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Evgeny Kuznetsov leaves game after head shot from Brandon Tanev

Halfway through the first period of Wednesday night’s game against the Winnipeg Jets, center Evgeny Kuznetsov was elbowed in the head by forward Brandon Tanev.

Tanev was penalized for an illegal hit to the head. Kuznetsov played one more shift on the resulting power play but soon headed to the Capitals locker room. He did not return.

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By Brennin Weiswerda On November 14, 2018  1 Comment
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Capitals dress emergency goalie Gavin McHale to back up Pheonix Copley, Braden Holtby is out

Braden Holtby was supposed to be in net against the Winnipeg Jets Wednesday night. But not anymore. According to the Capitals PR, Holtby suffered an upper-body injury and Pheonix Copley will get the start.

With Holtby out, the Capitals will dress an emergency goalie, 31-year-old Gavin McHale, to ride the bench.

This will be a back-to-back for Copley, who let in two goals on 28 shots last night against the Minnesota Wild.

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By Brennin Weiswerda On November 14, 2018  3 Comments
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Caps at Jets pregame: A goal-scorers game

The road trip continues for the Capitals with a stop in Winnipeg to play the Jets! This means that the top-two goal scorers since the beginning of the 2016-17 season will be meeting again. That would be Alex Ovechkin and Patrik Laine. The Capitals might look a tad tired tonight since they played a pretty great game 24 hours ago. I will also be tired tonight after tweeting during a Capitals game only 24 hours ago.

The puck will be dropping again at 8:00 PM on NBC Sports Washington. You can stream the game with NBCS Washington on any of your devices beginning with the pregame at 7:00 PM. Another recap from Peter? You betcha.

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By Elyse Bailey On November 14, 2018  0 Comment
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Eric Fehr and wife Rachel welcome new baby Theodore John into the world

Former Capitals player and children’s book author Eric Fehr missed the Minnesota Wild’s practice Wednesday –but he had a pretty good reason. The 33-year-old forward and his wife Rachel welcomed their new child, Theodore John, late Tuesday night.

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By Brennin Weiswerda On November 14, 2018  1 Comment
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NHLPA’s Donald Fehr believes international expansion should happen, and ‘the sooner the better’

Donald Fehr, the executive director of the NHL’s Player Association, says that if the logistics of a trans-ocean league can be worked out, the NHL should do it as soon as possible.

Fehr clarified that this is a personal opinion, “not discussed with the players.” But despite the lack of conversation, he has put some thought into it–he worked out a schedule previously that would make it feasible for five European-based teams to be incorporated in the regular-season schedule.

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By Brennin Weiswerda On November 14, 2018  0 Comment
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Internal conversations between commissioner’s office and DoPS encouraged sending Tom Wilson a message with suspension

Tuesday morning, independent arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that Tom Wilson‘s 20 game suspension for his hit on Oscar Sundqvist in the preseason would be reduced to 14 games.

One footnote in Das’ decision presents back-and-forth conversations between Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, Commissioner Gary Bettman, and the Department of Player Safety before Wilson’s suspension was announced.

The NHLPA tried to argue that the commissioner’s office inappropriately influenced DoPS’s decision.

The footnote was first pointed out by the Post’s Isabelle Khurshudyan.

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By Julia Karron On November 14, 2018  0 Comment
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RMNB wins back-to-back blog championships

Last week, the Frederick News-Post, RMNB’s hometown newspaper, announced the winners of their Best of the Best for the calendar year of 2018.

We’ve got great news. RMNB was named best blog.

Fam, we are back-to-back champions.

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By Ian Oland On November 14, 2018  1 Comment
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Dmitry Orlov scores twice, posts three points for second time in career

Dmitry Orlov had one of the best games of his career Tuesday night.

The Russian defenseman scored three points in the Capitals’ 5-2 rout of the Minnesota Wild. It was a surprisingly rare offensive explosion for Orlov, who was first made famous by his dangling and powerful shot in the MHL and KHL.

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By Ian Oland On November 14, 2018  0 Comment
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Back on track: numbers for the morning after

After a not so great end to their homestand, the Washington Capitals headed west for their only visit to the Minnesota Wild’s barn this season. The Caps and a returning from suspension Tom Wilson got the job done, smashing the Wild 5-2.

The Capitals out-shot the Wild 33 to 28, but were narrowly out-attempted at five-on-five 42 to 39.

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By Chris Cerullo On November 14, 2018  0 Comment
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Wilson returns: Caps beat Wild 5-2!

After ten days at home, the Washington Capitals have hit the road, kicking off their middle-America trip with a win over Bruce Boudreau, Eric Fehr, and the Minnesota Wild.

As befitting the game in which Tom Wilson returned from suspension, a lot of raucous stuff happened in this one. Dmitry Orlov opened up scoring for Washington, taking a nifty pass from Lars Eller to beat Devan Dubynuk. The dude Tom himself followed up, converting an Orlov pass for a crash-the-net (maybe too crash-y?) goal.

In the second period, precocious young child Andre Burakovsky backhanded another neat pass from Lars Eller to make it 3-0, but Mikko Koivu exploited a bad clear from Michal Kempny to crack Pheonix Copley’s shutout bid.

Dmitry Orlov capped off a gorgeous three-on-two rush with Wilson and Ovechkin to restore the three-goal lead. A few minutes later, Nicky Backstrom faked a shot to set up TJ Oshie for another lovely rush goal. Matt Dumba (or was it Zach Parise?) scored a power-play goal from point blank in the third period, but that was that.

Caps win 5-2!

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By Peter Hassett On November 13, 2018  1 Comment
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