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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #40 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:18:38 PM Eastern »
Another 20 of ball cheese.. Gonna be very fortunate to even get a point tonight. Arena is dead. Someone needs to make some fucking noise! Remind them it's a home game..

Why should they give a shit when it's obvious the Caps don't?  This is getting old.


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The Caps passing is horrific.

I've hardly been watching this game. BORING!
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #41 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:20:45 PM Eastern »

I think Lil wore him out in a dream again  :snicker:


Must have..  :wackysmile:

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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #42 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:21:33 PM Eastern »

I think Lil wore him out in a dream again  :snicker:

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I tild you, it wasn't that kind of dream.  Oh and did I mention the serial killer....   
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #43 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:26:25 PM Eastern »
IL haven't had a problem getting a link for a long time, but when that happens, or when the link goes down, it NEVER bodes well.
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #44 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:33:47 PM Eastern »
joke of an effort tonight
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #45 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:34:45 PM Eastern »
Well that was rubbish.   :raised-eyebrow:
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #46 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:35:03 PM Eastern »
I swear that I am hoping we don't even make the playoffs. We don't deserve it.
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #47 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:35:28 PM Eastern »
Hope they got booed.. That was about the lamest 60 minutes of hockey I can remember..  :poop:

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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #48 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:40:22 PM Eastern »


1st Period
16:33  Wild GOAL Greenway, assists Donato & Dubnyk   1-0 MIN

2nd Period
10:42  GOAL 10-Connolly, assists 3-Jensen & 77-Oshie   1-1 TIE

3rd Period
12:25  Wild GOAL Kunin, assists parise & Donato   2-1 MIN

FINAL:    2-1 MIN
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #49 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:40:56 PM Eastern »
next game is Sunday at 12:30, so they don't get the full two days of rest they obviously need
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #50 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:42:30 PM Eastern »
at least the newest Grand Tour is on now, the orangutan should cheer me up
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #51 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:47:32 PM Eastern »
It's funny, the post game guys are all saying how boring, bad, and ugly this game was.  You could feel it from the start. I did not even watch the 2nd and 3rd period. I just kept it on in the background quietly as I did other things.
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #52 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 09:47:47 PM Eastern »
Only guy that played well for us was Burakovsky.  Just an overall lazy game with zero hitting. Boy, am I glad I didn't pay for a ticket to the snoozer.  Not sure how to explain that one.

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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #53 on: Friday March 22, 2019, 10:02:19 PM Eastern »
Those dopes done soured my Friday night..  :-(  I get a bad period or two but at some point you'd expect to at least produce some smoke.. Losses I can take, but just rollin over dead for the entire 60.. Concerning.


Shame the only guy who could possibly "fight" some life into em' plays on the 1 line and is our best forward.. Hard to ask him to be a goon at this point in the season, but we needed one tonight.

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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #54 on: Saturday March 23, 2019, 01:51:58 AM Eastern »
The following is a short list of euphemisms, used by a few coaches, players, and media, for the Caps, over the last couple of seasons.
They attempt to describe, (AND SOFT-SPIN, FOR THE FANS), the effort-lacking, and inexcusable phenomenon, that seems to randomly infect these players, WAY TOO OFTEN, in games like we’ve witnessed tonight, against Minnesota!


Coach Rierden - “Commitment level problem”
Coach Trotz - “Several guys NOT BUYIN’ IN tonight”
Holtby - “Maybe it wasn’t our best effort”
Oshie - “Every guy has to SHOW UP, and we didn’t have that tonight”
Carlson - “Can’t have guys who don’t feel like playin that night”
Locker - “They’ve taken their foot off the gas for all 3 periods tonight”
Joe B - “Caps are lookin lifeless and lethargic this evening”


HEY TED!!
I know I’m more old school, and You’re Caps are NOT the only NHL team, and the NHL is not the only Professional sport, where this “lack-of effort” stuff has become FULLY TOLERATED!!!


It has been a slow, and gradual process, starting with absolute NO TOLERANCE, or acceptance, of effort issues, from players (15-20 yrs ago).... morphing to a few professional coaches who began to TOLERATE it, but if you were a superstar, MGMNT might look the other way..... to NOW,.... full blown making of excuses, and rationalizations, (with the support of the MEDIA), for why a team shows up, and basically plays like they don’t give a SHIT, on many nights!!


