Follow @james_tanner123 Game Previews are the worst.
They just aren't fun. Or useful, really. I mean, if you are a fan of the Washington Capitals, you probably already know they play Nashville tonight.
The worst - my opinion anyways - is when the previews tell you all sort of arbitrary facts regarding the two teams. If Ovechkin has nine career goals against Nashville, who cares? for most of those goals, Nashville probably had a totally different team. They might as well have been against Atlanta for all it matters in tonight's game.
I have always wondered why sports fans are obsessed with minutia to the point where nearly every preview of a soon to occur game is infested with trivial, meaningless data like the fact that Backstrom has 3 career points against the Predators, when playing them on a Thursday, at home, the day after a full moon.
However, the Capitals have won nine of their last 14 games against the Predators (9-4-1), including five of their last six at home
Who cares? How is this in any way relevant?
The TSN Game preview actually has over 30 instances of quoted stats. Nearly all of it based on goals, which don't even really tell you anything.
What's crazier is that after reading it, so many numbers have been thrown at you that you can't even remember one salient statistic worth pointing out.
There's a sort of delightful irony in the love for meaningless but meaningful sounding numbers. This is because if you try and convince someone of an argument that isn't already popular, and you use numbers to do so, they call you names and tell you to 'watch the games.'
The only real thing you need to know about this game tonight is that it's going to be awesome. The Capitals and Predators are two of the NHL's most exciting-to-watch teams.
P.K Subban and Ovechkin in the same game? That's really all that needs to be said.
Shattenkirk will be back after his suspension. This mean Nate Schmidt will likely sit out even though he's way better than Brooks "Orpi" Orpik.
That's all I got. This game preview has been brought to you by Jean Jackets:
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This is Jim from (not) Washington, saying see you at ice level. *(aka my mom's basement).