NHL Preseason Highlights | Blue Jackets vs. Capitals – October 4, 2025

As the officials tonight are Bo Halitus and Peter McDougall, it’s Dylan Blue Jess and James Tobias on the line. I’m not taking a nap till the second period. Very well. So, I’ve got you covered in the first. I saw you. You’ve got the cot prepared up here in the booth. It’s cold and the heater that the hammock whatever you need to get you through. Caps on home ice rocking the red. Luke Dubois from his knees cross ice. Sandine settles. Working on the outside for Tom Wilson. They’ll go through the overlap. Drive off the outside of the post from Dubois off a nice set play. That was a beautiful play at the top. Moments to go. The Caps hit iron. And there’s a rotation. Wilson Xandin right out to Dubois. And a ripper over the catching glove. Bings the post as clean as you could. And that’s a goal saver there by the post. He sure did. He closed on defensively the players. He played off fence jumping up in the play. His legs are his strength and he used them to his advantage. He looked terrific. La Pierre off of Leonard through center. Headman Deiroenko fires. He missed it wide. That’s a great shot though. What a release. Mero just catches it in the curve and rips it. Leonard off the lift check. Pad saved. Ms. Leakens. Rebound sent through the Miles Wood roaming back for the Blue Jackets. leaves it on the woodwork. Severson fires. Thompson made a save. Makes him very influential in the game. Prover bombs away. Pad save by Logan Thompson. Frosenko does have a preseason goal. It was a beauty at Giant Center. End to end. Back come the Blue Jackets. Olivier Thompson looked behind him, but he finds it to cover. Perfect calendar for me would be the first two games you don’t have the veteran rule and you just play a lot of your beautiful elevation there at another post. That’s Zack Aston Ree hitting the iron. Yeah, and he had bad angle that’s deflected wide to the cage. Five on four here for the guys in red. Snap shot stopped by Mur Leakens. Stro lets Dubis play back. Long drive. Another bad save. Wilson will enter. Didn’t get through there cleanly past Olivier. Stro closing in feeds Mersle Leakens. A good stop on Dubois for a 30 goal score. Sandine cross ice. Ovetchkin. Quick trigger. Punched down by Ms. Leakens. Proous to Lapierre with room on the backhand shovel. Stopped by Ms. Leakens. I like the power move though. That just shows Lapierre playing with the confidence that he can bring to the table. Totally different than last year. Just a hard neck drive. Good save by MS Leakens. And Lapierre gets another quality chance here. 23-year-old native of Quebec, Hendricks Lapierre, a fourthyear pro began this night tied for the preseason point scoring lead. Yeah, seven points goal and six helpers there. He had a chance to put his second. Morgan Frost in Calgary. Yep. That’s an awful feeling for Big 52. He was run in by Johnson. Looked like interference there and no call was made. You could hear the capital bench up in arms when Johnson hit him. On the wrapound, Fabro fires. That’s punched aside by Thompson. Marat’s blade is still some 50 ft in front of Logan Thompson. Dubois muzzled there by Kent Johnson. Former Michigan Wolverine stand out. Marenko is a 30 plus goal getter on top for a Fabro wrister that’s gloved by LT. Eager to hear what they’ll say as the 2526 campaign unfolds. Thompson made a stop there on a backhand from Marenko. This game remains tied at zero. Final preseason game for both of these squads. Loose in the blue paint for a moment. Turning and firing. Yanked wide by Marenko. Dangerous shooter in the Columbus lineup. Marchenko can really move the puck. They’re big bodies. They like to hold on to the puck which makes it harder to defend. Wood one hands it back to the point on its bumpy way towards the goal. It deflects to the corner. Zack Aston Reese to the slot. Caps do a good job there protecting the hole defensively and it’s still in Stro who will amble back. Stro on the feed. Carlson unloads a kick out left Pierre on the go. Elevates that pass for a Leonard drive. Stick save. Mers Leakens. Nice release. That’s a good shot on his strong wing. Just ripped it blocker side trying to go over that pad was Leonard. Third position up the middle. really makes the top six imposing for the Caps. And now you add Lapierre to the third line and I think they’re going to be dynamic too playing with some young guys like Leonard. Did this 31year-old Latafia loose puck backhand chance Thompson Hershey Bears camp Royce Sandee fires through the screen and right to the chest protector of Merge Leakin. The blockers in the NHL now there’s