Finally, Washington Capitals will spend the afternoon with their old friends, the Pittsburgh Penguins.
It’s noon. Broadcast and go out with us. I have the honor to review the duty.
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| Record | 0 – 2 – 0 | 2 – 0 – 0 |
| % Attempted shot | 57.7% | 53.5% |
| RFQ | 84.7 | 106.7 |
| Power Play | 25.0% | 87.5% |
| Death penalty | 66.7% | 66.7% |
Projected Lines
Just a small change, with Daniel Sprong in place of Conor Sheary to make his Caps debut. According to Samantha Pell:
Ovechkin – Backstrom – Oshie
Vrana – Kuznetsov – Wilson
Panik – Eller – Sprong
Hagelin – Dowd – Hathaway
Orlov – Carlson
Dillon – Schultz
Chara – Jensen
Samsonov
The station
Your old friend Marcus
An off-season switch that bothered me deeply is Marcus Johansson for the Minnesota Wild. He now plays with his former technical assistant, Dean Evason, and last night he scored the OTGWG.
COMEBACK COMPLETE ✅
Kirill Kaprizov configures the GWG as the @mnwild win another one in the OT. #NHLFaceOff pic.twitter.com/GgBP7mf2z8
– NHL (@NHL) January 17, 2021
I think MoJo is going to be great for this boring, boring team.
Storylines
An insight into fanfiction
If you are not part of The Discourse, lucky you. Let me give you a short version of the latest tasks: Fanfiction is bad.
Some people consider the origin of the fanfiction to be some bold Kirk / Spock stories distributed in fanzines in the 1960s and 1970s. This is incorrect. The plots and characters we saw in Village and Romeo and Juliet it had been familiar for decades before Shakespeare wrote his versions of them. He wrote a fanfic. So did Snorri Sturluson, who only committed northern sagas to writing after they had been shared through oral tradition for centuries. These sagas were then studied by admitted fan communities like the Coalbiters, who wrote derivative works in the 20th century, which we now know as Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Just as there are many different ways to be a person, there are also many different ways to be a writer. And all identities as writers and people start with, well, theft. We see what others do, synthesize it, find out what parts we like and what we don’t like, and then we incorporate that into ourselves. It may be Douglas Adams’ friendly informality, or Octavia Butler’s humanistic dignity, or Breakfast Club’s Bender fashion, or Frank-N-Furter’s confidence.
It is not an appropriate role for a safe adult writer (or safe adult) to neglect the same process that generated us, the same process that many of us still explore and practice now. The writer you are reading now is also a fanfic boy, and no, you can’t read.
RMNB cap coverage on penguins
Damn title photo: Wikimedia Commons