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GDT R4G2 Capitals @ Knights 2018-05-30 8:00pm EST NBCSW, CBC, SN, TVAS
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: chas on Thursday May 31, 2018, 05:52:29 AM Eastern ---I hate this. And we do it far to often. Carlson isn't the only one. You can see them get pinned behind the net and glance up ice across the middle. And then the pass. They telegraph this move on top of it being patently stupid.
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Not really sure why Carlson is getting singled out. All of our dmen make that stupid pass.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: chas on Thursday May 31, 2018, 05:52:29 AM Eastern ---I hate this. And we do it far to often. Carlson isn't the only one. You can see them get pinned behind the net and glance up ice across the middle. And then the pass. They telegraph this move on top of it being patently stupid.
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Agreed! This is effective far less than is designed or/expected (if at all), and typically ends up costing us. If they keep this up it will certainly end up costing us big
blee088:
I don't agree with the naysayers i really think the caps can beat vegas without kuznetsov. people forget the reason caps got this far is because of team defense. kuz is maybe the best player but the team can still win without him
newtoCapsparty:
--- Quote from: richkrt99 on Thursday May 31, 2018, 12:37:55 AM Eastern ---For the first time in my 35+Years of Cap fan life I almost turned the game off. The calls, non calls, the NBC bias all was too much. Mostly I lost my respect for Vegas. I thought the mantra was they are a TEAM made of grit and hustle and cast offs that came together. Tonight I saw a bunch of Divers. Fucking Neal selling that shit all the way to the bench and then on the bench. Fuck him. Fuck the guy[size=78%] guy Eller hooked. Eller barely tapped his shoulder and then pause...and then his head jerks back and he jumps to the ice. [/size]
I mean I KNOw the refs don't like the caps, especially Willy, but after the Carlson cross check call and then the shit tonight it really does look like the league is behind it AND they informed Vegas so they could ham it up
Dumb retaliation by Oshie, but why not a call on the boarding to him before it.
Great game by Caps. Overcome, overcome,overcome. Fuck Vegas. Fuck the refs. Fuck the NHL. Just do it Caps.
By the way the font size changes when I use the backspace key. Does it on my iPad as well as my windows PC
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I mentioned something similar about how the negatives about Vegas have been omitted from the fairy tale narrative that's been repeated over and over and over.
Good observation about the disconnect between the Vegas team we watch vs. glowing media descriptions of the same team. I've been surprised, too, by cheap shots guys are taking 6 inches from a referee. And before Game 1, I expected to feel somewhat good that the Caps were playing a good (fair) team and not a bunch of thugs who liked to instigate fights.
Hits home the idea that it's risky to let some other group, e.g., sports writers, tell you what something is or isn't when you haven't seen it for yourself! Go Caps!
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: blee088 on Thursday May 31, 2018, 08:42:55 AM Eastern ---I don't agree with the naysayers i really think the caps can beat vegas without kuznetsov. people forget the reason caps got this far is because of team defense. kuz is maybe the best player but the team can still win without him
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By “team defense” and “best player” you must mean Holtby.
Aside from maybe 4-5 players the team D is abysmal and/or atrocious (see the ‘telegraph across the middle discussion) . I’m fact we’ll be a better defensive team without Kuzy.
They are hot and playing above their thresholds and limitations right now, but that cannot be counted on, nor adapted as the standard
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