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Rise of Vitek Vanacek: Caps beat Sabres 2-1

With a narrow win on Friday night, the Capitals emerged victorious in the back-to-back season opening series in Buffalo. But this was not quite the commanding performance that had the Caps coasting on Thursday night.

The Caps took took three penalties in the first period, but ably killed them to escape tied. The second period was similarly blah, but Jakub Vrana scored a pretty rush goal to give the Caps the lead.

The Sabres scored on their first shift of the third period, with one of their many Rasmii loosing a wrister from the blue line. Tom Wilson answered back with a wrister to the top shelf from the faceoff dot to restore Washington’s lead.

Caps win!

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Gritty is naked again

Flyers mascot Gritty got naked (again) during a wild first period between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh on Friday.

The teams combined for five goals before 8 PM and then suddenly Gritty’s clothes were off.

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By Ian Oland 4 days ago

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Vitek Vanecek will make his NHL debut tonight against the Sabres

Vitek Vanecek, 25, will make his NHL debut Friday against the Buffalo Sabres, realizing a dream that he has worked hard to achieve.

Vanecek, a Capitals’ second-round draft pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, has spent the last five seasons in the AHL with the Hershey Bears.

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Two Capitals games get rescheduled after Dallas Stars’ COVID-19 outbreak

The Dallas Stars had a severe outbreak of coronavirus during training camp. 17 different players contracted the disease, forcing the Stars out of action for the first week of the regular season.

Friday, the NHL announced Dallas’s new schedule. The Stars will play their first game of the season on Friday, January 22, against the Nashville Predators and make up the other four games later in the season.

The reason why we’re writing is that the Stars’ new schedule impacts the Capitals schedule as well.

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By Ian Oland 4 days ago

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Caps at Sabres pregame: Let’s do it again!

Happy Friday. Yes, we literally just did this last night. The Capitals are still in Buffalo and will play the Sabres, once more this evening, before heading to Pittsburgh for Sunday’s showdown. Would love to see another win in the books, but maybe this time it could be a bit cleaner? Is it a little early for me to start being a bit picky? Probably, but I can’t be stopped. I’ll tell you what I won’t complain about, if we start the game off with another Nick Backstrom goal.

The puck will be dropping tonight at 7 PM EST and you can catch the NBC stream and hang out with us. At the end of the evening, save some time to read Pete’s recap.

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By Elyse Bailey 4 days ago

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The Capitals’ season opener was the highest-rated regular season game since the 2018-19 season

Washington Capitals fans came back in droves for the team’s first game of the 2020-21 season, Thursday.

According to Capitals PR, the Caps’ 6-4 win over the Buffalo Sabres was the highest-rated regular season game on NBC Sports Washington since the 2018-19 season and the most-streamed regular season game on record.

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Henrik Lundqvist walks out of hospital a week after open-heart surgery

Henrik Lundqvist is officially out of the hospital and on the road to recovery after a scary heart procedure.

“Left the hospital yesterday,” Lundqvist wrote on Instagram. “I’ve spend [sic] a lot of days away from my kids over the last 5-8 years because of hockey. The last 9 days felt way different. It literally warmed my heart pulling up to the driveway. Will stick around in Cleveland for a little bit for more tests before heading back to NYC and continue my recovery/rehab there.”

Lundqvist included three photos: 1) of himself in front of the hospital 2) reuniting with his family back home 3) his daughters’ handmade signs which included the message Welcome Home, Daddy.

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Bright start: numbers for the morning after

Well, well, well…what do we have here? It’s another season of NHL hockey and another season to overreact to numbers of the daybreak variety. Join me yet again as we travel alongside a new look Washington Capitals with a new face calling the shots behind the bench.

Those Caps kicked off their 2021 campaign with a big ole W, taking down the Buffalo Sabres by a score of 6-4.

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By Chris Cerullo 4 days ago

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The Capitals are giving out Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do headbands to the offensive and defensive players of the game this season

Peter Laviolette had a bunch of free time in 2020. Canned by the Nashville Predators early in the year and then forced into quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, Laviolette binge-watched TV to pass the time. One of the shows that he particularly enjoyed was Netflix’s Cobra Kai – a sequel series to The Karate Kid films.

Laviolette loved the show so much that he let it inspire the Capitals’ new ridiculous postgame awards. Plural. I’ll let coach explain.

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By Ian Oland 5 days ago

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Nic Dowd’s head hit on Eric Staal

Nic Dowd could be getting a call from the Department of Player Safety in the near future.

Late in the third period of the Capitals’ season opener against the Sabres, Dowd skated laterally across the neutral zone to deliver a bodycheck to Eric Staal.

The thought was there, but the execution was off.

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