{"id":427212,"date":"2026-01-24T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427212\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:41:07","slug":"jakob-chychrun-randomly-attempts-to-score-a-michigan-during-a-capitals-power-play-weve-never-even-seen-him-try-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427212\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakob Chychrun randomly attempts to score a Michigan during a Capitals\u2019 power play: \u2018We\u2019ve never even seen him try that\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jakob Chychrun almost scored an incredible highlight-reel goal against the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n

Chychrun tried to score a Michigan but failed.<\/p>\n

With 16:55 remaining in regulation and the Capitals and Flames tied 1-1, the 27-year-old defenseman took a pass from Dylan Strome deep in Calgary\u2019s zone and picked the puck up on his blade as he wrapped around the net.<\/p>\n

Chychrun lifted the puck toward the top left corner of the cage but was ultimately stopped by Flames goaltender Devin Cooley. The 28-year-old backstop squeezed his entire 6-foot-5 frame into the top portion of his net to avoid getting embarrassed by the Capitals\u2019 top offensive blueliner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kinda saw the goalie look behind and see that he was going to pick up the puck,\u201d Tom Wilson said postgame<\/a>. \u201cSo, he kinda was over on it. Pretty smooth by Chychy. It\u2019s one of those things, where if you\u2019re gonna try it, you better score, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

No one in the NHL has scored a Michigan since Connor Bedard and Trevor Zegras scored two on the same night during the 2023-24 season<\/a>. An NHL defender has never achieved the feat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never even seen him try that,\u201d head coach Spencer Carbery said<\/a>. \u201cUsually when guys have pulled that off, they\u2019ve either done it in their career earlier, which I haven\u2019t seen him do it on any film that I\u2019ve seen, or they work on it, and they do it in practice every once in a while. I\u2019ve never seen him even try to attempt it in the two years I\u2019ve been around him in practice. So, that was a new one in his golf bag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chychrun didn\u2019t get on the scoresheet in the Capitals\u2019 3-1 win over the Flames, which snapped a four-game losing streak. He skated 19:09 of ice time, firing two shots on goal, drawing a penalty, throwing one hit, and blocking two shots.<\/p>\n

Late in the third period, Chychrun was caught from the blindside by a hit from Flames forward Nazem Kadri. He remained on the Capitals\u2019 bench but did not take another shift for the final 6:13 in regulation.<\/p>\n

Carbery seemed unconcerned with his status postgame. \u201cMaybe a little whiplash with the contact from behind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chychrun has 36 points (18g, 18a) in 50 games for the Capitals this season. He is averaging 23:20 of ice time per game, which ranks first on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jakob Chychrun almost scored an incredible highlight-reel goal against the Calgary Flames. Chychrun tried to score a Michigan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-427212","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\/427212","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=427212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}