The Noon Number: Home Is Where The Lead Is

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 19th 2019 | 1 min read |

169:23 – Combined amount of time the home team has spent with the lead so far in the Capitals-Hurricanes opening-round series. The host team has...

The Narrative: Soul-Crushing Boners, Pray for Osh, and Squad Goals

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

1. Soul-Crushing Boners (SCBs) Well, that was better. But we’re just about out of runway for moral victories and incremental improvements. Game 4 wa...

Game 4 Recap: Ovechkin Scores but Carolina Wins 2-1, Oshie Leaves with Injury

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

I don’t need to remind anyone of what happened on Monday, right? Okay cool. I will, however, remind everyone that both Micheal Ferland and Andrei Sv...

The Noon Number: Late Gate

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 18th 2019 | 1 min read |

5 – Number of penalties taken by the Capitals during the final 10 minutes of regulation in their series against the Hurricanes. In Game 1, it wa...

Thursday Caps Clips: Capitals @ Hurricanes Game 4 Game Day

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 18th 2019 | 1 min read |

Your savory breakfast links: The Canes will be making some lineup changes, too, but their changes are due to some injuries up front:...

Capitals @ Hurricanes Game 4 Game Thread

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 18th 2019 | 1 min read |

Pre-Game Reading: Broadcast Info: NBCSW, NBCSN, SN; WJFK, Capitals Radio 24/7 Thursday Caps Clips: Capitals @ Hurricanes Game 4 Game Day Have at it, b...

The Narrative: Shufflin’, A Must-Win (?), and Special Teams

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 17th 2019 | 6 min read |

1. Shufflin’ Having a lot of secondary scoring (and for the Caps, that basically means “anyone other than Alex Ovechkin who scores semi-regularlyâ...

JRR 117: Time For a Bounce Back

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 17th 2019 | 1 min read |

Jon Press joins Adam Stringham to discuss how the Capitals can recover from one of the worst games in franchise history (and drops a bomb on what mayb...

The Narrative: Mralak?, Ovechnikovgate and Sweeps Night

By Japers' Rink Team | Apr 17th 2019 | 5 min read |

1. Mralak? Is Petr Mrazek becoming a thing? On the one hand, he has a (very) pedestrian .897 save percentage through three games (.889 at five-on-five...