Tonight the Washington Capitals return to Detroit after beating the Red Wings in overtime at Little Caesars Arena in late October. Mike Green and the boys are amidst an unsuccessful season where their main focus will be on the draft lottery rather than the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Caps look to keep pace with their Metro Division challengers.
We have a 7:30 PM start on NBCSN tonight. Peter has your recap.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals salvaged a point from a 5-4 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings in a game that most thought was over after a horrendous second period from the DC home team. Not a good performance.
The Red Wings out-shot the Capitals 29 to 27 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 48 to 33.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals brought an optimally organized and well rested lineup to Sunday’s matinee against a lottery-bound Detroit Red Wings, so you can understand my confusion as to why they played so very poorly for two-thirds of the game.
Alex Ovechkin scored on an Ovi shot from the Ovi spot during a first period power play, but Justin Abdelkader exploited a turnover and Matt Niskanen’s misplay to tie it up. The Caps had basically zero offense in the second period, which the Wings made them pay for with three goals in the final four minutes. It was a dunk fest, friends.
Brett Connolly finished a great drive from Smith-Pelly and Beagle to give the Caps life early in the third. Dmitry Orlov compounded the comeback with a weak-side one-timer. With 16 seconds left in the third and the Caps on the power play, Nick Backstrom tied the game with an outside shot.
The Caps had the better looks in overtime, but the Tatar had the last look.
Red Wings beat Caps 5-4 in overtime.
By Peter Hassett 2 years ago
Happy Sunday, friends. Hopefully it’s less rainy and cold than Saturday, and hopefully there’s a Caps win in it for you. This afternoon will be the second of three meetings between Washington and Detroit (the Caps won the first 4-3 in overtime), and it will probably be the final one with Mike Green in the lineup – unless he’s wearing a different uniform for the next one, wink wink, nudge nudge.
The game starts at 3 PM on the usual channel. I’ll be writing about it for your pleasure.
By Peter Hassett 2 years ago
When Dylan Larkin was 13-years-old, he recorded a video of himself and a friend playing hockey in the “dungeon,” or rather his basement. Larkin, who referred to himself as D-Bo$$, wore his baseball hat turned inside out and draped an American flag and like the American Bad Ass he was.
In the video, Larkin tore it up with a quick snipe show session, AKA he practiced shooting at a net that looks held together by hockey sticks.
Larkin probably thought the video would never be seen, but when you’re famous, that’s not how the internet works. The YouTube video resurfaced in February of 2016. Larkin was ashamed then, but he has since embraced the clip as has the Red Wings organization.
By Cara Bahniuk 2 years ago
The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Calgary Flames 8-2 Wednesday night, but the fireworks late in the third period were all anyone could talk about afterwards.
With the Red Wings leading 6-2 with 5:56 remaining, Luke Witkowski beat up the Flames’ Brett Kulak and then taunted Travis Hamonic, asking if he wanted a piece of him too. Officials would eject Witkowski from the game, but he was “speared” in the back of the legs by Matthew Tkachuk as he skated off the ice.
Witkowski didn’t like that much and set off a good ol’ fashioned bench brawl!
The Caps were in Motown to play Mike Green and the Detroit Red Wings in the Wings newly opened Pizza Palace, Pie Center, Dough Joe, etc. The team came away with a 4-3 overtime win after Alex Ovechkin slammed home the GWG on the power play in the extra frame.
The Caps out-attempted the Wings 48 to 39 at five-on-five and overall outshot them 41 to 37. All in all this was a very nice effort from the team out of DC for the first two periods, but they took their foot off the gas in the third. This allowed the Wings to tie the game and eventually take a lead themselves on the back of two Tomas Tatar goals.
By Chris Cerullo 3 years ago
The Capitals traveled to the newly opened Little Caesar’s Arena, “The Pie” if you’re RMNB’s Pat Holden, to play the Detroit Red Wings. Mike Green and company came into the game on a losing streak just like the Caps. I deem this the battle of the early season losing streaks. Only one streak shall last.
The teams started the night with some failed power play opportunities and good goaltending. We were scoreless through twenty.
Darren Helm opened scoring with a shorthanded marker early in the second. Andre Burakovsky heard your complaints; he knotted this one back up at one. 1-1 after two periods.
Jay Beagle scored shorthanded in his 400th career NHL game. That’s a lot of games. Congrats, Jay. Tomas Tatar spoiled things with a ridiculous tip-in to tie the game at two and then scored again to give the Red Wings a 3-2 lead. Timothy Jimothy Oshbabe tied this bad boy up at three late to force OT, then Ovechkin won it in overtime!
Caps beat Red Wings 4-3 in overtime!
By Chris Cerullo 3 years ago
The Washington Capitals are visiting Little Caesars Arena for the first time to not just play the Detroit Red Wings, but to celebrate Jay Beagle‘s 400th game. It’s cute because he loved the Red Wings growing up. Why? His answer was simply, “Steve Yzerman”. Join me in celebrating not “#FriYay” but instead, “#FriJay”.
As for analysis of the actual game, both the Capitals and the Red Wings have lost two games in a row and hope to put an end to, what could be a larger losing streak tonight. Some hope for the Capitals this evening includes the fact that the team is 12-4-3 against the Red Wings since the Wings last won the Stanley Cup in 2008. Braden Holtby is 8-2-1 in his career against the Red Wings with a .929 save percentage. Here’s hoping the positive trend continues tonight.
The game is on at 7:30 PM. Once it’s all done, you’ll have a recap from none other than our extraordinary son, Christopher from the comments.
By Elyse Bailey 3 years ago
Caps hockey is back. The boys started the back end of the regular season off in Detroit for the last Capitals-Wings match up in Joe Louis Arena. The bye week rust was on display and I’m pretty sure the entire team was playing sunburned.
The first was not a great period for the team in white. No real sustained offensive zone pressure and a misfire on the man advantage. Danish forward Frans Nielsen put the Red Wings up 1-0 on Detroit’s lone power play of the period. McGriddles fans everywhere wept.
Tomas Tatar capitalized on a John Carlson turnover to put Detroit up 2-0, but the red hot, potentially pierced Zach Sanford brought the Caps within one before the end of forty minutes.
Petr Mrazek then tried to steal the show, making numerous ten-bellers before Daniel Winnik batted home a rebound to tie the game at 2 and send it to overtime.
Henrik Zetterberg with the shootout winner.
Red Wings beat Caps 3-2.
By Chris Cerullo 3 years ago
