I hop on here this morning to find that everyone is freaking out and saying that we need to trade players and fire Carbs. Everyone just take a step back and look at things. So far this season, we're 2 games over .500 while trying to integrate a bunch of new players into the lineup and giving large amounts of playing time to a rookie defensemen (yes, I know he's a calder candidate, but he's still a rookie).

On top of all of that, look at the last 9 games. In the last 9 games, we're 5-4. Three of those losses are to 2 of the top 4 teams in the league right now and the other is to Dallas (also a playoff team).

Am I saying that the team is perfect, hell no. There's lots to improve on. But for those of you saying that we need to trade the Protas bros, or trade Sourdiff, or fire Carbs, just take a step back and look at things. We've played the fewest amount of games of any team in the league, the team is going to gel together, just relax and chill out. That is all.

About 12-15 years ago I was big into the Caps and picked up this shirt. It was a super soft vintage style even back then.

Cut to today and it's my girlfriend's favorite shirt by far, but it's definitely seen better days. There's holes all over it and idk how much longer it has left. I would love to find her a replacement. If anyone has an old shirt that they grew out of or just don't wear anymore I'd be willing to buy it off of you.

Thanks.

Sounded like a snippet off of the Absolute Elsewhere album. Never heard it played at the Cap One Arena before but I could be wrong.

This team is good but are just constantly finding ways to lose and shoot themselves in the foot

- starting lindgren in a in division game
- constantly losing because of special teams yet changing nothing
- deploying ovechkin way too much
- refusing to accept the youth movement. Espc sourdif and lil pros minutes
- insane mistakes at bad times
- 6on5 lines are insane
- wilson, chych and others ice cold

This team is good and having everything go agaisnt them it feels but Overall alot of these are coaching decisions. Which has made this season incredibly frustrating

Change my mind.

Hint: you can’t.

Want to get my son a Hutson jersey for Christmas but striking out online. Does anybody know if MedStar and/or the Team Store at the arena make custom youth jerseys?

Devils 7, Capitals 4

FINAL

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🌟 Three Stars of the Game

1. ★ J. Boqvist · 1 G · 2 A

2. ★★ L. Hameenaho · 1 G · 2 A

3. ★★★ C. Hutson · 0 G · 3 A

📍 Capital One Arena · Nov 14, 2026

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-Obviously, scoring less then our opponents
-Starting Lindgren in a rivalry game
-Absence of VD is hitting us like a truck
-Carless defensive mistakes at bad times
-Ilya Protas plays less then 10 minutes a game
-When Tuch and Kyrou have hot stretches but invisible when they’re not hot
-Chychrun’s played horrible this season (excluding his stats)
-pp2 needs pp1 minutes
-Carbery is refusing to accept the youth and won’t give them minutes they need
-Ovi is hurting this team more then he’s helping and people don’t realize how much of an impact it’s actually making
-Carbery changes the lines more often then people change their underwear
-Carbery’s systems have been a failure
-I’m a #1 LT defender but he hasn’t been the best this season
-Miro has always had amazing chemistry with Ilya Protas and he’s sitting
-Carbery should have Wilson earn his minutes. Unless he’s playing a ridiculous amount of minutes because of so many pk’s, he shouldn’t play more then 15 minutes a game

Few things I want to talk about:
-The problem with lines is that Carbery likes to gel different play styles together which is a massive failure. For example, Wilson is used as a versatile role but should be used as a defensive role and was playing with two offensive play styles last night (Strome and Leno) Carbery needs to construct lines based off the role a player should play. Putting someone with a defensive role alongside two players with an offensive role is a horrible idea. I think a line of Beauvillier-Jenner-Wilson would excel defensively but that’s something we probably won’t see. Line construction of this team isn’t how most of the league does their lines which are top 6 and bottom 6 and I believe Carbery needs to figure that out fast.

-Talking about the power play: the team really needs to practice zone entries, it just needs to happen. I’ve been a big supporter of the second power play to get more time but even their zone entries are just as bad as the first power play’s zone entries. Regarding pp1 and pp2, every single time I see pp1 start, it instantly makes my blood boil since everyone knows it won’t result in a goal.

-Lot’s of people have criticized Wilson and Protas for not getting on the scoresheet. I’m actually okay with them not getting on the scoresheet because they are utilized for defensive roles, hence the heavy pk minutes and Protas shutting down the opposing team’s top line with Dubois. we have other players who can get on the scoresheet and it’s okay if those two don’t get on it.

