{"id":292353,"date":"2025-11-15T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292353\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:45:08","slug":"brandon-duhaime-is-on-the-precipice-of-tying-a-capitals-franchise-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292353\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Duhaime is on the precipice of tying a Capitals franchise record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Brandon Duhaime got on all fours and barked like a dog (seriously<\/a>), there\u2019s been some magic in the air. Alex Ovechkin made history by becoming the only player in NHL history to score 900 goals<\/a>. Meanwhile, Duhaime began chasing a franchise record of his own.<\/p>\n

After going goalless in the first 14 games of the season, Duhaime has scored in three consecutive games \u2014 a career high. But it\u2019s when the checking-line forward has scored those goals that has him on the precipice of tying a franchise mark.<\/p>\n

November 8 at Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

Duhaime\u2019s first goal of the streak came against the Lightning and started the game\u2019s scoring<\/a> 4:06 into the first period. Ethen Frank, skating behind the net, found Duhaime camped out at the left post for a layup.<\/p>\n

November 11 at Carolina<\/p>\n

Duhaime found the back of the net again against the Hurricanes, starting the game\u2019s scoring<\/a> 5:59 into the first period. Ethen Frank again found Duhaime at the post for a layup.<\/p>\n

November 13 at Florida<\/p>\n

Duhaime hit paydirt once again against the Panthers, starting the game\u2019s scoring 8:25 into the first period. Cruising through the slot, Duhaime deflected a Rasmus Sandin point shot into the net.<\/p>\n

If the bolded phrases didn\u2019t give it away, Duhaime has scored the game-opening goal in three consecutive contests. He\u2019s one game-opening goal away from moving into a tie with the Capitals\u2019 current record holder, Andre Burakovsky, who scored the first tally in four-straight games nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Burakovsky managed the feat during a six day stretch in the 2016-17 season, where he scored against Philadelphia (1\/15\/17), Pittsburgh (1\/17\/17), St. Louis (1\/19\/17), and Dallas (1\/21\/17).<\/p>\n

Duhaime will get the chance to match Burakovsky\u2019s record when the Capitals face the Jack Hughes-less<\/a> New Jersey Devils on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since Brandon Duhaime got on all fours and barked like a dog (seriously), there\u2019s been some magic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-292353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}