Life'll Kill Ya - For the first 23 games of the 2019-20 NHL season, Washington's penalty kill was a positive note, a high point in the team's success. Going into Wednesday's game with the Rangers in New York, the Caps - along with the Pittsburgh Penguins - were one of only two teams in the league that had not permitted multiple power-play goals against in any game this season.

Through the first quarter of the 2019-20 season, the Caps have been good at bouncing back from deficits and adversity, and they've gotten and created their fair share of bounces as well. But on Wednesday night in New York, the bounces weren't there and Washington suffered its first regulation road loss in more than a month, 4-1 to the Rangers.

New York, New York - For the second straight week, the Caps and one of their fellow Metropolitan Division occupants are featured on Wednesday Night Hockey. The Caps are in Manhattan, where they'll face-off against the New York Rangers in just their fifth Metro Division game thus far this season. The Caps are 4-0-1 against Metro foes in 2019-20.

Nov. 20 vs. New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden

Time: 8:00 p.m.

TV: NBCSN

Radio: Capitals Radio 24/7, 106.7 FAN

Washington Capitals 16-3-4

New York Rangers 8-8-2

Strictly Business - From well before the first shift of Monday night's game with the Anaheim Ducks, the Caps were dialed in as to what they needed to do on the ice. Washington's previous home game - a 5-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Friday night - was one of the team's few substandard performances of the season to date, and the Caps followed it up with a much stronger team effort on Saturday night in Boston.

Monday night's game between the Caps and the visiting Anaheim Ducks turned into quite the wild affair at the big barn on F St. The Caps continued their winning ways with a convincing 5-2 victory, but in the wake of a genuine all out brawl late in the second period, they've also got a player - right wing Garnet Hathaway - who was assessed a match penalty for spitting on an opponent, meaning he is "… automatically suspended from further competition until the Commissioner has ruled on the issue," according to Rule 21.2 regarding match penalties.

Back Home - In the midst of a stretch where they alternate home and road contests for span of seven games over a period of two weeks, the Caps tee up another one-game homestand on Monday night when they host the Anaheim Ducks at Capital One Arena.

Nov. 18 vs. Anaheim Ducks at Capital One Arena

Time: 7:00 p.m.

TV: NBCSW

Radio: Capitals Radio 24/7, 106.7 FAN

Anaheim Ducks 10-9-2

Washington Capitals 15-3-4

Shoot Out The Lights - Throughout the entirety of their 2018-19 schedule, the Capitals only had five of 82 games go to the shootout, and they went beyond overtime only once in their final 50 contests of the campaign. Thus far this season, however, the shootout has been a more frequent occurrence.

For most of the 65 minutes of hockey the Caps and Bruins played in Boston on Saturday night, it appeared as though one of Washington's top overall teasm efforts of the season might go unrewarded. Boston netminder Jaroslav Halak was in a zone - or perhaps a time machine, to a few Caps whose tenure goes back to the netminder's days with Montreal - and he was setting virtually all the offensive chances the Caps were able to muster. Halak finished the night with 42 saves.