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Talk about Capitals hockey & more! => Washington Capitals & Other Hockey Discussion => Topic started by: alta on Thursday March 14, 2024, 04:51:07 PM Eastern
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March 14 vs Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena
Time: 10:00
TV: Monumental Sports 2
Radio: 106.7 FM, Capitals Radio 24/7
Washington Capitals 30-25-9
PP% 19(21st) PK% 79.2(16th) Faceoff% 46.5(30th)
Seattle Kraken 28-24-12
PP% 20.8(18th) PK% 79.1(17th) Faceoff% 47.4(25th)
Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - McMichael 24 - Oshie(A) 77
Miroshnichenko 63 - Strome 17 - Wilson 43
Pacioretty 67 - Lapierre 29 - Milano 15
Malenstyn 47 - Dowd 26 - Protas 21
Fehervary 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Sandin 38 - Jensen 3
Alexeyev 27 - van Riemsdyk 57
Lindgren 79
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Strome, Lapierre, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, Wilson, Pacioretty, McMichael, Sandin
scratched:
Kuemper 35 - back up
Sgarbossa 23
Aubé-Kubel 96
Bear 25
LTIR:
Backstrom 19 - hip - season
Kraken anticipated lines:
Tatar 90 - Beniers 10 - Eberle 7
Kartye 52 - McCann 19 - Burakovsky 95
Tolvanen 20 - Gourde 37 - Bjorkstrand 22
Yamamoto 56 - Bellemare 41 - Tanev 13
Dumoulin 8 - Larsson 6
Oleksiak 24 - Borgen 3
Evans 39 - Schultz 4
Daccord 35
Grubauer 31 - back up
tonight’s zebras:
Kyle Rehman 10, Michael Markovic 31
James Tobias 61, Bryan Pancich 94
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-take-on-kraken (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-take-on-kraken)
scoring summary
1st period:
no goals
2nd period:
Oshie(11) PPG unassisted at 14:20
3rd period:
Bjorkstrand from Gourde and Yamamoto at 3:32
McMichael(14) unassisted at 11:36
Caps win 2-1
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Let's go!! Oh wait, it's still 3+ hours till puck drop. :-(
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https://twitter.com/sammisilber/status/1768430747357000175 (https://twitter.com/sammisilber/status/1768430747357000175)
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Coach going full corporate. Nak out for Protas is criminal. Pacioretty has been the invisible man but they scratch someone who may have a future here for his washed up slow ass. :(
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Mornin' Lil :raspberry: :snicker: :hearts:
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game is on monumental 2 tonight, despite what the website says
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If Chuck is "on", this ones winnable. They'll probably :poop: themselves since everyone else lost tonight.
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coach is throwing spaghetti at the wall again
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game is on monumental 2 tonight, despite what the website says
You don't get monu 2?? Are those paid channels in town now or can you still see the Caps free, over the air?
coach is throwing spaghetti at the wall again
Yea, he likes his spaghetti. :-\
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You don't get monu 2?? Are those paid channels in town now or still free over the air?
I get it, but the website says it’s on the primary. I turned on the primary and it’s basketball..
:O=
It’s not free, it’s part of the cable package
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gonna be a 20 after start again..
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That's how to start boys! :-\
2 grads A's (now 3) and a PK a minute in. lol
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Now were cookin'! 5 minutes in we got a shot on goal!! :wackysmile:
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We could start by winning a puck battle every now and then. lol
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not a bad 1st, game is tied at least
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Showed a little life, skating well. Just sucks our O is about as threatening as a new born kitten.
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pp time
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Guess I'll give em 2 more minutes then. :raspberry: Fart sack callin my name. :yawn:
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there you go, pp is over
:raised-eyebrow:
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nother pp ..
hopefully this one lasts more that 4 seconds
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no dice
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Oh well, gonna catch the rest from the bedroom. See who else can be "unlucky" according to Locker.. lol
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nother pp …
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PP GOOOAAALLLL
OSHIE
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I'll take lucky. Too bad they followed it up with 200 actual chances and couldn't get one to go. :sick:
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based on what’s been called this season, that should be goalie interference
:O=
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Fart noise
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What a shitty pp. :(
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GOOOAAALLLL
MCMICHAEL
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Atta boy McMike!!
