The Washington Capitals have many problems this season and one of them is the Philadelphia Flyers continuing to toss them around like toddlers. The Caps dropped another to Philly 5-2 on Wednesday night.
The Flyers out-shot the Caps 29 to 27, but were out-attempted at five-on-five 44 to 34.
By Chris Cerullo 1 month ago
The Washington Capitals’ big home game against the red-hot division rival Philadelphia Flyers did not go as we hoped. The Caps got an early lead, but the Flyers were relentless, adding pressure as the game went on. It was more than the Caps could handle.
Lars Eller kicked off the scoring with a lovely rush goal, but the Flyers responded with three goals in the second period — a rebound from Travis Konecny, a layup from Kevin Hayes after a power-play expired, and then an odd-man rush finished off by Tyler Pitlick. Garnet Hathaway notched a goal of his own, but Ivan Provorov hit the back of the net in the third, putting the Caps into a two-goal hole they could not escape. Scott Laughton made it a laugher with a deflection off Orlov’s stick.
Caps lose.
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By Peter Hassett 1 month ago
Tom Wilson‘s having a fun night. With the division rivals Philadelphia Flyers in town, and them suddenly being not a total joke, Wilson performed his wilsonly duties perfectly in the first period.
By Peter Hassett 1 month ago
The Caps have a whole bunch of Metro Division competition coming up on the schedule and it starts with the Philadelphia Flyers. Here is your injury report.
By Chris Cerullo 1 month ago
The newest owner of second place in this year’s Metropolitan Division comes to town on Wednesday in the form of the Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers are rolling on a six-game win streak that the Caps hope to halt.
Puck drop is at 7 PM, and Peter’s on recap duty.
By Chris Cerullo and Peter Hassett 1 month ago
The Caps were inactive on a busy weekend in the NHL. While the team rested in Minnesota, two big regular-season races — the one to win the Metropolitan Division and the one to win the Rocket Richard trophy — had some important developments.
By Peter Hassett 1 month ago
The Washington Capitals got mega-boomed by the Philadelphia Flyers in their worst game of the season to date. To make matters worse, Chris is out of town, so I’m gonna do the morning-after story. Here’s a bunch of depressing stats.
The Caps out-attempted the Flyers 38 to 37.
By Peter Hassett 2 months ago
After getting mega-boomed to hell by the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night, the Washington Capitals have lost their claim on first place in the league to the Boston Bruins.
By Peter Hassett 2 months ago
On Saturday night the Washington Capitals just straight-up got boomed by the Philadelphia Flyers.
It started innocently enough. Sean Couturier got a power-play goal off a nifty low-to-high pass, but TJ Oshie answered with a PPG of his own. But then in the blink of an eye the lead was 3-1 Flyers as Raffl and Couturier got two goals on back-to-back shots. JVR got another 90 seconds later, and that was pretty much it. I’m told that Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Travis Konecny, and Claude Giroux added more goals in the third period; I think I may have blacked out. Oh, and Kuznetsov got a stat-padder in the final eight minutes.
Caps lose.
By Peter Hassett 2 months ago
