GDT R4G1 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-28 8:00pm EST NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS

[CapsCapsCaps]

...and not even sure what collectively went wrong...

As I watched, it was all about turnovers for me.  We didn't respond well to the constant pressure in our defensive zone... and turned it over a lot (sidebar: even when we didn't turn it over, we weren't setting up well in the offensive zone because it was a constant fight to get it through the neutral zone).

We still played a good hockey game and scored 4 goals against a goalie everyone seems to think is Superman... but game 2, we've gotta play full-force all 200 feet of ice (realizing I'm saying this from my leather lounger with the feet up... and not the guy gonna be exhausted out there on the ice come the 3rd period...)...

We can do it, though.  Let's go Caps!

[Maacoshark]

All you Milbury and NBC haters, Milbury is irate about both the non-call on Reeves and the delayed call on Wilson.

   The refs definitely blew the crosscheck. Especially since it resulted in a goal.

[DC_1908]

It's hard to imagine the Caps didn't learn from the TB series what works and what doesn't.  They need to play structured hockey and clog the neutral zone.  Need to get pucks in deep and work the boards against a pretty average D corp of Vegas.  They need to be sharp and tape to tape getting pucks out of their zones as Vegas pushes 5 in to forecheck.  Play simple hockey and don't try to do too much and they will be fine.  All the fancy ass shit doesn't work against a team playing north/south hockey.  Just plain fucking stupid.

Agreed.   If we kept trying to skate with then it’s not gonna be pretty, but will be quick

[DC_1908]

About the only right thing LittlePenis Mcquire ever said:
 

[richkrt99]

6-4?  Really? (okay, 5-4, but still)
I thought this series was gonna take two, maybe three goals tops to win a game.


Good news is Vegas didn't look to be all that, IMO.  Maybe they didn't bring their best game either, but the Caps didn't even play that well and this was a .....crap shoot :-).  Caps had so many break downs and turnovers and players out of position on Vegas' goals.
I really haven't watched Vegas that much, but all they hype was they were this unbeatable force.  I didn't see that last night.  Vegas is scrappy and never quit, but I think the Caps should beat this team.


To me, neither team looked like a Stanley Cup finalist last night. 
Like to see the good Caps show up and this could be fun.  What the F is with the font size issue?

Pre-game "show" was awful.  Does Vegas share the arena with Medieval Times?  They should spend less time and money on this crap before the game and a little more on ice preparation.  I know its the desert, but that ice was awful.  You would think they would have A/C pretty much figured out by now.


Go Caps


oh yeah, FUCK YOU NBC and NHL.  Wilson's hit was a LITTLE late, but how about call it like it is....NOT just show the isolation on Willy homing in on him.  Marshyshit did HAVE the puck just before Willy destroyed him - but they don't show that replay but once, and in slow motion, so it appears the hit was really late, then they show the isolation about 5 fucking times.
Then you call a penalty after the fact?  What the F - that is just wrong.  If you miss it you miss it.  Quit messing with the game.


I normally do not partake or like all the ref-bashing - It is a very hard game to officiate in real time (and I hate any and all video review), but....
How about the missed call on the Carlson cross check?  Why not review that and go back and call it if you are going to review and call penalties.
They let A LOT go, and I would not have that big an issue with that non call except that it directly resulted in a goal for not only the offending team, but the very player who should have been called for the cross-check.  It lead DIRECTLY to the goal.  This changed the direction and outcome of the game.  This non-call had direct impact on the game.  That's the worst thing an officiating crew can do - is have an impact on the outcome.  A missed call is one thing, but that was not missed - it was simply not called.  You can't tell me they honestly did not see that.  It is where the F'n puck was and directly in front of the net.  That non-call led directly to that goal


Rant over.

Go Caps!  Bring your A-game and you will crush these cast-off second class scrubs

[DC_1908]

6-4?  Really? (okay, 5-4, but still)
I thought this series was gonna take two, maybe three goals tops to win a game.


