The Washington Capitals Following them was Friday off A 4-0 win over the Coyotes in Arizona. The team makes their way to Las Vegas after playing in Tempe before their tilt with the Golden Knights on Saturday night. Puck drop is set for 10PM ET tonight
The Capitals held their game day morning skate T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alex Ovechkin did not participate The team said it was “maintenance” for him.
Alex Ovechkin is taking a maintenance morning in Vegas. #caps pic.twitter.com/03TNCQziBJ
— Tariq El-Bashir (@tariq_elbashir) January 21, 2023
Courtesy of Samantha Pell/Washington Post The forward line and defensive pairing in the morning skate:
*Anthony Mantha — Dylan Strome — Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Sonny Milano — Nicklas Backstrom — Tom Wilson
Conor Sheary – Lars Eller – TJ Oshie
Marcus Johansson — Evgeny Kuznetsov — Garnet Hathaway
Erik Gustafsson – Trevor van Riemsdyk
Dmitri Orlov — Nick Jensen
Alexander Alekseev – Martin Feharveri
Darcy Kuemper
Charlie Lindgren
Extras: Matt Irwin (* Mantha skated for Ovechkin, who had the morning off.) Should Ovechkin play tonight, it seems like more press box time for Mantha.
Return to Makkah
The Washington Capitals make their lone trip to Sin City to visit the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night for their final meeting of the season and fourth game since winning their first Stanley Cup in franchise history on June 7, 2018.
However, Washington has never won a regular-season game in Vegas (0-3-1) and has dropped three straight against them (0-1-2), including a 3-2 overtime loss in the nation’s capital in November despite leading twice.
# all caps Back to the Crime Scene: “The Great Dane Robbery” pic.twitter.com/3eD7hFl1qC
— NoVa Caps (@NoVa_Caps) December 3, 2018
Logan Thompson Was the first goalie off the ice for Vegas in the morning skate, and is expected to start tonight vs. Washington.
Action can be seen from T-Mobile Arena NBC Sports Washington In the market or ESPN+ Out of Market starting at 10 PM ET.
Status of the day – Defensive pair
Today’s Stats of the Day looks at every defensive pairing the Capitals have deployed so far this season. The graph represents all pairs placed regardless of total time on the ice together. [Click to enlarge].
It should be noted that the chart does not include a time element. It is only strictly the stored difference for each pair.
[The statistics used in this post are courtesy of Natural Stat Trick and the NoVa Caps Advanced Analytics Model (NCAAM). If you’d like to learn more about the statistical terms used in this post, please check out our NHL Analytics Glossary]
Down on the farm
Joe Snively He scored his third goal in four games since being sent down to Hershey on January 8.
Joe Snipley! Joe Snively with his 3rd number since returning to the Bears. It comes down to a 5-on-3 power play. Bears lead 1-0. # all caps #HBH pic.twitter.com/hqSGAOWUeX
— Capitals Prospects (@jon_m_sorensen) January 21, 2023
Ryan Chesley Had a really nice early assist Friday night against Michigan. He made a diagonal cross-ice feed off the boards to spring his forward for the Gophers’ second tally of the game.
A grown man’s goal pic.twitter.com/buO4nUYXSI
— Minnesota Men’s Hockey (@GopherHockey) January 21, 2023
