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Heading into Game 3, we talked about line matching both generally and specifically. So how’d it play out in two games in Montreal? Here are the five-on-five matchups for the two games (Game 3 on the left, Game 4 on the right): Just from a quick glance, the chart on the right has a lot more red (good for the Caps), which makes sense – per Natural Stat Trick, the Caps had a … [Read more...] about Jeu de Match: Line Matching in Montreal

LT is Risen If the Washington Capitals were a religion, then devotees seeing their long-haired savior go down on a Spring Friday only to unexpectedly rise on Sunday and lead them would be a parallel too apt to ignore. But the Washington Capitals are not a religion, so fans just have to settle for a Willis Reed-light comeback from Logan Thompson and a 3-1 series lead. We’ll take … [Read more...] about The Narrative: LT is Risen, That Hit and Doggy Style

Over the course of the regular season, the Caps had the League’s fifth-rated penalty kill, successfully squashing a robust 82 percent of the man disadvantages they faced, with the underlying metrics to back up that ranking. In the playoffs so far? Not so much. Granted, these are very small samples we’re talking about, but so far the Caps have only escaped eight of 13 … [Read more...] about Penalty Killing Me… and Not Softly

Coming into last night’s game, the Caps knew they’d be facing a Canadiens team that had twice pushed back on them late in games, making their first two wins of the series much closer than they needed to be – all this despite the Caps being the better team overall. They also knew they’d be heading into a loud, raucous, playoff-starved Bell Centre filled with rabid Habs … [Read more...] about Capitals-Canadiens Game 3: How the Game Was Lost

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