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John Walton claps back at Flyers after Gritty welcomes Bryce Harper to Philadelphia

On Wednesday night, the Philadelphia Flyers played their first game at home since the Phillies signed former Nationals right fielder, Bryce Harper, to a 13-year, $330 million contract. That game just happened to coincide with Harper’s former home, Washington, coming to town.

In a move that was likely meant to rile up Capitals fans, Gritty led the charge in welcoming Harper to the Philadelphia sports family. But Capitals radio’s John Walton trolled back in epic fashion during his play-by-play of the game.

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By Donya Abramo 1 month ago

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On a real roll: numbers for the morning after

Wednesday night, the Washington Capitals continued recent winning ways by extending their current streak to five games, securing a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers to do so.

The Caps out-shot the Flyers 35 to 30.

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By Chris Cerullo 1 month ago

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Braden Holtby becomes second fastest goaltender in NHL history to record 250 wins

Braden Holtby reached an incredible milestone Wednesday against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Holtby earned the 250th win of his career, becoming the second fastest goaltender in NHL history to reach that mark.

The only player to accomplish the feat quicker is Hockey Hall of Famer Ken Dryden who did it in 381 games.

According to the Capitals PR, Holtby is the 56th goaltender in NHL history to reach the 250 win milestone and one of only 12 active goaltenders to do so.

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By Ian Oland 1 month ago

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Caps beat Flyers 5-3 for fifth straight win

The Washington Capitals jumped out to a commanding lead early in Wednesday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers, but a late-game surge by the home team almost made it interesting. Almost.

Tom Wilson scored the game’s first goal, taking a pass from Ovi on his knees. Brett Connolly made it 2-0 with an in-and-out goal that required an official review to be ruled a goal.

In the second period, Alex Ovechkin got left alone on the Ovi Spot to record his 46h goal of the season. Andre Burakovsky stayed red hot with a solo effort, then Nicklas Backstrom caught a goal-line pass from Jakub Vrana to roof the five-spot. Before the second period was up, Claude Giroux set up rookie Philippe Myers for his first NHL goal.

Giroux opened the third period with an early goal as well, and the Caps’ lead diminished to two with 12 minutes left when Scott Laughton got a clear shot up the slot past Holtby.

Caps win! Five in a row!

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By Peter Hassett 1 month ago

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Greetings from Ovechkin Island (again)

Sometime tomorrow the Philadelphia Flyers will gather in front of a TV screen and review video from Wednesday’s game against the Washington Capitals, and in that meeting someone will freeze frame Alex Ovechkin standing all alone in front of the Flyers net with the puck, and then someone will say, “what is wrong with this picture?”

Anyway, Alex Ovechkin’s got 46 goals now.

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By Ian Oland 1 month ago

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Alex Ovechkin assists on Tom Wilson goal from his knees

In a stunning reversal of recent events, the Washington Capitals were the first team to score in Wednesday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers. In a comforting repetition of recent events, the goal was yet another remarkable feat of creative goal-scoring by the incomparable Alex Ovechkin.

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By Ian Oland 1 month ago

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Caps at Flyers pregame: House of Bryce

It’s a new world. The Washington Capitals are visiting Bryce Harper’s new home, Philadelphia. The Flyers are probably his new favorite team too, right? Does he want to bring them a championship too? Does he think the Phillies will have a bigger parade than the Flyers ever will? Will he continue to drive me up a wall even though I have never met the man and for all I know he could be a lovely person? I don’t care much about baseball, but I can’t seem to stand Bryce. Anyway, let’s go Caps.

You have an extra half hour to get your act together. Puck drop is at 7:30PM and you still have the option to stream the game from your devices on the My Teams app. Once the game is over, Peter will recap the whole dang thing for you.

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By Elyse Bailey 1 month ago

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