The Tom Wilson is intensifying and I’m not talking about his physical play.
Wilson just nabbed his first career two-goal game (playoffs don’t count) after a perfect deflection on a Brooks Orpik point shot.
After starting the season with three points in nine games, Lars Eller is literally aflame, tallying five points in his last three outings. Thursday against the Islanders, The Great Dane scored twice, including the game-winning goal with 3:21 left in the third period.
He was your first star of the night.
During his young career, Jakub Vrana has sometimes battled a narrative that he takes plays/games off, but I’d argue that he’s actually the ultimate team player and we should cherish him like an adorable baby pig.
Sunday in Calgary, Vrana scored the Capitals’ only goal (which was cool don’t get me wrong), but it was his long, passionate hug of Philipp Grubauer that I appreciated the most.
It’s not everyday that you see Tom Wilson meet his match in a fight, but that totally happened in the third period of the Canucks’ 6-2 shellacking of the Caps Thursday night.
Wilson, wanting to avenge Erik Gudbranson for injuring Brett Connolly, got put in a side headlock and got his helmet punched off his head.
Christian Djoos is starting to become popular among fans, but there might be someone on the Capitals bench who’s feeling the Djoos more.
Djoos’ former defense partner in Hershey Madison Bowey, gave the Swedish defenseman a congratulatory back massage after Djoos scored his second career goal. Bowey couldn’t keep the smile off his face as he looked up at the highlights on the jumbotron.
By Cara Bahniuk 3 years ago
The Capitals have had only one goalscorer on their defense this season, but he’s scored again tonight. With moves you might not expected from a 7th round draft pick rookie defenseman, Christian Djoos got the Caps on the scoreboard late in the second of a miserable game.
By Peter Hassett 3 years ago
Friday night, Evgeny Kuznetsov became the first Capitals player ever to record 10 assists in the team’s first five games. The very next night, Kuznetsov made some more history.
After collecting another apple on a Jakub Vrana goal, Kuzy became the first NHL player since 2012 to record 11 assists in his team’s first six games. The person he tied was none other than potential Hall of Famer Joe Thornton.
Nate Schmidt played in the Vegas Golden Knights NHL debut Friday and he made some history in the process.
The former Capitals defenseman earned the primary assist on the franchise’s first goal ever, a third period tally by James Neal.
The Washington Capitals found themselves trailing the Ottawa Senators early, after a Chris Wideman seeing-eye puck found its way past Braden Holtby. But a minute and forty-two seconds later, the Capitals tied it up.
Brett Connolly had the honors.
Monday, during a KHL game featuring Amur Khabarovsk and Ak Bars Kazan, defenseman Pavel Turbin scored a once-in-a-lifetime goal. With just over 11 minutes remaining in the game, Turbin took a pot shot from his own end towards the Ak Bars goal.
And… it went in.
By Rachel Cohen 3 years ago
