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The Washington Capitals<\/a> and 20,000 of their friends hid from the rain on Sunday evening to host the Seattle Kraken<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kaapo Kakko<\/a>, a finely named player, opened goal-scoring for the Kraken, a cleanup on Logan Thompson<\/a>\u2018s rebound. Jordan Kyrou<\/a> scored his first as a Cap off a brilliant pass from Cole Hutson<\/a>. Alex Ovechkin<\/a> scored his first goal of the season against the 930th victim of his career, but Jordan Eberle<\/a> tied the game at 2-2 with a stuff late in the period.<\/p>\n Frederick Gaudreau<\/a> authored the only goal of the second period, a gimme allowed by Dylan McIlrath<\/a>\u2018s turnover.<\/p>\n Less than a minute into the third period, Boone Jenner<\/a> scored thanks to a defensive turnover \u2013 whole lotta that going around. Jared McCann<\/a> used his legs to get the lead with just five minutes left in regulation. Brian Winterton punished the Caps\u2019 desperation with a breakaway goal.<\/p>\n Caps lose 5-3.<\/p>\n It\u2019s early in the season; I don\u2019t want to be overly confident and say a team is outright bad, with the exception of the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>, who are outright bad. They\u2019re rancid. Toss \u2019em in the trash. Double-bag it, lest they leak on the carpet on the way out. The Kraken, meanwhile? If they\u2019re bad too, then the Caps really misplayed this entire game. Oh you poor babies. You had to wait four and a half games before you got to see an Alex Ovechkin goal. How did you ever survive? Children, come summertime you will have to wait infinity to see another Ovi goal. Getting the primary assist on the goal was Ilya Protas<\/a>. Getting the fake assist was the Blaster to his Master, Aliaksei Protas<\/a>. Something you, me, and Spencer Carbery already know: Dylan McIlrath isn\u2019t up to the task. McIlrath chased his way to an interference in the first, gave up a brutal goal in the second, and got gravity-gunned to the bench in the third period. Final ice time: 5:05. Even if Matt Roy<\/a> and Rasmus Sandin<\/a> were 100 percent ready to go by Tuesday, I\u2019m not confident about Washington\u2019s defensive depth. The first line isn’t the only one with two pros on it #joebsuitofthenight<\/p>\n \u2014 Good Skeet Pete (@peterhassett.net)<\/a> 2026-10-11T21:05:27.805Z<\/a><\/p>\n That was a winnable game squandered through defensive mistakes.<\/p>\n Please join me in wishing Chris Cerullo a very happy birthday. Chris does it all \u2013 and he does it with disproportionate humility. I\u2019m not exaggerating when I say he\u2019s the world\u2019s most popular Caps writer, but he\u2019s got the ego of a sandwich artist. Just here to feed you your hockey nourishment, in numbers or news or prospects or anything else. He\u2019s the best, and I love him.<\/p>\n Rematch against Carolina on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Faith Harris\/RMNB The Washington Capitals and 20,000 of their friends hid from the rain on Sunday evening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-879474","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\/879474","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=879474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWelcome to the scoreboard, Jordan Kyrou. The pass he received from Cole Hutson gives me exactly the same level of excitement about both players. Though there have been some sub-optimal line performances so far, it\u2019s clear that there\u2019s chemistry available.<\/p>\n
\nJoey Daccord<\/a> becomes the 930th goalie on Ovechkin\u2019s list<\/a>. Have you seen the list lately? It\u2019s new and improved for 2026-27.<\/p>\n![\"Every](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/alex-ovechkin-every-goalie-he-scored-on.jpg\")
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\nI love Boone Jenner. I think I always have; I just couldn\u2019t admit it until he wore a Caps jersey. It\u2019s a real enemies-to-lovers plot except neither either of those things. Boone scored a big tying goal in the third with simple, competent forechecking. Missed that over the last nine or so months.<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t think Logan Thompson is going to look back fondly on this game. He hadn\u2019t given up five goals in a game since April.
\nRyan Leonard<\/a> drew a penalty exactly one minute into the game. He\u2019s still got it.<\/p>\n