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Live updates: Washington Capitals vs Minnesota Wild at Capital One Arena
The Washington Capitals, fresh off their New Year’s Eve victory over the Boston Bruins, will play their first game of 2025. And it will be a tough test.
Tonight the Caps will face a slick-skating Minnesota Wild team that plays excellent on the road. Minnesota leads the league in road wins (13) and road points (29).
They will also face future Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury in net for perhaps the final time at Capital One Arena. Alex Ovechkin has lit up Fleury 27 times — the most of all his goalie victims. Also, I will never forget this moment.
Neither Kirill Kaprizov or Wild captain Jared Spurgeon will suit up for the Wild due to injury. Martin Fehervary is in for the Caps after absorbing a high stick from Tom Wilson.
The Capitals-Wild game is airing on Monumental Sports Network. Joe Beninati and a returning Craig Laughlin have the call. Puck drop is shortly after 7:00 pm.
Lines
Washington Capitals
Ovechkin
Strome
McMichael
Mangiapane
Eller
Miroshnichenko
Minnesota Wild
Johansson
Eriksson Ek
Hartman
Tunnel shenaigans
1st Period
Puck is dropped.
Huge glove save 21 seconds in by Charlie Lindgren. Wow.
🚨 1-0 Washington Capitals. WSH Goal: Tom Wilson (15). Assists: R. Sandin (12). Time: 10:19.
Sandin’s shot is saved by MAF, but the rebound falls right to Wilson’s skates for an easy put-in.
🚨 1-1 tie. MIN Goal: Ryan Hartman (15). Assists: Z. Bogosian (5), J. Eriksson Ek (11). Time: 11:24.
Hartman with a deflection in front of the net to tie 65 seconds later.
Tom Wilson gets cross-checked into Minnesota’s net. Then Marc-Andre Fleury cross-checks him out of it. Capitals go to the power play!
Oh NoOoOo
🚨 2-1 Minnesota Wild. MIN SHG: Yakov Trenin (3). Unassisted. Time: 19:07.
Poor stickhandling behind the net, Lindgren loses both the puck and his stick and Trenin scores a layup on his backhand.
At intermission: The Capitals are outshooting the Wild 13 to 11 and are out-attempting them 24 to 12 at five-on-five but go into break down 2-1.
2nd Period
Puck is dropped.
Another big early glove save by Lindgren. This time on Frederick Gaudreau 18 seconds in.
Tom Wilson to the box for roughing Brock Faber at 8:43.
Martin Fehervary loses a tooth. He looks like Ovi now. Oh no. Marat Khusnutdinov to the box for High-sticking – it’s a double minor.
🚨 2-2 tie. WSH PPG: Alex Ovechkin (18). Assists: D. Strome (30). Time: 15:08.
Alex Ovechkin scores again on Marc-Andre Fleury for 871st career goal, now 23 away from Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record
Ovi’s 871st career goal and 28th against MAF. 23 away from Gretzky.
At intermission: The game is tied 2-2. The Capitals are outshooting the Wild 21 to 18.
3rd Period
Puck is dropped.
Both teams are going hard for the next goal.
🚨 3-2 Washington Capitals. WSH Goal: Martin Fehervary (1). Assists: P. Dubois (24). Time: 05:34.
With Fleury bowled over by his own man, a missing-tooth’d Fehervary hits the back of the net for the first time this season. Huge goal.
Caps to the penalty kill after Nic Dowd takes an interference penalty on Mats Zuccarello at 6:20.
Penalty killed.
A Tom Wilson goal is taken off the board due to a high stick.
OH NO.
Seconds later…
🚨 3-3 tie. MIN Goal: Marco Rossi (15). Assists: R. Hartman (5), J. Brodin (10). Time: 11:19.
Rossi with a great redirect, then captures the rebound and scores.
Jakob Chychrun beats Fleury but hits the post with around three minutes remaining in the game.
Tom Wilson just misses scoring again after a great feed by PLD. The puck rolled on Wilson.
Capitals and Wild end regulation tied 3-3. To overtime we go. The Wild outshot the Capitals 32-31.
Overtime
Puck is dropped.
Matt Boldy in a foot race… and he hits the post!
John Carlson stopped at the last second by MAF after a huge rush of speed.
Shootout
This is the Capitals’ first shootout of the season.
❌ Dylan Strome is stopped by MAF.
❌ Mats Zuccarello is stopped by Lindgren.
❌ Pierre-Luc Dubois is stopped by MAF
✅ Matt Boldy beats Lindgren with a shot to the top corner past Lindgren’s glove.
❌ Alex Ovechkin is stopped by MAF.
Minnesota Wild win 4-3 (SO).
Skills competition sees Washington fall on home ice: Wild beat Capitals 4-3 (SO)
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Purdue lands Washington State QB transfers Evans Chuba
Another transfer quarterback has been added into the fold for Purdue heading into 2025, as former Washington State quarterback committed to the Boilermakers today.
