Tuesday Caps Clips

When a young female reporter is getting hit on as she does her job, that’s not flirting, it’s harassment.

Besides, it’s just conjecture that those were her words – they could have been Tarik’s! :)

I like ’em, too, but like the team they cover, they can get unfocused pretty easily.

It’s not a huge stretch when you consider how many duos are downright unprofessional in their homerism. Obviously Joe B and Locker aren’t neutral, but they’re far from clear cut homers and I’ve never heard them yell “take that.”

he has an arsenal of key phrases and hooks that he doles out play by play. Its just mechanical narration. He doesn’t ADD much. He just the voice that tells you exactly what you are watching… NON-STOP. He’s audible closed-captioning. It doesn’t have a “feel” to it… and now that he’s on Vs. you can see it even more. He does the exact same thing when he’s calling the Rangers or Sharks or Canucks. Very professional of him… but boring. Put him on radio where people that can’t see the game would be very appreciative of his continuous verbiage and where talking to hear your self talk with things like “Now the caps take the puck to center”, “Boston throws the puck in deep” are actually helpful instead of just restating the obvious.

And Laughlin is a clown. I’d have more respect for him if he tried to be more of an ex-player with an opinion then a doofus. Talk about the things the players are focusing on. Break down the small things that set up or broke down a play that we didn’t see because the camera was zoomed in on Ovechkin. Instead, he just rambles, uses FAR too many catch phrases that for some reason he thinks makes him cool, jokes around about shit that has NOTHING to do with the game, talks over key moments of the game we are trying to watch and tries to think of ways to make his orange tan look even faker.

The best fringe benefit of being a STH is that for 41 games a year you don’t have to listen to them. And frankly, with the NHL Package, I frequently flip over to watch the game on the other team’s network (especially when we’re beating the crap out of them).

I’m ok with Joe B and unlike most, Locker does not bother me. These announcer lists though, they’re like other parts of the body. Everybody has their own. Mine certainly doesn’t have Mike Emrick, Rick Jeanneret, Howie Rose or Paul Steigerwald sniffing the top 10.

haha that was pretty funny, but I like what Joe B and Craig bring to the broadcast.

D’oh. Considering the company I don’t think it’s a compliment. Howie Rose? Rick Degenerate? Chico Resch? Pens crew? No credibility on this list regardless of how I feel about Joe B. and Locker.

All I’m saying is that it is possible and Pronger on the D-Line gives us an inside track to a very good shot at the Cup.

Potentially two very good shots, in fact.

I agree. I’m hesitant to blow up team chemistry but if he can be had (and fit under the cap) without giving up any core players or prospects, I am all for it. Of course, I think pretty much every step of that is impossible, but I hope I’m wrong.

…if we don’t have to mortgage the farm to get it.

I’ve been thinking about the Brent Johnson thing. I think we should look at trading him come draft time; I don’t think there are going to be that many goalies at free agency, and Johnson is a solid backup despite injuries. We could parlay him into something pretty decent, I think. We can’t trade him at the deadline, not with the hip surgery, but either we trade him at draft time or let him go to free agency. I’d be happy bringing up either of the kids for good, although I have only a small sample to go on.

What prospects are off-limits in your mind? Lepisto’s a good choice, and I’d also consider dealing Giroux from what I saw of them with the big club this year.

If we don’t have Fedorov next year, who are our centers? Are you comfortable with Nylander as a second-line center? I’m, um, not. Do we go Backstrom/Nylander/Steckel/Gordon? What about Jay Beagle?