Game Day - Lightning @ Capitals
by J.P. on Mar 27, 2009 6:00 PM EDT
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PrintTampa Bay Lightning at Washington Capitals, Mar 27, 2009 7:00 PM EDT
Tonight's probable netminders:
Tonight's referees (with the Caps' record in games they've called in parens):
11 - Kelly Sutherland (6-1 in 2008-09; 5-8 over the previous three seasons)
19 - Gord Dwyer (1-2 in 2008-09; 1-6 over the previous three seasons)
Have at it, people.
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One other game of interest
NJD in Chicago tonight. Where the Blackhawks have been in a major swoon, unfortunately. Would love to see the ’Hawks take a bite out of the Devils – at least make it interesting.
That didn’t look like a kicking motion but you never know anymore…
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
by capsfan4life on Mar 27, 2009 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions
It looked like he was just trying to stop so he didn’t trample McKenna over. He deserves that goal.
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
by capsfan4life on Mar 27, 2009 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Can anyone transcribe the ruling? I can’t make it out even with DVR.
by CapitalCentre on Mar 27, 2009 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Nickie!!!
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
by capsfan4life on Mar 27, 2009 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions
I also heard you can score goals if you win offensive zone faceoffs.
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
by capsfan4life on Mar 27, 2009 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Ok, seriously, what the heck did Al just say?
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
..and/or smoking.
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
by capsfan4life on Mar 27, 2009 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions
So far through this game, Ovie is now 7 points back from Malkin for the points scoring race. After this game the Caps have 6 games left, while the Pens will have 7 left in the season. Do you think Ovechkin can catch Geno and win the Art Ross trophy again?
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
Are you OK with that as long as Ovie wins the Hart again?
I need 100% of you guys to give 110% 100% of the time.
by capsfan4life on Mar 27, 2009 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah, OV winning the Hart is, IMO, a no-brainer. I dont think he needs to win a scoring title to legitimize that. He scores the most goals (the #1 commodity in the NHL); he scores them when it counts, and he’s a physical and emotional force for his (#4 overall) team. Geno cant match this. Leading the league in goals > leading the league in points…..
by Pi on Mar 27, 2009 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Agree that he won’t catch Malkin, unless Malkin gets injured. Doesn’t bother me a bit if Malkin wins the Richard, and don’t really care if AO wins the Hart or not. I am looking for a couple of playoff series wins.
OK, take that back. We are the schizzle. Attaboy Potsy !
by Pi on Mar 27, 2009 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions
glad to see the game went well. Didn’t go so well for the Orange. Ovie is now six points behind Malkin, and hits 100 on the season.
Commence “blah blah Ovie shoots so much” whining from certain fans.
by CapitalsKremlin on Mar 27, 2009 9:48 PM EDT reply actions
Poor Flash! Another goal disallowed. He’s having bad luck in that department.
For the Caps, better game. It was sloppy in parts but, overall, they showed more energy that they had in the last couple of games. Are some of our boys getting over the flu? I wonder who else was ill recently besides Semin, Bradley, and Poti. (It was Fedorov and Green ill before them.) As for the Toronto game, the sad thing is that Semin was one of the people who showed more offiensively that most of our guys that day, in spite of his mistakes (since he was probably too sick to focus properly.) Frankly, I did not expect the Caps to bring Semin to Toronto.
89 comments? Did the friggin’ internet die while I was at the game?
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The crowd (myself included) might have been down there I guess.
"Thank God there is a sport for middle-sized white boys.."
by Bald Pollack on Mar 27, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep.
"Thank God there is a sport for middle-sized white boys.."
by Bald Pollack on Mar 28, 2009 7:30 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m a partial – 1/2 the games.
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I have several partial plans….23 of 38 so far
never let the truth get in the way of a good story
by toymechanic on Mar 28, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Coupla thoughts on the game ....
Was far from perfect, but it was closer to playoff hockey than anything I’ve seen in a while. Big step in the right direction. Let them rest and get their full energy back and come at it full speed next week. Hopefully by then they can shake this bug and it has time to clear out of the locker room (and that the equipment team hits the locker room with some heavy-duty disinfectant over the weekend).
