Friday Caps Clips: Back on Track
by J.P. on Oct 16, 2009 6:37 AM EDT
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- Recaps of last night's slump-bustin' win from Corey (blog, article), Tarik (blog, article), Vogs, Joe B., Peerless, Puck Daddy (sorta), Ed Frankovic, Cap Centre, Hockey Mom and Puckhead from the Caps side of things, and The Mercury News for some perspective and quotes from the other side.
- Pictures! [Caps In Pictures]
- Dmitri Chesnokov caught up with last night's winning 'tender Semyon Varlamov post-game. [Examiner]
- Alex Ovechkin was on Washington Post Live yesterday, and he nailed his trademark disheveled-but-dapper look. Wait, did I just critique fashion? [Washington Post]
- In case you missed any of yesterday's transactions, Keith Aucoin was recalled (non-emergency, will only have to clear waivers going back if he's up for ten games or thirty days), John Erskine was put on IR, and Anton Gustafsson was loaned to a team in Sweden's second-tier league. [Capitals Insider]
- Pierre LeBrun on the Caps' new top line du jour. [ESPN]
- The SouthLeast is dead? The SouthLeast is dead! [The Hockey News]
- I will say this of the new round of Bruce Boudreau Mercedes ads - at least they're less jinx-y than some of his previous work. [D.C. Sports Bog]
- Let it never be said that Brooks Laich isn't a man of extremely fine taste. [SI.com]
- Any man who goes paintballin' in shorts is either tough as nails or dumb as bricks. We'll give our guys the benefit of the doubt. [Caps365 (video)]
- The Caps may not be off to a great start, but their nuclear advertising partner is. [NEI Nuclear Notes]
- Sergei Fedorov keeps on suin' to get some of his money back. [Detroit Free Press]
- Finally, happy 24th birthday to Jay Beagle and happy 42nd to Joe Murphy.
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I’m shamed to say I actually had to google Brooks’ fantasy, still don’t know who she is, but she is cute. Love that he can just put her in for the answer to any question. Although I’m glad to see he kept her out of question #8.
According to Swedish Newspaper “Expressen” http://hockey.expressen.se/nhl/1.1745137/nylander-tvingas-till-provspel-for-kontrakt a Swiss Club, Lugano are interested in Nylander. And here’s the kicker they actually want him enough to offer him one million Swiss Franc after taxes. Lugano got a Swedish coach Kent Johansson so I’m hoping that this means that they haven’t taken it out of thin air and that ther’e sources are accurate. And of course Nylander are willing to go there. Lugano sure is prettier then Siberia though.
Thanks for the tip, IW – I posted on it. Of note, Nylander is a Lugano alumnus…
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That was fun. Let’s see them do it again to Nashville on Saturday .. and to every other team on the league this season.
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But, if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. If you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
From the file cabinet drawer marked Why It Doesn’t Suck to be a Professional Athlete, it is Beach Week for the Flyers.
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BMo and Knuble
what. awesome. signings.
total cap hit: $4.3 million
total points (through 7 games): 11
combined +/-: +6
by ns on Oct 16, 2009 8:49 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Hey, if they both play garbageman for each other, I’m not going to argue with who’s who. As far as I can tell, that’s a chemistry match made in heaven.
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But, if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. If you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
Agreed, though I’m not sure how Knuble feels about Ovie’s “bring it in” goal celebrations. Last night he participated in both, but looked like he was ready to head to the bench (not that that’s an entirely bad thing).
Like seemingly everyone else here, I’m loving B.Mo and Knubs. Kudos GMGM.
Let the kids have their fun. I did enjoy seeing Ovi essentially flatten him on the boards after goal #1. ScoreSplat.
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yeah, there seems to be an adjustment period for new team members when it comes to Ovie’s goal celebrations. Fedorov looked like her feared for his life the first few time Ovie jumped on him. Knuble seems to have a little of the “act like you’ve done this before” philosophy (nothing wrong with that), and we all know for Ovie, every goal is like getting his first goal.
Like when he damn near crippled Feds after the Rangers goal. Careful with these old folks, Alex…
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Love those top two line combos. BMo has the speed to get into the rush with Ovie, but also consistently gets back up the ice to back check.
The second line was effective, too. They were matched against the Thornton line all night and kept them off the score sheet while generating chances themselves. It’s clear to me, though that Semin should be on Backi’s left. That way Backi can come out of the right corner and thread those little passes to Semin coming in from the left, just like they do on the powerplay. But then, who plays the right wing on that line? I don’t think Laich is the guy. He really needs to be a third-line center or left wing, bringing some offense to that line. Our other RWs are Clark and Fehr, who just absolutely suck right now, or Bradley, who probably should also be on the third line. Too bad we don’t have two Mike Knubles.
