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The Capitals were beefing with Brad Marchand all night long apparently

During the Caps win against the Bruins, one couldn’t help but notice that sweet, pungent aroma of beef wafting throughout the rafters of TD Garden.

The beef was with noted pest Brad Marchand, who during the season opener, roped Lars Eller into his first ever fight.

To start, Lars tried to get back at Marchand, dropping his gloves for round two. Marchand didn’t want to fight, and Eller ended up with a penalty.

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Make it fourteen: numbers for the morning after

Thursday night, the Washington Capitals continued their absolute, utter domination of the Boston Bruins over the last five years. The 4-2 victory was the team’s fourteenth in a row against the Bruins. The kids call that “free rent”.

The Bruins out-shot the Caps 41 to 22 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 55 to 30.

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By Chris Cerullo On January 11, 2019 1 Comment

Alex Ovechkin scores twice against Bruins, gives stick away to fan after game

The Washington Capitals won their 14th consecutive game against the Boston Bruins, Thursday. And they got a lot of help from their best players.

Nicklas Backstrom scored the game-winning goal in the third period, Braden Holtby was a brick wall making 39 saves, and Alex Ovechkin had his 128th career two-goal game.

Ovi did a bit of everything. He had five shots, four hits, checked Zdeno Chara into the Caps bench, and made two fans’ nights.

Not bad!

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By Ian Oland On January 11, 2019 1 Comment

Brad Marchand fires back at Lars Eller: ‘He plays maybe 10-12 minutes a night. I’m playing 20.’

As you’ve now heard a million times this evening, Brad Marchand and Lars Eller are not friends.

After the Capitals’ 4-2 win over the Boston Bruins this evening, nobody could quite get enough of asking the pair about each other and their second-period incident where Lars Eller dropped the gloves and was ready to fight, but Marchand didn’t want to.

For Marchand, the reason why was easy.

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By Elyse Bailey On January 10, 2019 0 Comment

Lars Eller on Brad Marchand: ‘There’s not a lot of integrity in his game’

Thursday night, Lars Eller wanted to fight Brad Marchand after the Bruins’ pest jumped the Tiger on opening night.

Marchand refused and after the game, Eller called him out.

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By Ian Oland On January 10, 2019 1 Comment

Brawlin’ Boston: Caps beat Bruins 4-2

The Capitals hopped on the road for a quick little rendezvous to play the Boston Bruins. To call it a “rendezvous” might be a tad too nice because this was a messy game.

After a fairly tame first period, aside from a beautiful breakaway goal from Jakub Vrana, the Caps and the Bruins would both score a goal each in the second. The extracurricular stuff was a little bumpy with some rough hits and chippy play.

A few minutes into the third and the Capitals had too many men on the ice. Alex Ovechkin took a seat in the bad box and the Bruins tied it up 2-2. But do you hear that? That wind in the air? No, it’s not a bird but it’s the sweet, sweet feeling of watching Jaroslav Halak completely miss a shot from Nicklas Backstrom. An empty netter from Alex Ovechkin put the final nail in the coffin.

Caps win 4-2!

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By Elyse Bailey On January 10, 2019 10 Comments

Lars Eller drops his gloves but Brad Marchand refuses to fight 🐀

Lars Eller and Brad Marchand have a history. Midway through the second period, the Tiger got sentimental.

And by sentimental, I mean Eller was reminiscing about October, when Marchand assaulted and bloodied him. So he challenged him to fight.

Marchand (to everyone’s surprise, we’re sure) passed.

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By Brennin Weiswerda On January 10, 2019 4 Comments

TJ Oshie checked face first into glass by Kevan Miller, breaks stick when forced to leave game

During the second period, the Capitals were up 1-0 and were about to get a power play for a Patrice Bergeron trip.

But right before Bergeron was sent to the box, TJ Oshie was sent face first into the boards with a vicious hit from behind from Kevan Miller.

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By Julia Karron On January 10, 2019 3 Comments

Alex Ovechkin checks Zdeno Chara onto the Capitals bench

Alex Ovechkin is a big rig. And 6-foot-9-inch Zdeno Chara is nicknamed The Big Z.

So physics demands that when these two big humans meet, there is a lot of force involved. And that happened during the first period.

In the neutral zone, the two future Hall of Famers fought for a loose puck. Chara ended up in the Caps bench.

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By Ian Oland On January 10, 2019 4 Comments

Jakub Vrana scores on breakaway, has three goals in last two games

Oh, Jakub.

After a career-best two-goal, three-point performance against the Flyers, Jakub Vrana’s scored a beauty of a breakaway goal in the first period against the Bruins.

This is Vrana’s fifteenth tally of the season, improving on his 13-goal high in 2017-18.

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By Brennin Weiswerda On January 10, 2019 3 Comments

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