Weber is a tank (Photo: Caps)
Tonight’s Caps game was originally scheduled for that mondo storm. That obviously didn’t happen, so now the Caps have four games to play in five nights.
If they weren’t a billion points ahead in the east, we would be cranky.
Caps vs Pens tonight at 7:30 PM on NBC Sports. The Pens keep beating the Caps at Verizon Center, so let’s see a full 60 tonight.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Washington Capitals | 45-12-4 | 51.8% | 101.9 | 23.7% (1st) | 84.0% (4th) |
| Pittsburgh Penguins | 32-21-8 | 51.6% | 100.2 | 18.4% (16th) | 83.8% (6th) |
Projected Lineup
The somewhat new-look Caps, as told by Katie Brown:
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Burakovsky – Kuznetsov – Williams
Chimera – Johansson – Wilson
Beagle – Richards – Galiev
Alzner – Niskanen
Orpik – Orlov
Schmidt – Weber
Holtby
Podcast Domination
Ian was on the Steve Dangle Podcast last night. Peter and Pat were joined by Adam Stringham on the RMNB Podcast. Dimitri had Sean McIndoe and Elliotte freaking Friedman on the PDOcast.
We’ll be on Serial and Welcome to Night Vale before the season is over.
Storylines
- This is a make-up game from the snowstorm. I don’t even remember the dumb nickname we had for the snowstorm anymore. I’m ready for summer. I wanna throw the frisbee.
- Braden Holtby tonight, Grubauer tomorrow.
- Mike Weber will make his Caps debut tonight.
- Alex Ovechkin is second star of the month.
- Pat did analysis on damn Daniel Winnik. Rob over at the Rink did the same.
- Kevin Klein has good things to say about Tom Wilson’s development.
- Taylor Chorney’s wife had a child. They named the child Turner. Turner Chorney.
- Check out this hockey stat nerd fight.
https://twitter.com/hockeyanalysis/status/704072113343356930
I’m sure there’s a lot more going on, but NO TIME.
