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Islanders land Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac from Devils for prospects and picks

The Washington Capitals and New York Islanders are tied for first place in the East Division after the Isles defeated the Caps 1-0 Tuesday at Nassau Coliseum. A night later, the Islanders have made a major trade deadline deal that will give them some much-needed forward depth after losing Anders Lee for the season with a knee injury.

The Islanders acquired Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac from the New Jersey Devils for prospects and picks (forwards A.J. Greer, Mason Jobst, the Islanders first-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft, and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft.)

The Devils agreed to retain 50 percent of both Palmieri and Zajac’s salaries to make the deal happen.

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By Ian Oland 1 week ago

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Vitek Vanecek gave one of the best goalie performances of the entire season

Caps goalie Vitek Vanecek is marked as the losing goaltender in Tuesday night’s 1-0 loss to the New York Islanders. Sure, that’s accurate from a statistical perspective, but it overlooks what a wizard he was in that game.

That was one of the finest jobs an NHL goalie has done all season.

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By Peter Hassett 1 week ago

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Iced by the Isles: numbers for the morning after

One team decided that they wanted to win Tuesday night’s game and it was not the Washington Capitals. The New York Islanders blitzed the Caps net in the third period like the Caps weren’t even there on the way to a 1-0 victory.

The Isles outshot the Caps 39 to 29 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 54 to 45.

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By Chris Cerullo 1 week ago

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The tractor pull: Isles beat Caps 1-0

The Washington Capitals have been in grind-it-out mode for about a week now. Tuesday’s night road game against the New York Islanders was no exception.

First period: No goals.

Second period: No goals.

Third period: No goals for thirteen minutes, then Brock Nelson got a quick look from the slot to beat Vanecek.

That’s it. Caps lose.

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By Peter Hassett 1 week ago

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Caps at Islanders pregame: Vrana dance with somebody

The Capitals will be facing off against the New York Islanders to try and extend their win streak to three games…but also try to convince us that the last game against the Isles was just a fluke. Tonight we will see the return of Jakub Vrana to the line-up after being a healthy scratch for the previous two games. It’ll be a tough game, we will need all the energy from Jake the Snake.

The puck will be dropping at 7 PM and Good Tweet Pete will have your recap. More like Good Recap Pete if you ask me.

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By Elyse Bailey 1 week ago

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Throw that game over the side of a bridge: numbers for the morning after

If you wanted to know what an absolutely embarrassing defensive effort looks like…well do I have the game for you. The Caps let the Islanders do quite literally whatever they wanted on the way to an 8-4 loss.

The Isles outshot the Caps 33 to 22 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 45 to 43.

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By Chris Cerullo 2 weeks ago

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The bad game: Islanders beat Caps 8-4

The Washington Capitals. Woof. Pals, they got beat. They got beat something fierce, unto the edge of buckwilderness, by the New York Islanders. It was awful.

John Carlson scored one minute and one second into the cursed game. Jordan Eberle tied the game on a big rush goal that embarrassed Brenden Dillon and then Mathew Barzal took the lead on an even bigger rush goal that embarrassed Brenden Dillon even more.

Listen. There were three more goals in the first period. I’m not writing War and Peace here; just look at the stat sheet. One was Sprong’s.

Casey Cizikas scored against some bad Caps defense, and TJ Oshie scored a power-play goal deflecting in Ovi’s shot, and then Jordan Eberle scored against some bad Caps defense, and then John Carlson scored late in the second period to earn you nuggets or something.

Josh Bailey scored early in the third period, which meant we had no hope of watching a comeback, so it was just tedium from there until Barzal locked up his hat trick.

Caps lose by quite a lot.

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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Ilya Samsonov hit in head by TJ Oshie, leaves game in first minute

Update: Ilya Samsonov returned to the game with 3:04 remaining in the first period.

Original story: After taking a head hit from TJ Oshie, Caps goalie Ilya Samsonov left Thursday’s game on Long Island during the very first shift.

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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Caps at Islanders pregame: April Fools’ fracas

The Washington Capitals will look to get a lead and keep it this time as they take on another New York foe in the Islanders. Barry Trotz and the boys will host the Caps and I hope Alex Ovechkin scores fifty times.

They’ll drop the puck at 7 PM and best tweet Pete will have your recap.

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By Chris Cerullo 2 weeks ago

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Streak struck down: numbers for the morning after

The Washington Capitals are the new boys atop the East Division mountain after taking down the streaking New York Islanders 3-1 on Tuesday night. Streaking no more.

Shots were locked up at 22 apiece, but the Caps were out-attempted at five-on-five 46 to 38.

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By Chris Cerullo 4 weeks ago

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