The Great 8 and the Washington Capitals are up in the great white north to do battle tonight with the Winnipeg Jets game time 8:00 PM. The boys in Red have struggled so far this season, with a 3-5 record. It started off bad with a loss to the defending champs 6-4 loss to the Chicago Black hawks. They fared better on the home opening game, with a 5-4 shootout victory over the Calgary Flames. After their first win they went on to lose 3 in a row 2-1 to the Dallas Stars, 3-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes, and 5-1 to the Colorado Avalanche. They broke that streak and have won 2 games with a 4-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers, and this past Saturday with a 4-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Caps in still this early season have yet to win 2 games in a row. Braden Holtby has started 6 games this season between the pipes and the Caps are 2-4 with him starting, and are 1-1 when Neuvirth has started this season. I have been more impressed with Neuvirth's play thus far this season especially in the home opener stopping 2 shots in the shootout victory. Seems as though Adam Oates has not given up yet on Braden Holtby as the starter though, however if the Caps keep loosing, a change def needs to be made in that department IMO. The great 8 this season is back to Ovechkin form he leads the team this season with 8 goals in the first 8 games of the season, its so great to see him play well again! Nicklas Backstrom leads the team this season with 7 assists and has been played consistently well, thus far this season. The Caps have looked great on offense this season, the last 5 games they have scored 11 goals. The Braden Holtby/ Mike Green led defense has not played well this season at all! the last 5 games the Caps have given up a total of 13 goals! this is unacceptable! The Caps did win their last game 4-1, The defense did look good hopefully tonight this trend will continue. The good thing about all this is it is still early in the season, so it is not time to hit the panic button on this season just yet, however the first 8 games have left a bad taste in my mouth thus far! we will see what happens tonight! I will write about the game tomorrow and I will be tweeting tonight live during the game, see you then! rock the red!!
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