{"id":386633,"date":"2025-11-18T03:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386633\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:06:14","slug":"uh-oh-ovis-heating-up-caps-beat-kings-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386633\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh oh, Ovi\u2019s heating up: Caps beat Kings 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"1205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/caps-kings-kurly.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"WSH LAK\" decoding=\"async\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: kurly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/rmnb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#crashers<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals snagged two badly needed standings points with a win over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>As we all expected, Matt Roy scored, blissfully un-marked by the Kings defense. Up-and-comer Alexander \u201cAlex\u201d Ovechkin followed up, one-timing a pass from Connor McMichael to give Washington a 2-0 lead after one period.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings halved that lead in the second, with fellow old Anze Kopitar sneaking up on Charlie Lindgren during an LA power play.<\/p>\n<p>The Caps held on in the third.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caps win!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGet RMNB ad-free<\/p>\n<p>Support us on Patreon for $5 to hide all ads and get other perks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/patreon-flow\/?patreon-login=yes&amp;patreon-final-redirect=https%3A%2F%2Frussianmachineneverbreaks.com%2F2025%2F11%2F17%2Fuh-oh-ovis-heating-up-caps-beat-kings-2-1\" class=\"btn btn-outline-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Info<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alex Ovechkin<\/strong> scored goal 903, his fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/every-goalie-alex-ovechkin-has-scored-on\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against ex-teammate Darcy Kuemper<\/a>, his second goal in as many games, his third goal in the last four games, his sixth of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/02\/caps-power-play-bad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like I said<\/a>: Ovechkin has a decades-long history of making haters his waiters at the table of success. If you\u2019re one of them, collect your Fell For It Again award in the comments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Roy<\/strong> scored against his former team. That was the defender\u2019s first goal <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/03\/27\/wild-beat-caps-4-2-as-power-play-nears-absolute-zero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">since March 27<\/a>, and it must have driven Jim Hiller nuts. No Kings jerseys for miles around him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Roy later took a puck to the face. He came back. If he didn\u2019t have a visor, I think he would have broken some bones.<\/li>\n<li>The average age of goal scorers in the first 40 minutes was 36.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aliaksei Protas<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Wilson<\/strong> must have had four or five grade-A chances between them. For those two, but also for players lower in the lineup like Sourdif, the bounces just aren\u2019t ever in their favor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hendrix Lapierre<\/strong> and <strong>Nic Dowd<\/strong> swapped places. Dowd\u2019s third line was in the Kings zone a lot. Lapierre\u2019s fourth line was on the bench a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Laferriere\u2019s name sounds a lot like Hendrix Lapierre\u2019s \u2013 if you have hearing damage from playing in garage bands as a teenager. I thought \u201cLappy\u201d was on the ice a lot more than he was.<\/li>\n<li>I love <strong>Anze Kopitar<\/strong>. I wish we got to see him more than once or twice a season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The PP didn\u2019t score on their one and a quarter opportunities. The PK allowed one goal on three man-down situations.<\/li>\n<li>From the Hiltzik Strategies out-of-town scoreboard: looks like the Buffalo Sabres will stumble into a victory over the Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers have the worst goaltending in the league; they need to make a trade yesterday. A team projected to record 100 standings points is on track for less than 90. They need to make a trade. They join Toronto in the league\u2019s bottom ten by points percentage. Winnipeg and Montreal are the best Canadian teams right now.<\/li>\n<li>Gambling ads that show everyone winning their parlays are depressing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Solid win. Would have been a rousing win if numbers 21 and 43 could hit the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Those Oilers I was ragging on above are the Caps\u2019 next opponents. Wednesday night might be the best chance to de-schneid several be-schneided Capitals players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: kurly from #crashers The Washington Capitals snagged two badly needed standings points with a win over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-386633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115568494929307439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}