Vancouver Canucks

Caps beat Canucks 3-1, win 10th straight at home

After whipping the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday, the Washington Capitals have now won ten straight games at home. That’s nice. Lemme tell you about it.

So Daniel Sedin scored first, assisted by Henrik Sedin – who I am told is a completely different Sedin. John Carlson responded with a slightly dubious goal that I’ll talk about below, and then Lars Eller piled on with a nifty solo scoring effort. The Caps dominated the second period but had just one Kuznetsov marker to show for it.

Caps beat Canucks 3-1.

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Canucks embarrass Caps in 6-2 beatdown

The Washington Capitals got humiliated by maybe the worst team in the National Hockey League. If you went to bed before the Vancouver Canucks put a six-spot up on the Caps, you were lucky. Then again, you might not believe it was so bad. Let this recap liberate you of any delusions you might have.

Tomas Vanek, Bo Horvat, and Mikael Granlund all scored in the first period. You might notice that none of those players play for Washington.

In the second, Brett Connolly got injured and left the game. Then Sven Baertschi got a weird one and Derek Dorsett piled on. Braden Holtby got the hook. Evgeny Kuznetsov scored his first goal of the season, which was cool, I suppose.

In the third, Tom Wilson punched faces and Baertschi got another power play goal. Chandler Stephenson got his first NHL goal in the waning minutes, which was nice, and then it ended.

Canucks beat the Caps 6-2. The Caps are under .500.

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