1. Mr. Anderson
Craig Anderson will turn 40 on Friday and played fewer minutes for the Caps this year than Anthony Mantha. He wasn’t even on the Caps depth chart at New Year’s (a list that probably read Ilya Samsonov, Henrik Lundqvist, Vitek Vanecek, Pheonix Copley, Zach Fucale), and he hadn’t seen NHL playoff action since before the Caps were even Stanley Cup champions.
But Anderson was ready when called upon - and he delivered - after Vanecek had to leave the game after trying (and failing) to stop Jake DeBrusk’s game-tying goal in the first period of Game 1.
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The Narrative: The Old Man and the Zee, Mystery Goalie and Injury Update
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1. The Old Man and the Zee
Zdeno Chara has played 1,608 NHL regular-season games and another 195 playoff matches. The entire Bruins blueline that is expected to skate in Saturday night’s Game 1 of the Caps/Bruins first-round series has played 1,480 games in the regular-season and 169 more in the playoffs. And, of course, Big Zee played 1,023/150 of those games in Boston’s black and gold.
Apparently that’s a storyline.
Zdeno Chara was Boston’s leader. As the Caps’ Cup pursuit begins, he must face his former team.
The Noon Number: Too Many Men
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29 - Number of players that the Caps have used through 12 games, the same number that they used all of last season and one more than they used in the full 2018-19 season. and that number could be on the rise again soon:
#Caps re-assign goaltender Pheonix Copley and defenseman Martin Fehervary from the Hershey Bears (AHL) to Washington Taxi Squad CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) February 8, 2021 Most Read