The Washington Capitals had to be feeling the pressure of securing a win on Monday night as they took on the New York Islanders for the first time this season. Things did not start well but they sure ended better as the good guys scored four unanswered to take down two points 4-3 in overtime.
They needed that one.
By Chris Cerullo 2 months ago
Ryan Reaves was traded to the Minnesota Wild on November 23 after starting the season with the New York Rangers pointless after 12 games.
Reaves, now with 20 games under his belt for the Wild, is making his grand return to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.
He is, of course, already talking about fighting his former teammates of just seven weeks ago.
By Chris Cerullo 3 months ago
Ryan Reaves is no longer a New York Ranger and is headed to the Minnesota Wild.
The trade news was first reported by Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman on Twitter.
Acquired in July of 2021 after Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson caused absolute mayhem in the Rangers organization, Reaves will depart New York without fighting Wilson a single time.
By Chris Cerullo 4 months ago
The Washington Capitals suffered their second straight blowout loss as they fell on home ice to the Minnesota Wild by a score of 5-1. All of that extra rest proved useless as a Wild team that had also played the day previous made the win look easy.
Yeesh.
By Chris Cerullo 12 months ago
The Washington Capitals, who enjoyed five days of rest before Sunday’s game, got trounced by the Minnesota Wild, who played last night. This game was awful from the first minute.
Speaking of: The Wild scored two goals in the first 100 seconds of the game. The second period was slower, but Joel Eriksson Ek scored his second of the game off a loose puck. Marcus Foligno scored on the first shift of the third period.
Garnet Hathaway tipped in an Alex Ovechkin shot to end the shutout, but it was over. Nicolas Deslauriers got the empty-netter.
By Peter Hassett 12 months ago
It’s the overly rested versus the overly tired tonight.
The Washington Capitals are back on home ice after a pseudo bye week to take on the Minnesota Wild. The Wild are coming off a 3-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday. Capitals trade deadline target, Marc-Andre Fleury, will not start in net for the Wild, which honestly is a tragedy.
Meanwhile, Capitals head coach Peter Laviolette put together some kinda bad new lines during the morning skate and decided to bench one of his best players lately, Connor McMichael. But hey, Johan Larsson is making his Caps debut tonight.
Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington. Put it on, right now. You can watch Day 2 of Wrestlemania later.
The Washington Capitals should have beaten the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night. They didn’t, but they should have. The Caps dropped the 3-2 decision in a shootout.
Scoring in your own net is bad.
By Chris Cerullo 1 year ago
The Washington Capitals had an opportunity to bounce back from a bad loss in St. Louis the night prior. Could they do that or would the Wild just send them to the start of a losing streak?
Nada in the first period goals wise. Connor McMichael tipped home a Nick Jensen point drive to open the scoring. Evgeny Kuznetsov…get this…blasted home a slapper on a power play to double the lead.
Carl Hagelin put the puck into his own empty net with a delayed call coming against the Wild. I cant describe to you the full scope of that. Mats Zuccarello actually scored against Zach Fucale with less than a minute left to force overtime. To a shootout we headed.
Wild beat Capitals 3-2.
By Chris Cerullo 1 year ago
The Minnesota Wild are devastated by injury and COVID-19 while the Capitals are playing in the back end of a back-to-back tonight. Who will win?
Zach Fucale will draw his second career start with Vitek Vanecek out due to illness while Connor McMichael is back in the lineup and will play on the Capitals second line. Yes, two Connors are playing on the same line as each other and they both spell their first names differently.
Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington. Watch along with us!
By Ian Oland 1 year ago
The Minnesota Wild announced Saturday afternoon that nine of their regular roster members would not play tonight against the Washington Capitals due to either injury or COVID. That list includes Kirill Kaprizov, Jonas Brodin, Joel Eriksson Ek, Alex Goligoski, Jordan Greenway, Nick Bjugstad, Brandon Duhaime, Jared Spurgeon, and Cam Talbot.
The Capitals and Wild are set to do battle at 8 PM in the Xcel Energy Center.
By Chris Cerullo 1 year ago
