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GDT#75 Wild @ Capitals 7:00pm Fri Mar 22, 2019 NBCSWA, NHLN, TVAS, FS-N`
alta:
at least the newest Grand Tour is on now, the orangutan should cheer me up
ArJunaZ:
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.
Beaglefan2:
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.
Mickstix:
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.
PUCKNRUSH:
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!!
RUSH
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