Father Time has been the interface, that helps the general public to accept, GRADUALLY, NOW, this previously UNACCEPTED-BY-THE-FANS, atmosphere, that we witness, to our dismay!!
Many of us have reluctantly, and grudgingly, GIVEN IN!!  WHY???.... because you well know, as do your fans,  that there’s not much we can do about it.  PERIOD!


You have received in excess of $10K/annually, 4 years going, now, out of MY POCKET, for my season tickets!! Truthfully, I say, NO PROBLEM!! I knew the deal when I got in!
The chase for the Cup, honestly, is the main reason that I renewed, the last two seasons!! Thanks to your entire organization for that!!


NOW, I can, and have made, a less emotional, and VALUE DRIVEN decision, which Monumental required me to do so, by March 15th, 2019. That was, whether to RENEW again!


Frankly, you’re kind tickets rep will inform you that I DID NOT RENEW!!
I WILL be at the playoffs this year, as those have been purchased already!!
After that, my seats go elsewhere!


I will still be a loyal Caps fan, just as before! The Stanley Cup, the exciting games, with their emotional
ups and downs, as well as the journey to get to the TOP, have been well worth it!!


It has, however, hit a point, for me personally, where, when the journey is REGULARLY tainted with players who play HALF ASS, often, and YOU, SIR, who are ultimately responsible for affecting a change, HAVE NOT DONE SO, (despite the teams overall success), it completely CHEAPENS ITS VALUE, for me!!

[/size][size=78%]YOU, Mr Leonsis, need only to witness last nights game performance, which symbolically represents well, the BIGGER ISSUE, in order to discover why MY $10K, will go elsewhere, while I happily, (and with much less stress), watch our beloved Washington Capitals, from the comfort of my LIVING ROOM next year!![/size]
Thanks for the memories!
LETS GO CAPS!!


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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #55 on: Saturday March 23, 2019, 09:07:55 AM Eastern »

Rush - you lasted one year longer than I did.  Although I gave up my seats because I was moving, I would have given them up anyway.  I shared them with three other guys the last couple of years I had them and none of them wanted to continue.  While you have the season tickets, it is easy to get immune to the cost because you do it all up front and rationalize it - without having to buy tickets to individual games and be reminded each time.


Now I got lucky because my last year ended up being the Cup year and I would have really kicked myself if I had given up the seats a year early.  I also had the tickets for the years when I took my girls to a lot of games and it was a great father-daughter bond, so I would not have changed that.


When I didn't renew, it was interesting what the reaction was from my ticket rep.  He went from being a typical marketing guy to a very cold and harsh reaction.  He asked why I wasn't renewing and I gave him my reasons which I thought would be good feedback.  Instead of saying "thanks for the feedback and we appreciate you being a season ticketholder for 10 years" or "what can we do to keep you - we really appreciate having you as a season ticketholder"  he was really rude and left me angry.  I have another story about how they handled a friend that had been a season ticketholder for 30 years or so and it was really sad and a terrible business practice.


Anyway, I now watch every game with my Roku and NHL subscription and love it. I don't miss not going the games, but know that I can always swing back into town and get tickets whenever I want.  Welcome to the couch-watchers!

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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #56 on: Saturday March 23, 2019, 10:03:29 AM Eastern »
Rush - you lasted one year longer than I did.  Although I gave up my seats because I was moving, I would have given them up anyway.  I shared them with three other guys the last couple of years I had them and none of them wanted to continue.  While you have the season tickets, it is easy to get immune to the cost because you do it all up front and rationalize it - without having to buy tickets to individual games and be reminded each time.


Now I got lucky because my last year ended up being the Cup year and I would have really kicked myself if I had given up the seats a year early.  I also had the tickets for the years when I took my girls to a lot of games and it was a great father-daughter bond, so I would not have changed that.


When I didn't renew, it was interesting what the reaction was from my ticket rep.  He went from being a typical marketing guy to a very cold and harsh reaction.  He asked why I wasn't renewing and I gave him my reasons which I thought would be good feedback.  Instead of saying "thanks for the feedback and we appreciate you being a season ticketholder for 10 years" or "what can we do to keep you - we really appreciate having you as a season ticketholder"  he was really rude and left me angry.  I have another story about how they handled a friend that had been a season ticketholder for 30 years or so and it was really sad and a terrible business practice.


Anyway, I now watch every game with my Roku and NHL subscription and love it. I don't miss not going the games, but know that I can always swing back into town and get tickets whenever I want.  Welcome to the couch-watchers!


That's really unfortunate regarding the treatment you received.


