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GDT #78 Caps at Canadiens @ 7pm
richkrt99:
The best part of this game is my dumbass son recorded it for me so the recording stopped with about 5 minutes to go in the game :-|
richkrt99:
that was pathetic. They should be embarrassed.
I didn’t expect their best effort, but SOME effort.
They didn’t get any help with the bounces….two exceptionally lucky bounces led to two goals
It would help if the net minder stopped them on occasion though.
Strome got his 20th goal on the season.
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: richkrt99 on Thursday April 06, 2023, 11:14:59 PM Eastern ---that was pathetic. They should be embarrassed.
I didn’t expect their best effort, but SOME effort.
They didn’t get any help with the bounces….two exceptionally lucky bounces led to two goals
It would help if the net minder stopped them on occasion though.
Strome got his 20th goal on the season.
--- End quote ---
Hey, Kuemper got a ring with Colorado last year. I'm sure he's one of those guys who isn't very motivated by the Caps' current situation. If the Caps' roster and Salary Cap situation allows it, they probably ought to bring up one of their Hershey goalies and let him finish out the season.
Vancouver also won last night, so now THEY are just about tied with the Caps in the standings (Caps have the tiebreaker). But their last two games are against Anaheim and Arizona, two teams that are already where the Caps seem to be headed. They've both lost 9 in a row. Things look really good for them passing us by and we ending up in the #8 draft position pending the lottery.
I have no illusions about the Caps winning the lottery and getting Bedard. In fact, when you get down to those positions in the lottery standing, they are sufficiently close to each other that IF the Caps end up #8, there is a higher probability that one of the teams directly ahead of them in the standings (#9-11) wins the lottery and gets Bedard than there is that the Caps win it. The real benefit is that even if the caps DON'T have lottery luck, this draft is deep enough that they can snag a really promising prospect in the top 10.
waynerivers:
This is officially rock bottom. I've also decided that they blew it with the goalie situation. I was fine with getting rid of either Samsonov or Vanacek but not both. Right now, either guy is better than Kuemper. This looks like a bad signing. Yes, he won a cup in Colorado but we don't exactly have Makar, McKinnon, Rantanen, etc. playing in front of him here.
As for the rest of the team, outside of Ovie, Strome, Wilson, TVR, Sandin and Fehervary, there isn't anybody I wouldn't consider moving. Oshie, Backstrom, Kuz and Carlson should probably all be gone but I'm not sure management has it in them.
justwincaps:
What's kind of sad is I just read an article this morning talking about all the re-tooling the Caps have to do in the off season in the forward corp, but "fortunately" the defense looks settled with the goals and top 6 all coming back. I'm supposed to get excited that Darcy, Charlie, Carlson, Jensen, Sandin, TVR, Fehevary and Alexyev are coming back? Did we not just give up 6 to a team that just suffered back-to-back shutouts?
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