Welcome to Game 3 of the Capitals’ season-long six-game road trip, a date with the Calgary Flames.
The Capitals come into tonight’s matchup losers of four straight. They sit 13th in the Eastern Conference standings and 14th in points percentage. Their loss on Wednesday to the Vancouver Canucks was arguably their most embarrassing of the season as the Canucks snapped their 11-game losing streak again them. After the game, Spencer Carbery suggested an identity change, saying the Capitals should go back to their tight-checking days of 2023-24 because “this is not the team from last year. It’s just not.”
If my vibes from this blogger are like super bad, the Capitals seem the same as always. The team celebrated John Carlson’s 600-assist milestone in Calgary with beers and the team made no changes coming into the game — well unless you count an Alex Ovechkin haircut as a change.
Logan Thompson will start in net and he’ll oppose Devin Cooley on the other end.
Puck drop for today’s game is scheduled for a little after 9 pm. Today’s game is on Monumental Sports Network. Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin have the call.
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Lines
Washington Capitals
Duhaime
Lapierre
Beauvillier
Calgary Flames
Sharangovich
Backlund
Farabee
Tunnel shenanigans
1st Period
Puck is dropped. Protas-Sourdif-Wilson and Fehervary-Carlson get the start.
Sourdif zooms out with the puck off the faceoff, then dishes to Tom (a sincerely nice dish), but Wilson’s shot hits off Kuznetsov’s skate.
Hendrix Lapierre hustles back to help break up a potential 2-on-1. Great play there.
Flames starting to take control of the game at five-on-five.
John Carlson takes the game’s first penalty, a trip on Matvei Gridin at 4:40.
Three Capitals penalty killers try to score, Flames come back the other way on a 4-on-2 and Frost scores on the power play. Just stupid hockey.
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1-0 Calgary Flames
PPG: Morgan Frost (10). Assists: C. Zary (12). Time: 6:09
The Calgary Flames have the worst power play in the league by the way. The Capitals’ season is teetering hard.
Capitals lose coverage on the next shift and nearly give up another goal.
The Flames are outshooting the Capitals 10 to 3 early.
John Carlson with a no-look blind pass from the side boards to no one. Puck leaves the offensive zone.
At intermission: The Flames are winning 1-0 and outshooting them 16 to 8. They’re just destroying them in all facets. What happened to the Caps?
2nd Period
Puck is dropped.
The Flames first line is taking it to Protas-Sourdif-Wilson on their first shift of the period.
Ryan Leonard rips one off the crossbar from the right circle.
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