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GDT #39 Caps vs Rangers W 7-4
Surreylily:
If I had been watching this at the regular time, I would have thought I was pretty tanked. :snicker:
Surreylily:
Ovi scored again. McMike found a groove.
Quick wasn't very tonight, thankfully.
Be interesting to see what some of our other participants think of this game.
Will The Toilette get canned, you think?
Beaglefan2:
Lavi has to get fired after this game. Messier was just hammering the Rags management. I'm still mad a Lavi for not playing our younger guys and setting us back at the time. I also just thought he was a lousy coach all year long.
Beaglefan2:
That was one sloppy game. I actually thought Thompson played really well other than the giveaway. Our defense left him out to dry a lot and we could have easily lost that game if the Rags could have capitalized. Part of it was just guys being out of position but the other part was that they were getting too cute with the puck and maybe thinking they were going to show off on national TV.
Ovi had a lousy game and looked really slow, but he did what he does so hopefully he keeps it up.
PLD looked really good and I wish his shot off the post had gone in. I just wish he would get more aggressive about shooting and hopefully more would go in.
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: Surreylily on Saturday January 04, 2025, 03:19:46 PM Eastern ---Ovi scored again. McMike found a groove.
Quick wasn't very tonight, thankfully.
Be interesting to see what some of our other participants think of this game.
Will The Toilette get canned, you think?
--- End quote ---
I'm going to be intellectually lazy and chalk this game up to the early start - no tight checking here, the teams just seemed to skate around and see who could get the most pucks to go in the net.
I think LaViolette will go at some point between now and the start of next season. Eight months ago the Caps struggled into the playoffs, the Rangers had a really strong season, and they swept the Caps in the first round, which wasn't a surprise given the seeming disparity between the teams, and LaViolette is of course praised as the architect of the Rangers' season. So the Caps turn over 1/3 of their roster to reset, the Rangers start to struggle this season, LaViolette has seemingly lost the locker room, and at this point the two teams look completely reversed from last year. LaViolette seems like Tortarella light - plenty good enough to be an NHL coach, lots of teams will look to him to reset their fortunes, and it might work, for awhile. But it seems as though LaViolette is one of those guys who wears out his welcome.
I continue to be astounded at Protas. That facing-away-from-the-goal, backhand-between-the-legs shot was sick - it's the type of stuff you expect out of the elite goal-scorers in the league, who have a ridiculous puck sense. Before this season Protas showed that he could be a useful, grinding though not overly assertive for his size forward who could hold down a spot in the bottom 6. But he gave absolutely no indication that he could become a force anything remotely like this. If there's an award for breakout player of the year, Protas wins it hands down.
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