Semin was flying all night on Backstrom’s line. I support keeping Ovie and Semin on separate lines.
Maybe play with an edge, be a little more physical -- maybe be more of a prick out there.
Give it a couple of weeks. When Fleischmann comes back, my guess is you’ll see:
8-9-22
21-19-28
14-39-16
10-15-17
Flash and Fehr produced on the same line last year regardless of who their center was, so I’d look for them to be paired again.
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But, if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. If you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
I like the idea of Flash and Fehr together, but I think I’d give them Laich as a center, and create a pure checking line of 15-39-10. I guess that means Clark up on the second line’s RW, but he just isn’t a good enough player right now to deserve that.
Nah, I’m with ns on that. I Laich him at 2-3LW – that 21-19-28 line is money, as someone else put it. He seems to be very comfortable where he is.
And just to gloat a little, because I can – I called the D pairings :)
I think the top six is fine; bottom six might want a tad more shuffling once Flash gets back.
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But, if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. If you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
I dig the idea of a bottom two lines of Flash-Aucoin-Fehr and a rotation of Laing-Steckel-Gordon-Bradley-Clark.
Flash-Aucoin-Fehr is your energy line that provides secondary scoring. There’s a long tradition in hockey of putting your skill rookies on a limited ice time line that is expected to score.
Laing-Steckel-Gordon-Bradley-Clark are your shutdown guys, and you rotate them in and out (and in Laing’s case, up and down from Hershey) based on who’s banged up on any given day.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Oct 16, 2009 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions
still not sold on the Captain
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by bigonetimer on Oct 16, 2009 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
i have to agrre. it doesn’t seem like he’s getting much done out there, does it?
by mechanicsville on Oct 16, 2009 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions
In fairness, the Caps aren’t getting much of anything from their bottom six (save Brads and Stecks’ faceoffs).
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I don’t like the Flash / Fehr line. I felt Flash was on his way to a 25+ season when not playing with Fehr and then when put together suddenly started to look to Fehr (who isn’t the finisher Flash is). Fehr’s numbers went up but I like them separate, at least until Flash realizes he’s the finisher of that line.
God kills a kitten every time Sidney whines.
by Chris meet Alex on Oct 16, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
“F Street” clicked for a few games last year, but query how much of that was Feds.
"Let the rest be scared of us." - Sasha Semin
by Scott in Shaw on Oct 16, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I think Flash and Fehr have some pretty good history together going back to Hershey. They seem to have had good chemistry no matter who their pivot has been.
Here’s the stats, and they show that those guys really do have good chemistry. At even strength, Flash was part of eight line combos last year that scored multiple points. Four of those, including the best (F Street) included Fehr. But when you look at the combos, Flash spent a fair amount of time with Semin, Clark, Kozlov, or Bradley as the other wing.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Oct 16, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Call me radical, but I think we need to cut one of those two loose already.
Maybe play with an edge, be a little more physical -- maybe be more of a prick out there.
Yup, you’re a radical. 20 goal scorers for ~$750,000 don’t grow on trees.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Oct 16, 2009 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I posted this in the recap, and I think it’s a big part of the story from last night:
Even strength TOI
Line 1: Laich (12:31), Backstrom (13:36), Semin (13:53) — 13:20 Average
Line 2: Ovi (13:57), Morrison (12:11), Knuble (11:54) — 12:40 Average
Ovechkin was out there for virtually all of the power play time, as usual. Backstrom and Semin got a lot of both PP and PK time. The result was that Ovi (20:53), Backstrom (21:02), and Semin (20:41) all got about the same total ice time.
I love what these lines do for the matchups. You look at the last three cup winners — the Ducks had Selanne and Getzlaf on separate lines; the Wings had Datsyuk and Zetterberg on separate lines; and the Penguins separated Crosby and Malkin. It seems like the Caps have a mismatch ready to go at almost any time.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Oct 16, 2009 10:01 AM EDT reply actions
Though Datsyuk and Zetterberg were linemates that year for DET…Franzen however played on a different line.
by red army line on Oct 17, 2009 7:42 AM EDT up reply actions
I’d just like to put into print what a genius move it was to pick up B.Mo. His speed and passing are back, he never takes a shift off, and he’s out there terrorizing the other team every single second. I love this guy.
Well, apparently he loves us too, so as far as I’m concerned, awesome!
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But, if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. If you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
We’ve said it before, but I think Feds was there more for focus than production. Semin improved dramatically from the time Feds showed up, and that’s the real reward from his time here.
by DrinkingPartner on Oct 16, 2009 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Did you guys read this quote on that examiner article?
