{"id":344491,"date":"2025-12-12T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/344491\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:58:07","slug":"capitals-battle-heavy-shot-deficit-against-hurricanes-to-earn-point-numbers-for-the-morning-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/344491\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals battle heavy shot deficit against Hurricanes to earn point: numbers for the morning after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765547887_752_headline-nftma.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Numbers For The Morning After, with Chris Cerullo\" decoding=\"async\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8 : RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals didn\u2019t have their best or second-best against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night. However, the Caps grinded things out against the Canes and probably should have even taken two points from what <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/12\/11\/beaten-by-the-boring-beasts-of-the-east-canes-beat-cap-3-2-in-the-shootout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended up being a 3-2 shootout loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t stand watching Carolina. Rod Brind\u2019Amour is the Jos\u00e9 Mourinho of the NHL, just without any of the championship success.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Per usual in a game against the Hurricanes, the Capitals didn\u2019t have a ton of the puck at five-on-five. They were able to combat that possession very well earlier in the season, but it proved tougher on Thursday night, as Carolina out-attempted them 72-39, outshot them 34-20, and left them at a scoring-chance disadvantage (33-22) and a high-danger-chance disadvantage (17-12). With that said, they were probably one Rasmus Sandin turnover away from winning this game in regulation.<br \/>\nNic Dowd was easily <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/12\/11\/nic-dowd-fight-goal-capitals-hurricanes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the most noticeable skater for the Capitals<\/a>, getting into a fight, scoring the goal that put them up 2-1, and delivering five hits in the game. Good to have him back and looking very effective over the past few games.<br \/>\nAlex Ovechkin became the 11th player in NHL history to record 1,800 points in the regular season and playoffs combined with his assist on Connor McMichael\u2019s goal. Ovechkin\u2019s 110 career points against the Hurricanes in the regular season are the most he has recorded against a single opponent.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rasmus Sandin registered his second assist of the game on Dowd&#8217;s go-ahead goal. It marks Sandin&#8217;s first multi-assist performance of the season and the 12th of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Capitals PR (@CapitalsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitalsPR\/status\/1999304018984861789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one was not Jakob Chychrun\u2019s brightest game of the season, as with him on the ice at five-on-five, the Capitals were down heavily in shot attempts (25-11), scoring chances (15-4), and high-danger chances (6-1). After his recent 10-game point streak, Chychrun has just two points (1g, 1a) in his last six games.<br \/>\nLogan Thompson was phenomenal yet again, making\u00a0 37 stops on 39 shots faced. <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/g.htm?id=2025020485\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to MoneyPuck<\/a>, he saved 1.98 more goals than expected, slightly outperforming Brandon Bussi at the other end for Carolina, who saved 1.24 more goals than expected.<br \/>\nThe Capitals have earned at least one standings point in nine straight games (7-0-2) and in 13 of their last 14 (10-1-3).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcca<\/p>\n<p>This story would not be possible without<\/p>\n<p>Please consider joining us in supporting them.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8 : RMNB The Washington Capitals didn\u2019t have their best or second-best against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-344491","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\/344491","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=344491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}