Capital Ups and Downs: Week 15
by J.P. on Jan 11, 2010 11:00 AM EST
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PrintOur weekly look at individual Washington Capitals' ups and downs:
| Goalies | Trend | Notes |
| Michal Neuvirth |  |
2-0-0/1.51/.954 for the week and every bit as good as those stats would seem to indicate, even when his teammates weren't (facts not lost on the young Czech: "I made a couple of huge saves in the first and then the guys got going. Every save gives me more confidence, especially those big saves. I'm getting used to the NHL, and I'm getting better."). |
| Jose Theodore | |
Superb against Ottawa, especially in terms of rebound control, and hopefully back on track. |
| Semyon Varlamov |  |
Varly's going to get healthy just in time to go to Vancouver and get re-injured playing for his country, isn't he? |
| Defensemen | ||
| Karl Alzner |  |
A healthy Brian Pothier spelled the end of Alzner's latest cup of coffee, but truth be told, his recent play didn't make him impossible to send down either. |
| John Erskine | |
Plenty of hits and blocked shots with relatively few turnovers and penalties is about all you can hope for from Erskine, and is exactly what the Caps got this week. |
| Mike Green | |
Four helpers, a plus-seven rating and 6:37 of shorthanded ice time without a goal against in three games for @SnubbedLife52. |
| Shaone Morrisonn |  |
A secondary assist gave Mo his first point since November 7, the plus-two rating equaled his December total, and his two shots on goal for the week were as many as he had in either of November or December. |
| Brian Pothier | |
Despite missing the first game of the week, led all Caps blueliners in shots on goal with six and added an assist. |
| Tom Poti | |
Riding a five-game point streak that has peaked (so far, at least) with a one-goal/two-assist Saturday night. His last five-game point streak? 2002. |
| Jeff Schultz | |
Three assists, a plus-eight rating (vaulting him into second overall in the League) and huge penalty killing minutes for a unit that went 8-for-9 on the week. Oh, and number of games Schultz has been a minus player since November? One. Jeff Cincocinco has arrived. |
| Swingman | ||
| Tyler Sloan | |
Healthy-scratched in all but two games since December 9 didn't prevent Sloan from signing a $1.4 million extension... or us from subsequently scratching our collective heads. |
| Forwards | ||
| Nicklas Backstrom | |
Four points in three games isn't particularly unexpected from Backstrom, but that three of the points were goals is. He's now one of just two centers in the League with 15+ goals and 30+ assists. |
| Matt Bradley | |
With three assists in his last two games, Brads now is just four helpers (and six points) away from tying his single-season best. |
| Jason Chimera | |
His first goal as a Cap out of the way and showing an ever-increasing comfort level, look for better things from Chimera going forward (hopefully to include a bit more chippiness - he led the team in hits in Atlanta). |
| Eric Fehr | |
Fehr hit double-digits in goals on Tuesday and is two shy of his career high. |
| Tomas Fleischmann | |
Maybe Tomas Fleischmann can be a great center after all - one goal, three assists, a plus-three rating, seven shots on goal and a 55.8 win percentage in the dot make the first week of this experiment a tremendous success. |
| Boyd Gordon | |
Gordo's goal against Ottawa was his first in more than a year, and his assist against Atlanta was his first since October 10. |
| Mike Knuble | |
On Saturday night, Knuble became the ninth Cap to hit double-digits in goals scored for the season (Chimera and Bradley should be next) and had three for the week (to go along with a plus-four rating). This is the Knuble we've been waiting for. |
| Brooks Laich | |
With a pair of one-assist/plus-two/two-shot games, Laich is getting back into the offensive flow, but isn't quite there yet (one power-play goal since December 5 speaks to that). |
| Quintin Laing | |
Played sparingly against Montreal (though managed four shots on goal) and was scratched against Ottawa and Atlanta. Accordingly, we should expect a multi-year contract extension this week. |
| Brendan Morrison | |
With no goals and just one assist (and 44.7 faceoff win percentage) in a week in which the team lit the lamp 17 times, B-Mo looks like a guy who has hit the wall. Hopefully the Olympic break serves to recharge the batteries. |
| Alex Ovechkin | |
One goal, three assists, plus-six (and now leading the League in that category), 19 shots on goal... and a new letter for his uniform. All in a week's work. |
| Alexander Semin | |
A pair of two-goal games (including a shorthanded tally and two game-winners) and 16 shots on goal for the week... could Ovechkin-Backstrom/Semin-Fleischmann develop into the most devastating one-two punch in the League? |
| David Steckel | |
Points in back-to-back regular season games for the first time in over a year, 70.6% in the dot and a good new contract... all signs point to "up arrow." |
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Which means the team drops in everyone’s power rankings this week. (Who cares, but just a comment.)
