GDT R3G5 Capitals @ Lightning 2018-05-19 7:15pm EST NBC, CBC, TVAS

[Surreylily]

Bad start, for sure, but it's only the 1st period.

[apace41]

And again, the fact that fucking Las Vegas with a team built from the ground up over the course of 1 season is likely making it to the finals and has a good chance to win it all in their first year, without many real stars, makes me even more salty.

Particularly because our fucking brain trust didn't protect Nate Schmidt who is going to be an all-star dman in this league for the foreseeable future.  I could see that last year and I'm just a dipshit fan.  How would it feel to have Forsberg and Schmidt.  That's why this organization sucks.

[apace41]

Bad start, for sure, but it's only the 1st period.

LOL, Lil.  This ain't your first rodeo.  When you ride with the caps you are the rodeo clown.

[DC_1908]

I really wonder what Patrick's influence is on this team...

Well. . . What has changed since GMGM was fired and GMBetaMale was made GM?


The Caps have stayed the course that started 10yrs ago, and GMGM made a team of unknowns that are one win away from going to the finals.  Add to the historic rumors like wanting to hire Cooper over Oates, Nylander deal etc, where GMGM had to go against what he advised (and these are just rumors), there is clearly another layer to investigate.


That leaves two people to be accountable: Ted and Patrick.  Ted has stated he leaves “hockey decisions to hockey people”, it’s becoming clear that Patrick is the wrong hockey person

[Devise]

Yeah I may be interested in seeing Boyd, Gersich and Walker next game. Seriously. Bench Backy and Connolly. I know that seems wild but we need a jump and urgency in our game.


Still lots of hockey to be played tonight, but if they play like they did in that 1st we aren't doing anything here this evening.

[Maacoshark]

No.  Maybe the Vrana chance.  Just awful.  Game is too tough for our centers.  Kuzy and Backy way too soft.  Eller too dumb.  Just a total fucking embarrassment.  They are skating circles around us.  If not for some good saves from 70 we are down 4 or 5.

   On the HF boards a lot of people are putting the blame all on Holtby. They don't mention the turnovers and poor defensive play.

[Maacoshark]

Yeah I may be interested in seeing Boyd, Gersich and Walker next game. Seriously. Bench Backy and Connolly. I know that seems wild but we need a jump and urgency in our game.


Still lots of hockey to be played tonight, but if they play like they did in that 1st we aren't doing anything here this evening.

   We fans sure have some crazy ideas.

[Maacoshark]

Particularly because our fucking brain trust didn't protect Nate Schmidt who is going to be an all-star dman in this league for the foreseeable future.  I could see that last year and I'm just a dipshit fan.  How would it feel to have Forsberg and Schmidt.  That's why this organization sucks.

   Pretty tough to protect Schmidt unless we decided to protect 4 dmen and only 4 forwards

[OldHat]

Well. . . What has changed since GMGM was fired and GMBetaMale was made GM?


The Caps have stayed the course that started 10yrs ago, and GMGM made a team of unknowns that are one win away from going to the finals.  Add to the historic rumors like wanting to hire Cooper over Oates, Nylander deal etc, where GMGM had to go against what he advised (and these are just rumors), there is clearly another layer to investigate.


That leaves two people to be accountable: Ted and Patrick.  Ted has stated he leaves “hockey decisions to hockey people”, it’s becoming clear that Patrick is the wrong hockey person

Yeah I've been thinking about it a lot.  Engylland comes to mind.  Never got a sniff here.

[Devise]

   We fans sure have some crazy ideas.

We had all the youngsters in against the Pens in the statement Game 6 that became a carryover for us in the next two games against the Bolts. Too many passengers, not enough urgency. Plus it looked to me like the kids just shut up and played the system, and I don't think I've seen that from some of our other guys.


As for Backy, he's clearly better than the rookies. But he doesn't look 100% to me at all. He's looked lost out there trying to catch up to the play.

[newtoCapsparty]

Ugh.  Where is our sticks-on-the-ice defense that played so well in games 1 and 2??  People are skating right past our defense.

[ArJunaZ]

No goal. Off the glove. Of course, the refs suck, so who knows. The refs have screwed this game already.

[Devise]

No goal. Off the glove. Of course, the refs suck, so who knows. The refs have screwed this game already.

Not intentional. Ovie hit the player into the puck into the net.

[newtoCapsparty]

   On the HF boards a lot of people are putting the blame all on Holtby. They don't mention the turnovers and poor defensive play.

I'm seeing Holtby doing acrobatics in the net trying to defend...turnovers and poor defense seem glaring to me, hardly Holtby's fault.

[Maacoshark]

Niskanen and Orlov have been absolutely awful. Both are minus 3. Supposed our top d pairing. Hard to believe but Carlson has been our best defensive dman in the playoffs.

[ArJunaZ]

 

[DC_1908]

   Pretty tough to protect Schmidt unless we decided to protect 4 dmen and only 4 forwards

It could have been done with some creative maneuvering.


But, how GMBetaMale didn’t anticipate that his former boss would snatch Schmidt up like a free glass of $200 an once scotch is puzzling to worrisome.


It also brings to question, if he was gonna extend Kuzy, Eller, Bura, and Oshie that year. . . why didn’t he do it before the draft?   That makes each of those a higher risk for GMGM, so leave Eller or Bura with long high dollar contracts, which GMGM is avoiding, so you can protect Schmidt

[newtoCapsparty]

Whew!  Relief...

[alta]

They get 1 back!

[Maacoshark]

It could have been done with some creative maneuvering.


But, how GMBetaMale didn’t anticipate that his former boss would snatch Schmidt up like a free glass of $200 an once scotch is puzzling to worrisome.


It also brings to question, if he was gonna extend Kuzy, Eller, Bura, and Oshie that year. . . why didn’t he do it before the draft?   That makes each of those a higher risk for GMGM, so leave Eller or Bura with long high dollar contracts, which GMGM is avoiding, so you can protect Schmidt

   So you think we should have protected 4 dmen? That's what vI thought bwe should do right from the start. Everyone thought we would lose Grubvauer I knew we would lose Schmidt. Good dmen are hard to find.