TORONTO — The Washington Capitals, who’re barely clinging to a playoff spot because the all-star break approaches, bought off to an encouraging begin in opposition to the high-powered Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday at Scotiabank Area.
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Capitals get swept away by the Maple Leafs during a 5-1 loss in Toronto
It was one other lackluster consequence for a Capitals workforce that has sputtered over the previous month, leaving its playoff positioning all of the extra susceptible. With one recreation left earlier than their bye week wraps round Saturday’s All-Star Sport for a 10-day break — and with challengers surging ever nearer to them within the standings — the Capitals may shortly discover themselves on the skin trying in.
“If you wish to make the playoffs … you need to put a pair wins collectively,” heart Nicklas Backstrom stated. “That’s what we’d like. It’s too tight within the standings and, I imply, groups are catching up.”
Even after Sunday’s loss, the Capitals (26-20-6) nonetheless maintain the Jap Convention’s first of two wild-card spots with 58 factors. However the Pittsburgh Penguins (57), Buffalo Sabres (56), New York Islanders (55) and Florida Panthers (54) aren’t far behind — and the Penguins and Sabres have three video games in hand.
The Capitals have misplaced three of 4, 4 of six and 6 of 9. Washington’s subsequent recreation is Tuesday at Columbus, the Jap Convention’s last-place workforce. The Capitals’ first recreation after the break is Feb. 11 at Boston.
“Clearly the standings are getting tight this time of yr and also you wish to preserve climbing as a lot as you’ll be able to. … However dropping after a [win] is one thing we’ve to keep away from and begin stringing collectively some wins,” winger Conor Sheary stated.
A purpose from Backstrom, his first of the season, gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead with 2:43 left within the first interval. On the ability play, Marcus Johansson supplied a display screen, and Backstrom shot excessive and to the brief aspect to beat ex-Capitals goaltender Ilya Samsonov (23 saves). It was Backstrom’s first purpose in 9 video games since he returned from hip resurfacing surgical procedure; he additionally had the shootout winner in Washington’s 3-2 win over Pittsburgh on Thursday.
However after Backstrom’s purpose, Toronto took over.
“We took a step again within the second,” Sheary stated. “We began feeding their transition, and we didn’t defend laborious sufficient.”
Toronto’s Michael Bunting tied the rating at 1 with a rebound power-play purpose at 1:29 of the second interval. It was the primary power-play purpose Washington had allowed in seven video games. Morgan Rielly then scored his first purpose of the season at 7:00 to place Toronto forward. After a puck popped free from a scrum behind the web, Rielly was on their lonesome in entrance and beat goalie Darcy Kuemper.
William Nylander’s purpose on an odd-man rush throughout a delayed penalty gave Toronto a 3-1 lead at 10:45. Kuemper, with assist from defenseman Erik Gustafsson, made the preliminary cease on the three-on-one however couldn’t deny Nylander on the rebound.
Pierre Engvall beat Kuemper glove-side to make it 4-1 at 14:20, ending Kuemper’s night time after 16 saves. Charlie Lindgren changed him and completed with six saves; he allowed a purpose to Zach Aston-Reese on a breakaway with 3:13 left within the recreation.
Sunday’s loss was the second time in 4 begins that Kuemper was pulled.
“I believe a couple of guys are gripping their stick slightly bit [too tightly],” Sheary stated. “We simply bought to get a pair bounces right here and there. Perhaps the break can be good for us after this subsequent one.”
Right here’s what else to know in regards to the Capitals’ loss:
Wilson out till after break
Winger Tom Wilson didn’t journey with the Capitals for this two-game journey. There is no such thing as a timeline for his return from a lower-body damage, and Washington will reevaluate him after the all-star break.
Wilson was injured Tuesday in a loss at Colorado after he blocked a shot together with his proper leg. Washington listed him as day-to-day, however he was noticed at apply Saturday with a noticeable hitch in his stride.
Carlson’s sluggish restoration
On Saturday, defenseman John Carlson skated for the primary time since he took a puck to the aspect of his head throughout a recreation in opposition to Winnipeg on Dec. 23. Carlson wore a tracksuit on the ice on the Capitals’ apply rink, and his exercise was removed from a full skating session. The Capitals stated Carlson would proceed to do “low-level train” and could be reevaluated in late February.
