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GDT R2G6 Capitals @ Penguins 2018-05-07 7:00pm EST NBCSN, SN, TVAS
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: HoustonCapsFan on Tuesday May 08, 2018, 07:10:36 AM Eastern ---Here is a question. If Kuzy doesn’t score, do the refs actually call the penalty on Letang for throwing his stick?
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I was wondering about that too.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Tuesday May 08, 2018, 08:09:01 AM Eastern ---
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to call you on this baloney.
An elimination game can NEVER be a trap game. C'mon, if the shoe is on the other foot (and heaven knows it has been a number of times over the past decade), you'd NEVER allow the excuses that the opponent had new players in the lineup, or the team didn't have sufficient time to prepare, or the other team's goalie had a great game (which Holtby did last night). You KNOW you'd say that those types of excuses are for losers. So if you're not going to allow that kind of thinking to let the Caps off the hook when they lose, then don't use it to minimize what they accomplished last night under what were challenging circumstances for them.
If I recall, a few weeks ago you said they weren't going to win even a single game in the second round. And if I recall, you commented about Tampa being a small and not very strong team at the beginning of the playoffs. Funny how perceptions can change in a few weeks.
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Wow. . . You completely misconstrued everything I said.
Looks like I need to slow down for you. . . A main, if not the main factor we won is the weren’t the same ol Caps that they have seen, prepared for, and know how to beat, and beat regularly. On the opposite side we had to simply what we did as well, thus altering the scheme they prepared for over the last 10 years.
And no way in hell any player, coach or fan of The Hens thought they had a chance in hell of loosing that game, or the next.
No Backstrom, No Wilson, No Bura, in a second round against a team you have a historic playoff win percentage against? Everyone of those arrogant cunts thought they had the next two games. Why wouldn't they?
We simply did an excellent job of using an ad-hoc lineup, to take advantage of an overconfident and overrated enemy.
And yes, I did say they wouldnt win a game, and part of that was due to the Caps refusing to change. Well, they did and it worked.
alta:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Tuesday May 08, 2018, 07:24:28 AM Eastern ---I heard this on EpN this AM. . . Walton lost his shit! :wackysmile:
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yep, Walton did lose his shit, I had the radio on and tv muted. I didn't expect a goal anytime soon, so missed hearing the nbc asses sound like their team just died.
I did catch pierre interview Kuzy, he screwed up that interview just like he did with OV's "overtime winner", he is so unprofessional I don't understand why he his still employed. People with better credentials than us think Pierre is an idiot too....
https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2018/05/02/alex-ovechkin-sasses-pierre-mcguire-asked-overtime-winner/
alta:
the Pierre is an idiot theme could easily fill its own thread..
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Tuesday May 08, 2018, 08:09:01 AM Eastern ---
If I recall, a few weeks ago you said they weren't going to win even a single game in the second round. And if I recall, you commented about Tampa being a small and not very strong team at the beginning of the playoffs. Funny how perceptions can change in a few weeks.
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I don't recall saying small or not very strong. . . their forwards are not collectively big, but on D they're huge. They don't get in many fights, but play a high defensive game.
I will say I don't like this matchup. Its like we will be playing the other nemesis of the Rangers, with Headman, Stamkos, and a younger Lundquist. This is another team who is very familiar with us, but is better coached and in a better organization than Hens, so are unlikely to have the weakness we exploited.
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