The Washington Capitals could not get enough offense to take down the stingy Minnesota Wild and one bad turnover on defense sealed the deal in regulation. The 2-1 loss was quite the snooze fest, especially after the Caps recent games against the Lightning.
The Wild out-shot the Caps 27 to 22.
By Chris Cerullo 4 months ago
Washington’s 2-1 loss to Minnesota was a low-key affair. Brett Connolly scored the Caps’ lone goal, his 21st of the season, in an otherwise light-on-highlights night.
But a stoppage in play in the third period gave us some levity. Helping call the game from between the benches, relentless troll and NBC Sports analyst Alan May did play-by-play for some rink maintenance.
By Peter Hassett 4 months ago
Friday night, the Washington Capitals continued their home stand with a soiree involving their former bench boss Bruce Boudreau and his Minnesota Wild team. This was the final game of the season that the Caps will play against a Western Conference team…unless we get another Cup Final.
Jordan Greenway opened scoring for the Wild during a sleepy first period. Brett Connolly deflected home a Nick Jensen drive to tie the game at one. Luke Kunin restored the Wild lead in the third.
Wild beat Caps 2-1.
By Chris Cerullo 4 months ago
One more piece of late-breaking news for this busy Friday evening: the Washington Capitals have announced that Carl Hagelin will miss Friday’s game due to illness.
Missing Hagelin means Andre Burakovsky will be back on the third line.
By Peter Hassett 4 months ago
The Washington Capitals will take a break from all the Eastern Conference action of late for their final game of the season against the Western Conference until a potential Stanley Cup Final. That western team is the Minnesota Wild who the Caps last saw and beat 5-2 on the road in mid November.
Puck drop for this one is at your regular 7 PM eastern. As always, you can catch all coverage of this game on NBC Sports Washington via the My Teams app on your choice streaming device. I have your recap to distract me from my March Madness bracket obsession.
By Chris Cerullo 4 months ago
After a not so great end to their homestand, the Washington Capitals headed west for their only visit to the Minnesota Wild’s barn this season. The Caps and a returning from suspension Tom Wilson got the job done, smashing the Wild 5-2.
The Capitals out-shot the Wild 33 to 28, but were narrowly out-attempted at five-on-five 42 to 39.
By Chris Cerullo 8 months ago
After ten days at home, the Washington Capitals have hit the road, kicking off their middle-America trip with a win over Bruce Boudreau, Eric Fehr, and the Minnesota Wild.
As befitting the game in which Tom Wilson returned from suspension, a lot of raucous stuff happened in this one. Dmitry Orlov opened up scoring for Washington, taking a nifty pass from Lars Eller to beat Devan Dubynuk. The dude Tom himself followed up, converting an Orlov pass for a crash-the-net (maybe too crash-y?) goal.
In the second period, precocious young child Andre Burakovsky backhanded another neat pass from Lars Eller to make it 3-0, but Mikko Koivu exploited a bad clear from Michal Kempny to crack Pheonix Copley’s shutout bid.
Dmitry Orlov capped off a gorgeous three-on-two rush with Wilson and Ovechkin to restore the three-goal lead. A few minutes later, Nicky Backstrom faked a shot to set up TJ Oshie for another lovely rush goal. Matt Dumba (or was it Zach Parise?) scored a power-play goal from point blank in the third period, but that was that.
Caps win 5-2!
By Peter Hassett 8 months ago
The Caps have hit the road again for the next four games. To start, they will face a pretty stellar looking Minnesota Wild. The Minnesota team is returning home after a successful road trip while the Capitals are still trying to find a good groove and shake off their Stanley Cup hangover. Luckily, some additions to the Capitals lineup might make a bit of a positive impact. Most notably in the lineup this evening is an addition to the top line. Tom Wilson. Yeah, you read that right.
Catch the puck dropping at 8:00 PM on NBC Sports Washington. You can stream the game with NBCS Washington on any of your devices beginning with the pregame at 7:00 PM. Once the game finishes, Peter will meet you right back here for a recap.
By Elyse Bailey 8 months ago
The Washington Capitals traveled to the land of 10,000 lakes to play the Western Conference’s Minnesota Wild in the second game of the Caps four game road trip. The good guys would prevail 5-2 over the Wild, majorly on the back of a stellar night from their first line forwards.
The Wild out-shot the Caps 34 to 27 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 46 to 39.
By Chris Cerullo 1 year ago
The Caps and their dads visited Minnesota for a Thursday night tilt against the Wild.
The first period ended with no scoring. About a minute into the second, Tom “Laser Tom” Wilson put the Caps up 1-0. About six minutes into the period, Alex Ovechkin buried a nice feed from Andre Burakovsky to give the Caps a 2-0 lead.
In the third, Burakovsky went end-to-end to put the Caps up 3-0. But less than two minutes later Nino Niederreiter got about 78 whacks at the puck and put it home while Dmitry Orlov did nothing that looked like defense. Nick Backstrom put the game out of reach without five minutes to go. Eric Staal scored a late power play goal, but then Tom Wilson added an empty netter.
Caps win 5-2!
By Patrick Holden 1 year ago
