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GDT#80 Capitals @ Panthers 7:00pm Mon Apr 1, 2019 NBCSWA, TVAS, FS-F
ArJunaZ:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Saturday April 06, 2019, 08:47:13 AM Eastern ---Thus leaves us being heavily reliant on the officials not screwing us, particularly from about mid 3rd to OT, and we have all watched enough to know that isn’t a good thing to count on.
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To me this was one of the greatest surprises of the playoff run last year. We actually had fair officiating, which I never expected given their history in past playoffs of crapping on the Caps. It felt to me as if the NHL "allowed" the Caps to win the cup provided we had the skills and coaching to do so. They very easily could have sunk us on their own, which is my greatest grievance with the NHL.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Kaz on Saturday April 06, 2019, 07:24:54 PM Eastern ---Good to give Trotz some credit for last year, but don't go overboard. He had to be forced -- almost fired twice -- to do things he hadn't done in most of his tenure here. He's less responsible for our win last year than he was for the losses of the two years prior, where he got staggeringly outcoached.
His unwillingness to play young players, to develop prospects, to properly develop roster players (Wilson, Burakovsky, Schmidt, Vrana, Connolly)... Make no mistake, he excelled last year by finally correcting glaringly huge things he failed to do in years prior. He had us playing chickenshit hockey in the playoffs with our two best teams ever. No net-front presence, not contesting the center of the ice, no chance for deflections/rebounds, everything to the outside, emphasizing low-chance shots, shortening our benches unnecessarily, not taking chances or making necessary adjustments. Trotz was a huge part of our failures prior to last year, and last year he was browbeaten into making changes, throwing everything at the wall in what he knew was his last year.
Kudos to him for taking his head out of his ass, but little more.
I agree with you on Reirden though. He hasn't been great this year, falling prey to a lot of the typical stuff coaches promoted from within typically do.
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No fuckin way, that’s just a bunch of fan boy bullshit. Trotz never coached like he did the first two years of GMBetaMales tenure. THATS when chicken shit hockey started, or returned from the BB days. Trotzs game was always a an aggressive trap based system pushing keeping everything along the boards and wearing out opponents with physical play. Real hockey, not this faggy Eurotrash woman’s rules chicken shit called “Three New NHL” that’s like the WNBA on ice.
Wilson played, and played great were he was best suited at the time:on one of the best shutdown line we’ve had. Then we over paid two UFAs on D, and made about the most moronic trade in Caps history for Shattenkrai. so Monumental isn’t gonna let him give Schmidt more of a shot, and Bura or Connelly aren’t strong, smart or good enough to play his style. So he did what he could with that line up Monumental gave him for two years so they could sell tickets to naive fans of woman’s rules hockey.
It’s pretty damn convenient that he changed all this after he was rumored for the NYI? There’s a good chance he wasn’t coming back, so he said hell with Monumental, and went to a team ran by Lou Lamoriello, who built a dynasty on playin the right way.
What we saw tonight, that shut us out, was the style he coached for years in Nashville and what he dis here his first season. He finally tweaked it to get most of this lineup to win 16 games last spring because he didn’t give a fuck what Monumental Entertainment said.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: ArJunaZ on Saturday April 06, 2019, 08:00:28 PM Eastern ---To me this was one of the greatest surprises of the playoff run last year. We actually had fair officiating, which I never expected given their history in past playoffs of crapping on the Caps. It felt to me as if the NHL "allowed" the Caps to win the cup provided we had the skills and coaching to do so. They very easily could have sunk us on their own, which is my greatest grievance with the NHL.
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Yep, but we sure as hell cant count on that . . . ever.
ArJunaZ:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Saturday April 06, 2019, 11:19:54 PM Eastern ---Yep, but we sure as hell cant count on that . . . ever.
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"No Shit Sherlock!" :wackysmile:
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: ArJunaZ on Saturday April 06, 2019, 11:56:30 PM Eastern ---"No Shit Sherlock!" :wackysmile:
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Excactly! Only The Hens can do that :wackysmile: That first round officiating is gonna be brutal on The Isles. We all know the NHL wants the Ovie v Cindy rematch and Cindy to win
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