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Talk about Capitals hockey & more! => Washington Capitals & Other Hockey Discussion => Topic started by: alta on Wednesday November 08, 2023, 02:10:09 PM Eastern
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November 8 vs Panthers at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:30
TV: TNT
Radio: 106.7 FM, Capitals Radio 24/7
Washington Capitals 5-4-1
PP% 9.7(30th) PK% 79.4(16th) Faceoff% 45.9(27th)
Florida Panthers 6-4-1
PP% 13.5(26th) PK% 71.1(26th) Faceoff% 52.4(10th)
Caps anticipated lines:
Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Wilson 43
Milano 15 - Kuznetsov 92 - Oshie 77
Protas 21 - McMichael 24 - Mantha 39
Malenstyn 47 - Lapierre 29 - Phillips 45
Fehervary 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Sandin 38 - Jensen 3
Hamān Aktell 4 - Alexeyev 27
Kuemper 35
PP1: Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Oshie, Strome, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, Wilson, Lapierre, Phillips, Sandin
scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Sgarbossa 23
Johansen 46
van Riemsdyk 57 - lower body
IR:
Dowd 26 - upper body
LTIR:
Pacioretty 67 - achilles
Edmundson 6 - hand
Backstrom 19 - hip - season
Cats anticipated lines:
Rodrigues 17 - Barkov 16 - Reinhart 13
Verhaeghe 23 - Lundell 15 - Tkachuk 19
Luostarinen 27 - Stenlund 82 - Cousins 21
Lomberg 94 - Lorentz 18 - Lockwood 67
Forsling 42 - Ekman-Larsson 91
Mikkola 77 - Kulikov 7
Mahura 28 - Reilly 6
Bobrovsky 72
Stolarz 41 - back up
tonight’s zebras:
François St. Laurent 8, Chris Lee 28
Shandor Alphonso 52, Julien Fournier 56
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-finish-homestand-vs-florida (https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-finish-homestand-vs-florida)
scoring summary
1st period:
Mantha(2) from Protas(2) and Kuemper(1) at 10:42
Ekman-Larsson from Tkachuk and Lundell at 12:49
Barkov from Reinhart at 16:45
2nd period:
McMichael(3) SHG from Protas(3) and Fehervary(1) at 6:13
Mantha(3) from McMichael(2) at 15:51
3rd period:
Rodrigues from Forsling and Ekman-Larsson at 3:33
OT:
Reinhart from Barkov and Rodrigues at :15
Caps lose 4-3
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TvR is definitely not playing tonight, Kuzy is a game time decision
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How the fuck does Charlie not get the start after last game? These idiots with "contract clout" piss me off. "He makes $5m, so he's the #1, even if he sucks most nights!" :clown:
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Evening chaps. :wackysmile:
Have your clocks gone back yet?
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clocks went back Sunday morning, it’s a stupid rule
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Clocks went back. Still didn't keep em' from giving us a stupid 7:30pm start time.
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How the fuck does Charlie not get the start after last game? These idiots with "contract clout" piss me off. "He makes $5m, so he's the #1, even if he sucks most nights!" :clown:
They resting him...He just came of injury. Meh...they don't generally give him two in a row. I'm sure he will get the next one with a back to back
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Lil's gonna love the sweaters tonight! :O=
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Clocks went back. Still didn't keep em' from giving us a stupid 7:30pm start time.
Its them Florida people - none of them can be on time for shit, so the rest of the world has to accommodate them.
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Meh...they don't generally give him two in a row.
Meh...they don't generally do anything that makes sense. :raspberry:
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Its them Florida people - none of them can be on time for shit, so the rest of the world has to accommodate them.
Must be.. Fucking Fl and Tampa both always get these fucked up start times playing us. Yet, any other night of the week I check the guide. 7pm, 7pm, 7pm.. :huh:
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On a plus note, K has lasted the first few minutes without letting in a softie. Gotta be a record for him. :raspberry:
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Lil's gonna love the sweaters tonight! :O=
Most of the fans are rocking the red, so I think they agree with me. 8)
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GOOOAAALLLL
MANTHA
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the nhl gave Kuemper an assist on that
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Way to go Mantha! You lucky bastard!! :wackysmile:
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AntMan!
:banana:
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:O=
:poop: :clown:
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:clown: :poop: lucky ass snipe
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Oh well, they're awake now. :(
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:O= :O=
:clown: :poop:
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Hell yea! Only down 1 after 1. :) :raspberry:
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McMike Chorty!!!
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Couple of kids teaming up for a shorty!!
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GOOOAAALLLL
MCMICHAEL
SHG
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:banana: :banana:
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Constant freezing and buffering tonight. :angry:
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GOOOAAALLLL
WILSON
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Florida challenges for offsides
:raised-eyebrow:
:clown: :poop:
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"probably" is offside. But I've not seen a definitive look.
Love the NHL with their "Probably was" mentality, overruling the on ice calls. lol
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Legit Mantha!! Let's go boy!!!
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GOOOAAALLLL
MANTHA
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Nice dish by CMM
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Didn't see it. :-(
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Oooooh! Replay.
That was NICE. ;)
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Who's the Leafs guy doing the league highlights? lol "Get it together Leafs".. (They just scored on em' again while you were yelling) "GOD DAMMIT" :rofl:
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:goalie:
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:O= :O= :O=
:clown: :poop:
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Who's the Leafs guy doing the league highlights? lol "Get it together Leafs".. (They just scored on em' again while you were yelling) "GOD DAMMIT" :rofl:
I have no clue who that is but he looks like a baseball player to me
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Another night that feels like we've not won a single faceoff.
