Monday Roundup

Semin, without a doubt.

1) No doubt that for most Caps fans thats an easy answer. Mike Green! He plays big minutes on defense. Is the PP QB. ‘Green means Go’.
2) Geez its uncanny how many our your guys got hurt all at once!

It’s a tie between Greener and Gramps. Green makes almost every aspect of the game go go go go. Forward! Attack, attack! Onward and upward! But, on the other hand, Gramps’ puck control and generalship boosts everyone else’s confidence. Seems to make everyone else just that one tad better.

But then again, if I can have the Chris Clark of his heyday back, not the lame excuse for a Chris Clark that has showed up so far this season, I might take that over all else.

But wait, I do very much miss seeing that lethal snake of a mover and dancer Le Lapin on the ice. Showman extraordinaire! I’d like that back too.

Gee, this is hard.

Somewhat belated, RE: Debbies 7 – Bolts 3 on Sunday: “At that point, Kolzig, was replaced in the net by Karri Ramo, who was called up from the Norfolk Admirals on an emergency basis, due to Smith’s injury. When he left the game, Kolzig had made 23 saves on 28 shots.”

Or, um, had given up 5 goals on 28 shots. I am hopeful Tocchet will be able to talk Olie into retiring.

52. The Caps have had oodles of trouble getting the puck out of the d-zone in the last week (to say nothing of D play generally), trouble getting the puck into the o-zone, and trouble generating chances off the rush, which is a major source of offense for this team. All of that is about 52.

i’d have to go with Semin as well, although Green is a close second. The way Flash-Nyles-Fehr have been playing, you could add Semin to a 3rd line and have 3 legit scoring lines.

If we didn’t have AO then it would be Semin, but since we do, it’s Green hands down. There’s only so long you can survive with two rookies and a journeyman in your top six. The news on Varlemov is exciting.

and say Brian Pothier. pure and simple, we have no one we can call a shut down D man, and he was the closest we had to that before he went down.

That’s a serious limb. I don’t think Pothier was a shutdown D anywhere, not in OTT, not here. A nice component, a good bargain even, but not close to being a shutdown guy.

We have enough talent up front to offset the loss of Semin. Green jump starts our offense, and our breakouts have been pathetic without him.

All three practiced fully today and didn’t appear to be that limited. Feds especially was making hard cuts and stops, so the ankle appears on the mend. Could all three be ready for Tuesday? BTW, Alzner looked fine.

Here it is all blown up, btw:

All these injuries are just disturbing. It is taking a LOOOOONG time for these guys to come back, the real question is how many more games can we stay afloat if Green, Le Lapin, Feds, Poti, Erskine are all out? The team doesn’t have anything more than 2 days off until Jan 20th, not exactly a lot of recovery time built in there, they also have 5 b2b series in that span. Ugh…who the hell schedules this stuff.

JP –
Mike Green bruised SEPARATED right shoulder 11.20.2008.

He couldn’t even shoot yesterday? He’s out until January. Believe me. Can I get an amen? I hate being right.

eklund.

jk. having separated my shoulder playing hockey before. i knew it was bad when it happened and you don’t miss two weeks with a bruised shoulder. i suspect it was a grade 1 separation (mildest) and he is still lacking full range of motion on the arm. i have no formal medical training, but i did stay in a holiday inn express over thanksgiving.

1) Macvechkin does have a point. Of course whether it was a seperated shoulder, a bruise or just a bad boo-boo we’ll never be told anyway.

Mike Green for me, he brings talents that no one else on the team supplies

“Twenty-one years to the day later, Calle Johansson would pass Scott Stevens for the most assists by a defenseman in franchise history with his 332nd helper as a Cap (his 361 assists still stand as the franchise mark).”

When did I get so old?