Good news is Vegas didn't look to be all that, IMO.  Maybe they didn't bring their best game either, but the Caps didn't even play that well and this was a .....crap shoot :-).  Caps had so many break downs and turnovers and players out of position on Vegas' goals.
I really haven't watched Vegas that much, but all they hype was they were this unbeatable force.  I didn't see that last night.  Vegas is scrappy and never quit, but I think the Caps should beat this team.


To me, neither team looked like a Stanley Cup finalist last night. 
Like to see the good Caps show up and this could be fun.  What the F is with the font size issue?

Pre-game "show" was awful.  Does Vegas share the arena with Medieval Times?  They should spend less time and money on this crap before the game and a little more on ice preparation.  I know its the desert, but that ice was awful.  You would think they would have A/C pretty much figured out by now.


Go Caps


oh yeah, FUCK YOU NBC and NHL.  Wilson's hit was a LITTLE late, but how about call it like it is....NOT just show the isolation on Willy homing in on him.  Marshyshit did HAVE the puck just before Willy destroyed him - but they don't show that replay but once, and in slow motion, so it appears the hit was really late, then they show the isolation about 5 fucking times.
Then you call a penalty after the fact?  What the F - that is just wrong.  If you miss it you miss it.  Quit messing with the game.


I normally do not partake or like all the ref-bashing - It is a very hard game to officiate in real time (and I hate any and all video review), but....
How about the missed call on the Carlson cross check?  Why not review that and go back and call it if you are going to review and call penalties.
They let A LOT go, and I would not have that big an issue with that non call except that it directly resulted in a goal for not only the offending team, but the very player who should have been called for the cross-check.  It lead DIRECTLY to the goal.  This changed the direction and outcome of the game.  This non-call had direct impact on the game.  That's the worst thing an officiating crew can do - is have an impact on the outcome.  A missed call is one thing, but that was not missed - it was simply not called.  You can't tell me they honestly did not see that.  It is where the F'n puck was and directly in front of the net.  That non-call led directly to that goal


Rant over.

Go Caps!  Bring your A-game and you will crush these cast-off second class scrubs

Arj can explain it better, but it can tend to get touchy on a phone.  The easy fixes I’ve found is to go to modify, then select all and set the size to 10.   


The other way is to use the modify on the lower right and just remove the font code

[newtoCapsparty]

Re-read this thread this morning while listening to sports talk radio re:  last night's game. 


Found myself as irritated this morning as I was last night with 1) the pre-game circus (feel more aligned with hockey 'purists' than casual fans in this regard because one of the reasons I have come to enjoy hockey is that it been more successful at keeping Hollywood, pop culture/music/ American 'celebrities' and politics away from the sport than, for example, basketball and football), 2) talking head 'reporters' and broadcasters gushing this morning about the Renaissance festival theatrics that 'makes Vegas, Vegas', and 3)  officiating during the actual hockey game. 
And not to be too sour about it, but am I the only one weary of the fairy tale Vegas story?  I get it....history making season, overachieving misfits.  Sigh.  The Capitals' story never seems to warrant as much air time as other teams, no matter what and this year, there IS a story worth telling on our side, too.  I start grinding my teeth when announcers/NBC/media describe  Washington as if they are (sorry to repeat myself), the 'other team' who just happens to be skating around on the ice at the same time that the other, favored team is playing spectacular hockey. 
Maybe with Game 2, the game can just be the game.  Loved Braden Holtby doing his best to make up for defensive mistakes last night, loved TJ Oshie quietly taking lots of abuse (no calls there, either) throughout the game, loved the red-shirted fans in Vegas, and loved watching the tons of fans at the watch party in DC. 
Wished we could have pushed the Knights away from our goal more often...I saw too many gray jerseys standing and waiting alone for rebounds with no defenseman pushing him away.  Wish our passes were better trying to come up the ice, too. 


Hope we correct what is correctable and play angry (but smart) in Game 2.  Go CAPS!!!


