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GDT R3G1 Capitals @ Lightning 2018-05-11 8:00pm EST NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: alta on Saturday May 12, 2018, 10:15:05 AM Eastern ---Backy isn't looking good for R3G2, still having trouble gripping his stick...
though one would think with his money he would have a nice attractive Swedish girl do it for him :P
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With us winning game one I doubt he plays game 2. He may have played if we lost. Who knows. Maybe the injury is worse than we think. He could be out for the remainder of the playoffs.
RavenCp:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Saturday May 12, 2018, 10:52:10 AM Eastern --- With us winning game one I doubt he plays game 2. He may have played if we lost. Who knows. Maybe the injury is worse than we think. He could be out for the remainder of the playoffs.
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When he ready he'll play, obviously he wasn't the last game. I don't think without him we are a better team. If managed to get by that's great.
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Saturday May 12, 2018, 10:47:20 AM Eastern --- 14 minutes isn't excessive playing time for a guy playing on the 3rd line and getting some pp time. And I don't think all of those 14 minutes were by design. He took 2 or 3 extended shifts where his linemates changed and he didn't.
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It isn't excessive -- but it isn't diminished, either. It seems as though he wasn't at all protected (which luxury one has when the score is 4-0.)
As I said, I didn't see the game other than the highlights, but I'm wondering if some of those extended shifts were because he was the "chaser" to protect a line change. When a line's shift ends with the other side having gained control of the puck but on their side of center ice, one person commonly dogs the puck carrier, trying to drive him back toward his goal and, ideally, behind it so that his line mates can get off safely and the replacements can get into position without the puck carrier being able to find a teammate hanging out at the Caps' blue line. Then when the new line is in position the chaser peels off to the bench and the last change occurs. This role is especially important in period 2 when the long changes occur. Wilson is almost always in the chaser role for line 1. Backstrom and Oshie share those duties on line 2 for the most part, with Oshie I think having the majority of the responsibility, though now with Stephenson on that line, he takes turns at this as well. And Burakovsky, when he is on line 3, commonly handles chaser duties. Line 4 rotates the most on this; Beagle, Smith-Pelly, or Chaisson might be the chaser in any particular situation -- whoever is most conveniently positioned.
Maacoshark:
I think he was the chaser on the one line change but after the change was complete, he didn't make the change when he had the chance. What I found odd was that Stephenson had a good game and he set up his team mates several times during that game but Burakovsky was pretty invisible on that line. He only had 1 shot on net and I don't think he had any quality scoring chances.
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Saturday May 12, 2018, 12:42:21 PM Eastern --- I think he was the chaser on the one line change but after the change was complete, he didn't make the change when he had the chance. What I found odd was that Stephenson had a good game and he set up his team mates several times during that game but Burakovsky was pretty invisible on that line. He only had 1 shot on net and I don't think he had any quality scoring chances.
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I wouldn't be surprised at Burakovsky not making much noise in his first game back. As long as he played his part in the team defense (everybody seems to be raving about that, and if what they are raving about is true then there aren't guys one can complain about on defense, since team defense involves everybody.)
I thought it interesting that Tampa's weaknesses really got exposed in G1. One that has been mentioned quite a bit are their PK difficulties, which the Caps certainly exploited. But another weakness that hasn't been mentioned much is that Tampa was one of the league's worst on face-offs this year. A clean win at the end of period 1 led directly to Ovie's goal.
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