“It’s nice,” Coach Peter Laviolette stated. “It’s off within the distance for him. He’s again, and he seems to be good. He seems to be like himself.”
Samsonov confronted his former workforce for the third time and bought his second win. The 25-year-old Russian bought slightly payback after he suffered a 5-2 loss in December throughout his first recreation again in Washington. Fellow goaltender Matt Murray is sidelined till after the all-star break with an ankle damage.
Toronto additionally was with out star ahead Auston Matthews. The Maple Leafs stated he could be sidelined for no less than three weeks with a knee damage.
In this column, we take a look back one hundred years ago in western Washington County. This week, the clips come from the Washington County News-Times and the Hillsboro Argus, published May 15, 1924.
We also have a very special feature this week: A Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, hand lettered with the names of businesses and buildings in and around Banks in September 1921. View the images below, but the absolute best way to view them is to scroll down and click on the link below each map, which will take you to a zoomable image hosted at the Library of Congress. Their website is clearly more robust than mine, which refused to host the original size file, so I had to shrink the size a bit.
These news clips are selected for relevancy for the geographic area our newspaper covers, and occasionally include areas in Forest Grove (a shopping, business, and transportation hub at the time) and Hillsboro (the county seat) for news events that I believe would have been of significance to rural readers of the time. They are presented as-is, and without comment. At the time, the newspapers of the day often expressed viewpoints that today would be considered racist, xenophobic, and sexist, frequently using slurs to describe ethnic groups and often stepping outside the norms of what we consider to be ethical journalism today.
Want more local history? Visit the Banks Historical Society online at www.bankshistory.org for Banks-area history, and Friends of Historic Forest Grove, which often works in the Gales Creek area, online at www.fhfg.org.
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Chas Hundley is the editor of the Banks Post and sister news publications the Gales Creek Journal and the Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.
SAN ANTONIO – It’s been a long time coming, but it appears that San Antonio may finally get a nonstop flight to the nation’s capital.
The US House on Wednesday approved the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bill, which will create five new roundtrip flights to Reagan National Airport (DCA). The US Senate approved the bill last week.
Once President Joe Biden signs the bill into law, American Airlines will submit an application to the U.S. Department of Transportation to initiate service from SAT to DCA. The awarding of those five flight slots will be made 60 days after the signing of the bill.
“We have been working for more than a decade to give residents of America’s seventh-largest city the same access to our nation’s leaders as nearly every other major city in the country,” San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said. “I am grateful for the hard work of Senator Cruz and our entire congressional delegation and look forward to Secretary Buttigieg’s approval of America’s application to initiate nonstop service from Military City USA to DCA.”
A nonstop flight between San Antonio and Reagan National will save the military and its partners more than 500,000 man-hours annually, a news release said. Additionally, San Antonio is home to the largest concentration of intelligence and cybersecurity professionals outside of the national capital region.
Currently, there are no direct flights from SAT to DCA, requiring San Antonio travelers to make connections through other airports or take ground transportation from Dulles International Airport or Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Washington, D.C., adding both time and costs to their itineraries. San Antonio has repeatedly been blocked in its efforts to get direct flights from DCA, putting it at a competitive disadvantage, a news release said.
American Airlines’ nonstop service would increase competition for Texas consumers by adding a fourth carrier flying from SAT to a third different airport in the DC/Maryland/Virginia region and providing connectivity to numerous other airports in the Northeast United States via American’s hub at DCA. Based on the number of daily passengers currently traveling each way between the two airports, DCA is one of the largest unserved markets from SAT.
“I am thrilled that the City of San Antonio is now positioned to directly access our nation’s capital with a non-stop flight into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,” said US Sen. Ted Cruz, who worked with the chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to get the bill passed. “By working together, we overcame fierce opposition to my bipartisan provision expanding long-haul flights to Reagan National. “I will be pressing the U.S. Department of Transportation to swiftly approve applications for the five long-haul flights that I successfully included in this year’s FAA reauthorization bill and look forward to being on the first direct San Antonio-Reagan National flight later this year.”
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