{"id":391552,"date":"2025-11-20T05:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391552\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:35:11","slug":"ryan-leonard-has-arrived-caps-beat-oilers-7-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391552\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Leonard has arrived: Caps beat Oilers 7-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals defeated the Edmonton Oilers in a high-scoring outing that saw a number of good guys get back on the score sheet.<\/p>\n<p>It was a hot start, with Aliaksei Protas tipping John Carlson\u2019s pass. Alex Ovechkin deflected Jakob Chychrun\u2019s shot to make it 2-0. For the rest of the night, the Caps and Oilers took turns scoring. Darnell Nurse got the first of his two goals, both from outside, to make it 2-1, then Ryan Leonard beat Skinner short-side, then Darnell Nurse did it again, and only then did we reach first intermission.<\/p>\n<p>In a heroic effort Ryan Leonard extended Washington\u2019s lead, only to have it halved in the third period by David Tomasek, who I don\u2019t know who that is. Anthony Beauvillier scored on the rush, then Leon Draisaitl beat Logan Thompson with a crisp power-play goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Wilson sunk two empty-netters.<\/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%2F19%2Fryan-leonard-has-arrived-caps-beat-oilers-7-4\" class=\"btn btn-outline-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Info<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/17\/uh-oh-ovis-heating-up-caps-beat-kings-2-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Me, two days ago<\/a>: \u201cWednesday night might be the best chance to de-schneid several be-schneided Capitals players.\u201d I know you read these recaps so you can giggle and then go to comments, but please don\u2019t overlook my analytical oracular skills.<\/li>\n<li>That was a five-goal first period, appropriate for 80s night. Goalies were ornamental.<\/li>\n<li>Washed-up has-been <strong>Alex Ovechkin<\/strong> has four goals in the last five games. RMNB. He\u2019s got 904 now. Haters \u27a1\ufe0f waiters \ufe6bthe table of success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lbHChCR9Sc\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/19\/alex-ovechkin-904-nhl-goal-stuart-skinner-oilers-capitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Ovechkin scores 904th NHL goal, beating Oilers\u2019 Stuart Skinner with a deflection<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>(pp bad.)<\/li>\n<li>Shut up and look at this <strong>Ryan Leonard<\/strong> goal, one of two for the 20 year old. He\u2019s going to be a star. I hope he has a real-estate agent familiar with northern Virginia. He\u2019s here indefinitely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Connor McMichael<\/strong>, the highest scoring Connor Mc of November 19, 2025, got the primary assist on both Leonard goals.<\/li>\n<li>The Caps led by two goals five different times, which sounds more impressive than it is. It just means they scored two first, and then they traded goals with the Oilers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aliaksei<\/strong> \u201cPDOtas\u201d<strong> Protas<\/strong> scored four goals in the first five games of the season, but he hadn\u2019t scored from November 1 until tonight. The difference this time? He just happened to get a nice bounce this time. Hockey is stochastic. Or chaotic. I feel like I know the difference, but then I doubt myself. STEM majors can correct me in the comments. My degree was mostly in lesbian poetry; this is not a joke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Well played, Caps arena staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The TNT guys kept pronouncing it Car Berry. Like two separate words. Like he\u2019s a Willy Wonka invention that pancakes a ten-year-old scouser with foibles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:nqxxi7akzkcxg5vvyetwtjof\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m5zmowx6f52j\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreific5pqbz3jgnaoou3yi37f3uzomhppbtd6hj2qif547jnbzzdy7a\">\n<p lang=\"en\">No Joe B, happy to have Tarik at least<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:nqxxi7akzkcxg5vvyetwtjof?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RMNB (@rmnb.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:nqxxi7akzkcxg5vvyetwtjof\/post\/3m5zmowx6f52j?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025-11-20T01:31:59.862Z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two wins in a row! The Caps haven\u2019t done that in nearly a month. Oh, that feels bad. That feels like a bad stat. That feels like a thing we revisit in late March in the ignominious return of <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/tag\/loffs-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#loffswatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For tonight, I don\u2019t care. Only the goalies and the coaches and the goalie coaches had a bad time in a high-scoring game featuring two of the greatest players ever to do it: Alex Ovechkin and Connor Mc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals defeated the Edmonton Oilers in a high-scoring outing that saw a number of good guys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-391552","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\/115580405326292881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391552","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=391552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}