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Lars Eller calls Capitals’ casual first period performance against Lightning ‘horse 💩, flat out’

The Washington Capitals defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-1 on Friday. They got bounces, they found the back of the net with ease, and they played a passionate brand of hockey.

The two teams’ rematch two days later in Tampa was exactly the opposite. The Capitals gave up four goals to the Lightning before they even got a shot on goal in the first period. They were never in the game and lost 6-3.

In the locker room, acting head coach Kevin McCarthy and several other players including Lars Eller, Garnet Hathaway, and Charlie Lindgren excoriated the team’s performance.

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By Ian Oland 4 months ago

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Kevin McCarthy will be head coach of the Capitals against Lightning with Peter Laviolette in protocol due to COVID-19

The Capitals announced Friday morning that head coach Peter Laviolette has entered the NHL’s COVID protocol and as a result will not coach in the team’s next two games against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Assistant coach Kevin McCarthy will take the reins behind the bench. McCarthy has been an assistant or associate coach in the league for 27 years.

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By Chris Cerullo 4 months ago

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Who is to blame for the Capitals being bad?

The Washington Capitals have gone 8-12-2 since the new year, earning just 41 percent of the standings points available to them. That places the team 26th out of the league’s 32 teams in the calendar year of 2022. That’s a dramatic drop from the first three months of the season, when the Caps were third best at collecting standings points (71 percent, behind only Carolina and Tampa). Now the only teams worse are Buffalo, Arizona, Montreal, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Those are, to be precise, ass-tier hockey teams, and Washington is among them.

So let’s have some fun. Let’s play the blame game!

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By Peter Hassett 1 year ago

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