GDT: Capitals @ Sabres, 7:00pm Nov. 1, 2025, 🎙 📺 ESPN+/MSG

[LGR4GM]

Welcome to another exciting edition of Kevyn Adams hockey. Where the team is made up and the standings don't matter, that's right it's like the Eastwing of the Whitehouse (it's a Capitals joke).

Will Ovechkin score 900 tonight? Will Isak Rosen matter? Can Tage Thompson do something useful? Grab yourself a 40$ chicken parm, a 16$ beer, and settle in for what is almost guaranteed to be a historic game... because of Ovechkin, not Buffalo. 

[Wyldnwoody44]

Looked at prices... Decided... Nope. Team isn't good enough at this point for me to buy tickets unless they are very discounted. 

Will probably be flipping between game 7 of the WS and this, but I'm not so excited. Is Washington even good? 

[JohnnyK]

Must Win!!!!

 

Go Sabres!

 

Good luck Ovechkin!!

[JohnC]

40 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:

Looked at prices... Decided... Nope. Team isn't good enough at this point for me to buy tickets unless they are very discounted. 

Will probably be flipping between game 7 of the WS and this, but I'm not so excited. Is Washington even good? 

What are the prices💲? Do you usually buy on the secondary market?

[steveoath]

I work with a caps fan. This is a definite must win so I don’t get grief on Monday. 

[Derrico]

I’ll be there!  Then straight to an establishment showing the second half of WS.

Go Sabres (and Jays)!!!

[Pimlach]

Three OTLs in a row.   They need 2 points  tonight.  MW 

 Lyon needs some down time.    UPL or Ellis ?  

No Benson. 

[Bangarang]

We surprisingly take a 1st period lead. The wheels falls off in the 2nd but we manage to fight back and go into the 3rd down by 1. We let in 2 ENGs in the 3rd and that completes our evening. 

[JohnC]

The Capitals are dealing with another center getting injured. They will be on a back-to-back and on the road. If we don't win tonight, it will be an ominous sign of another lost season. I'm not going to get too excited if we win. However, I will get upset with a loss, especially if the other fatigued team plays with more energy. 

[LGR4GM]

Morning skate is starting... should have lines and goalies soon. 

 

 

[K-9]

Great, Oopie back between the pipes. Lucky us. He will backstop a shutout tonight and then all his defenders will serenade all his detractors like me and shout, “See!” As if any and all criticism of UPL isn’t justified. Shutout or not, he is not now nor will he ever be a number one goalie in the show. He is a 25 game per year back up at best. At. Best.

[LGR4GM]

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[Porous Five Hole]

3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

 

 

Wow Lindy hates Tage at center soooo much he’s making Greenway C1? 
 

[bob_sauve28]

4 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

 

 

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[Porous Five Hole]

Just now, bob_sauve28 said:

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Looks like she got the first line wrong and deleted/re-posted. 
 

 

[Brawndo]

Greenway on the Top Line.

[Pimlach]

13 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Great, Oopie back between the pipes. Lucky us. He will backstop a shutout tonight and then all his defenders will serenade all his detractors like me and shout, “See!” As if any and all criticism of UPL isn’t justified. Shutout or not, he is not now nor will he ever be a number one goalie in the show. He is a 25 game per year back up at best. At. Best.

Wow.  You really  don’t like him.  

I think this year will be his final shot at being a consistent goalie for the Sabres.   He has had two flashes of good, but is mostly inconsistent, and he often gets lost in the crease and then stops challenging shooters.  

It doesn’t appear they are going to give opportunity to Ellis the until they feel they have too.  

 

[SwampD]

13 minutes ago, K-9 said:

Great, Oopie back between the pipes. Lucky us. He will backstop a shutout tonight and then all his defenders will serenade all his detractors like me and shout, “See!” As if any and all criticism of UPL isn’t justified. Shutout or not, he is not now nor will he ever be a number one goalie in the show. He is a 25 game per year back up at best. At. Best.

UPL has defenders?

I hope he is amazing tonight (for obvious reasons,) And let’s not pretend that Lyon was the answer, either. He has let in a similar amount of dribblers and high glove side shots.

[LGR4GM]

7 minutes ago, SwampD said:

UPL has defenders?

I hope he is amazing tonight (for obvious reasons,) And let’s not pretend that Lyon was the answer, either. He has let in a similar amount of dribblers and high glove side shots.

Obviously

There's, Dahlin and Kesselring and power

[Pimlach]

2 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Greenway on the Top Line.

He is trying to keep  Doan-McLeod-Tuch together for some continuity. 

Zucker has played well with Tage in the past so Greenway on that line is fine.  Tage won’t pass to him anyway. 

The 3rd line is very soft against a physical team like the Caps. 

The top 6 is not going to scare anybody.   This lineup reminds me of how bad of a GM Kevyn is.  
 

[LGR4GM]

Now is a great time to trade Owen Power for a forward. 

[Brawndo]

14 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

He is trying to keep  Doan-McLeod-Tuch together for some continuity. 

Zucker has played well with Tage in the past so Greenway on that line is fine.  Tage won’t pass to him anyway. 

The 3rd line is very soft against a physical team like the Caps. 

The top 6 is not going to scare anybody.   This lineup reminds me of how bad of a GM Kevyn is.  
 

I am going to politely disagree with you there Punch, there is not a scenario in 2025 where Jordan Greenway in your Top 6 is fine. 
 

I agree wholeheartedly about GMKA sucking at his job. 
 

One caveat though, usually when I speak ill of a player, they usually have the game of their lives shortly afterwards. So I will take credit for Greenway’s Hat Trick tonight 

[steveoath]

1 minute ago, Brawndo said:

One caveat though, usually when I speak ill of a player, they usually have the game of their lives shortly afterwards.

Please say bad things about some more players…… 

 

[Bangarang]

What was the point of claiming Ellis? 

[Brawndo]

14 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Now is a great time to trade Owen Power for a forward. 

Or knowing that your Franchise Center asked out when you were appointed GM, maybe draft one of Rossi, Jarvis or Lundell instead of Jack Quinn.