TJ Oshie just added these fine frames to his highlight reel.
Falling headlong towards Pittsburgh’s net, Oshie managed to pool-shot the puck into the net.
It had shades of The Goal.
After posting seven points in the first eight games, TJ Oshie’s season took a nosedive during the next three weeks of play. Coming into Sunday’s matinee against the New Jersey Devils, Oshie had gone nine games without scoring and had only posted three points during that time.
Oshie broke that goalless streak in a big way against Jersey. The Osh Babe scored two power-play goals and tallied the primary assist on the game-winner, Alex Ovechkin’s 712th career tally.
It marked Oshie’s first three-point game since the season opener against the Buffalo Sabres.
“When we have Osh Babe on our team, every time he’s hot, he’s hot,” Ovechkin said.
The Washington Capitals’ antics and superstitions inside the tunnel pregame are legendary. The high fives, dances, miming of musical instruments, and painful equipment checks are complicated and particular. Sometimes they vary in intensity.
For instance, on Saturday, TJ Oshie greeted Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin to have their pregame high five, chest bump, and profanity-laced good luck message. Ovi’s chest bump, however, was more powerful than friendly and sent Oshie careening approximately 15 feet backward into a camera guy.
You can’t say Ovi wasn’t pumped for the early afternoon game.
We all remember Jakub Vrana’s goal in the second period that gave the Capitals a 2-0 lead over the Penguins. TJ Oshie set it up with a mind-bogglingly good backhand pass.
But it’s the selfless defensive play that happened 11 seconds prior that Oshie credited as perhaps winning it for the Capitals.
After the Capitals 3-1 victory over the Pittsburg Penguins last night, TJ Oshie talked to the media and had a very interesting analysis on how well the third line played.
Two of the Caps’ three goals came from Lars Eller and Conor Sheary on the third line.
By Eliza Kravitz 1 week ago
The Capitals have played a frustrating game against the Penguins on Tuesday night. After earning and then squandering three power plays, the Caps looked poised to blow yet another lead.
But then TJ Oshie sent a blazing pass across the crease to Jakub Vrana, who sunk it.
Vrana now has goals in consecutive games.
By Ian Oland 1 week ago
Three East Division teams are paused due to COVID-19 outbreaks while 50 NHL players overall are sidelined (as of February 10) due to the disease. 17 of those players are from the New Jersey Devils – one of which, Connor Carrick, recently had his first child born. The Washington Capitals had three games postponed this week and their last game on Sunday required the Flyers to all unamionously pass rapid testing before the game was played.
Lars Eller, the Capitals’ alternate NHLPA representative, recently spoke out about his concerns after practice on Saturday.
The Washington Capitals appear to finally be healthy.
Wednesday, the Capitals took the ice with two of their remaining outliers, TJ Oshie and Jakub Vrana. Oshie was nursing an upper-body injury and missed Sunday’s Capitals-Flyers game while Vrana served three days on the NHL’s COVID-19 Unavailability List for an unknown reason.
The Washington Capitals will be without top-six forwards TJ Oshie (upper body) and Jakub Vrana (COVID-19 Unavailability List) against the Flyers on Sunday.
With the two players out, the Capitals made several roster moves. Michael Sgarbossa, who had been playing well, was dumped to the taxi squad while Daniel Carr and Philippe Maillet were added to the Capitals roster.
According to the Capitals PR, Maillet will make his NHL debut against the Flyers.
The Washington Capitals posted a bloopers reel featuring some of the team’s sillier moments inside the Zoom Room this season.
Somehow TJ Oshie’s humming of Pitbull and the haunting of Nicklas Backstrom didn’t make the cut.
