The Washington Capitals continued their hot run of play by easily dispatching of the Philadelphia Flyers in the Flyers home barn. The Caps took down their Metro Division rivals 5-2 and put a huge dampener on Philly’s wild card playoff hopes.
The Caps out-shot the Flyers 32 to 24.
By Chris Cerullo 1 week ago
The Capitals made one more stop in the state of Pennsylvania to play the Philadelphia Flyers. If this game did anything, it only heightened my hatred for the color orange.
A couple goals for the good guys in the first period to give the Capitals a 2-0 lead heading into the second period. Tip of the hat to the goal scorers Brett Connolly and Lars Eller.
Second period started with a quick response from James van Riemsdyk to get the Flyers on the board. The Capitals snagged two more goals, an unassisted one from Brett Connolly and one that got Tom Wilson inducted into the 20 goal club. The final goal of the high scoring period went to Scott Laughton. Caps continued to lead 4-2.
The third period happened and the Capitals made a bunch of unnecessary penalties, especially toward the end. They got lucky with their kills. A final empty netter from your friendly neighborhood pal Evgeny Kuznetsov sealed the deal.
Caps beat Flyers 5-2.
By Elyse Bailey 1 week ago
The Capitals have traveled to the other side of the state of Pennsylvania, where they will be facing off against the Philadelphia Flyers.
This will be the penultimate time these two teams face each other in the regular season. There is one more game between the two on March 24th, but the final game is in DC. So, I’m hoping for some quality Gritty content this evening.
There is a 7PM puck drop and you can stream the game live from any of your devices on the My Teams App. After racing home from my final meeting, I will have your recap.
By Elyse Bailey 1 week ago
On Wednesday night, the Philadelphia Flyers played their first game at home since the Phillies signed former Nationals right fielder, Bryce Harper, to a 13-year, $330 million contract. That game just happened to coincide with Harper’s former home, Washington, coming to town.
In a move that was likely meant to rile up Capitals fans, Gritty led the charge in welcoming Harper to the Philadelphia sports family. But Capitals radio’s John Walton trolled back in epic fashion during his play-by-play of the game.
By Donya Abramo 2 weeks ago
Wednesday night, the Washington Capitals continued recent winning ways by extending their current streak to five games, securing a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers to do so.
The Caps out-shot the Flyers 35 to 30.
By Chris Cerullo 2 weeks ago
The Washington Capitals jumped out to a commanding lead early in Wednesday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers, but a late-game surge by the home team almost made it interesting. Almost.
Tom Wilson scored the game’s first goal, taking a pass from Ovi on his knees. Brett Connolly made it 2-0 with an in-and-out goal that required an official review to be ruled a goal.
In the second period, Alex Ovechkin got left alone on the Ovi Spot to record his 46h goal of the season. Andre Burakovsky stayed red hot with a solo effort, then Nicklas Backstrom caught a goal-line pass from Jakub Vrana to roof the five-spot. Before the second period was up, Claude Giroux set up rookie Philippe Myers for his first NHL goal.
Giroux opened the third period with an early goal as well, and the Caps’ lead diminished to two with 12 minutes left when Scott Laughton got a clear shot up the slot past Holtby.
Caps win! Five in a row!
By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago
It’s a new world. The Washington Capitals are visiting Bryce Harper’s new home, Philadelphia. The Flyers are probably his new favorite team too, right? Does he want to bring them a championship too? Does he think the Phillies will have a bigger parade than the Flyers ever will? Will he continue to drive me up a wall even though I have never met the man and for all I know he could be a lovely person? I don’t care much about baseball, but I can’t seem to stand Bryce. Anyway, let’s go Caps.
You have an extra half hour to get your act together. Puck drop is at 7:30PM and you still have the option to stream the game from your devices on the My Teams app. Once the game is over, Peter will recap the whole dang thing for you.
By Elyse Bailey 2 weeks ago
The WWE’s road to Wrestlemania has been underway for over a month now. The next stop has their red brand, Monday Night Raw, in Philadelphia at Wells Fargo Center tonight.
To drum up excitement for the event, the WWE and the Flyers are teaming up to bring fans at the show a limited edition t-shirt.
Gritty is featured on the shirt while tearing it up in a professional wrestling ring.
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
The NHL’s annual Stadium Series game is set to take place this weekend at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers will be modeling some fancy new gear.
The two teams will be wearing newly designed jerseys for the event. They’ll also be rocking specially-painted helmets featuring zoomed in versions of the teams’ primary logos.
This marks Adidas’s first foray into helmets since taking over as the NHL’s apparel supplier.
By Cara Bahniuk 4 weeks ago
The Washington Capitals beat up on the bottom feeding Philadelphia Flyers and kept pace with an overall surging Metropolitan Division. The Caps extended the Flyers losing streak to eight games as they downed the Philadelphians by a score of 5-3.
The Flyers out-shot the Caps 40-26 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 43 to 38.
By Chris Cerullo 2 months ago
