{"id":899587,"date":"2026-10-30T06:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899587\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:08:11","slug":"the-new-guys-have-taken-over-caps-beat-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899587\/","title":{"rendered":"The new guys have taken over: Caps beat Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Ted Starkey<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Washington Capitals<\/a> earned a rare win on the road by outworking the Nashville Predators<\/a> on Thursday night. It was a good game.<\/p>\n

Filip Forsberg<\/a> scored his 10th goal in his 22nd career game against the Washington Capitals, a one-timer at the end of a long power-play session. Cole Hutson<\/a> restored balance with an unlikely shot from way outside.<\/p>\n

Boone Jenner<\/a> fought off a few Preds in the paint to give Washington a brief lead in the second, cancelled out by Filip Forsberg\u2019s 11th goal in his 22nd career game against the Washington Capitals because the Caps couldn\u2019t get the puck out of their own zone. Going bar down, Hutson put the Caps up a goal going into the third.<\/p>\n

A net-front scramble allowed Russ Colton, which is not the name of a tertiary character on Yellowstone, to restore the tie. Halfway into the third, after Juuse Saros<\/a> misplayed the puck, Alex Tuch<\/a> scored his tenth goal of the young season.<\/p>\n

Caps beat Predators 4-3!<\/p>\n

We were lied to \u2013 flagrantly \u2013 about the start time of this game. There is no accountability in public life anymore. This is why trust in public institutions is eroding.
\n\u201cBad angle \u2013 SCOAR!\u201d is how Joe B put it when Cole Hutson scored the first of his two goals. Both were gorgeous shots \u2013 the first from impossibly wide, the second top shelf. We\u2019re straining our necks searching for Hutson\u2019s skill ceiling.<\/p>\n

That was Cole Hutson\u2019s first two-goal game. He has taken the points lead among rookie defensemen, seven, ahead of Oliver Bonk<\/a>, whose name is good.
\nOne week ago the key stat for Jack St. Ivany<\/a> was 98.6. Warm body. For the second straight game (and on the second straight night), he\u2019s had a pair of assists.
\nMuch has been typed about Alex Ovechkin<\/a>\u2018s sunset season so far. He hasn\u2019t scored since October 11, but he had a bunch of good looks in this one. His line with Ilya Protas<\/a> and Beauvillier clicked.
\nUnsurprisingly, the line with Boone Jenner, Justin Sourdif<\/a>, and Ryan Leonard<\/a> was the best.
\nWith his goal Alex Tuch becomes the fifth player to hit double digits in goals this season. All the guys before him earn 13 million-plus, aside from Artturi Lehkonen<\/a>, relatively impoverished at 4.5 million.
\nThe pregame coverage said the Caps had wins in \u201ceach of\u201d Charlie Lindgren<\/a>\u2018s last two starts. Make it three. He was fine.
\nCongratulations to Barry Trotz on a brilliant career. I don\u2019t even remember the time he played Weber over Schmidt in the playoffs and then Weber choked so Hornqvist scored in overtime and then Weber immediately retired.<\/p>\n

plum #joebsuitofthenight<\/p>\n

\u2014 Good Skeet Pete (@peterhassett.net)<\/a> 2026-10-29T23:58:14.082Z<\/a><\/p>\n

Fun game. Hutson\u2019s got skills, Boone\u2019s got grit, Tuch\u2019s got no off button.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got a mid-afternoon game on Sunday against the very, very good Minnesota Wild<\/a>. Hope your sugar hangover has faded by puck drop, which better be on time, dammit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Ted Starkey The Washington Capitals earned a rare win on the road by outworking the Nashville Predators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-899587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899587","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=899587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}