Mike Green and Nicklas Backstrom are still out for the Washington Capitals, but Alexander Ovechkin will be back in the lineup after serving his three game suspension. Puck drops at about 2pm EST and you can watch the game on CBC.
Mike Green and Nicklas Backstrom are still out for the Washington Capitals, but Alexander Ovechkin will be back in the lineup after serving his three game suspension. Puck drops at about 2pm EST and you can watch the game on CBC.
The Capitals lost an important game against their Southeast division rivals last night, the Florida Panthers. The game finished 4-2 and put the Caps in ninth place down from third. Mike Green skated today for the third straight day and decided to speak to the media.
The Capitals comeback last night from a 3-1 deficit against the Tampa Bay Lightning came up short, but they did manage to force overtime and get a very valuable point, and take first place in the Southeast Division. Tonight they face another divisional opponent when they visit the Florida Panthers.
Who needs the big three (Ovechkin, Green and Backstrom)? Well apparently not the Washington Capitals last night, they defeated the Boston Bruins 5-3 on the strength of Mathieu Perreault’s natural hat trick. Not only did it give the Caps the win, but it also got him a face full of shaving cream courtesy of Captain Ovie! (See the video below)
Up until this pas Tuesday when the Capitals got shutout 3-0 by the New York Islanders they hadn’t been shutout in a game this season, and now only a few days later they have been shutout again, this time at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes.
This is the fourth meeting between the divisional rivals, and the Caps have won the first three games by a combined score of 11 to 5. Mike Green scored his only game winning goal of the season in OT against Carolina back on October 8th when Washington won 4-3.
I’m going to the game tonight in my hometown of Montreal to watch the Caps take on the Habs, unfortunately Mike Green won’t take part in the game as his recovery from abdominal surgery starts today.
The Washington Capitals will be taking the ice tonight without Mike Green and Nicklas Backstrom, which has been the recent trend, but it hasn’t stopped them from winning 3 in a row. Tonight they are hosting the New York Islanders and will be hoping to get their fourth victory in a row and 8th in their last 10 to put them back in first place in the South East Divison.
Mike Green is on the long term injury reserve, and his nick name is Game Over, because of the amount of game winning goals he got in one season, well yesterday the Capitals won 2-1 and Dmitry Orlov got his first career NHL goal and it was the game winner.
Yesterday, the Washington Capitals placed Mike Green on the long term injury reserve, meaning he will miss a minimum 24 days or 10 games. That means Green won’t be allowed to return to the line up until February 1st when the Capitals are in Florida.