2024 pre season games thread

[Surreylily]

Oooooh!   The man looking gooooood!
 

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Good grief.       Stupid dumb ass penalties already.

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Looks like our PP is as bad as ever.

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Looks like our PP is as bad as ever.

 


what’s this we shit, mine looks just fine

[Surreylily]

Thats me done for tonight.   I need to build up my resilience again.........
Let me know if anything interesting happens in the 3rd period?

[Caps17201]

I was watching, hope for a real good season. Power ranking isn’t too good, we’ll see, they could be wrong.

[justwincaps]

Completely agree that the Vrana we saw the other night looked a lot like the one Lavi sat on the pine.  It's a shame, was pulling for him to be a nice comeback story.

These first two games look A LOT like the entire season last year.   Not enough offense paired with ........ not enough defense - a bad combination.   

I've seen Shep a few times in Hershey and I'm afraid the AHL level is his ceiling.  He is very short by today's standard and constantly looks to be fighting to get back into position.

Was kind of hoping Ethan Frank would show up this year to put to bed all the chatter about never having played in the NHL.   Again, having seen him at Hershey [where he stands out at the AHL level] I was hoping he could get that monkey off his back.  So far, pretty underwhelming.

[richkrt99]

I watched last nights game in its entirety.   Hard to tell with so many young guys out there, but we didnt look outstanding.
I have to say, Cristall and Miro both stand out.  I know they get the hype cause of who they are, but I saw Cristall in the play more than about anyone else.
Also Doobie (Pierre Luc Dubois) was out there quite a bit that i recall - seemed to be driving the play at times.  Hope he fits well and earns his keep.  He could be a game changer if he lives up to....well to what he NEVER has....his salary.
And Willie stood out....especially so for the dude he knocked into next week  .  I think it looked worse than it was but Willie caught him off balance and just planted him...but the dude slid about 15' down the ice.  This was play that eventually led to McMike's goal.

Young Protus looked pretty good...hard to miss him at his size, but i don't think he has a realistic shot at the NHL club.  They want to season him a bit first I think.

And WTF Shep?  the first goal he was trying to flash the glove and swooped it down and basically just shoveled it between his legs and into his own net.  Nice highlight there bro.

I really don't read anything much into preseason games...its really just a chance for young guys to show something.  So far for me its Cristall and Miro

I'm afraid our goaltending budget might show its true stripes this season

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Preseason game #3
Caps at Devils @ 7pm
Monumental Sports, 980 AM, Caps Radio 24/7

anticipated lines:
Ovechkin-Strome-Mangiapane
Duhaime-Dowd-Raddysh
Vrana-Sgarbossa-Limoges
Suzdalev-Sutter-Trineyev

Chychrun-Carlson
Alexeyev-TvR
Massie-McIlrath

Thompson
Gibson

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from an article elsewhere..

“ Vrana will be in the lineup against New Jersey as he skates in his second game with Mike Sgarbossa and Alex Limoges. Head coach Spencer Carbery said after Wednesday’s morning skate that the matchup will be a “big” one for Vrana, who is in camp on a professional tryout agreement without a contract for the 2024-25 campaign.

“We’re going to need him to do something significant tonight,” Carbery said. “And it’s not about scoring. Like, yeah, does that help? For sure, it does – but he’s gotta be good in other areas too. He’s gotta be around the puck. He’s gotta have O-zone shifts. He can’t be spending 75 percent of his shifts in the defensive zone, and us walk out of the game and go, ‘That’s not going to cut it.'” “

[Surreylily]

Mornin   

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This is a bit more like it.    Were having a good ole go tonight.   

[Surreylily]

Not an awful first period.

[Surreylily]

Newbie goalie actually did pretty well.

[Surreylily]

Thom  cat's a bit of an alley cat.   Sharp in his moves.   Early days, for sure, but is this a glimmer of hope I see before me?   

[Surreylily]

That was nice.   

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Vrana with the fail, Strome showing him how its done.   

[Caps17201]

Looking good!

[Surreylily]

I think I'm a little in love with ThomCat.   

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Strome in the groove tonight.