a row of blockers. Watch Sandine just a subtle move to the middle gets her and gets that puck to the net. Just chipped wide off the rebound by Alexe Prouskin. Deep slot pass looking for Roy. Collected they resurface. Did I mention something about fine wine there? Sorry, I’m distracted. Suddenly he really fits into the community, doesn’t he? I mean, he comes to town one year and he’s trying to give back right now throughout the Blue Jackets. They begin on the road this season. A two-game roadie. Thompson made a stop point blank on Veronov as Ovuchkin wheels back through center. Two and a half minutes deep in the second. Nothing nothing on the big board. Caps out shooting the Blue Jackets by two. Leonard took another rough run. Centering pass. One more. Chisum. He scores. Declan Chisum. What a shift by this young line. Leonard Laapier, you know, always a steady Eddie, but he can snap that puck. I watched him in warm-up and he used this shot. I saw him drill one in warm-up. Exactly the same. There’s the shot past the catching glove. Beautiful play by Miro right to Chisum and he just lets her fly. Little bit of cross traffic in front by the forward coming across there. There’s the cross traffic and a great job. first preseason goal as a cap. Cole Cinger on the move. Straightened up there. That was Farravari getting in the lane. Wilson blazing a path. That feed for Mcichael marked by Christensen. Stro is next. Peels it back to Sandine who has plenty of time. A kick out save for Mersleaki. Great things happen in threes. I will go ahead. Go and get a preseason hat-tick for yourself. Thompson hangs on to this one. Arm and arm to the back dasher. Mrath sturdy for the Caps. And this is a potential twoon-one developing. Dubois closing. Fires. He scores. Pierre Luke Dubois. Tremendous speed. This is an awesome play that starts right at Logan Thompson’s net as you’re going to see. It’s incredible. Look at that pass behind the net and he sends up now Dubon and he just calls his own number because he’s coming up the wrong wing there. So he’s on the strong side but sticks in the middle and he just rips it blocker side. Wonderful play from start to finish. Something that the coaches are going to love. Started with the turnover of the puck behind the net. That tape totape pass. The Wilson pass out. Cole Cillinger snap shot blocked by Sandine. Jenner feeds it up top to Gabbransson. Then this way to Matea slapper right on. Glove save. Thompson helps out in Carolina as a consultant with the general manager and also a studio host on their television or on a television station. Proof gets the midpoint. They have the formation set with Jenner lurking in front. Snap shot deflected and gloved. Lift the next generation. It starts at the top, right, buddy? Filters down to everybody giving back whenever they possibly can. Bravo, Zach. Bravo. Off and running in the third period. The final regulation locker. When you look at this Columbus roster, you see a lot of promising talents there. You sure do. I mean, they’ve been finishing near the bottom of the pack and because of that, they’ve really stockpiled top pick. Twoon one Protis and Leonard Alexe not able to get that one over the sliding Gabbransson. That was a great play by the veteran Gabbransson keeping that puck not available to the pass. Olivier twoon-one kick out save by Thompson. We’re inside of six minutes to play in preseason hockey. Wide open Fantelli walks in. Great stop. Teamly was scoring against the Caps last year. No dice. 30 seconds in the minor to Duhane. Prover feeds to Marchenko closing in on his backhand pass. Blocked followup stop rebound. It’s Olivier with a power play strike and just about got through all of it. Just 19 seconds left. Five or six on four with Duch Hay in the box. But here’s how it all came together. Watch big Boone Jenner in front, but it chips back. And on the doorstep, you’ll see Olivier coming through the paint and just picking up that loose change before the scrambling Logan Thompson could get back in time. Olivier, who scored against Washington on Tuesday, bags another one from the net front. So half of high quality scoring chance. The direct wins lead them right away. And that was a good shot by Obi is fourth of the game. Ms. Leakens and Wilson were having a chat with each other. Those two are involved in some great scoring chances in this game. And [Music]

Declan Chisholm and Pierre-Luc Dubois each scored a goal and Logan Thompson made 29 saves as the Washington Capitals beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 in NHL pre-season action on Saturday.
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