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I'm finding this hard going tonight.
:yawn:
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Come on the reds .... oh, wait........
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Mantha is leaking on the ice after catching a puck to the face.
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Cool, Mantha having a night, gets one in the face. :-|
Somebody buy Lady Luck some flowers or something.
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Not the red I was after. :-(
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From the replay that looked like a fist, not the puck.
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Hopefully he's ok. That looked like it could of broke stuff though.
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extra minutes
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Bro practically tackled Wilson. :clown:
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Oh joy.
OT
:yawn: :yawn:
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:clown: :poop:
Oh well, got a point.
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:clown: :poop:
:O= :O= :O= :O=
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Got a point. Glad it's over.
Night all. :hearts:
:yawn: :yawn: :yawn:
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Friday night, normal time. Later..
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So why start the same guys all the time in OT - they are not effective. Why not reward the guys that have played well - like McMichael. He showed great speed and good hands. I would go with McMike, Strom and Fever.
Overall, a decent effort. Thought McMike was a star and Protus was skating. The cross-check McMike took was dangerous and I was surprised there was no response. Somebody should have taken out Reinhard.
The Phillips experiment should be over.
Another struggle for Oshie.
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^^^^^^^^^^ Word! lol
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Well Shit. Overall pretty good showing. Even Kuemper looked good
Fuckin Mantha cant catch a break. McMike decided he wants to be a center in the NHL for real
I don’t know who the Caps pissed off but they don’t get the calls. Fuckin phantom calls on Willy but he gets grabbed & TSA searched on a breakaway and no call.
Fucking offsides BS fucking rule. Yeah it was offsides but it had nothing to do with the goal.
So ten games in and Mantha has more goals than Ovie and we have more SH goals than PP goals and have more goals overturned than we have PP goals
Team is a struggle enough…it doesn’t need help
Ovi looks like old doo-doo, except he’s made some nice passes, otherwise he looks old and slow and a little lost
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Two observations:
Ovie looks like he's had it. If he gets 10-15 goals for the season, he should retire rather than embarrass himself.
Kuemper sucks. He stunk on the 2nd goal and was comical on the OT goal. He does stuff that you should have been coached out of in Pee Wee hockey. Our goalie coach appears to be useless.
Oh, and make sure you have your slowest guys out there for OT.
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Im concerned about Ovi, but at least he's kinda in the play. Making passes, getting off a shot or two. Oshie though, I just feel sorry for. Bro looks beer leagueish.
Kuemper can't get his shit together until he gives up at least 2 on minimal shots.
Kuzy had been sick all week and looked like shit all night. McMike or Strome should of been the C on the ice for the 1st couple shifts of OT. We SHOULD of been on the PP, but not sure that would of made a difference other than possible delay the loss for a minute or two.
Our PP is clown shit. We spend at least half the time chasing/retrieving the puck and trying to get "set up" in zone.. Other teams just waltz into our zone, setup, take shots, collect rebounds, more passes/shots, rinse/repeat.. We're just too old and slow with them all on the ice at the same time.
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Well Shit. Overall pretty good showing. Even Kuemper looked good
Fuckin Mantha cant catch a break. McMike decided he wants to be a center in the NHL for real
I don’t know who the Caps pissed off but they don’t get the calls. Fuckin phantom calls on Willy but he gets grabbed & TSA searched on a breakaway and no call.
Fucking offsides BS fucking rule. Yeah it was offsides but it had nothing to do with the goal.
So ten games in and Mantha has more goals than Ovie and we have more SH goals than PP goals and have more goals overturned than we have PP goals
Team is a struggle enough…it doesn’t need help
Ovi looks like old doo-doo, except he’s made some nice passes, otherwise he looks old and slow and a little lost
That pretty much says it all.
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OT was over so quick I had to watch game highlights to see who was out there. Kuzy, who isn’t slow but doesn’t care. Carlson, who is slow. And Fever.
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I thought Wilson started OT with Carlson and Kuzy - maybe he came off quickly. Kuzy is pretty much worthless except in the shootout and once every 5 games when he makes a cool pass.
I've said for years that Kuzy could be a superstar if he was coached the right way. He fell in love with skating around and passing instead of scoring goals. If you paid him on an incentive only contract he would score 50 a year.
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Carberry pretty much called out Kuzy on the OT loss...out of position.
Realistically, Kuzy SHOULD be our best OT hope with the skating and stick handling ability, but .... that's our Kuzy.
Too bad for Mantha - the dude been so snake bit for so long, and he finally gets a bounce and then a good second goal and then rewarded with a puck to the face. I thought McMike/Mantha/Protas had a really good night - especially McMike.
I might give McMike a shot at OT - he's a bit of a defensive liability ,but compared to Kuzy?
I'd prolly put Strome and Willy out there. Not sure what our faceoff numbers are so that matters.
Mantha, McMike, and Willy tied for 2nd most goals on the team with 3 :-| . Three goals in 10 games is pretty much where we want Mantha to be. Especially considering he's been on 3rd/4th line. Of course, you not paying him 3rd/4th line money.
Problem is we have only 2 goals from Ovie, 1 from Kuzy and zero from Oshie. 3 goals from half of your top six in 10 games. (and 0 from Backy)
Milano has had TWO goals taken away now right? I mean hard to keep up when we have had 6 goals overturned.