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Barry Trotz has not lost a first-round playoff series since 2010, winning 2 in Nashville, 4 in Washington and now 3 on Long Island. Seven straight seasons since 2015 as well.
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Andre Burakovsky is also the first player from the 2018 Capitals Stanley Cup winner to win the Cup again.
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Capitals qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs because the opposing team’s coach didn’t realize his team was eliminated. Ok, then.
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MAF tells TNT “It wouldn’t seem right” to face the Penguins in the playoffs as a member of the Capitals.
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It goes without saying that the Capitals don’t win in 2018 without TJ Oshie, and even though he had an informal goodbye after Game 4, the chances he comes back are dwindling fast. If this is it, he had a hell of a ride.
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NHL Department of Player Safety will offer an in-person hearing with Will Smith.
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Ovechkin has now scored 21 percent of Washington’s goals this season.
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For all the boos he got this weekend, Tom Wilson now won a Cup and ASG in Vegas.
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Reminder that every team going down 0-2 to the Jackets in a playoff series has won the Stanley Cup.
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Lapierre, who likely will be in Washington next season, gets the playoff MVP.
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Jack Eichel has 0 playoff games under his belt. Mat Barzal, picked in the same draft, has 49.
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Ovechkin now 8 shy of becoming the oldest NHL player to hit the 50 goal mark. Washington has 15 games left after this evening.
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Sadly for Backstrom, there probably won't be an official retirement announcement for a while, since that contains cap implications. In-season much more tricky to do, so will be in limbo for a while. But a quiet end for one of the best centers in Capitals history.
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Asked if he has any words for Ovechkin, Giroux says “Not really.”
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Remember fans, no matter what happens in Game 7 tonight... there's always Game 8 at the Coliseum.
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Backstrom has played through a lot of pain the last few seasons, but he clearly isn't where he wants to be, and that may be it for another Young Gun - just one left.
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The opposite of a Greig empty better, but one that also got under the opponents’ skin. Calle Johansson in 1998:
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The 2023 Boston Bruins join the 2010 Washington Capitals in losing a 3-1 series lead as Presidents’ Trophy champs in the first round.
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Capitals at $93.48M after the trade, Roy would add another $5.75M, so $99.23M, or about $11.23M over the cap, so it’s pretty safe to say they don’t expect Oshie to be back.
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Farewell to the 2023-24 Capitals. Next up is the 50th anniversary season.
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Hagelin now has more goals in Washington (2) than he did this season in Pittsburgh (1) and Los Angeles (1).
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Kuznetsov has 2 goals and 3 assists in 10 games since the trade. Connor McMichael has 5 goals and 3 assists since the Kuznetsov trade.
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In the Ovechkin era, Washington is 6-1 overall in Game 6s when facing elimination, winning 2008 in Philly, 2009 at NYR and PIT, 2012 vs. NYR, 2017 at PIT and 2018 vs. TB, and losing 2016 at PIT. 2-0 at home in that situation since 2008.
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It’s not the amount of goals Samsonov lets in. It’s the type of goals he lets in.
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Last Game 7 involving Eastern teams with a trip to the Stanley Cup Final was 2018, when Barry Trotz’s team beat the Lightning in Tampa.
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If the Redskins indeed change their name tomorrow, the only Washington Big Four team to retain their original name since the franchise’s founding will be the Capitals.
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Washington getting an unexpected bonus in cap space of $3.9M this season with him walking away.
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John Tavares misses the playoffs in 2018 and the Leafs get bounced in the first round. Tavares leaves, Islanders get to the second round and Leafs get bounced in the first round.
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FWIW, I think Ovechkin will sign after the expansion draft, allowing them to protect an additional player. Did the same with TJ Oshie before the Vegas draft.
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The Capitals are really taking this Reverse Retro thing seriously.
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Tom Wilson is the first Capital to score at UBS Arena, which I'm sure delights the locals...
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Regardless of tonight's result, the Capitals have positioned themselves for a better future with the salary cap moves this season, and could elevate themselves back into true contender status with wise spending this summer. Playing 82 meaningful games is an unexpected by-product.
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Lavi’s string of bad days at Capital One in calendar year 2023 continue.
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Whatever chance in the series the Capitals have against the Rangers begins and ends with Charlie Lindgren. He's posted a .955 save percentage and a 1.35 GAA this season against New York, including a shutout.
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Laviolette also is the first coach the Capitals have ever hired with a Stanley Cup championship on his resume.