“We tried to help Varly. When Sema [Alexander Semin] and I found out Varly would be in net, we told each other ‘Let’s do our best to help him win.’”
One guy just drove his semi as a float. I guess semis are cool.
Are you inferring something from that quote?
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I’m pretty sure he’s implying.
If you're after gettin' the honey, then you don't go killin' all them bees.
Well, he may be implying something to us, but I was wondering if he had first inferred something himself from that quote.
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I was just going for some continuity, man.
If you're after gettin' the honey, then you don't go killin' all them bees.
The Russians were talking to the Russian media. Ten times out of ten, they will give a quote like that to Sovetsky Sport.
Has no actual bearing to their commitment to winning. They will back up all of their goaltenders.
As a matter of fact, I think Clowe, who fell on Theo in period one, was later the recipient of a fine Ovi/Knuble sammich, extra crunchy.
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Btw, not that we needed the reminder of how perilously close to the cap the Caps are, but consider that if Theo isn’t able to sit on the bench tomorrow night, the Caps will either have to recall Neuvy (or perhaps more likely Holtby), which would necessitate demoting two of Aucoin/Laing/Sloan OR sign Bacashihua to a contract at close to the League minimum and recall him (while demoting one of the three). Throw in Gordon’s back injury and you can see that until something shakes loose, the Caps had best pray for good health – they’re painted pretty well into a corner.
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I know, I’m unfortunately acquainted with them myself. And some people (Like professional athletes with top notch trainers) bounce back from them faster than others. Fingers crossed for Theo.
what does a back spasm feel like?
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by crabchowdah on Oct 16, 2009 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
immediately after tweaked it (shoulder press, arched back during last few reps), felt like my lat was an elastic band that had been plucked real hard and was starting to contract. started to lose movement so i drove home right away.
thought i could “sleep it off” but woke up and couldn’t get out of bed. Felt like the muscle was just not functioning and was extremely tight/stiff. And painful…really f’in painful when i tried to move. after a day or two i though i was ok and bent down to unplug something from my computer. stupid. couldn’t get off the floor. had to call my roomate to pick my ass up from the ground.
good times. no issues since though, so i’ve been lucky.
Hey, so dress 15 skaters, ya bunch o’ nancies.
Signed,
The Calgary Flames
If you've read this far...seek help.
by ThePeerless on Oct 16, 2009 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Really, this is exactly where we knew we’d be sooner or later. Two weeks ago, when they lost Chris Smith on waivers, I noted:
What this whole Bourque situation points out, however, is the team is one two-week ankle sprain (assuming Fehr and Flash are still out) away from either dressing seven D or playing Nyls.
Well, we’ve got the couple of injuries and we’re close to having to skate either 7D, Nyls, or possibly losing someone else to waivers if a G needs to be recalled. Tenuous, friends, tenuous.
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Time to trade for a pick.
Maybe play with an edge, be a little more physical -- maybe be more of a prick out there.
with you there, but every GM in the league knows that’s exactly what we have to do. George is getting dust for offers, if any, or he’d have pulled the trigger by now.
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by bigonetimer on Oct 16, 2009 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Brooks Laich...
…will never appear on “The Amazing Race” because once he is on it, they will have to call it “The Less-than-Amazing Race” due to the lack of Brooks Laich.
Our goal for the remainder of the season is to find a way for Brooks to meet Alessandra Ambrosio…
Let's go Caps!
“Alessandra Ambrosio”… sounds like small food served on very large plates in some nouvelle cuisine place.
If you've read this far...seek help.
by ThePeerless on Oct 16, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Someone needs to create BrooksLaichFacts.com. Heck, there could just be a combined site with Chuck Norris-ish facts about the whole team!
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by crabchowdah on Oct 16, 2009 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Looks like it might be Holtby that gets the call
http://tweetphoto.com/woz8aegy
Maybe play with an edge, be a little more physical -- maybe be more of a prick out there.
Great tweet – deserves its own FanShot.
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Varlamov did a decent job on only 15 shots. He still has issues with his glove. Anyone on the Caps got any pine tar?
If B-Mo, Knuble, and AO were yesterday’s line du jour, then the Caps should make like a second rate diner and never change the menu. Who doesn’t like this line? Knuble’s there to keep the cuteness down. B-Mo can dance or bash as the situation and his linemates’ demand. And AO can dance or bash as…well…as he sees fit.
I don't care how you score goals. Pretty or ugly. The ballet or the bulldozer. However you do it, just do it. And make sure you do it more than the other guys.
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Washington
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