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Live updates: Washington Capitals vs Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena

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January 24, 2025

Live updates: Washington Capitals vs Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena

The Washington Capitals are back for Game 2 of their five-game road trip. Tonight they’ll face off against the Seattle Kraken.

The Caps won their first away game 3-2 over the Connor McDavid-less Edmonton Oilers despite being massively outshot and a weird Nachos Goal. Logan Thompson came to the rescue stopping 30 of 32 shots and tallying an assist on the game-winning goal.

Charlie Lindgren will jump back into the starter’s role for the first time since his injury and oppose Joey Daccord in net.

This game marks the first time two female coaches have opposed each other in NHL history.

The Capitals-Kraken game is airing on Monumental Sports Network2. Joe Beninati and Alan May will have the call. Puck drop is at 10:00 pm. Craig Laughlin is out due to a medical leave of absence. #LockerStrong.

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McMichael

Strome

Ovechkin

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Burakovsky

Stephenson

Bjorkstrand

Tunnel shenanigans

1st Period

Puck is dropped.

Martin Fehervary picks the top left corner with Nic Dowd setting a perfect screen in front on Joey Daccord. The Kraken are challenging the goal for offside at the 4:06 mark.

No goal. The call on the ice is reversed upon review.

Six minutes in, the Kraken have no shots and the Caps have 6.

Capitals go six whole minutes without a shot, though a great shift from the third line gets them going again.

Daccord stops Andrew Mangiapane on a clean breakaway, going to the splits to stop him at the post.

Connor McMichael is stopped on a semi-breakaway down the left wing as he tries to go five-hole on his backhand. He’s shaking his head on the bench. McMike has grown cold after a sensational start to the season.

After scoring 12 goals in his first 16 games, Connor McMichael has grown cold, only lighting the lamp five times in his last 31.
Coming into tonight’s game against Seattle, he’s on an 8 game goal-less streak.
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) January 24, 2025

At intermission: The score is 0-0. The Capitals lead the Kraken in shots 15 to 9 and are out-attempting them 20 to 18 at five-on-five — though the Caps had a real tough stretch in the middle of the period where did not much of anything.

2nd Period

Puck is dropped.

Big saves by Daccord on McMichael and Fehervary.

🚨 1-0 Washington Capitals. WSH Goal: Aliaksei Protas (20). Assists: P. Dubois (30). Time: 04:36.

Protas whacks at the puck out of mid-air and it somehow chunks past Daccord. Protas is now the Capitals’ player to score 20 goals this season including Alex Ovechkin and Tom Wilson.

Lars Eller can’t finish after a sensational pass by Ethen Frank. Frank already had two shots on goal in the first period, tied for the Caps lead.

John Carlson rips a shot off the post — Carlson again unlucky. Caps coming in waves here.

Jakob Chychrun hits the post about a minute after Carlson.

Kraken to their first power play after Taylor Raddysh trips Ryker Evans at the 13:12 mark.

At the 14:07 mark, Martin Fehervary gets hit in the face with a shot. He appears to be bleeding from the nose area as he skates off the ice and down the tunnel. The Kraken’s point shot ramped up after hitting Tom Wilson’s stick.

🚨 2-0 Washington Capitals. WSH Goal: Ethen Frank (3). Unassisted. Time: 18:05.

Ethen Frank scores on a rebound after he uses his insane speed to spring himself on a breakaway. He’s now got 4 points in his first 7 NHL games.

Charlie Lindgren stops Oliver Bjorkstrand with his glove on a breakaway.

At intermission: Caps lead 2-0. The Capitals are outshooting Seattle 25 to 13 and are out-attempting them 42 to 35 at five-on-five. Lindgren faced only three Kraken shots in the period.

3rd Period

Puck is dropped.

Tom Wilson with a huge hit on Kraken defenseman Joshua Mahura at the Capitals bench. John Hayden then starts whispering sweet nothings in Wilson’s ear but the two just chat. You can hear muffled screaming from angry players on the telecast.

Lars Eller stopped on a breakaway.

🚨 3-0 Washington Capitals. WSH ENG: Alex Ovechkin (22). Assists: T. van Riemsdyk (14), J. Chychrun (19). Time: 16:32.

That’s Alex Ovechkin’s 875th career goal. He’s 19 away from Wayne Gretzky. He won a puck battle in the defensive zone and fired the puck into Seattle’s empty net.

Capitals win 3-0. Charlie Lindgren gets the shutout. The Capitals have no lost in regulation since the start of 2025 going 9-0-3. Washington outshot Seattle 33 to 22 and out-attempted the Kraken at five-on-five 60 to 53.

Lindgren locks down Seattle in late-night victory: Capitals beat Kraken 3-0

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49ers Set to Face the Seattle Seahawks in Divisional Round

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January 11, 2026

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49ers Set to Face the Seattle Seahawks in Divisional Round

The San Francisco 49ers will continue their postseason run, next up against the No. 1 seed Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field for the NFC Divisional Round.

