Japers\u2019 Rink<\/a><\/p>\nThe Capitals remain on the edge of the playoff picture, sitting at 73 points. That\u2019s five points behind the Bruins, with three teams (Columbus, Ottawa, and Philadelphia) in between the two.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re also six points behind both the New York Islanders and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Metropolitan Division, so they\u2019re not quite out of it, but time is running out for them to make up ground.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got another national TV broadcast for this one, this time on ABC. Adjust your viewing plans accordingly.<\/p>\n
The B\u2019s and Capitals have played each other twice this season, once in October and once last Saturday. The B\u2019s won both of those games, 3-1.<\/p>\n
Not much has changed since these two teams played at TD Garden last Saturday. Same players, no major injuries to report, etc.<\/p>\n
The Caps earned themselves a good win last time out, beating the Buffalo Sabres, 2-1.<\/p>\n
That game was in Buffalo and ended the Sabres\u2019 eight-game winning streak, so that\u2019s a nice momentum-builder for the Caps.<\/p>\n
The Bruins will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing result against San Jose while also improving their road record, which currently sits at an uninspiring 11-14-5.<\/p>\n
You\u2019d imagine the B\u2019s turn to Joonas Korpisalo today, but I guess we\u2019ll find out in a few hours.<\/p>\n
For those who want to watch the standings as well: Ottawa will play at 1 PM, while Montreal, Columbus, and Detroit will all play tonight.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jackets will play the Flyers, who are just four points behind them in the standings, so that\u2019s a big one for both teams.<\/p>\n
Should be an interesting Saturday!<\/p>\n
Also, in case you missed it, Boston College won their Hockey East playoff game last night, so HagensWatch is on hold for now.<\/p>\n
Bruins! Capitals! Played in a federal district, not a state\/province!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to another riveting edition of the Preview Skate! Public Preview? In any case, here we are,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,32725,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-503241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-public-skate-open-threads","12":"tag-washington","13":"tag-washington-capitals","14":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116228469473507412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}