{"id":529837,"date":"2026-03-18T01:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:25:09","slug":"capitals-game-late-in-season-gets-flexed-off-national-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529837\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals game late in season gets flexed off national tv"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Washington Capitals\u2019 surprisingly poor performance this season appears to be getting them punted off national television late in the year.<\/p>\n

Per an NHL press release on Tuesday afternoon, the Capitals\u2019 game on April 8 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, scheduled for 7:30 pm ET at Scotiabank Arena, will now be broadcast locally on Monumental Sports Network and no longer air on TNT. In Canada, the game will still air on Sportsnet and TVA Sports.<\/p>\n

According to MoneyPuck<\/a>, the two teams are near locks to miss the playoffs as the Capitals have a 6 percent chance of making the postseason, while the Maple Leafs are at 0 percent. The Leafs also just lost superstar Auston Matthews<\/a> to a season-ending injury after Radko Gudas<\/a> delivered him a knee-on-knee hit.<\/p>\n

The Buffalo Sabres\u2019 matchup against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden will replace Caps-Leafs on the network. The 41-20-6 Sabres (88 points) lead the Atlantic Division, and are battling the Carolina Hurricanes (90 points) for the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Since December 9, Buffalo has posted a 30-6-2 record (.816 point percentage), the best mark in the NHL during that span, jumping from last in the Eastern Conference to first place in their division.<\/p>\n

The league also announced that the 7 pm PT Anaheim Ducks vs San Jose Sharks game on April 1 will now begin at 6 pm PT\/9 pm ET and will be broadcast exclusively on TNT, giving Capitals fans an opportunity to see John Carlson<\/a> play for his new team. Meanwhile, the St. Louis Blues vs Los Angeles Kings game scheduled for 6 pm PT at Crypto.com Arena will now be broadcast locally on FDSNMW (St. Louis) and FDSNW (Los Angeles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB The Washington Capitals\u2019 surprisingly poor performance this season appears to be getting them punted off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-529837","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\/529837","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=529837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}