Mike’s STH Xperience – Fighting Back

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Welcome to Mike’s Season Ticket Holder (STH) Xperience!

This season is my first one as a Season Ticket holder for the Washington Capitals, and in place of doing Caps Game Recaps, I’ll be sharing my experience being a STH during the 2024-25 season. Here I’ll be sharing all of the photos that I take during pregame warmups, along with any FB/IG Reels and TikToks I create at the games.

I will also be doing this for any other games I may go to, whether it’s in Hershey for the Bears, or at other NHL venues for games.

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It’s Game 2 of the Second Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Washington Capitals faceoff with the Carolina Hurricanes.

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2025 will mark the second time the Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes will meet in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, with the last time being in 2019. The First Round series saw both teams win their respective games at home, but things got heated in Game 4 when Capitals forward TJ Oshie was injured. At home for Game 5, the Capitals responded with a dominating 6-0 victory that featured a penalty shot goal from Nic Dowd.

In Game 7, the Capitals fell to the Hurricanes 4-3 in double overtime, ending their bid to become back to back Stanley Cup Champions.

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Thoughts on the Game

Here we are, back at Capital One Arena for Game 2 between the Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes, and hopefully, this tome around tue Capitals play a lot better.

In the first period, the Hurricanes controlled the play more against the Capitals, but this time around, albeit later in the period, the Capitals would fight back and start sustaining pressure in the Hurricanes zone. Logan Thompson played another strong period to keep the Hurricanes off of the board.

Heading into the second period, the Capitals had some powerplay time leftover but were not able to capitalize on it. However, a Connor McMichael breakaway goal would spark the Capitals as they played a much more solid game and controlled the play and created a lot more solid scoring chances. Frederik Andersen made some spectacular saves to keep the Hurricanes in the game and only down by one.

Then, in the third period, the Capitals struck on the powerplay less than two minutes in when John Carlson would net his first of the playoffs to grow the Capitals lead to two. However, later in the period, Shayne Gostisbehere would score on the powerplay to bring the Hurricanes back withing one, but Tom Wilson would score the empty netter to give the Capitals the 3-1 victory over the Hurricanes and even the series at one.

This was a much better game for the Capitals. They controlled the play better, and they made their scoring chances count. There are still some things to work out, but at least the series is tied now.