{"id":86062,"date":"2025-12-31T23:23:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86062\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:23:24","slug":"rangers-lose-third-straight-as-capitals-take-it-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86062\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers lose third straight as Capitals take it to them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Capitals got their licks back on the Rangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just over a week after the Blueshirts throttled them inside Capital One Arena, Washington returned the favor and handed the visitors a 6-3 loss Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It counted as the Rangers\u2019 third loss in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite a two-point performance from Adam Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/30\/sports\/rangers-set-to-get-adam-fox-back-after-lengthy-injury-absence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in his return to the lineup<\/a>, the Rangers let the Caps blow the game open in the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just as one injury concern went away, however, two more popped up.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers center Vincent Trocheck (16) reacts as the Capitals celebrate Anthony Beuvillier\u2019s goal during the first period on Dec. 31, 2025. Hannah Foslien-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Tom Wilson (43) of the Capitals scores a goal on Rangers goalie Jonathan Quick (32) during the second period on Dec. 31, 2025. AP<\/p>\n<p>Both Noah Laba and Conor Sheary exited the game in the second period with an injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laba was being evaluated for an upper-body injury he sustained on a hit from Tom Wilson, who posted two goals, an assist and a fight with Sam Carrick just hours after learning he made Team Canada\u2019s Olympic roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rangers defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov (44) is stonewalled by Capitals goalie Charlie Lindgren (79) on a shorthanded breakaway on Dec. 31, 2025. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Sheary was being evaluated for a lower-body injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Capitals got their licks back on the Rangers.\u00a0 Just over a week after the Blueshirts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[540,9,11,10,541,539,319,1055],"class_list":{"0":"post-86062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-adam-fox","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-washington-capitals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}