the Czech Republic’s team in the preliminary round of the IIHF World Championship. Russia won their third consecutive game by a score of 3-0, handing the Czech’s their first loss of the tournament.

Alex Ovechkin, Dmitry Orlov, and Evgeny Kuznetsov represented Russia, while Jakub Vrana and Dmitrij Jaskin played for the Czech Republic.

Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy got his second shutout of the tournament (despite former-goaltender and current analyst for TSN Mike Johnson saying that dreaded S-word on the broadcast).

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