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GDT R3G3 Lightning @ Capitals 2018-05-15 8:00pm EST NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS
richkrt99:
--- Quote from: alta on Wednesday May 16, 2018, 01:04:03 PM Eastern ---Ive been looking for info about supplemental action today, nothing so far
In case you all forgot, this was the final preseason game this year, this is obviously the St Louis feed, I can't find the Washington feed, it had a much better picture, which is probably why the NHL didn't use it.
How many times a week has that hit happened in the NHL? How many times was there supplemental action taken? Here is Stralmans
I'm not picking on Tampa here, I'm picking on the NHLs hypocrisy
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I didn't think the hit was that bad...when I first saw it. Looking at it in slow mo....He did pretty much leave his feet to hit Willy and got the arm up a bit.
I don't believe anything will come of it.
I do believe if it had been the other way around Willy would get a minimum three games suspension.
KitFistosBrotherInLaw:
Let's go Caps.... Caps??? Hello???
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Devise:
--- Quote from: HoustonCapsFan on Wednesday May 16, 2018, 11:47:01 AM Eastern ---
No. If we don't win 4 games we lose the series. Any win counts for 1 in the win column. It doesn't matter which game number it is. We need 4 wins. Period.
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You don't really understand how momentum works do you?
You only need to score a goal to get back into the game. Right? By your "logic" here it doesn't matter when you score, or how you go about scoring, all that matters is that yous core. Right?
In Game 1, when Tampa scored but it was too many men on the ice, Ovechkin then scored with seconds on the clock off a faceoff on the ensuing PP. The Bolts had no life after that moment. Sure, there was lots of time left. But the momentum was sapped, even the commentators acknowledged it as a "turning point" in the game the moment it happened. How would these analysts know one goal was such a turning point?
Because the players aren't robots. They are human. They have emotions, adrenaline, anger, etc. Why do you think some of the best playoff teams look good at making other teams look unlike themselves? Why do you think us beating Tampa in the first two games was a big deal? We frustrated them, we deprived them of hope. If they push back in this series and take Game 4 on the road not only does it nullify the momentum we built, it gives a team that wasn't confident in itself confidence. Again, all these intangibles are real things that happen in the brain of human people. It's why coaches in this league can be stunned to see players come out and almost lay eggs and then come out and look excellent. Same players, same teams. Mental fortitude and conditioning is often one of the most unheralded and untalked about things from fans, but it's real, it matters, and it effects everything.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Devise on Thursday May 17, 2018, 01:30:00 AM Eastern ---
You don't really understand how momentum works do you?
You only need to score a goal to get back into the game. Right? By your "logic" here it doesn't matter when you score, or how you go about scoring, all that matters is that yous core. Right?
In Game 1, when Tampa scored but it was too many men on the ice, Ovechkin then scored with seconds on the clock off a faceoff on the ensuing PP. The Bolts had no life after that moment. Sure, there was lots of time left. But the momentum was sapped, even the commentators acknowledged it as a "turning point" in the game the moment it happened. How would these analysts know one goal was such a turning point?
Because the players aren't robots. They are human. They have emotions, adrenaline, anger, etc. Why do you think some of the best playoff teams look good at making other teams look unlike themselves? Why do you think us beating Tampa in the first two games was a big deal? We frustrated them, we deprived them of hope. If they push back in this series and take Game 4 on the road not only does it nullify the momentum we built, it gives a team that wasn't confident in itself confidence. Again, all these intangibles are real things that happen in the brain of human people. It's why coaches in this league can be stunned to see players come out and almost lay eggs and then come out and look excellent. Same players, same teams. Mental fortitude and conditioning is often one of the most unheralded and untalked about things from fans, but it's real, it matters, and it effects everything.
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Which is a main reason for our playoff “successes” the last 10 years.
A case can be made for this team being to sensitive to momemtum, both positive and negative. We’ve all seen something as small as one goal up to a whole game derail a whole postseason with this team.
As the quote goes “All it takes is one bad day”
KitFisto:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Wednesday May 16, 2018, 12:20:28 PM Eastern ---The issue here is not arithmetic. Houston, we have a problem, and the problem is whiny, disillusioned fans who insist upon seeing disaster and declaring hopelessness around every corner..
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Yeah, maybe that's because we've never experienced anything different. Win ONE and that will immediately change forever for me.
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