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Descend with us back into the boy aquarium. After 19 days off, the Washington Capitals slowly came to life in a home game against the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first period \u2013 except there was a score, it was just 0-0 \u2013 Hendrix Lapierre fed Rasmus Sandin to give the Caps a well-earned lead.<\/p>\n
\u2026Which they blew thirty seconds into the third, off the stick of Noah Cates, following a defensive-zone turnover. Declan Chisholm fed Trevor van Riemsdyk to put the Caps ahead for good.<\/p>\n
Aliaksei Protas scored an empty-netter shorthanded to lock it up.<\/p>\n
Caps win!<\/p>\n
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More Info<\/a><\/p>\n Almost three weeks without Caps hockey felt like an eternity. The Olympics were not what I remembered. We say it\u2019s a \u201cbest on best\u201d tournament, but that\u2019s true only sometimes. Not when the Slovakian grinders are out against the German energy line. I missed the sheer star power of Rasmus Ristolainen and Brandon Duhaime. Katie says<\/a> Sandin\u2019s was the first NHL goal since reconvening. honestlyforgot what they looked like#joebsuitofthenight<\/p>\n \u2014 RMNB (@rmnb.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-02-25T23:59:46.933Z<\/a><\/p>\n So the goals came from Lapierre-Sandin and Chisholm-TVR. Who needs Olympians. The biggest accomplishments from stars like Pro and Ovechkin were turnovers and penalties. Oh, and I guess the empty-netter too.<\/p>\n Fine. I\u2019ll take it. The Caps are going to need contributions from all over the lineup if they\u2019re going to draw themselves back into the playoff picture. And with approximately one hundred thousand games in the next few weeks, they\u2019ll have lots of chances to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: kurly from #crashers Descend with us back into the boy aquarium. After 19 days off, the Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-490910","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\/490910","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=490910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Caps of the first ten minutes were still on break, outshot by ten attempts until they gained composure following a penalty kill. Things got a lot better from there.
\nCulminating with Hendrix Lapierre sending a great pass to Rasmus Sandin for the opening goal. Lapierre was impactful from his first shift. Great outing for a guy fighting for a roster spot.<\/p>\n
\nAliaksei Protas made an unconventional breakout play: duffing it towards an orange jersey in the middle of the ice. Cates scored seconds later.
\nTrevor Zegras went down late with an injury after connecting with known goal-getter<\/a> Trevor van Riemsdyk, who had scored on the prior shift.
\nEveryone is asking me, Peter, when will you chime in about the Team USA controversy? Peter, the people need to hear from you! Well, now that I am the father OF A DAUGHTER, I have had a realignment. I am now a conservative republican, and even if I weren\u2019t we all need to understand that it\u2019s not political just to go to the White House. Sports is supposed to unite us, not divide us.<\/a>
\nLogan Thompson good. Would of won gold probably.
\nEveryone join us in wishing happy birthday to RMNB alumna Elyse Bailey, who was tapping on the tank tonight. We love you, Elyse.<\/p>\n