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GDT#49 Sharks @ Capitals 7pm Tue Jan 22 2019 NBCSWA, ESPN+, SNE, SNO, SNP, +More
zerofox:
Anyway, as a fan of hockey and as a fan of Ovechkin, I fucking loved this game. The entertainment value was off the charts, and seeing God's gift to hockey score another hat trick was awesome. Fun fact, it is his 23rd hat trick of his career, and 3rd of this season. This is his 14th season, so his 3 hat tricks this year is already double his annual average of 1.6 hat tricks per season. At age 33.
As a fan of the Capitals, this was yet another garbage game. We should have been fired up after an 8-5 loss to the literal worst team in the NHL. We should have been fired up after that so called player's only meeting. We should have been fired up knowing that we were playing on home ice against a tired Sharks team without their two-time Norris trophy winning defenseman. We should have been fired up after seeing our Captain, Alex "Russian Jesus" Ovechkin, score his 3rd goal and giving us a 6-4 lead with 15 minutes left in the game. This team still manages to fuck things up.
At this point I'd trade Reirden for 10 Martin Erats.
richkrt99:
No Rant today - short synopsis :
Just for clarity, I've ranked these on a scale of thumbs up being good with a max of 5 and 0 being neither bad nor good, and 5 turds being the absolute worst you could get
Caps O: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: (O probably deserves 5, but NO, can't do it)
Caps D: (well I should leave this blank because there was NONE, but) :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop:
Caps PP: :poop: :poop: (they did score one PP goal, but they gave up a Shortie on a 3 on 0) So essentially they are even
Caps PK: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: (times infinity)
Goaltending: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: :poop: ( you have to stop the puck at least occasionally, even without any help from your team)
Overall Team play: :poop: :poop: :poop: [/size] (I started with 5 turds here, but they DID score 6 goals)
richkrt99:
I see alot of back and forth about Ovi's play and stupid coaching about having him out there, etc...
I thought Ovi played a great game. He scored the hattie, but he hustled too. He WAS hustling back on D the whole game. He was putting forth the effort.
He was the one guy hustling back on the 3 on 0. He was the first back and took his man out of the play. Not his fault the first guy in shot and beat the goaltender. Had there been a rebound (gasp - ye blasphemer) Ovi had his man covered. You can't put ANY of that goal on Ovi except that he happened to be on the ice. Kuzy made a stupid pass back to the point which Dylan was too stoned to keep in. Ovi was on the far wing and hustled his ass off to get back. He could not catch the first guy in but he went to the second man (well...one of them) and took him out of the play.
I'm not one to defend Ovi's typical defensive game play because he has earned some of the reputation for taking shifts off and not playing D. Last night's effort was not one of those. He played a good game.
7 goals against is a team loss. It's on everyone, and Ovi is the Captain so he gets his share. Our team D is just gone, but Holtby sucked all game. Holtby owns more of this loss because it's ultimately HIS job to stop the puck - regardless of whether he gets any help or not.
Say the Caps win in OT instead of the other way round - Caps get a win, but Holtby still had a BAD game. Both goaltenders did.
I hope Ovi gets 50+ goals this year. I think he deserves it. His game has been better this year, and not just about scoring goals. Not looking like he's going to get a chance to have a good playoff.
Man I hope this team is just coasting toward the break, and they actually come back afterward, but this looks/feels like much more.
Toronto is going to shred them. But maybe that would be better than stringing one whole win together so they can feel good going to the break.
Carlson and Holtby: All-Stars. :lol: :rofl: :lmao:
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: apace41 on Tuesday January 22, 2019, 09:50:32 PM Eastern ---What an unbelievably embarrassing streak for this team. 7 to the Preds, 8 to the Hawks, and 7 more to the Sharks. WTF is this coaching staff telling these guys to get ready for games?
--- End quote ---
Probably: “Pad your stats boys, ownership wants high scoring close games and will pay for high stats”
Mickstix:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Wednesday January 23, 2019, 10:22:26 AM Eastern ---Probably: “Pad your stats boys, ownership wants high scoring close games and will pay for high stats”
--- End quote ---
Man, I hope your right.. Cause if this is what they do when being told to play responsible hockey, we fucked.. :uh-huh:
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