{"id":105396,"date":"2022-10-23T07:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/marginally-watchable-caps-beat-kings-4-3\/"},"modified":"2022-10-23T07:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:44:02","slug":"marginally-watchable-caps-beat-kings-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/marginally-watchable-caps-beat-kings-4-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Marginally watchable!  Caps beat Kings 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:100%;text-align:left\">\n<p>For the second straight game, the Washington Capitals played one good period out of three.  Except this time that was enough to fend off the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless first, in which the score was nonetheless 0-0, Sean Durzi caught a pass from below the goal line to make it 1-0 early in the second.  Phillip Danault doubled that lead by tapping in a lateral pass.<\/p>\n<p>Things got better.  Nic Dowd gave the Caps a breath of life early in the third, scoring after Snively&#8217;s whiff and through a screen.  Under a minute later, John Carlson scored a rush goal to tie it up.  Lars Eller finished a gritty shift with a one-timer from the slot to give Washington a lead that did not last long.  On a breakaway, Trevor Moore fed Viktor Arvidsson to tie it up again.  But Marcus Johansson gave Washington their final lead with a classic Marcus wraparound goal with five minutes left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cap win!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dylan Strom<\/strong> got Washington&#8217;s best chance of the first forty minutes with two up-close shots on LA goalie Jonathan Quick.  By the third period, Peter Laviolette had swapped Strome with Evgeny Kuznetsov as first-line center.  I don&#8217;t know if it worked\u2013 still precious little from Ovechkin.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Kuzy: After serving a one-game suspension for a high stick, <strong>Evgeny Kuznetsov<\/strong> returned by doing another high stick.  JK though, it was a total softie call that I think was maybe a bit engineer by Adrian Kempe.<\/li>\n<li>The Caps had three power-play opportunities in the first forty minutes, generating six shots on goal in total.  I don&#8217;t think those are terrible numbers, so I could buy that they were maybe a bit unlucky.  I&#8217;m trying to be generous<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, Tom Gulitti pointed out that through the first two periods <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomGulittiNHL\/status\/1583981199961165824\" target=\"_blank\">the Caps had not had a five-on-five goal in five periods<\/a>.  Did I say that in a confusing way?  Is that a sentence I should rewrite for better clarity? <em>The Caps had gone five periods without a five-on-five goal as of period two of this game<\/em>?  I dunno.  I&#8217;m not changing it because I want my writing about Caps hockey to share experiential qualities with watching Caps hockey.  That slump ended early in the third as the Caps scored four goals.<\/li>\n<li>Though I dunno if <strong>Lars Hands<\/strong>&#8216;s goal should count as five-on-five.  Hands ripped Blake Lizotte&#8217;s helmet off, which forced him to leave the ice immediately.  The Kings weren&#8217;t really back to full strength by the time Eller scored.  I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s cheating.  It kind of rocks.  Just not real five-on-five rocking.<\/li>\n<li>Why does it <strong>John Carlson<\/strong> do this?  If you&#8217;re the last guy back, this is reckless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3-3 THANKS TO 33 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoKingsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#GoKingsGo<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vFy4nWHnzb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vFy4nWHnzb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L.A. Kings (@LAKings) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAKings\/status\/1583991018591920131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Victor Arvidsson<\/strong>&#8216;s line got all three goals tonight.  they didn&#8217;t dominate the flow of play against their main matchups (especially Carlson);  they just converted all their chances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aliaksei Protas<\/strong>, whose name I spelled correctly without looking it up, ate it on a rush play late in the third.  It seems like Capital One Arena&#8217;s ice was the only contributor to the fall.<\/li>\n<li>Off-ice note: I really don&#8217;t enjoy the digital ads on the boards.  I&#8217;m fine if they&#8217;re inserted digitally, but the animation and changes during plays are disruptive to the watcher, and that&#8217;s like the cardinal sin of presenting a sport.  To send the message, I say we organize a consumer protest against Raytheon.  As of right now, I am no longer using Raytheon as my preferred military-grade weapons provider.  Me and my entire munitions budget are moving across the street to a war profiteer that doesn&#8217;t fractionally annoy me during hockey games.  Who is with me?!<\/li>\n<li>The Caps <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterhassett\/status\/1583955611427172352\" target=\"_blank\">scratched<\/a> Connor McMichael.  This is fine overall, but they really need to get him some playing time.  I don&#8217;t mind him not playing <em>here<\/em>;  I mind him not playing <em>at all<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/joebsuitofthenight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#joebsuitofthenight<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6rmyGg1Etq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6rmyGg1Etq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 good tweet pete \ud83c\udf2e (@peterhassett) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterhassett\/status\/1583958937459904513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I hate how the Capitals have played so far this season.  I&#8217;m glad they dug deep and played so much better late in this one, but these early games are about setting standards as much as grabbing standings points.  Sure, I had a good time for twenty minutes, but I have powerfully disliked watching 66,6666 percent of the team&#8217;s last two games.<\/p>\n<p>headline<em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"> photo: @<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuckBuddys\/status\/1583958766948847616\" target=\"_blank\">PuckBuddys<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!--post bottom ad --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight game, the Washington Capitals played one good period out of three. Except this time that was enough to fend off the Los Angeles Kings. After a scoreless first, in which the score was nonetheless 0-0, Sean Durzi caught a pass from below the goal line to make it 1-0 early in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/marginally-watchable-caps-beat-kings-4-3\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marginally watchable!  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