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Liam O’Brien makes debut with Colorado Avalanche, plays in first NHL game since 2017

Long-time Capitals fan-favorite, forward Liam O’Brien, made his debut appearance for the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night. The Avs defeated the St. Louis Blues 3-2.

The Avalanche signed O’Brien, 26, off their farm team, the AHL Colorado Eagles, earlier this week. The Big Tuna filled in for Logan O’Connor, who suffered a lower-body injury against the Coyotes on Wednesday.

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By Ian Oland and Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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Dmitry Orlov scores unassisted overtime goal, shrugs like this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Washington Capitals dominated the New Jersey Devils in regulation, pumping 37 shots on goal against MacKenzie Blackwood but only hitting the back of the twine once. During an entertaining 3-on-3 overtime period, the Caps were finally rewarded by the Hockey Gods for their superior play on their 40th and final SOG.

With 21 seconds remaining in OT, Dmitry Orlov ripped a shot from the left circle that appeared to ramp up Yegor Sharangovich’s stick and past Blackwood. The puck clanked clanged off the left post and the two crossbars, ricocheting out of the net as quickly as it went in.

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By Ian Oland 2 weeks ago

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Orlov in overtime: Caps beat Devils 2-1

One day after a brutal loss, the Washington Capitals regrouped to play a solid if unspectacular hour and change against the New Jersey Devils.

After a scoreless first period, John Carlson used some screens to beat Mackenzie Blackwood. Michael McLeod returned fire with a rush goal and a tasty rebound to beat Vitek Vanecek. The third period changed the score not at all, so we went to overtime.

Overtime was actually fun, capped off by a gorgeous finish by Dmitry Orlov.

Caps win!

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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Jakub Vrana is a healthy scratch against the Devils tonight

In his pregame media availability, Capitals head coach Peter Laviolette announced that forward Jakob Vrana will not play in Friday night’s game. For the first time this season, Vrana will be a healthy scratch.

Richard Panik will return to active play.

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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Caps at Devils pregame: Double date

The Washington Capitals have headed to New Jersey to play their final two games against the Devils. The game that took place last night against the Islanders was an April Fools joke. I’m not going to hear any other opinions on the matter.

Puck will be dropping at 7 PM and Peter will have your recap.

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By Elyse Bailey 2 weeks ago

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Brandon Dubinsky, who once fought Alex Ovechkin, says he’d take Ovi ‘every day of the week’ over Sidney Crosby

The Columbus Blue Jackets’ Brandon Dubinsky is effectively retired due to a chronic wrist injury, but the two-way forward is making headlines for a podcast interview he recently conducted with The Garage Beers Podcast.

“Everybody wants to talk about Sid and Ovi or whatever,” Dubinsky said. “F*&k, Sid. I’ll take Ovi every day of the week.”

Dubinsky then doubled down on the comments on Twitter on Friday.

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By Ian Oland 2 weeks ago

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Throw that game over the side of a bridge: numbers for the morning after

If you wanted to know what an absolutely embarrassing defensive effort looks like…well do I have the game for you. The Caps let the Islanders do quite literally whatever they wanted on the way to an 8-4 loss.

The Isles outshot the Caps 33 to 22 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 45 to 43.

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By Chris Cerullo 2 weeks ago

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Zdeno Chara and Matt Martin have gentlemanly fight at buzzer as Capitals-Islanders game nearly descends into brawl

The New York Islanders throttled the Washington Capitals 8-4 at Nassau Coliseum Thursday night and it ended with fireworks.

At the buzzer, there was a gentlemanly throwdown between two of the teams’ leaders, Zdeno Chara and Matt Martin.

The fight led to an awkward showdown between both teams at center ice that thankfully didn’t materalize into a brawl.

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By Ian Oland 2 weeks ago

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The bad game: Islanders beat Caps 8-4

The Washington Capitals. Woof. Pals, they got beat. They got beat something fierce, unto the edge of buckwilderness, by the New York Islanders. It was awful.

John Carlson scored one minute and one second into the cursed game. Jordan Eberle tied the game on a big rush goal that embarrassed Brenden Dillon and then Mathew Barzal took the lead on an even bigger rush goal that embarrassed Brenden Dillon even more.

Listen. There were three more goals in the first period. I’m not writing War and Peace here; just look at the stat sheet. One was Sprong’s.

Casey Cizikas scored against some bad Caps defense, and TJ Oshie scored a power-play goal deflecting in Ovi’s shot, and then Jordan Eberle scored against some bad Caps defense, and then John Carlson scored late in the second period to earn you nuggets or something.

Josh Bailey scored early in the third period, which meant we had no hope of watching a comeback, so it was just tedium from there until Barzal locked up his hat trick.

Caps lose by quite a lot.

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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John Carlson scores historic first Capitals’ McNugget Minute goal

Congratulations to John Carlson who scored a historic goal against the New York Islanders, Thursday night.

Carlson scored the first McNugget Minute goal in Washington Capitals history. The Norris Trophy finalist scored with 59 seconds remaining in the second period. It was his second goal of the game.

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By Ian Oland 2 weeks ago

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