The ‘24-‘25 boredom thread..

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After soiling the bed in round 1, Hellebuyck gets a shutout in round 2.

[Iafrates Ghost]

Good day Caps fans. I decided to sell my prized Ovechkin rookie. It is on Goldin Auctions right now

The Cup Platinum 7/25 2005-06 Rookie. I will keep the rest of my vast OV card collection and have I enoyed this era of Caps hockey immensely. Go Caps, take game 3.

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Vegas wins game 3 with less than 1/2 a second left in regulation. Edmonton knocked it in themselves. Edmonton leads the series 2-1. I don’t care for the Vegas hockey team, but I’d love to see this go 7 games.

[Beaglefan2]

Another thing that drives me crazy is when players get pinned in their own zone for extended time in either the first or the third period and are clearly gassed - and the two top guys stay out the whole time. Last night McMike was so tired he was just kinda standing there for about a minute, making no impact on the play - and he could have easily skated to the bench and somebody fresh would have jumped on.   If you watch that replay, its just stupid.


And I still don't get why they don't go man to man on the two point guys and pressure them?  Carolina wouldn't know what to do and we would stop all these possessions where they just cycle in our zone all night.

[richkrt99]

Florida evens the series 2-2.
2-0 score sounds close, but Florida flat out dominated the Leafs the entire 1st period.  I could have been 4 or 5 to nothing.
Watching both teams with the puck, the Caps would so outclassed its not funny.  I mean Carolina is soundly better than the Caps but they are pretty dry boring style of play.  Every other team still in it just looks leaps and bounds better than the Caps.

[waynerivers]

Woll put on a goaltending clinic.  He made big save after big save and played the game so smartly getting way out of the blue paint and cutting down the amount of net that shooters could look at.  If there's one mistake modern goalies make, it's staying glued to the net way too often and leaving lots of options for shooters, particularly in the upper part of the net.  Thompson made that mistake on Carolina's third goal although Carlson offered no support at all.  Woll had no prayer on the 1st goal and was left out to dry by his d-men both going to the guy without the puck on the second one.  He was first star of the game, win or lose.

[waynerivers]

Another thing that drives me crazy is when players get pinned in their own zone for extended time in either the first or the third period and are clearly gassed - and the two top guys stay out the whole time. Last night McMike was so tired he was just kinda standing there for about a minute, making no impact on the play - and he could have easily skated to the bench and somebody fresh would have jumped on.   If you watch that replay, its just stupid.


And I still don't get why they don't go man to man on the two point guys and pressure them?  Carolina wouldn't know what to do and we would stop all these possessions where they just cycle in our zone all night.

That's a coaching failure.  I hardly find it reassuring, either, that Carberry thinks we played a good game.  We played 1 1/2 decent periods and stunk for the other half.

[Beaglefan2]

Yes - I love Carbs but think he has had a few things that could/should have been addressed better. I'm wondering if Carbs is reluctant to use the forwards to pressure up high as he knows our D-Men are undersized and slow to react, so he doesn't want them exposed too much.  If so, I think that is the wrong strategy.  They need to be all over the point men.


I actually don't think the Canes are a better team.  When the Caps and Canes both play well I think they are about even.  The problem has been that the Caps have not played well.


Let's stay positive! Tonight is a win!!

[waynerivers]

Nice to watch some of these other games with two real teams playing.

[richkrt99]

Nice to watch some of these other games with two real teams playing.

Yes, watching the other teams play actually takes a little of the sting out of watching our series, because we are not anywhere near that level of play.
I guess I didn't give Dallas enough credit - they are now up 3-1 on Winnipeg.  Dallas goalie Oettinger was terrific last night.  Both teams had high level plays and the difference to me was the goalie.  Dallas did get 2 ppg, so Hellebyuck wasnt terrible.

[Mickstix]

Too little too late, but Im fine with it. Eller is another (of many) who've done jack shit this post season.


https://twitter.com/sammisilber/status/1922666259428016344

[richkrt99]

Too little too late, but Im fine with it. Eller is another (of many) who've done jack shit this post season.


https://twitter.com/sammisilber/status/1922666259428016344

100% eller hasn't done anything in quite some time, but I thought he actually played a better game last game...nothing to show for it.
(he did score THE Stanley Cup winning goal for us long ago)

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The Leafs are looking good tonight.


 

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The Canucks just fired Tocchet..

https://www.nhl.com/news/adam-foote-hired-as-vancouver-canucks-coach


The Flyers just fired Torts..

https://www.nhl.com/news/rick-tocchet-hired-as-philadelphia-flyers-coach

[BlackIce]

For those of you pained about the Caps being in trouble against Carolina, please note:  All 4 number one seeds are in trouble this round.  All of them.  What's happening to us is what is happening everywhere.

[Rey Capalpatine]

Too little too late, but Im fine with it. Eller is another (of many) who've done jack shit this post season.


https://twitter.com/sammisilber/status/1922666259428016344

Pfft at this point its like emptying out a pool with an eyedropper.

[richkrt99]

Pfft at this point its like emptying out a pool with an eyedropper.

Wait?  I thought we were filling the pool withe the eyedropper. 

[richkrt99]

The Canucks just fired Tocchet..

https://www.nhl.com/news/adam-foote-hired-as-vancouver-canucks-coach


The Flyers just fired Torts..

https://www.nhl.com/news/rick-tocchet-hired-as-philadelphia-flyers-coach

Canucks didn't fire Tocchet...he decided he did not want to stay and told them so 2-3 weeks ago.... they word it like it was their decision not to extend him (which ultimately it is), but in reality he basically chose not to continue there.
I knew he would be headed to Philthy.  Either that or Shitsburgh, but Philthy it is.  He has alot of history with Philly so I'm not surprised.  Jonesie is the pres. of operations there (which shocked me when I heard that couple years ago).  They overlapped 2 years together playing in Philly - both ending their playing careers the last 3 years spent in Philly.
Something must be little fishy in Vancouver.  They fired Boudreau badly 2-1/2 years ago then brought Tocchet in, and rumors to be quite a bit of turmoil in the locker room from reading stuff weeks ago.

Sullivan was fired from Shittsburgh and hired like the next day in NY (okay....it was 2 days).  Didn't expect him to struggle to find work.
I don't like that both NYR and Philthy both just got good coaches.

Shittsburgh hasn't hired a coach yet...I went looking and apparently they talked to Mitch Love (Caps assistant) as a possible

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Thompson did not participate in the morning skate today. Clay Stevenson was recalled from Hershey as well. It doesn’t appear Gibson was sent back, so the Caps have four active goalies on the roster.

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