The 49ers defeated the No. 3 seed Philadelphia Eagles on the road during Wild Card Weekend. With the win, San Francisco advances to the NFC Divisional Round. As the lowest seed in the conference, the 49ers will face the top seed team, the Seahawks. San Francisco and Seattle will meet for the third time this season, the 49ers taking the first matchup and the Seahawks taking the second. Winner of the Divisional Round will advance to the NFC Championship, the final round ahead of Super Bowl LX at Levi’s® Stadium.

Time, date, and broadcast information for the 49ers vs. Seahawks Divisional Round contest will be announced following the conclusion of the NFL’s Wild Card Weekend.

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Seahawks Will Host Rams Or 49ers In Divisional Round

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January 11, 2026

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Seahawks Will Host Rams Or 49ers In Divisional Round

The Seahawks will host an NFC West opponent in the divisional round of the playoffs.

Whether that opponent is the Rams or the 49ers will be determined on Sunday when the 49ers play the Eagles in Philadelphia. Also still to be determined is the date and time of the game.

The Rams, who are the No. 5 seed, beat the Panthers on Saturday to advance, and since Seattle, as the No. 1 seed, hosts the lowest-seeded team that advances out of the wild card round, the sixth-seeded 49ers would come to Lumen Field if they win on Sunday. If the Eagles win, however, the Rams would come to Seattle, while the Eagles would head to Chicago to face the Bears, who beat the Packers on Saturday night.

The Seahawks split the season series with both teams, losing to the 49ers in Week 1 and the Rams in Week 11 before beating the Rams in Week 16 and the 49ers in Week 18 as part of a seven-game winning streak that helped them win the NFC West and earn the No. 1 seed.

Next weekend’s game at Lumen Field will be the Seahawks’ first home playoff game with fans in the stadium—they hosted a wild card game in an empty stadium following the 2020 regular season—since they beat the Lions in the wild card round during the 2016 season. Prior to that empty-stadium loss to the Rams five years ago, the Seahawks won 10 consecutive home playoff games dating back to the start of their Super Bowl run in 2005. The Seahawks have reached the Super Bowl in each of the three previous seasons that they earned the No. 1 seed.

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Paul Arriola, Pedro de la Vega and the Seattle Sounders return in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

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January 10, 2026

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Paul Arriola, Pedro de la Vega and the Seattle Sounders return in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

Forgotten. Absent. Inconsistently healthy. Weights of expectation.

These heroes offered glimpses and scenes of their greatness in 2025.

Paul Arriola, X Man

Paul Arriola gave us a glimpse of his former greatness before his injury. Once a DP, once the highest value transfer within MLS, once recruited to skip MLS entirely for what was at the time a much better league, Arriola’s all comps contributions per 90 would compare to wingback style players Jordi Alba and the now-gone Ali Ahmed.

Arriola slides right in that space, with his 0.57. Now, a discerning reader such as yourself will imagine small sample sizes and opponent quality. You would be correct. But Paul also put up similar numbers in MLS in 2018, 2021 and 2022. His time in MLS as a whole is .40/90 (in the realm of last season’s Christian Espinoza).

Defining Arriola’s role is always going to be hard. He’s played as many wide roles as exist in the modern game. With Seattle, he could be a left or right winger in a four-front if they choose to run a 3-2-4-1, or a wingback in a 3-4-2-1 or a conventional winger in a 4-2-3-1. No matter his role, he’s been strong. His calls to the US National Team ran every year from age 20-27, when he put up better numbers there than he did in league play. He’s now 30.

Pedro de la Vega, the injury saga

Sounders fans know how bright Pedro can burn. So do, Lanus fans, Argentina fans, Cruz Azul fans, Santos Laguna fans, Tijuana fans, Puebla, Galaxy, Inter Messi and a smattering of other MLS teams. The Leagues Cup player of the year and wonder goal nominee is absolutely thrilling, when available.

Lanus, Argentina and Seattle also know his history of injuries. Injuries are why he’s in Seattle.

PdlV only played 41% of available minutes in all competitions. A healthy winger of his quality should be around 66% or so. His absolutely stellar all comps performance of 0.72 is on par with Hany Mukhtar, at 20th in MLS play. Pedro is ahead of Diego Rossi, Djordje Mihailovic, and Dejan Joveljić.

When you think about how the Seattle Sounders will make up ground for the inevitable decline of Danny Musovski the names Arriola and de la Vega should be bandied about.

They weren’t merely better than the people who replaced them on the Sounders – they’re better than the majority of high-profile players in the league.

In 2025 Craig Waibel raised the floor and the peak. Injuries gave us only a few glimpses of that peak.

2026 is when the multi-competition heroic Sounders can once again show their prowess and why their presence as a top tier club is eternal.

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