Chuba spent one season with the Cougars after being a three-star dual threat quarterback prospect in the 2024 recruiting class, where he chose Washington State over the likes of Virginia, Toledo, Northern Illinois, East Carolina, Bowling Green, Arkansas State, Liberty and others.
In his one-year stint in the Pac-2, Chuba did not appear in a game, as Washington State’s quarterback John Mateer became one of the top signal callers in college football for then head coach Jake Dickert.
Chuba now joins three other incoming signal callers as Purdue revamps its entire quarterback room from a year ago, where its lost Hudson Card, Ryan Browne and Marcos Davila. The Boilermakers have responded by landing Arkansas transfer Malachi Singleton as the presumptive starter, along with true freshmen EJ Colson and now Chuba, not to mention 2025 three-star quarterback Garyt Odom. The lone holdover in the group is Bennett Meredith, who have served as a backup to Hudson Card over the last two years.
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Will Micah Parsons play against the Washington Commanders? Latest injury update on the Dallas Cowboys star player | NFL News – Times of India
Cowboys’ yet another tough season is about to end. Having won four in a row, the Washington Commanders (11-5) will face the Dallas Cowboys (7-9) at AT&T Stadium. Cowboys is eliminated from playoff race from a 41-7 blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, while the Commanders are pumped up after securing their first playoff berth since 2020 with a 30-24 win over the Atlanta Falcons. Now, the question is, will Dallas star player Micah Parsons play the match against Washington?
Will Micah Parsons play against the Washington Commanders?
Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy expects star pass-rusher Micah Parsons to play in the season finale against the Washington Commanders, despite the ongoing wrist injury. Parsons missed four games earlier this year with a high ankle sprain but has had the wrist issue for more than several weeks. His being in the game reflects his toughness and the necessity of what this means to the team as they prepare for postseason run.
Parsons does not carry any game status designation and is expected to play in Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Washington Commanders.
Parsons, who was added to Thursday’s practice report with a wrist injury, was upgraded to a full participant in Friday’s practice. “When it comes to how are we going to finish … strong,” Parsons said earlier in the week. “I’m still going to give my best fight to the Commanders. This is who I am. I love this game.”
Micah Parsons Emphasizes Health as Key to Cowboys’ 2025 Success
Parsons reflected on the team’s struggles during a season marred by injuries to key players, including himself. Despite missing games, Parsons returned to deliver his usual high-level performances but acknowledged that health is critical for the Cowboys to reclaim their dominance in the NFC.
“One, we’re gonna have to get healthy. I mean, we got 3 or 4 starters who aren’t coming back until mid next season. We got to plan for that. We got to get healthy. We got to keep coming together,” Parsons said.
His focus on health and unity highlights the foundation needed for the Cowboys’ competitive resurgence.
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Washington Post Editorial Cartoonist Says She Quit After Brass Rejected Her Donald Trump Sketch
It appears that another high-profile member of The Washington Post‘s editorial staff has left the paper: Cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who’s been at the outlet for 16 years, announced via Substack Friday that she was quitting after the brass killed her latest illustration featuring president-elect Donald Trump.
“The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump,” the Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist wrote on Substack under the title “Why I Quit The Washington Post.”
“There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago,” she wrote. “The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.”
Telnaes wrote that she first joined the Post in 2008 as an editorial cartoonist and has had “editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.”
“While it isn’t uncommon for editorial page editors to object to visual metaphors within a cartoon if it strikes that editor as unclear or isn’t correctly conveying the message intended by the cartoonist, such editorial criticism was not the case regarding this cartoon,” she continued. “To be clear, there have been instances where sketches have been rejected or revisions requested, but never because of the point of view inherent in the cartoon’s commentary. That’s a game changer…and dangerous for a free press.”
She included a “rough of the cartoon killed” in her Substack column. You can read her full column here.
Telnaes is the latest journo to depart the Bezos-owned newspaper. Before the election, three Post journalists stepped down from the editorial board in protest over the publication’s controversial decision not to endorse a presidential candidate, with concerns that it was a way for Bezos to placate Trump. More than 200,000 readers also canceled their digital subscriptions.
Several more staffers have since departed, including managing editor Matea Gold, who’s set to become second-highest ranking leader of the New York Times Washington bureau.
At the New York Times DealBook Summit in NYC last month, Bezos said he may not be the best owner for the paper from the perspective of “the appearance” of conflict of interest, but defended the decision not to support a candidate in the Post’s editorial pages.
“The pluses of doing this were very small and [endorsements] added to the perceptions of bias if news media are going to try to be objective and independent,” Bezos said, adding that media “is suffering from a crisis of trust.”
It should behave like a “voting machine. They have to count the votes accurately and people have to believe that they count the votes accurately.”
“Not all of it is the media’s fault,” he continued. “But where we can do something we should … We made this decision. I am proud of this decision.”
Bezos then went on to acknowledge that “I am a terrible owner for the Post from the point of view of the appearance of conflict … Probably not a single day goes by where some Amazon executive or Blue Origin executive or some Bezos Earth Fund leader isn’t meeting with a government official somewhere. And so there are always going to be appearances of conflict.”
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