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Protas is entirely too big to play as soft as he does
Could be a beast
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8-0
Caps win 2-1
:)
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Nice!! Saturday at 10. Monumental 2 :P
Last 20 games, need 11-8-1 to have a chance. Currently 1-2-0 W1
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And for those who may have questioned why Kuemper started the previous game against Edmonton, there's why. Carbery threw him to the wolves, knowing it was very unlikely that the Caps could win that game anyway. Save your better goalie for the game you have a decent chance of winning.
If the Caps could somehow split the last two and come out of this trip 2-3, it wouldn't be a disaster for their playoff chances. But who really thinks that this team belongs in the playoffs, anyway? They are obviously not competitive against the better teams in the league, but they play with heart and are hanging in there by squeaking by against the teams they have a chance to beat. That's why their record is as good as it is while their goal differential is bad.
[size=78%]Carbery looks very much like a results coach - their place in the standings is higher than their capabilities would suggest. If Carbery can strategize and/or will THIS team to the playoffs he deserves at least perfunctory consideration for coach of the year. But it would not be the best thing for this franchise over the longer term, [/size]because[size=78%] it won't help the team get the high-end talent they are going to need to compete over the next several years. Honestly, at this point it would be better for them to fall apart at the seams for the rest of the regular season.[/size][size=78%]
Why the last paragraph got goofy formatting I haven't a clue.[/size]
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I didn't see one minute of it, but I'll take the win. I guess...although losing would prolly be better in the long run
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I didn't see one minute of it, but I'll take the win. I guess...although losing would prolly be better in the long run
It would, but they've already pretty much fucked up picking in the top 10. So, might as well root for a (still unrealistic) playoff bid. They're gonna end up picking 13th-16th either way, imo..
And oh, you didn't miss much. We capitalized on 2 mistakes to get our goals. Goalie fucked up trying to clear the puck and bounced it in off Oshies leg. Then a bad turnover led to a McMike breakaway goal. We had no actual offense to speak of, for the 3rd straight game. :wackysmile:
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It would, but they've already pretty much fucked up picking in the top 10. So, might as well root for a (still unrealistic) playoff bid. They're gonna end up picking 13th-16th either way, imo..
And oh, you didn't miss much. We capitalized on 2 mistakes to get our goals. Goalie fucked up trying to clear the puck and bounced it in off Oshies leg. Then a bad turnover led to a McMike breakaway goal. We had no actual offense to speak of, for the 3rd straight game. :wackysmile:
Ah, but how many times have we heard complaints on this board about how the Caps can't capitalize on scoring opportunities and then BAM - the opponent gets a chance and it ends up in the net. Sometimes maybe it's our turn to be out chanced, but we get the big breaks and win.
As for our position in the standings, after the bottom 7 (3 in the East, 4 in the West) who look out of touch below the rest of the league, there are 12 teams clustered within 9 points of each other, between 67 and 76 standings points. The Caps, with 71, are smack in the middle of that group at the moment, and every other team has played as many or more games as we have. So we could finish anywhere from like the 6th or 7th East seed in the playoffs to the 8th worst record. Our number of games remaining is a bit of an advantage, but we also seem to have the toughest finishing schedule of any team. And who knows about all the tiebreakers? It seems to me that where we finish is totally up in the air at this point.
Finishing relatively strong and squeaking into the playoffs may look good on the franchise resume, but we aren't by any means a Cup contender and picking in the middle to bottom middle of the pack again isn't going to help the franchise longer-term. This is especially true now that we've bitten the bullet, picked up some draft picks, and are pretty well stocked with them for the next few years. It isn't just a higher first round pick, either -- you're picking higher in EACH round, so if someone promising slides below their prospect rank for some reason, you have a better chance to grab them.
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BlackIce - fully agree. Remember last year though, they lost a bunch of games at the end to get down to the 8th pick. I'm thinking the best we can hope for this time is about 10th or 11th - and get very lucky in the lottery!
We just have to hope that Leonard is the real deal, and that Lappy and McMike keep developing and that a couple other prospects turn into big time players - Cristall, Miro, Sudvalev and Chesley. Then we could be well positioned after two more years with our big contracts expiring for Ovi, Backstrom, Oshie and Carlson. With that money we should be able to sign some nice free agents, to go with our young guys.
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I watched the highlights....Nice breakaway by McMike.
and damn...two primary assists on Caps goals should go to Canucks goalie and Canuck...Bearkowski :snicker:
McMike should be on the shoot out list, take Kuzy's spot