Tampa took way too many penalties, and the boys made them pay. Only one ES goal, but they got it when it counted, and from the blueline no less. Still, ES looked better than it has – lots of chances.
Was it me or was Fehr a monster for all he was held off the score sheet? Stealing pucks, winning battles, crashing the crease – he was everything I hoped to see.
Osala was pretty good too. Aucoin had some horrible giveaways but straightened out in the second two.
Did we take the second off?
The refs were absolute idiots. :P
So good to see Potsy get the game-winner. That had to be the warm fuzzy story of the night.
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri
I agree on Fehr.
Osala didn’t impress me. Not that I think he’s a bad player, I just think he’s not ready to contribute at the NHL level. I’d say mid-season next year at the earliest.
The officiating was disappointing, especially because I thought it start off well.
Agreed on the officiating. I had just been thinking that we might make it out of a game without the traditional ref chant, and then they went and really screwed it up. I guess that makes it a regular feature at a Caps game.
I haven’t watched the TV angles but was that really goalie interference? It didn’t look that way to me or the people sitting around me.
Not really, no. I was on the 200 level at the Tampa Bay hash marks for this game, and it sure didn’t look like goalie interference to me. What I saw was that a defender pushed Nylander into McKenna on the first shot, which McKenna saved and a rebound popped out (I think into the slot), but Nyls was clear of McKenna when Laich tapped in the rebound. I think that was a horrid call, myself, and if you didn’t watch, the fans let the refs hear about it.
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri
I was at the game, so I was an active participant in the ref hating.
They kept showing the replay and I just couldn’t see it.
Ahhh, okay. I think just about everyone actively participated in the zebra abuse :) That had to be one of the loudest “ref you suck” renditions I’ve heard this season.
No, I think that goal was legit.
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri
I think so too, but just as clarification, the issue was goalie interference, it was whether not Nylander had made contract with goalie in the blue paint. If he does, no matter how slight it may be, it’s no goal. I half fault the ref because I didn’t see the contact and half fault Nylander for standing in the crease rather than in front of it.
Good enough. The contact was so minor that it was almost non-existent. McKenna was at the top of his crease, so I’m not sure that Nyls was actually in the paint (I didn’t notice it last night) but I do know the contact didn’t prevent McKenna from making the first save. How long does that incidental contact stay in play?
The Caps should continue to keep Feds, Fehr and Ovie together. Once Semin gets back and gets his slot back with Backstrom and Laich, the Caps will have two really solid scoring lines. On top of that, if the “Snakebite” line (Kozlov, Nylander, Fleischmann) finds some anti-venom, watch out.
Anyone notice how when Kozlov got top PP time with Semin out, the 2nd PP unit wasn’t getting anything done?
The 2nd PP almost never gets anything done. They’re pretty much just come out for the last 30 seconds or so when the 1st unit doesn’t produce.
Is that a recent trend or one all season?
by red army line on Mar 28, 2009 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t have stats in front of me, and I’m too drunk and lazy right now to grab them…but I’d venture a guess that Green and OV have put up atleast ~40% of the Caps total PP goals…if not points.
You can take that either way…IMO that means yeah a season long trend…but the argument can also be made that both of them play almost the entire PP, so it would depend on who the other players on the ice are.
The Caps have 77 PP goals this season; Ovechkin, Green and Backstrom have accounted for 48 of them. Those three plus Semin have 90 PP assists; the rest of the team has 55.
So in other words our PP line that scores plays only 3/4 of the PP, and we’re still at 25%? Wow.
by red army line on Mar 29, 2009 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Quick, belated comment about this game.
Why does every game that Kelly Sutherland calls turn into a fucking circus? His partner made maybe 1-2 of the calls on the night. The rest was Kelly showing off his shave-job on his pit or something. The guy is intolerable. I thought I had seen it all but a goal-washout-makeup-call? Really? We’re gonna do THAT now?!
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