The Washington Capitals return home to face the Toronto Maple Leafs in game five of their quarter-final Playoff series.
So far, the series has been fun to watch, with three of the four games going to overtime and the fourth one taking a complete and total blunder by the Leafs to avoid it.
After writing so many words about this series over the last week, I don't really know what to say - the Capitals are faced with an enormous amount of media invented pressure, but it's impossible to know how the actual team feels.
What hockey needs is more P.K Subbans. He's the only player in the NHL worth interviewing. I couldn't have been happier to see him win last night either by the way.
The guy makes everything more fun. And, after Montreal treated him like crap and made one of the worst decisions in the history of their franchise (only to fire Therien a few months later anyways) it was made even more sweet.
I am from Ontario. I have an affinity for a certain team in blue. I despise the Montreal Canadiens and, even though I think they'll win and even though I picked them to win, it would be such sweet comeuppance to see them eliminated while PK moves on.
Oh how I love to schadenfreude les Canadiens.
Is that even a verb? I ain't no German, just a pretentious ex-English student, so please forgive me if it's not.
Hey, here's one of my favorite tweets ever:
Braden Holtby will start tonight, in case there was some question of that.
— Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) April 21, 2017
I will also go out on a limb and say Andersen will go for the Leafs.
In other news (ish) stuff: The Caps called up Chandler Stephenson, but I'm not sure which Caps centre is doubtful. But Khurshudyan also tweeted that all four normal centres are at practice.
Nate Schmidt is really underrated and I was disappointment when he lost his spot when they got Shattenkirk, and I think the Capitals have been a better team with him in the lineup.