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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #20 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:09:53 AM Eastern »
Oh FFS Sammy!

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #21 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:11:09 AM Eastern »
 :poop: :poop: :poop:


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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #22 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:11:57 AM Eastern »
Then he drops his stick for the 400th time this season..  :clown: :poop:




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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #23 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:21:06 AM Eastern »
Last time vs Toronto Sammy gave up a baby shit soft goal and they spiraled.. Seems familiar.  :-\

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #24 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:30:08 AM Eastern »
50 baby!!! OVI!!!!!

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #25 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:30:09 AM Eastern »
OOOOOOOOVECHKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN


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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #26 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:31:02 AM Eastern »
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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #27 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:37:03 AM Eastern »
How privileged are we.    :koolaid:
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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #28 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:43:14 AM Eastern »
joy, it’s OT
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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #29 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:45:53 AM Eastern »
joy, it’s OT

That's okay with me.  I've gone through the sleep wall already...... :P
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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #30 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:47:32 AM Eastern »
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phukin overtime


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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #31 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:49:44 AM Eastern »
First time I've noticed Oshie in a couple weeks..  :clown: :poop:


Ovi got 50 and we get a point. Guess it could be worse.


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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #32 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:53:41 AM Eastern »
If it wasn't for Kuzy being a selfish dumbass, Ovi would have had a hattie tonight.
Sammy is one more step closer to the volcano.
But..... we got another point on the road.

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #33 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 12:54:00 AM Eastern »
They're going to have to live or die with Vanacek because they have no chance with Samsonov.  I don't want to see him anymore.  Oshie did a good imitation of a statue on that game winner.

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #34 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 01:05:31 AM Eastern »
They're going to have to live or die with Vanacek because they have no chance with Samsonov.  I don't want to see him anymore.  Oshie did a good imitation of a statue on that game winner.

Maybe it's all the shots to the head he's taken in the last few games.   I reckon they're trying to beat the Native out of him.  ... Or they think he's too pretty.  Which, let's face it, he is.    :snicker:
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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #35 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 08:41:21 AM Eastern »
They will need more out of Oshie.  He has just been lost these last 10 games. He's never been fast, but he somehow got himself in the right positions with a good amount of hussle. We need that again.


Mantha - he must think he is Kuzy now. He glides around and makes some great moves but I'd like to see him a little more energetic and grinding it a bit as well.


Sammy - won't be in the league in three years.


Lavi - why won't he start Dowd in OT to get the faceoff?  If he wins it, then he can get off for Kuzy.  If he loses it, he is a much better defender than Kuzy anyway.  Just boggles my mind...

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #36 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 10:23:02 AM Eastern »
Ovie with another line on his resume to claim the title of greatest goal-scorer ever. Now 9 fifty-goal seasons PLUS a 49-goal season PLUS two other shortened seasons where he was certainly on pace to score 50.  This season was the one he needed to now become IMO more likely than not to eclipse Gretsky.  30 goals per season for the next 4 will do it, so he has quite a bit of room for age regression and would still be able to pull it off.  Probably his biggest obstacle now is serious injury.


Wayne and Beagle are getting to one of the two cruxes of the playoff picture, but I think of it differently.  Given the Caps' limitations, they are likely going to be in trouble at some point(s) during the playoffs.  So who do you want to start, with the other available to turn to when you get in trouble?  Do you start the steadier but less capable Vanacek and if you get behind in a series, turn to the wild card Samsonov?  Or do you start Samsonov hoping he gets hot and if/when he doesn't, or cools off, have the steadier hand to bring in in reserve? 


Or could LaViolette actually take the real gamble and continue rotating them in the playoffs, trying to play them off against each other and motivate  each to shine while keeping them relatively fresh?  Yeah, yeah, I know:  That's not the way it's done in the playoffs -- you pick a horse and go with him unless/until circumstances force you to change.  But this team is a real longshot for  a  championship anyway.  Is this a year to roll the dice on a novel approach?


Ultimately though, I don't think the goalie situation makes a lot of difference unless officiating changes for the playoffs and allow teams to play a much heavier game.  That's the only way the Caps are going to be able to stay with some of these racehorse teams over an extended series -- try to lean on them  and wear them  down.