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Ryan Lambert had a surprisingly nice comment about the team’s new captain, plus a link back to Becca’s recap.
And along those lines, though all of us here know that Ovi’s English is quite good and improving every day, the media routinely called it “broken” or some variant. Apparently the “C” on his sweater has mystical powers, because in a just few moments the reports on his English went from “broken” to “excellent”.
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To anybody who has ever criticized Ovie for his English I have always simply told them, move to Russia and try to pick up his language as quickly as Ovie did ours. English is a hard language for non native speakers to learn, I’ve always been impressed with Ovie’s grasp of it.
by BradleyFightingVehicle on Jan 11, 2010 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
It took AO a long time, too, though. IIRC, he started learning English when he was 15 or 16 because they already realized he was going to be big.
by DrinkingPartner on Jan 11, 2010 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
Really? Could very well be true.
All I remember about the topic his rookie year was that reporters were saying all he could really do when he arrived was order a cheeseburger and that he was throwing himself headfirst into learning the new language, including rooming with a North American roommate on the road instead of with a Russian speaker. Granted it wouldn’t be the first time newspapers reporters got something wrong, particularly as it relates to hockey.
by BradleyFightingVehicle on Jan 11, 2010 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
I found English pretty easy to learn but I speak Spanish. I’m sure it’s easier for us to learn than for people who speak Russian or some other language. The younger you are the easier it is to learn a new language that’s for sure. However, my uncle who was in the military was sent to Russia to learn the language and he was already in his mid twenties and he picked it up in about a year so I guess it’s not as hard as it looks.
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by CapsFan2020 on Jan 11, 2010 11:43 AM EST up reply actions
Russian isn’t impossible to learn (I know people who also picked it up in about a year and I took a few years of it), but obviously there is a learning curve with the alphabet and syntax. There aren’t a lot of words that are similar between the two languages so you don’t get as many hints as you do going between English and some romance languages. I’d guess that English is probably tougher for a Russian because English is so idiosyncratic, and they have to adjust to using articles. But then again, it’s more ubiquitous, so perhaps it’s easier to pick up from television and things like that.
If only I could transfer that clairvoyance to playing the lottery.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
I think Flash is really the biggest story this week – I count myself among those who absolutely did not see his C success coming, whatsoever. He’s already started to come down, but we’ll see how he does against another good C corps in Tampa.
by DrinkingPartner on Jan 11, 2010 11:06 AM EST reply actions
This may be the most important part of the experiment.
A man gotta have a code
by Carl Putnam on Jan 11, 2010 11:13 AM EST up reply actions
Very likely. Returns are still early, I think, but if having Flash center Semin makes him (more) consistent, that’s enough right there to label the experiment a success.
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If Fleischmann actually makes Semin consistent, beyond these 3 games (when even Feds and Backstrom couldn’t), then Flash doesn’t become expendable until Sasha is no longer a cap. Can you imagine good Sasha on a nightly basis?!
