After tonight, the Caps owe Copley a seasons worth of free meals from the entire LR. He has played way better than he should have, and he's having to endure all this trash when he really actually had a solid game. Our defense has LITERALLY left him to dry all night. Disgusting. It's one thing to be fatigued/tired with all that is going on. But it's another not to wake up and realize that we set the tempo for the NHL we are seeing. We opened the season scoring goals and it's been hot fire ever since. We have to show up more than we did tonight even in games we are off in. Simple as that. With the exception of a shift or two in the first and second, we've been awful those periods. We had a couple of momentum pushing attempts in the third with hits etc, but we just were overpassing as hell, not remotely concerned with playing hard hockey, and making it ugly/looking for rebounds etc.
Forget burn the tape like Craig L has been saying, put the Tape up in the LR and force people to endure it on replay until they remember that what won this team a Stanley Cup wasn't just great offense it was commitment to winning the games however we had to. I'm sure this team can respond, but they better with Toronto on Saturday because that has all the makings of a huge statement game.