     

[waynerivers]

I gave my thoughts above on the general problems the Caps had which were too little forecheck, inconsistent physical play and disorganization in our own end too much.  The refs you can't do anything about except complain loudly.  The cross checking on Carlson was a horrible non-call, just horrible.  The Caps had 3 pretty nice goals and one lucky one.  Here's my take on the Vegas goals:


#1 Decent shot by Colin Miller.  Holtby was screened and slightly out of position.  Stephenson made a poor play on the boards right before as he had the puck all alone and failed to clear it.  They scored right after.


#2 Lucky garbage goal.  A shot came from Holtby's right which hit the shaft of Niskanen's stick, squibbed weirdly off the backboards and went right to Karlsson.  He banked it in off Holtby.


#3 Caps running around way too much leaving Smith all alone in front.


#4 Screwed by refs.  Instead of a Caps PP, they tie the game.  Should never happen in a Stanley Cup final.  If we see more of this, I'll be convinced this is fixed so Bettman's wet dream can come true.


#5  Nice pass from the left boards to the corner of the crease.  However, Smith-Pelly failed to clear when, again, he was pretty much alone and could have skated with it.  Instead he fires it off the defenseman's legs.  No reason to be in a panic there.  One has to wonder why a pass could get all the way from the left boards and through the slot as well.  Caps seemed more intent on covering other people than seeing where the puck was.  Yet, nobody covered Nosek.


#6.  Empty netter.  However, why wasn't there an icing call just before that?  I couldn't see the puck due to standing fans but it looked like Burakovsky had to go dig it off the backboards.  More questionable officiating.

[Mickstix]

One of the headlines on my xfinity.com homepage was "Suspension coming for Wilson?" They better get the fuck outta here with that bullshit!! 

[DC_1908]

One of the headlines on my xfinity.com homepage was "Suspension coming for Wilson?" They better get the fuck outta here with that bullshit!! 

Hell ya know that’s coming


These commentators outta be fined every time they say the word suspension after an incident.  Just adds to the fire

[Chris19]

CBS Sports just reporting NO suspension coming for Wilson
https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/nhl-playoffs-2018-tom-wilson-reportedly-wont-be-suspended-for-late-hit-on-jonathan-marchessault/

[alta]

CBS Sports just reporting NO suspension coming for Wilson
https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/nhl-playoffs-2018-tom-wilson-reportedly-wont-be-suspended-for-late-hit-on-jonathan-marchessault/

that's nice, even though it shouldn't have gone that far.

[ArJunaZ]

Arj can explain it better, but it can tend to get touchy on a phone.  The easy fixes I’ve found is to go to modify, then select all and set the size to 10.   


The other way is to use the modify on the lower right and just remove the font code

I think I may know  why some people are having issues with the font formatting code. I'm guessing they may be formatting text (changing size, color, etc) and then editing, copying, pasting, or otherwise moving the text around. This can maybe split the code due to grabbing (unseen) formatting code and moving it, which can cause it to be divided and placed out of sequence. The best thing is to type your message and then the very last thing you do is format the text. If you follow this procedure I can't imagine having any problems.  Look at my OP on the GDT's. I have tons of formatting and no issues.

EDITED TO ADD:
OK, here's a long and short version of what I did to figure this out.

Short version:
I just saw the issue where the code fragments came up after some crazy editing and pasting. It happened when I clicked on the toggle view button twice.  I  imagine if I had posted it at that point it  would have displayed the code fragments, but what I did was simply click on the toggle view button   two more times and it cleared everything up . So maybe those that are having this issue can simply click toggle view button twice and then post after the code get's  properly organized.

BOTTOM LINE:  If you see your post is screwed up then simply "Modify" your post by clicking on "Modify", then click the toggle view button twice.  This should clear up the funky code fragments.  It did for me. Then "Save" your post again.  I have reproduced this (still not sure how) a few times and each time it is resolved by following the procedure I just outlined.






