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Home-and-home complete: numbers for the morning after

The Caps completed a home-and-home with Metro-Division foe, the Columbus Blue Jackets and came out of the two games with maximum success. Four points in the standings and two regulation victories racked up after the Caps took down the Jackets 4-2 at Capital One Arena Friday night.

The Blue Jackets out-shot the Caps 37 to 17 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 56 to 41. If games were won on calculators Columbus would be really happy with the past two fixtures.

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United Arab Emirates women’s hockey team drops ceremonial first puck before Capitals game

Viral stick-handling sensation Fatima Al Ali returned to Washington DC this week to participate in Hockey Is For Everyone month. And this year, she brought along a few of her closest friends.

Friday, Al Ali was flanked by her teammates of the United Arab Emirates women’s national hockey team as the group participated together in the ceremonial puck drop before the Caps-Jackets game.

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By Ian Oland 1 year ago

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Caps beat Blue Jackets 4-2 to sweep the home-and-home

With their win over the Sergei Bobrovsky on Friday night, the Capitals have taken four points from their two-game, home-and-home series. There was some excitement in this one, but it was an uneven affair – with one long sleepy stretch in the middle that’s been a bit too familiar lately.

Scoring started early, with Carlson beating Bob five minutes in on the Caps’ first shot . The Blue Jackets responded ninety seconds later with a weird goal by Pierre-Luc DuBois. Late in the first Evgeny Kuznetsov punched the puck immediately after a penalty to give the Caps and 2-1 lead after one.

A turnover in the defensive zone set up Artemi Panarin and Seth Jones to tie it 27 seconds into the second, but goals by Beagle and Eller put the Caps up by two after forty minutes, which they held on to in the final frame.

Caps win 4-2!

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By Peter Hassett 1 year ago

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Evgeny Kuznetsov: from sin bin to score board in six seconds

Evgeny Kuznetsov recorded his 37th assist and his 15th goal in the first period of Friday’s game against the Blue Jackets. The goal came within seconds of Kuznetsov getting sprung from the joint after doing a stint in the clink for roughing up some stoolpigeon.

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By Ian Oland 1 year ago

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