-Regarding Ovi’s deployment, Does Carbery deploy Ovi in crucial minutes because he actually thinks Ovi can still make an impact? Or is it Ted Leonsis interfering with Carbery’s coaching decisions? Either way it doesn’t matter. I believe this team was reconstructed in the summer with the assumption that Ovi would’ve retired and now that he’s still here, it’s taking a toll on the team more than we actually think.

-Coming back to Carbery, he needs to be put in the hot seat. Me and everyone like him because he’s transparent and young but he hasn’t done anything good other than his Jack Adams award. His systems are a failure, he changes the lines so much that players can’t develop chemistry and he stubbornly refuses to trust the youth while riding his broken down crappy pp1. He talks about the youth “developing” but the reality is, is that they’re already making an impact and at a much better rate then the older guys, I’m extremely surprised he doesn’t like the youth as he’s a young coach but I’d rather have a different coach who would trust the youth then a Laviolette 2.0.

Devils 7, Capitals 4

FINAL

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• TV MSG · MNMT

Metropolitan

• CAR 16-3-2, 34 pts

• NJD 15-6-0, 30 pts

• NYR 12-8-1, 25 pts

• WSH 10-8-0, 20 pts

• NYI 8-6-4, 20 pts

• PHI 6-10-6, 18 pts

• PIT 7-11-2, 16 pts

• CBJ 7-11-0, 14 pts

Injury Report

NJD

• Vladislav Kolyachonok (D), out, illness

• Brett Pesce (D), out, illness

• Johnathan Kovacevic (D), IR, ankle

• Seamus Casey (D), LTIR, knee

• Anthony Mantha (RW), LTIR, neck

WSH

• Vincent Desharnais (D), IR, abdomen, surgery

• Rasmus Sandin (D), LTIR, knee, surgery

Roster Moves This Week

NJD

• Recalled D Anton Silaev from Utica (AHL). Placed D Johnathan Kovacevic on injured reserve. Transferred D Seamus Casey to long-term injured reserve.

• Recalled D Vladislav Kolyachonok from Utica (AHL).

• Loaned F Riley Tufte to Utica (AHL). Recalled f Stefan Noesen from Utica (AHL).

• Recalled F Riley Tufte from Utica (AHL).

WSH

• Recalled D Justin Holl from Hershey (AHL).

• Waived G Remi Poirier.

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Anybody else noticed that Wilson has been pretty soft so far…? If I was just getting into hockey this year, I wouldn’t understand how Wilson has gotten the reputation that he has.

Leno’s a bit more physical but a LOT more reckless.

No update today:

Everyone on this sub is getting quite comfy calling the literal goat washed or that he’s “holding the team back” when the entire modern version of this franchise is built on him and basically nothing else. Pretending he’s some obstacle the team has to work around is preposterous and is missing the entire point of how the organization has operated.

Alex Tuch, Boone Jenner, Jordan Kyrou aren’t random adds that fell to us. The front office has spent years building a team that can actually contend while Ovechkin is still here instead of blowing things up and shipping him out for picks. He’s the living legend players want to play with. He’s the reason for the locker room culture and why players want to play here. The loyalty between him and our front office is on full display and makes the players trust the Capitals organization vs going to another team…

Ovi has been the draw putting asses in seats game after game, milestone after broken record, so this team even has the money for the players you guys are acting like he’s now “holding back”. He’s clearly stated he doesn’t want to wear a different jersey to compete for another cup elsewhere and our organization has obliged. We have rookies that want to be drafted here because they had Ovi’s poster on their walls for crying out loud. WE were the team Chara, Kovalchuk, Lundqvist, Fedorov you name it wanted to come to and guess who they all wanted to play with? All those fanbases had to eat shit seeing their legends rock the red.

We’ll never have to see Ovechkin in a Carolina jersey. We’ll never have to see a bedazzled Vegas Ovi jersey or a Florida jersey. The Caps could have blown it up five years ago when the window looked like it was closing and gotten a HAUL for Ovi. They didn’t. They kept constructing the roster around him so he could keep chasing one more run even though that’s waaaay harder to do. We’ve successfully avoided becoming a bottom feeder team this whole time. We’re spoiled rotten and it’s starting to show.