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #37 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 10:24:35 AM Eastern »
In OT the one thing you must have is SPEED.  Backstrom and Oshie should never see the ice, ever.  Ovie is going to play of course.  Otherwise, I'd use Kuz, Sheary, Johannson, Wilson and maybe Hathaway or Dowd if you get in a scrum.  Orlov and Jensen would see plenty of ice time instead of Carlson.  You'd think Laviolette could figure this out.

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #38 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 10:38:08 AM Eastern »
They got issues.. Big contractual issues..


Oshie and Backstrom should be making no more than 3 mil a year. And that's being generous for what we've seen this year. It sucks and I love those guys, but they're passengers getting paid way too much money. It's like we have 3 Ellers out there.


Mantha can be great one game and a ghost the next 3.


The goalies are wildly inconsistent. But I'd love to see a new goalie coach have an offseason with them, before throwing them in the volcano. They both get beat off bad angles just about every game.  And they're not being beat by Ovechkin's.. Every single "good" shot seems to beat them. And the dropped sticks? I rarely watch games that don't include the Caps, but they have to have a 10:1 ration of dropping their stick, compared to whoever we play? Seems shit like that could be fixed, but who knows...


Anyway, when they're -all- playing 100% they can make noise. Just gonna be hard to do that for 7 games at a time, vs top competition, imo.

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Re: GDT #77 Caps at Golden Knights @ 10pm
« Reply #39 on: Thursday April 21, 2022, 10:42:44 AM Eastern »
Ovie with another line on his resume to claim the title of greatest goal-scorer ever. Now 9 fifty-goal seasons PLUS a 49-goal season PLUS two other shortened seasons where he was certainly on pace to score 50.  This season was the one he needed to now become IMO more likely than not to eclipse Gretsky.  30 goals per season for the next 4 will do it, so he has quite a bit of room for age regression and would still be able to pull it off.  Probably his biggest obstacle now is serious injury.


Wayne and Beagle are getting to one of the two cruxes of the playoff picture, but I think of it differently.  Given the Caps' limitations, they are likely going to be in trouble at some point(s) during the playoffs.  So who do you want to start, with the other available to turn to when you get in trouble?  Do you start the steadier but less capable Vanacek and if you get behind in a series, turn to the wild card Samsonov?  Or do you start Samsonov hoping he gets hot and if/when he doesn't, or cools off, have the steadier hand to bring in in reserve? 


Or could LaViolette actually take the real gamble and continue rotating them in the playoffs, trying to play them off against each other and motivate  each to shine while keeping them relatively fresh?  Yeah, yeah, I know:  That's not the way it's done in the playoffs -- you pick a horse and go with him unless/until circumstances force you to change.  But this team is a real longshot for  a  championship anyway.  Is this a year to roll the dice on a novel approach?


Ultimately though, I don't think the goalie situation makes a lot of difference unless officiating changes for the playoffs and allow teams to play a much heavier game.  That's the only way the Caps are going to be able to stay with some of these racehorse teams over an extended series -- try to lean on them  and wear them  down.


People forget that Ovie missed the entire 2004-05 season with the lockout.  There were about 10-12 games lost in 2019-20 due to covid and 26 off the schedule last year.  So, you're talking about another 110-115 games Ovie would have played.  That's another 65-70 goals at his career pace.  Then you're looking at about 840 goals right now and he's a shoo-in to pass Gretzky.  I think he does it anyway but, without the lost games, there would be no question.


As for the goaltending, Samsonov just doesn't have it.  He'll play the occasional 1-2 really good games but then stink it up for the next 4-5.  He plays too wild a style flopping around, losing his stick and letting in costly soft goals like last night.  They should ride Vanacek the rest of the way and just go wherever that takes them.  In the end, they don't have the horses to beat the likes of Florida, Toronto or the Rangers in a 7 game series and the goaltending is a big part of that.  The team needs to make some tough decisions during the offseason with guys like Backstrom and Oshie for starters.  I'm not sure I have that much faith in a FO that traded Vrana for Mantha, however.