Apparently, drama involving Brad Marchand is good for business.
Thursday night’s Capitals-Bruins game was the highest-rated NBC Sports Washington Caps game in nearly six years, according to the Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand. It was also the most-streamed Caps game on record.
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.
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.
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.
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!Â
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.
The Washington Capitals are away this evening to face the Boston Bruins. My personal nemesis, Jaroslav Halak, will be in net for the Bruins tonight while they try to tie the Capitals in wins. On the good guys side, there are some quick lineup changes to note. Nicklas Backstrom is back in after missing last game due to illness and Andre Burakovsky is back to the bench as a healthy scratch.
We are back to a normal puck drop time at 7PM! You can catch every second of that sweet, sweet action on NBCSWA. Can’t make it to a television set this evening? No problem, you can stream all of NBCSWA’s pregame, in-game, and postgame coverage via the My Teams app on all of your usual streaming devices. Don’t miss me too much because I also have your recap.
Since the National Women’s Hockey League’s founding in 2015, three teams have partnered with their closest NHL franchises. Those partnerships include the Metropolitan Riveters with the New Jersey Devils, the Minnesota Whitecaps with the Minnesota Wild, and the Buffalo Beauts with the Buffalo Sabres.
Thursday morning, the Boston Pride became the fourth, teaming up with the Boston Bruins. The Bruins will assist the Pride financially and help grow women’s hockey in Massachusetts.
The Pride, whose roster includes Maryland native and Olympic gold medalist Haley Skarupa, will be at TD Garden tonight to support the Bruins and celebrate the new partnership.
Hello again. I’m back, long time no see. I hope everyone had a great summer. It’s that time again where we look at a bunch of numbers, big and small, and I shape a bunch of scorching hot takes around them to try and look smart. Join me once again this season, won’t you?
So hey, the Caps totally laid a good ole Beantown beatdown on the Bruins to open their Stanley Cup defending season. The 2018-19 season home opener couldn’t have went better for the boys in red as they put a touchdown plus an extra point on the scoreboard, beating Boston 7-0.
The Capitals out-shot the Bruins 37 to 25, but were out-attempted at five-on-five 45 to 41. The latter matters exactly 0.0 percent.
Welcome back, friends! After a fairytale summer, the Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals turned back into pumpkins during a pregame banner-raising ceremony as their season began with a home opener against the Boston Bruins. The magic didn’t stay gone long.
A long wait following a short summer ended just 24 seconds after puck drop when TJ Oshie scored on Tuukka Rask’s short side from out wide. A little over a minute later, Evgeny Kuznetsov added a power-play goal, and that’s when I figured something was up. The second period saw the Caps erupt for four goals: Ovechkin, Dowd, Kuznetsov (again), and Carlson. Rask was chased from net with Halak stepping in. Eller made it a full touchdown and extra point halfway into the third period with a clean breakaway goal. Holtby recorded the shutout to kick off the season right.
Caps win 7-0!Â
