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GDT#21 Blackhawks @ Capitals 7:00 p.m. ET Wed Nov 21, 2018 NBCSWA, WGN
richkrt99:
I couldn't watch the game - only access to NHL tonight so seeing highlights.
I'm liking Boyd more and more. He adds some spark and has made some very nice plays with his hustle
Send Burka packing. We could use the salary elsewhere and at this point I'll take just about any of [size=78%]our other options over Burka. [/size]
Sweet goal by OVIE/willie
Curious as to which team played better. Can't tell from random bits of highlights
alta:
wasn’t a bad game, great start for once, and their first 3 game win streak
PUCKNRUSH:
--- Quote from: richkrt99 on Wednesday November 21, 2018, 09:51:09 PM Eastern ---I couldn't watch the game - only access to NHL tonight so seeing highlights.
I'm liking Boyd more and more. He adds some spark and has made some very nice plays with his hustle
Send Burka packing. We could use the salary elsewhere and at this point I'll take just about any of [size=78%]our other options over Burka. [/size]
Sweet goal by OVIE/willie
Curious as to which team played better. Can't tell from random bits of highlights
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Overall we played better,IMO, Rich. We scorched them in the first period at both ends. We could have had 2 or 3 more, with a bit more puck luck. Crawford kept the hawks in the game at end of 1st P with some good saves! Later in game we laid off the gas a little, not atypical for us to do!
Generally held on at 3-2 in the 3rd until DSP scored.
It would be unfair to say Chicago played a good game! They were mostly off a bit, some of it on them, and quite a bit we also dictated!
My 2 cents.
Happy Thanksgiving Rich, and EVERYONE!!
Rush
4 Caps:
Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Caps did their part by winning and sending home all the Cap fans happy. We are playing pretty well especially since we are missing two top six forwards. I am really worried about Oshie, another concussion. That I believe is five. I believe he will be out awhile, in fact with his family history I wonder if we will consider calling it a career.
BlackIce:
Back from the game.
Chicago plays a different looking game from most teams. It seemed as though all their lines were doing a weave in their own zone after they got the puck, trying to generate lanes to skate through the neutral zone. They are a little quicker than we are, and hemmed us in from time to time, which explains the shot disparity.
Funny how Wilson simply can't avoid contact. Right after his goal he steamrolled Crawford, who was completely out of position setting up for what he thought was going to be an Ovechkin shot.
Face-offs were almost 50/50, which surprised the heck out of me, because it seemed to me as if we were losing 2 out of 3 in our zone. The refs are getting really picky on face-offs. One team or the other got a man thrown out on almost every one before a good face-off was executed.
I don't know why people are complaining about Burakovsky at this moment. His game was fine tonight.
Backstrom/Ovie/Wilson were on the ice almost all the time that Kane/Toews/Saad were.
Virtually no hitting in the game -- 14 hits total between the two teams.
Wilson led the forwards in ice time again tonight. The man is a beast -- pp now, pk, you name it. The rest of the lines were sometimes good, sometimes not. Because of the Kuzy/Oshie injuries there are a number of guys playing out of their comfort zone.
I was hoping to see Siegenthaler tonight, but no, it was Bowey and Djoos, I suspect because the Blackhawks are all shiftiness and virtually no toughness.
Bigger crowd than I expected for a Thanksgiving eve game.
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