How much of Sasha’s consistency, and the rest of the team’s for that matter, do you think may simply be because the lines were actually the same for three games in a row? I don’t think we can ever say for sure with Sasha, but that had to have helped the rest of the team this week.
by BradleyFightingVehicle on Jan 11, 2010 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
Or maybe Sasha is just on a three-game hot streak. It’s happened before. I love what’s going on right now but am not ready to annoint Flash 2C for the next decade quite yet.
True, I should have added the disclaimer that that’s a big “If”.
by BradleyFightingVehicle on Jan 11, 2010 11:25 AM EST up reply actions
Maybe reaching a bit, but is it possible that Sasha’s sudden hot streak has to do with his buddy being made captain? I don’t know why that would be specifically and, obviously, I’m not in his head, but he’s picked it up at both ends of the ice since it happened.
Whatever it is, I love it – hope it lasts.
I hope not, simply because the honeymoon will eventually end.
by DrinkingPartner on Jan 11, 2010 11:34 AM EST up reply actions
Right, but is it just the glow of the honeymoon that will fade? Or could it be that having someone he respects more with the “C” is making him buckle down and step his game up?
Not to say he didn’t respect Clarkie, of course, but we all know how close he and Ovie are.
And of course this is just speculation on my part…I’m bored at work, it happens ;)
I guess I can see that, but if he, ultimately, didn’t learn to be consistent with Feds, which I would imagine holds legendary status with both him and Ovie, I dunno if the C is the reason. I’m hoping Flash is, for whatever reason.
by DrinkingPartner on Jan 11, 2010 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
Sorry, answered that too seriously. Perhaps I can make it up to you with a slice of Key Lime…..
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by DrinkingPartner on Jan 11, 2010 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
I think you bring up a good point in simple line consistency. This is not BB’s MO, though, but, if everyone can stay healthy (and they keep winning), hopefully all the goddamn line juggling is in the past. I love Backs-AO/Flash-Jizz/Fehr-BMo as our 1-2-3.
I mean, that’s freakin’ amazing.
by DrinkingPartner on Jan 11, 2010 11:26 AM EST up reply actions
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Pothier (or is it Laich) behind Sasha looks pretty jealous
by ns on Jan 11, 2010 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
NHL on the Fly anchors brought up the plus/minus thing at the end of their 10pm show last night…kinda danced around the AO/Schultz numbers and then said … wow, that Erhoff (tied with Schultzie) is really something!
IS KEPTIN NOW
On the Huh? Really, I used to pay attention to them, but now they’re pretty much just ancillary noise.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Was that Ehrhoff who made that pass to spring the Sedins on that goal in Calgary saturday night? Holy crap was that amazing.
Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Jan 11, 2010 11:17 AM EST up reply actions
I didn’t watch, but Ehrhoff’s been good for the Canucks. Very good. He was probably their best offseason pickup.
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Found it on youtube…
Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Jan 11, 2010 11:20 AM EST up reply actions
It was Burrows. The Sedins/Burrows line has been absolutely INSANE the last few weeks or so.
Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Jan 11, 2010 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
I have to think that Mike Knuble’s success this week has to go along with the D’s increase in shots from the point. His job is to sit in the kitchen, create havoc, and tip shots that come flying in – if the puck carrier drives the net or the shots don’t make it to the net, he’s less effective.
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Enough about the finger! :)
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by jordanDC on Jan 11, 2010 11:16 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
He’s gotten several in the past.
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He’s now one of just two centers in the League with 15+ goals and 30+ assists.
I know Malkin missed time due to injury, but I’m amazed that neither of the Pens 1-2 punch are on that list.
And holy friggin’ crap, Sedin has wild numbers.
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by Knee high to a duck on Jan 11, 2010 11:17 AM EST reply actions
AFAIK, they don’t play together that often. Similar to how the Carebears were used last season, as a spark to provide one overwhelming offensive line when you needed a goal in the immediate future.
Crosby hasn’t had an elite finisher to play with ever, with the exception of the Hossa deadline deal and he’s still put up titanic assist numbers every season. I don’t think that’s the issue, per se.