Long version:  (What I did to test and some explanation of how it works)

Try clicking on the toggle view button if you need to edit. This way you can see the formatting code and make sure you are not splitting up the code. As you can see each formatting element has an open tag and and end tag, for instance [tag] and [/tag].  If you edit your post and these get out of order or half of a tag pair gets deleted or out of sequence then you get into trouble. Tags must be in the proper sequence.  If you have one tag pair is must be contained within any other tag pairs. You must close a tag out before close out any other tags that encapsulate it.


For instance:

This is good
[bold] This is Bold Text [italics] this is italics and bold text [/italics][/bold]
and will appear as
This is Bold Text this is italics and bold text

This is not good
[bold] This is Bold Text [italics] this is italics and bold text [/bold][/italics]
and will appear as
This is Bold Text this is italics and bold text [/italics]

Note: I did not use proper tag names in the examples or else they would be acted on by the server. Bold is usually just the letter "b" in brackets and italics is usually just the letter "i" in brackets.  The closing tag is the same tag in bracket only preceded by the "/"

ETA
Actually, the system fixed my intentional screw up after I posted it and flipped the tags into the proper order, so maybe it takes some more serious screwing around with posts to mess it up.


IGNORE THE TEXT BETWEEN THESE LINES
********************************************************************
cs and bold text cs and bold text cs and bold text
xt cs and bold text

FUCK!  I don't know.  I can't make it break, so I have no idea how some people are having trouble.

cs and bold text cs reak, so I haveand bold text cs and bold text
xt cs and bold text
FUCK!  I don't know.  I can't make it break, so I have no idea how some people are having trouble. I haveake it break, so I ha
reak, so I haveake it break, so I havold text ce no idea ho


cs and bold text cs reak, so I haveand bold text cs and bold text
xt cs and bold text
FUCK!  I don't know.  I can't make it break, so I have no idea how some people are having trouble.  I haveake it break, so I ha
reak, so I haveake it break, so I havold text ce no idea ho
********************************************************************



Seriously, I tried every which way to screw it up and the system  very intelligently reformatted everything  so that it worked perfectly. If someone can tell me the process they used and can replicate a problem I will be happy to hear about it and try to understand what can be done about it. I just mixed all font types, formats, and colors and cut and paste randomly and it all came out  OK except for the text size seemed a bit random. This is easily fixed by simply grabbing it all and resizing. I have yet to be able to create the problem where you can see the code fragments in the post.


UPDATE:
I just saw the issue where the code fragments came up after some crazy editing and pasting. It happened when I clicked on the toggle view button twice.  I  imagine if I had posted it at that point it  would have displayed the code fragments, but what I did was simply click o n the toggle view button   two more times and it cleared everything up . So maybe those that are having this issue can simply click toggle view button twice and then post after the code get's  properly organized.     

[alta]

It happenes every time you try to paste text. Sometimes I will type something on notepad and copy/paste here. Or when I copy/paste an article. I always have to go back in and fix the tags when doing that. Every single time. I just assumed it was because I'm using my over rated Icrap products.

[ArJunaZ]

It happenes every time you try to paste text. Sometimes I will type something on notepad and copy/paste here. Or when I copy/paste an article. I always have to go back in and fix the tags when doing that. Every single time. I just assumed it was because I'm using my over rated Icrap products.

I paste text all the  time in my GDT OP and I do not have that problem. I do sometimes have to change the carriage returns to get proper line spacing. In any case, if you see the formatting codes in your post then try using my procedure under "Bottom Line" in my previous post and it should clear those up. I have managed to create the problem a few times and it is always cleared up by using that simple procedure.

Here it is again:


BOTTOM LINE:  If you see your post is screwed up then simply "Modify" your post by clicking on "Modify", then click the toggle view button twice.  This should clear up the funky code fragments.  It did for me. Then "Save" your post again.  I have reproduced this (still not sure how) a few times and each time it is resolved by following this procedure.