Game 48: Losing Streak Hits 5
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Caps drop a high scoring affair on the road 8-5 to Chicago. Rob, Ryan. and Alan go over the rough day for Washington despite some lineup changes and the news that the team held a players only meeting. They then propose what lineup combinations they'd like to see moving forward to emerge from the slump (15:49).
Finally, a look at Tuesday vs. the Sharks and Wednesday in Toronto (23:18).
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| 0:00.0 | For the first time since the early days of Barry Trots' era in Washington, D.C., the 2014-15 season was the last time the caps have lost five straight games. |
| 0:13.6 | Alan, they've now lost five straight, the last one being an eight-five loss to the worst team in hockey, the Chicago Blackhawks, in a crazy hockey game that the Caps at times looked awful. |
| 0:29.0 | Didn't have a crazy game earlier this week as well in Nashville. |
| 0:32.4 | So you look at this, no excuses on this one. |
| 0:34.9 | They had plenty of enough time to get there. Well, rest. It wasn't a |
| 0:38.3 | back-to-back. It's an early game. 11.30 a.m. start, I guess, Chicago time. Horrible game. |
| 0:45.1 | Caps team defense, not just a defenseman, but the forwards, errors everywhere, all over the ice. |
| 0:51.1 | I think it's a very teachable game. I think this last week is very teachable, but most importantly to the coaching staff who have to start getting stiff with the players on how they need to play the game. And then the coaches need to be held accountable for the players that they're deploying on the ice. When they're putting them out there, the combinations that they're putting out there, who's getting a jersey, who's not getting a a jersey so i think a lot of times when you're kind of hitting rock bottom those are the best moments that |
| 1:16.2 | you can have during a season if you've got great leadership but we know the caps have that when it |
| 1:19.9 | comes to Alex ovechkin nicholas backstrom uh they've got to get their act together in a hurry and |
| 1:24.4 | it's got to go from coaches to players forward 1 to 14, |
| 1:29.4 | defensemen, 1 to 7, 1 to 8, whatever it is, everyone's got to be better. |
| 1:33.8 | And they hit rock bottom a few times last year, and we're able to turn it around and ultimately |
| 1:38.3 | win the Stanley Cup. |
| 1:39.9 | And Ryan Billy, it's weird also because they're down 2-0. |
| 1:43.4 | Brooks Orpick scores one of five goals by defensemen in the game. |
| 1:47.3 | Chicago scores 28 seconds later. |
| 1:49.3 | Then they're down 4-1 at one point. |
| 1:51.4 | They come back, make it 4-3 on John Carlson's goal. |
| 1:55.4 | Chicago scores 36 seconds later. |
| 1:57.6 | Then they fall down 6-3, stormback, get it to six to five, and then a |
| 2:03.0 | minute so later, another goal, empty net goal, eight five. So despite it all, the caps had chances, |
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