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by Knee high to a duck on Jan 11, 2010 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
Well…considering they play the same position, I wouldn’t think that they would play together very much.
I agree with Milbury that its due to their wingers being pretty below average, especially now that Kunitz is out for a considerable length of time (Malkin’s linemates against Toronto were Mike Rupp and Luca Caputi).
Also, if Crosby’s playing with Guerin/Dupuis/Kunitz, those guys aren’t going to light the lamp on a really considerable basis.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Jan 11, 2010 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
When they play on the same line, Malkin plays wing ‘cos Sid’s better at faceoffs. (h/t to Link_Gaetz for that info)
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I think just about every center in the league is better than Malkin at faceoffs.
Of all our iniquities ignorance may be the worst
by Killer_Carlson on Jan 11, 2010 3:21 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
On this topic Kukla’sKorner tweeted an article about Malkin’s struggles by Ron Cook in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10011/1027369-87.stm
Apparently Malkin is sulking about his little scoring slump. Almost enough to make you feel sorry for the guy. Ah who am I kidding, may he never score another goal this season!
by BradleyFightingVehicle on Jan 11, 2010 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
That article, and the comparison to Jagr, have since been shredded over at Puck Daddy. Can’t say I disagree, Malkin is nowhere near the headcase that Jagr is/was.
by BradleyFightingVehicle on Jan 11, 2010 3:26 PM EST up reply actions
Canucks have been playing out of their freaking minds. I’ve been really impressed with Erhoff. I’m wondering what Sharks management is thinking right about now. :-) As for the Sedin twins, less so, just because I know how good they are already. Burrows is playing the way guys like Avery & Carcolli could if they actually had smarts. I’m going to be interested to see how that team plays once they get on the road for their brutal OLY schedule. Nothing like 13 in a row on the road to test a team.
A man gotta have a code
by Carl Putnam on Jan 11, 2010 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
The Sedin twins...
have to both be on the ice in order to be über effective, though… witness the slump that Henrik went through when Daniel was off the ice injured. He was still effective – just not as effective as he is with his brother on his line. Those two together are scary-good.
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If a slump is 10 goals and 8 assists in 18 games, while my starting left winger is out, then I’m all for slumps. He lost a guy who has a ton of skill and still averaged a point per game. . Is Henrik better with Daniel? Certainly. Just like Baks is better with Ovi. Does the fact they have played with each other forever help both their games? I’m sure it does to a degree. However, the fact that they both are so skilled is more important.
A man gotta have a code
Even more telling than just going a point a game without Daniel, is that Henrik picked up his goal scoring in Daniel’s absence. Henrik has traditionally been the setup man and Daniel the goal scorer, but with Daniel out Henrik was really awesome and started finding the net to make up for the loss of his LW.
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by Killer_Carlson on Jan 11, 2010 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
A tale of two San Jose draft picks:
So far this year, one has 4 goals, 8 assists, and is a -10 in 46 games played.
The other has 7 goals, 9 assists, and is a +6 in 42 games played.
The first one has a career high of 53 goals and 93 points.
The second one has a career high of 9 goals and 22 points.
Not that this comparison really means anything, but it’s kind of fun to see Matt Bradley outscoring Jonathan Cheechoo.
by Wheeler on Jan 11, 2010 11:20 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
Cheechoo’s career high is 56 goals, but your point still stands.
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by The Ghost of Bebop on Jan 11, 2010 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
The monumental collapse of Cheechoo really doesn’t make sense to me. What in the world happened to him? He was still playing with JoeT, after all, and he’s still tearin’ shit up.
by DrinkingPartner on Jan 11, 2010 11:49 AM EST up reply actions
Cheech’s goals per game, beginning with his huge year:
.68
.49
.33
.18
.09
Only this season (the .09) has been with Ottawa.
