GDT R1G5 Blue Jackets @ Capitals 2018-04-21 3:00pm EST NBC, NBCSN

[OldHat]

Still picking on him.

[Mickstix]

20 shots on goal, still?? Wasn't that our total after 2?? lol

[alta]

It's time to find that top gear from here on out.

that show has sucked hard ever since they fired the three clowns

[BlackIce]

20 shots on goal, still?? Wasn't that our total after 2?? lol

Yes, I think the shots are something like 15-0 this period.


Those extra minutes from shortening the rotation are catching up with us, maybe.  Of course, if Columbus shoots their wad and it's still 3-3, maybe we can still figure out a way to pull this out.  But you have to shoot at the net to score.

[apace41]

20 shots on goal, still?? Wasn't that our total after 2?? lol

And this, my good friends, is why the Capitals are the Capitals.  3rd period at home in the pivotal game 5 and we are laying a total FUCKING EGG to quote Torts.  Can't get out of our zone. Can't connect passes.  Running around like our hair is on fire.  Just a total fucking embarrassment.

[KitFisto]

This is why I simply don't get emotional anymore. After game 4 who didn't know a sloppy loss would follow?

[alta]

radio guys just said that was the worst period of hockey by the Caps this series

[apace41]

How do you allow a team to come into your barn and completely dominate you for a key third period?  I'm just shaking my head that a game that we held slight control of for 40 minutes has become so one-sided.  That's all about heart and balls and we don't have them.

[apace41]

This is why I simply don't get emotional anymore. After game 4 who didn't know a sloppy loss would follow?

Yup.  Absolutely.

[Devise]

This might be the worst period of hockey we ever played. I don't know. I thought we were okay in the first and most of the 2nd, but this period is BAAAAAAAAAAAAD. Like wow. WAKE UP CAPS. FFS. Your at home with a chance to take a big series lead, it's time to start showing your fans you matter in the playoffs. Like it's almost embaressing here, like Fans throw garbage at them embaressing. 16-1 the shots were since we scored in the 2nd. Like, it's one thing to be prevent defense but wow.


Other than a few dumps it's like "forecheck, what is that?" Ugh sometimes I hate this team.

[Maacoshark]

On the bright side we got a shot on goal in this period

[Devise]

Yes, I think the shots are something like 15-0 this period.


Those extra minutes from shortening the rotation are catching up with us, maybe.  Of course, if Columbus shoots their wad and it's still 3-3, maybe we can still figure out a way to pull this out.  But you have to shoot at the net to score.

Columbus shortens some of their bench too. Not as much on forwards, but on D. Jones/Weirenski or however you say his partners name play A LOT. I'm not implying we aren't short shifting, just that I think your reaching a bit saying that Columbus rolls all their players. They haven't this entire series, Seth Jones especially has been on the ice the most of any player in the entire series.

[BlackIce]

Columbus shortens some of their bench too. Not as much on forwards, but on D. Jones/Weirenski or however you say his partners name play A LOT. I'm not implying we aren't short shifting, just that I think your reaching a bit saying that Columbus rolls all their players. They haven't this entire series, Seth Jones especially has been on the ice the most of any player in the entire series.

Well, you're right in that Torts didn't even put his fourth line on the ice in the 3rd period.  But besides the big stud Jones on defense, the minutes for all their other d-men are very balanced.  Ours aren't.

[apace41]

This might be the worst period of hockey we ever played. I don't know. I thought we were okay in the first and most of the 2nd, but this period is BAAAAAAAAAAAAD. Like wow. WAKE UP CAPS. FFS. Your at home with a chance to take a big series lead, it's time to start showing your fans you matter in the playoffs. Like it's almost embaressing here, like Fans throw garbage at them embaressing. 16-1 the shots were since we scored in the 2nd. Like, it's one thing to be prevent defense but wow.


Other than a few dumps it's like "forecheck, what is that?" Ugh sometimes I hate this team.

Well, we lost the first two in OT here.  How can anyone be optimistic about this one after that god-awful 3rd period.  It would be nice to think Trotz had something useful to say between periods but I find that very hard to imagine.

[alta]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the next goal is the series

[apace41]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the next goal is the series

80-20 Columbus.  We need another Eller-type goal since we are not creating anything (until the last 2 minutes).  If we get the next goal I'm not sure I agree with your statement.

[Devise]

Well, you're right in that Torts didn't even put his fourth line on the ice in the 3rd period.  But besides the big stud Jones on defense, the minutes for all their other d-men are very balanced.  Ours aren't.

I'm not entirely disagreeing, only pointing out that they do some of the same. Also I don't think it's been a huge factor (fatigue) this series. We don't lose because we are tired, we lose because our guys simply don't have a playoff gear. Far too often. You see it when Nisky and Oshie make a play deep and out hustle CBJ forwards, and then watch others like Carlson or Ovie in our own end circling around staring at the play not fighting for loose pucks. To them the playoffs are surviving, not setting a tone. It's why this board is so negative. We know this drill already. Good games (like Game 4) are more so because the rest of the guys play to the identity that our hard workers try to set.


But that period was such a stinker mentally that imo we don't deserve to win shit. Even if we do, no confidence from it. No confidence from this games result regardless of what happens.

[KitFisto]

They'll lose in OT. It's the Caps. Can't win ONE damn game on home ice. Didn't they lose every game on home ice a few years ago too?

[ArJunaZ]

We'll probably know in the first 60 seconds if the Caps have come out to win it.

[Devise]

Well, we lost the first two in OT here.  How can anyone be optimistic about this one after that god-awful 3rd period.  It would be nice to think Trotz had something useful to say between periods but I find that very hard to imagine.

Stop buying the media hype. Trotz is not the fucking problem. You could put anyone in that bench and see what they say and it won't change the mentality. It's the core that needs to say something. I watched the CBJ have a late chance at the end of the third on a break and during it Ovie went from barely forechecking to slowly gliding into the bench. If I was on the bench I would be YELLING at Ovechkin to "SKATE AND CHANGE DO YOU WANT TO BE A LOSER?" Nobody has the confidence to do that. Ovechkin needs to be told he sucks. He needs to be told to GET INTO FUCKING GEAR.


All of them do. But if a coach does that (Hunter) what happens? Fired. You guys don't seem to get Trotz can't be an asshole because our group are fucking babies. Like I'm literally sick of this. Like as far as I'm concerned tie game late in the period and you've been playing like dog shit and your okay with the laziest change of all time? It isn't that Ovie can't hustle, it's that they don't care, they are overwhelmed the playoffs are just WAY too much for them. And until they the players find that gear, or we replace enough of them to change it, it's same ol same ol. Trotz has been an stellar coach imo. Stellar. He's done everything any playoff coach could do with this group of quitters.