Tom Wilson was involved in a scary moment during the third period, where the back of his head was potentially sliced open by a skate.
Several shifts later, after getting repairs from Capitals Head Athletic Trainer Greg Smith, Wilson dropped the gloves with Mr. Carrie Underwood himself, Mike Fisher.
What a violent and tough gentleman.
The Caps traveled to Nashville where Rain is a Good Thing, especially when it’s raining hats on the head of Filip Forsberg at the rate it has been lately. The Swedish forward made sure to break more Caps fan hearts on Saturday.
Sometimes Tom Wilson can be Hard to Love, but he got the game off to a good start for the away side, as the rugged forward was Feelin’ It early on and put the Caps up 1-0 after 20 minutes.
Roman Josi wouldn’t let the Preds go down Without a Fight, tying the game at one early in the second after some pretty awful defensive zone coverage that made me Lose My Mind. Aw Naw, Filip Forsberg scored to make it 2-1 and then Mike Fisher sent us looking for Beer Money after his slam dunk goal made it 3-1.
A comeback spurring goal is always good Til It’s Gone as Alex Ovechkin found out when his third period tally was washed out after review for being offside. Roman Josi then called game Over with a power play tally to make it 4-1. May We All be more like Evgeny Kuznetsov who made it 4-2 late.
Viktor Arvidsson Kissed You Good Night with an empty netter.
Predators beat Caps 5-2.
By Chris Cerullo 6 years ago
Filip Forsberg has blossomed into one of the game’s best goal-scorers and dammit, it still hurts. Coming into Saturday’s game against Washington, Forsberg had scored a hat trick in consecutive games.
Today he scored again. Forsberg now has seven goals in his last three games.
In the battle between two talented Capitals’ first-round picks from 2012, it was Tom Wilson who scored before Filip Forsberg (six goals in his last two games).
Willy Baby has goals in two straight games, you guys.
The Capitals are beat up, but they managed a win over the Oilers in a fun one on Friday. There is no rest for the weary though, as the Caps have an early evening date with the Preds, who are barely holding on to a wild card playoff spot.
Game’s at 5 PM on CSN. There, I managed to get through the introduction without mentioning Filip Forsberg and his back-to-back hat tricks. Wait. Dammit.
| Team | Record | SA% | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Capitals | 41-12-7 | 52.8% | 104.4 | 21.9% | 84.5% |
| Nashville Predators | 29-22-9 | 51.4% | 100.2 | 18.8% | 82.2% |
By Peter Hassett 6 years ago
There are a bunch of Caps fans traveling to Nashville today for this evening’s game against the Predators. Reader Amy R. is representing RMNB with the Caps Road Crew. And onboard a DC to Nashville flight is reader Vic J., who got stuck in an aisle with none other than Caps legend Rod Langway.
Vic has been documenting the flight, and we managed to assemble this article between belly laughs.
By Peter Hassett 6 years ago
