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Special teams played a huge part in last night’s game, both good and bad, with the Caps killing all of their penalties and also scoring two shorthanded goals…but also rolling out a lifeless, uninspiring power play that gave up plenty of shorthanded chances of its own. The key point in this one, however, wasn’t a special teams goal (although it wasn’t an even-strength goal, … [Read more...] about Capitals-Flyers: How the Game Was Won

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Throughout the season, we’ll check in on the Washington Capitals to see which players, positions, and/or systems are hot and who is…well, not. We’ll kick things off with a look at how the team has done in their games between October 12 and October 19. Tom Wilson. Wilson is easily the hottest player on the Caps to start the season, and really one of the hottest in the … [Read more...] about Capitals Temperature Check: Week 1

If we were to hand out awards after the first four games of the season, there’s no question who the MVP of the Capitals would be: Tom Wilson. The hottest hand in DC picked up his fourth – and fifth – goal of the year (putting him ahead of an 82-goal pace), potting the game-winning goal in overtime to lift the Caps to victory over the Devils. So how did it happen? It was the … [Read more...] about How the Game Was Won: Tom Wilson Calls Game