{"id":312088,"date":"2025-11-25T04:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312088\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:23:08","slug":"caps-beat-blue-jackets-5-1-plus-one-of-the-goals-was-a-power-play-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/312088\/","title":{"rendered":"Caps beat Blue Jackets 5-1, plus one of the goals was a power-play goal!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: kurly from #crashers<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Washington Capitals\u2019 blowout win over the Columbus Blue Jackets was exactly the kind of game everyone needed<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n

Jakob Chychrun kept his stat line lively with a smart read to beat Elvis Merzlikins, 1-0 Caps.<\/p>\n

In the second period, Tom Wilson got the final touch on a beautiful sequence with Sourdif and Protas. Chychrun got his second of the night on the power play \u2013 yes, you read that right. Seconds later, John Carlson scored a set-play goal after a face-off.<\/p>\n

Proving anyone could score in this one, Martin Fehervary nabbed a goal four minutes into the third period, followed by Denton Mateychuk, who threaded a puck through a nest of legs to snap the shutout, but the game was already out of reach.<\/p>\n

Caps win!<\/p>\n

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With his first period goal, Jakob Chychrun\u2018s point streak reaches 8 games. He\u2019s got 5 goals and 6 assists in the stretch. He was low-key kinda stinky in that Tampa game, but otherwise he\u2019s been terrific. He flirted with the Hat Chych a few times but couldn\u2019t make it happen.
\nSometimes I get confused about which \u201cBlue\u201d goalie I\u2019m supposed to dislike: Lumbus\u2019 Elvis Merzlikins<\/a> or St. Louis\u2019 Jordan Binnington<\/a>. Then I remember it\u2019s both. I thought Merzlikins would have earned the hook in this one, and I would have loved to have seen Jet Greaves, but I guess they\u2019re saving him for the Leafs on Wednesday, where they\u2019ll have a better chance to win.
\nIn the second period, Ryan Leonard got hit in the head by the shoulder of Cole Sillinger. Leonard looked hurt, prone on the ice for a moment getting escorted off the ice. I\u2019m not convinced it was a malicious hit.<\/p>\n

The Caps scored their first power-play goal on home ice since November 5<\/a>. Off the stick of Chychrun it came, with an assist by Wilson. Somewhere around 11 or 12 failed power plays in a row in Capital One Arena, an ongoing fiasco that has hindered the team\u2019s ability to win games<\/a>.
\nTom Wilson\u2019s goal was the capstone on a great sequence by Aliaksei Protas and Justin Sourdif, who may be getting his sea legs. I heard Craig Laughlin compare this play favorably to Evgeny Kuznetsov\/<\/p>\n

#joebsuitofthenight<\/p>\n

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The Caps slowly make their way up the standings. They\u2019re a good team; if they keep on working on their glaring flaws, they\u2019ll be a great one.<\/p>\n

Couldn\u2019t ask for more. Couldn\u2019t ask for a shutout. Couldn\u2019t ask for healthy Dowd and PLD. Couldn\u2019t ask for an Ovi. Couldn\u2019t ask for Merzlikins getting the hook, looking dejected on the bench, slamming his stick, cursing the Caps, \u201cyou\u2019ve done it to me again! I hate you!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Caps have a pre-Thanksgiving bout scheduled with Winnipeg on Wednesday. I can\u2019t make it: in-laws in town. You\u2019re in good hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: kurly from #crashers The Washington Capitals\u2019 blowout win over the Columbus Blue Jackets was exactly the kind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-312088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312088","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=312088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}