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In the Ovechkin era, the Capitals are statistically just as likely to advance down 0-2 as up 2-0, as Washington is 2-2 in series where they fell back 0-2, and 3-3 in series where they took a 2-0 series lead.
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So, Capitals send out their backup goalie who was seemingly a bad fit, a depth puck rusher, and then adds a trio of forwards, a pair of defensemen and a backup goalie. Safe to say they probably won’t be on the playoff bubble next season if things go well.
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A reminder that Ovechkin is a pending UFA, meaning if Seattle selects him, they’d only get his rights for a few days before hitting the market. Him not signing gave Capitals a chance to protect Sprong.
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Also,
@Laughlin18
and
@MayHockeyNBCS
practicing 32 years ago for the next intermission segment:
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So…
Philadelphia at 82 with 9GR
Washington at 81 with 11GR
Detroit at 79 with 10GR
2 make it.
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One year ago tonight, Imagine Dragons sang at Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, and the rest is history...
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Ovechkin has 4 goals in 3 game to start the year. One SHG, one ENG, one PPG, one even strength.
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Bruins goal scorer Ryan Donato during the last season the Whalers actually existed:
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Good news for Tom Wilson is he won’t be the most hated guy at Nassau this week.
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Washington's two goal scorers have combined for 750 NHL goals.
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Six years ago this evening, the Capitals captured the franchise’s first Stanley Cup with a win in Vegas. Just four players from that contest finished the 2023-24 season playing with the team (Carlson, Oshie, Ovechkin and Wilson), with Backstrom on roster but unlikely to return.
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Biggest takeaway in the Capitals are in much better shape heading into the offseason than a year ago, but clearly on fumes this series.
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Ovechkin is now 46 behind Gretzky, and on pace for 31 this year now.
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2 goals from Ovechkin in 56 seconds on 2 different goalies.
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Also, if Kuznetsov has played his last game as a Cap, Washington is down to Carlson, Oshie, Ovechkin and Wilson left from Game 5 in Vegas in 2018, with Backstrom also presumably not returning.
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Obviously Backstrom has been one of the most underrated players in Capitals history, content to be in Ovechkin’s shadow yet one of the most valuable players. So will be interesting if this is the end for him in the NHL, or tries to try another procedure.
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The Tavares watch is outlasting some marriages at this point.
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No truth to the rumor Washington signing M.T. Nett. At least not yet.
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A year ago tonight, the Islanders opened the 2019-20 preseason in Philadelphia. Their season still hasn't ended.
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Kuznetsov will end his NHL career with 173 goals, 402 assists and 575 career points, with 171 and 397 with Washington.
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Considering how many times the Capitals shot themselves in the foot, the fact it was down to the buzzer is pretty remarkable.
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Columbus’ defense left the guy with 826 career goals alone, he now has 827.
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Somehow the Quebec Nordiques are playing the Las Vegas Thunder on the 18th green on a golf course by a lake in Nevada at night because the sun was too strong and this is normal.
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The Lightning have lost their last 5 chances to advance to the Stanley Cup Final, dropping Game 6 and 7 to the Penguins in 2016, Game 6 and 7 to the Capitals in 2018, and now Game 5 to the Islanders in 2020. They try to advance for the first time since 2015 tonight.
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Craziest thing you could see in Tuesday’s Washington-Philadelphia games is the Flyers pulling their goalie late in regulation in a tie game, because an OT win still eliminates them.
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Tonight is John Carlson's 1,000th NHL game, as well as likely the last we'll see of the team's blue third jersey. The Capitals are rumored to be using a special 50th anniversary sweater next season.
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Capitals weren’t terrible in Game 1 but some weird breaks really killed any chance of a win. Also not generating a whole lot of offense which is a problem when you give up 4.
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Every Capitals coach hired since 1981 who didn’t win a playoff series in their first two seasons didn’t get to coach into a third except for Glen Hanlon (who was in a rebuild.)
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With a win tonight, the Washington Capitals could secure the city's first Big 4 playoff spot since... the 2022 Capitals.
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Also, here is the first ever Capitals goal scored in an HTS broadcast, scored by
@Laughlin18
38 years ago tonight. He returned in 1990 to work as color commentator. Washington went on to win that game 4-2 and earn the franchise’s first-ever playoff series in a three-game sweep.
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Big picture for the Capitals is a lot brighter than 12 months ago. With some smart moves they can move back into more of a true Cup threat rather than a playoff participant. Will be an interesting season with cap room they haven’t had in years. But with holes to fix.
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Washington is also 6-2-1 in their last 9 since Oshie returned to the lineup.
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