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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #57 on: Saturday March 23, 2019, 11:18:45 AM Eastern »
Rush - you lasted one year longer than I did.  Although I gave up my seats because I was moving, I would have given them up anyway.  I shared them with three other guys the last couple of years I had them and none of them wanted to continue.  While you have the season tickets, it is easy to get immune to the cost because you do it all up front and rationalize it - without having to buy tickets to individual games and be reminded each time.


Now I got lucky because my last year ended up being the Cup year and I would have really kicked myself if I had given up the seats a year early.  I also had the tickets for the years when I took my girls to a lot of games and it was a great father-daughter bond, so I would not have changed that.


When I didn't renew, it was interesting what the reaction was from my ticket rep.  He went from being a typical marketing guy to a very cold and harsh reaction.  He asked why I wasn't renewing and I gave him my reasons which I thought would be good feedback.  Instead of saying "thanks for the feedback and we appreciate you being a season ticketholder for 10 years" or "what can we do to keep you - we really appreciate having you as a season ticketholder"  he was really rude and left me angry.  I have another story about how they handled a friend that had been a season ticketholder for 30 years or so and it was really sad and a terrible business practice.


Anyway, I now watch every game with my Roku and NHL subscription and love it. I don't miss not going the games, but know that I can always swing back into town and get tickets whenever I want.  Welcome to the couch-watchers!


LOL, thanks Beags!
I’ve been waiting to pull the trigger on this for several years now, but hung in there instead, and I’m glad I did. Also glad to be leaving the thing, as is!
You make a good point, that I can always catch a game, here and there.


It’s funny that you mentioned your experience with the tickets rep, when you cancelled. I had used the words “your kind rep”, in my post!  I should have alluded to it being extremely sarcastic in nature!!
He was very good during my time, but very cold shouldered and negative, when I cancelled!! One example was that during the phone conversation, he asked why I was cancelling. Stating my reasons, as mentioned earlier, (much shorter, and to the point), he was simultaneously typing my response as I spoke. He would then read it back to me, using a tone suggesting my reasons were ridiculous, and near laughable! (Oh yeah, that sure helped HIS cause)!!LOL!!
He then proceeded to tell me what I hear often, that “it’s just the way the game is going”. Then adding, “there’s really not much you can do”!
I said back to his young, smart ass, “Actually there is something I can do! You’re actually helping me with it, right now”!   That incident just helped to put a period on it, that my decision was correct!


Thanks for the “couch club”, welcome, Beags!!


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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #58 on: Saturday March 23, 2019, 01:07:40 PM Eastern »
I couldn't help but notice last night, a Friday night game downtown, all the empty seats along the glass in the first 3 rows.
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Re: GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
« Reply #59 on: Saturday March 23, 2019, 09:02:16 PM Eastern »
I couldn't help but notice last night, a Friday night game downtown, all the empty seats along the glass in the first 3 rows.




Yes, but those seats ARE by and large sold -- many to corporate interests, so they are filled whenever some people are available to use them.  I know a few corporate people or their relatives who get tickets to select games and go, but it's a tax write-off as much as anything. 


I also am giving up my season tickets, and as well, am not going to this year's playoffs.  My reason is different than most -- I was disappointed in yet another 8% price hike on my tickets, but I had already decided to give them up because I have family financial issues that need to be dealt with, and the money can be better used elsewhere.


The Caps didn't have it last night.  It looked like a prototypical down game after they gave a max effort against Tampa.  Other teams often had that happen to them after playing the Caps when they were on top of the league points-wise.  A lot of times, for example, the Pens would lose their next game or two after facing the Caps. 


Tom Wilson has had a fabulous season, but he especially struggled last night.  Nothing went right for the guy.  Ovie didn't do much, but then, the Wild cheated toward him as much or more than I've seen any other team do this season.  It was especially obvious on the PP -- they had a guy shadowing him even when the puck was on the other side of the ice, and were content to play 4 on 3.  But in the final analysis the game came down to puck luck.  On the Wild break where they scored the winning goal the puck was sitting nicely for the guy as he picked it up and skated down the slot, so he could choose his time to shoot.  On Wilson's breakaway coming out of the box the puck was tumbling, so he had to skate in on Dubnyk (sp?) while gaining control of it, and ended up too close to the net before he could do anything. 


The Caps tried -- they had the puck in the Wild zone about 80% of the time after the Wild broke the tie, but they never got a really clean look at the goal.