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February 9 against Utah’s hockey club at Capital One Arena

Time: 12:30

TV: Mnmt

Radio: 106.7 Fans, Caps Radio 24/7

Washington Capitals (36-11-7)

Hockey Club in Utah (23-25-7)

Washington hosts its practical annual match of Super Sunday Matinee, with a hockey club in Utah in the city to secure the opposition. The Sunday afternoon competition between Caps and UHC is the last game before the 4 vacations for 4 nations for both teams and is one of only two NHL matches scheduled for Sunday. Tampa Bay visits Montreal and on Sunday afternoon, then the league darkens as he resumes the regular season 2024-25 on February 22.

About six weeks ago, CAPS and the other 31 teams came out of the annual three -day holiday vacation of NHL. As his team returned to return into action, Washington coach Spencer Carberry celebrated this somewhat unique average section to the season, a mileage of 21 games for 44 nights between the holiday vacation and the 4 vacations that are now on us.

“This part of the season is interesting; I watched it during the break, ”Carberi said on the morning of December 27. “You can divide the season into three parts. You have 34 matches we just played – almost half of the season – and then you have a Christmas break, deep breath and now we have 21 matches in 44 days before the four nations [tournament in February]S Like your middle part of the season, then the last impetus.

– So those 21 [games] through 44 [nights] is our middle, where I feel that we can really help ourselves as a team and set us up for the last impetus. And we go out to West Canada as part of it; We don’t want to go too far ahead. This is good, strong 44 days and 21 games that will be really important to our team and our group. “

With just another game of those 21 to play, the hats passed this part of the season with flying colors. With the 13-2-5 brand in the first 20 of these matches, Washington is bound by Detroit (15-4-1) with the highest point of points (.775) above this section. Detroit handed Caps to one of their two losses for adjusting this section, 4-2 failure in the second half of a set of back in Motown on December 29.

“I think our game [has had its ups and downs] A little, “says Carberi in the assessment of the period between the following interruptions. “I thought it really started to climb the Western trip; We played a really good hockey. [It’s been] A little touch and go here the last little, but we found ways to get points, we found ways to win some games. Even like the overtime game in Ottawa and returns to this game. “

“We did a lot of good things in this part, so now it will set us up to get out of the hockey game, get out of the NHL, get out of everything that has to do with pressure, preparation. I really want our boys to use this vacation and just get out of everything for nine days, and to reset mentally and physically and be able to return as much as possible and loaded and ready for this last section. “

As the calendar turned to 2025, Washington failed to receive at least a point only once, with a 2-1 defeat in the hands of Cancks in Vancouver on January 25th. The covers are already 11-1-5 in 2025 part of the season. The game on Sunday is their last for nearly two weeks, and they are looking to keep their collective legs firmly on the gas pedal for another 60 minutes of hockey, in the afternoon to play.

“It’s challenging,” Carberry says. “The afternoon game provides another challenge because you do not have a routine game of the game or [morning] Skate, meetings. So we will do our best as a staff to make sure that their mind is present and focused. We try to finish this thing in the right way. We have 28 hours left to make sure we are picked up. We want to make sure we will finish this in the right way. “

With his Sunday visit to DC Utah, he ends a trip with three games and a set of back -to -back matches. The UHC trip began with a high note with a 3-2 overtime win over the Columbus jackets on Thursday, but the average trip match did not go almost. The hurricanes directed UHC in roles on Saturday afternoon, driving it with four goals second.

Playing his first season in Salt Lake City after spending more than a quarter of a century in Arizona as coyoti, UHC is better on the road (14-11-3) than with its new Delta Center Digs (9-12-6) In SLC.

Regardless of their hometown, their home arena or the color or logo of their sweaters, the team known as Arizona Coyotes – but initially merged from how to NHL as the original iteration of Winnipeg Jets in the league – had better than the capitals for the capitals for the capitals Several seasons already.

It is known that in his first game against the nomadic franchise of Winnipeg/Arizona/UTAH, CAPs captain Alex Ovechkin put the “target” on January 16, 2006 in Arizona. This competition marks the first of 26, which the hats played against the Arizona franchise in the Ovechkin era. Washington won less than half (12-11-3) of these games and has never managed to win more than two directly against the coyotes.

Caps never managed to score up to six goals against Arizona after Ovechkin’s first game against them. In the last five meetings between the two clubs in Washington, Caps were only 1-3-1 against Coyotes, a climax with a loss of 5-2 here last March.