The Washington Capitals left it late again to tie a game and send it to overtime. This time, however, they got the job done in the extra frame as Lars Eller potted the winner.
Bruce, there it almost was.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
The Capitals finished up their western Canadian road trip in Vancouver…starting yesterday here on the east coast. The boys looked to make the trip a real successful one by grabbing another two points.
Evgeny Kuznetsov had a puck ricochet off a stanchion, hit him in the chest, and end up in the net to open the scoring. Kuzy would double the Caps lead only seconds later as he swept an Alex Ovechkin shot over the line.
Quinn Hughes got the Canucks on the board early in the third to cut the lead in half. Bo Horvat ripped one past Vitek Vanecek to tie the game and potted another soon after to give Vancouver the lead.
Kuznetsov finished off the hat trick on a late power play to force the game to overtime. Lars Eller overtime winner!
Capitals beat Canucks 4-3!
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
It’s a Washington Capitals game day! (And by game day, I mean, a late-night west coast weekend game that almost all of you, except the most hardcore of the hardcore, are going to stay up for.)
The Capitals will keep their lines mostly the same for the Canucks except for one change: Conor Sheary has been flipped up to the first line while Tom Wilson will skate on the third. Vitek Vanecek will get the start.
Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington Plus. It’s RMNB After Dark so LETSSSSS GET WEIRD.
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman recently spoke about the Washington Capitals and Vancouver Canucks being potential trade partners.
The NHL insider elaborated slightly on that discussion with his latest 32 Thoughts column.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman went on Donnie and Dhali – The Team on Monday and had an interesting note on the Washington Capitals being a potential trade partner with the Vancouver Canucks.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals started slow, took too many really dumb penalties, couldn’t penalty kill, and…scored multiple times on their own power play? What? Wow.
Stay out of the box and you win this one. Don’t, and lose 4-2.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals fell to the Vancouver Canucks in a subdued Sunday afternoon game.
Alex Ovechkin opened up scoring with an Ovi Shot from the Ovi Spot, but then Elias Pettersen scored twice (once on the power play, once at evens) to put Vancouver in control. A late-second-period power play goal from Bo Horvat made it 3-1 entering the third period.
The Caps converted their second (!!!) power play of the day early in the third with Tom Wilson in the middle-man spot. A late-game too-many-men penalty kinda snuffed Washington’s comeback bid. The Canucks secured an empty-netter and that was that.
Caps lose.
By Peter Hassett 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals are taking on the Vancouver Canucks as Washington DC is under a Winter Storm warning due to Winter Storm Izzy. The Capitals are coming off a 2-0 victory against the New York Islanders on Saturday.
The Capitals got bad news before puck drop as John Carlson, the team’s best defenseman, was forced to enter COVID-19 protocol.
Bruce Boudreau is making his first stop in DC since being hired as the the Canucks new head coach in early December. The Canucks won their first seven games under Bruce, but have lost their last three recently.
Today also marks Kids Day at Capital One Arena. Watch the game along with us on NBC Sports Washington.
The Vancouver Canucks may have lost Thursday night in a shootout to the Los Angeles Kings, but only a day prior they helped their new bench boss make some history.
Bruce Boudreau took over for Travis Green in Vancouver on December 6 and immediately got up to his usual antics.
While those usual antics may include an f-bomb here and a joke told there, they also include winning. On Wednesday night against the Anaheim Ducks, Bruce became only the third NHL coach in history to begin his tenure with a new team with seven straight wins.
By Chris Cerullo 2 years ago
The Vancouver Canucks officially announced the hiring of Bruce Boudreau as their new head coach on Monday. Boudreau brings to Vancouver a culture of winning, a larger-than-life personality, a self-admitted lack of style, and cursing. Lots and lots of cursing.
On Monday, during his first press conference with media, Boudreau stayed true to his Bruce brand by letting his first f-bomb slip.