The NHL is a business at the end of the day and the seething hate you all appropriately show when greedy Ted tries to squeeze us for every dime and post after post about the stupid “vaults” but you’re missing the bigger picture that this team is showing true loyalty and letting a guy ride out in the sunset even if he’s well past his prime…

I frankly don’t care if the numbers are ugly right now. Our defense will get healthy. Ovi will inevitably get goals he’s had the chances but if he plays the whole season with his wiener in his hand at least my goat doesn’t ever have to wonder “what if”. His numbers just last season absolutely earned him another go at it this year.

If yall are really struggling to give this man some slack just close your eyes and pretend he spent his whole career somewhere else and came here for his final cup chance like others have done. The living legend that broke Gretzky’s record. Yes our team is carrying him but HOLY FUCK ALEXANDER OVECHKIN IS ON OUR TEAM?!?! LETS GET HIM A CUP! The sheer irony of saying he’s holding the team back when he’s the main reason this team will be halfway decent when he walks away and legitimized us for years to come as a destination players want to come to needs to end… especially in his farewell season.

P.s. the money everyone thinks will just be free’d up for another star like McDavid if he walks are simply wrong. That money is already spoken for with Leonard/Sourdies extensions and Hutson eventually so stop it.

Where is rod langway? He doin ok?

Bit of a rant, I've been wanting to try and get a community going to start hosting spaces on X for everyones post game thoughts but idk how many people would want to, so ill do it here.

I believe this is a very good roster with a pretty good system, but with insanely bad player deployments. Our team defense is really bad, this man on man system is just not working at all, it doesn't help that our goalies have been pretty bad. I don't think we play Leno and Kyrou enough, and that's made worse with both Willy and Apro having disappointing years. We have a certain player who cannot play NHL hockey anymore.

This is another season where I'm watching Carbery let the powerplay hurt the team, except this season we have a second unit that can clearly score. Ovi has 50+ powerplay minutes this season, he has 0 powerplay points. That is literally egregious. He cannot play in crucial points of the game anymore, we're at the point where he doesn't even have the best shot on the team anymore, yet we keep trotting him out like he's in his prime. Cole Hutson has proven to be your best PPQB, but we don't play him there over Chychrun.

He's not our only issue, but Ovi is hurting our chances to win games. You want to respect the legend, but this roster is too talented to let a retirement tour harm the team.

We have a lot more issues that I won't get into. I firmly believe we have the talent to make a run, but its gonna require Carbs to make some tough decisions.

Is the store at the arena outside of the turnstile because of the construction? Also anyone know how stocked they are with HTR jerseys?

Trying to figure out if I should wear a jersey tomorrow or if I'll be able to get one there.

Thanks!

LT’s not really been as consistent as we’d like him to be. Willy isn’t scoring at all. Little Pro has been disappointing. Also think Carbs needs to just rip the bandaid off and stop giving Ovi so much responsibility, he’s 41, he can’t skate, it’s not working with him out there, let’s try something else maybe?

Capitals 2, Devils 5

FINAL

Catch-up · From puck drop

The Devils came from behind to win.

Early in the first period, E. Rodrigues let a quick one go from the circle on the power play, and that put the Devils on top 1-0. 14:10 into the first, R. Leonard pulled it to the backhand and buried it right in tight on the power play, and the game was tied 1-1.

Early in the second period, P. Dubois got a snapper away before the goalie could set from the circle, and the Capitals took a 2-1 lead. 9:51 into the second, L. Hameenaho got a stick on it and changed the angle from the doorstep, and that pulled the game even at 2-2.

6:27 into the third, V. Kolyachonok let a shot go that beat the goalie from the point, and the Devils went in front 3-2. Late in the third period, S. Noesen tucked one in with a quick flip from the low circle, and the Devils built a two-goal cushion, 4-2. Late in the third period, J. Hughes iced it with an empty-netter, and the Devils took a firm grip on the game at 5-2.

The Devils produced a 10-6 edge in close-range shots on goal. The Devils also struck the iron twice. The Capitals got in front of 18 shots, compared with 10 blocks by the Devils. Hellebuyck stopped 26 of 28.

Final: The Devils won 5-2.

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🌟 Three Stars of the Game

1. ★ E. Rodrigues · 1 G · 1 A

2. ★★ L. Hameenaho · 1 G · 0 A

3. ★★★ V. Kolyachonok · 1 G · 0 A

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