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The goal he scored against the Caps aside, there was a perfect example of his troubles in the Caps game. There was a 3 on 1 that he got the puck at the top of the circle and just blasted it right into the Capitals crest. Hard to believe that a guy that obviously has/had some scoring touch in his hands would make a play like that if he wasn’t in a momumental scoring slump.
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by J.P. on Jan 11, 2010 12:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
technical question...
does anyone know how I can post a picture that is saved to my computer to the comment thread (don’t have a link)?
don’t think you can do. you have to post up on some site like photobucket.com or flickr, then link to it.
Just get a photobucket account (or any other image hosting site) and then upload it.
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by Laich It Or Lump It on Jan 11, 2010 12:37 PM EST up reply actions
Ha. My bad, sorry. @TarikElBashir’d.
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
by Laich It Or Lump It on Jan 11, 2010 12:55 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
What a difference a week and the third letter of the alphabet can make.
And, an update nobody’s been waiting for, Caps magic number this week is now: 30.5 with 38 remaining.
It’s the number of wins we need to clinch the division/conference/whatever.
Right now, it’s still high, because we need to have more points than the next-closest team to us has in order to clinch the division, and they can still catch us pretty easily despite the 16-point gap. As that gap widens, or as the number of games remaining drops, the magic number goes down.
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Basically it’s the combination of your wins and other team’s losses remaining to clinch Division.
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Over-simplifying, if the Caps had a two-point lead with one game left (and the 2nd place team had one game left), the Caps’ magic # would be one – either a win by them or a loss by the 2nd place team would clinch it.
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Right...
…left out the “other team’s losses” part.
This is how we managed to clinch the division last season with an overtime loss… it came down to us needing one more point in order for Carolina to not be able to catch us with the games they had remaining, and we got it.
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Right, I feel YMMV as to it’s usefulness. I lump it in the same category as power rankings in that respect.
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
by Laich It Or Lump It on Jan 11, 2010 1:14 PM EST up reply actions
I might get kicked for saying this, but I have more interest in the conference standings than in the division standings. I don’t realistically think we’ll catch the Blackhawks, but the Sabres and the Devils are within reach, I think.
Last season someone had this awesome spreadsheet that calculated magic numbers for all teams in a conference. I don’t know how they did it but I want one for this year after the Olympic break.
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Somehow, I think she’s saying that’s a given not worth postulating about. Which is awesome.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Would be nice to care about Conference, but we have yet to hold a magic number in conference standings yet this season. The only reason I’ve kept this up all year so far is because, outside of the first 2 weeks when we had to wait for FLA to play catch-up, all year, sofar, we have held a magic number over our division. Something I can’t remember the last time the Caps have done.
I remember that spreadsheet from 2 years ago, it was fantastic, especially with the struggle to get into the playoffs.
I’m going to put together a trend line graph of magic numbers soon…just not sure when I’ll get the time to do it.
Has anyone else noticed that since Ovi has been named captain Laich has been flying around like a mad man? I am not sure that it can be attributed to that specific moment but the past few games he seems to have found an extra gear.
Anyone else notice this?
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I’ve actually noticed an uptick in “snarl” from the entire team. Everyone has stepped their game up. They’re jumping to one another’s defense when some idiot on the other team takes liberties; they’re in position, for the most part… generally speaking, the team under “Captain Caveman” (Thanks, JP – I’ll forever think of him that way now!) appears – so far – to be a better team all around.
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Three assists, a plus-eight rating (vaulting him into second overall in the League) and huge penalty killing minutes for a unit that went 8-for-9 on the week. Oh, and number of games Schultz has been a minus player since November? One. Jeff Cincocinco has arrived.
Also, not specific to this week, but more numbers on Schultz. Looking at only those defenders with 10 GP, he is 10th best in GAON/60 at 5-on-5. If you remove those that have a negative QUALCOMP, he is #2 in the league. Full disclosure though, Schultz has the 5th highest QUALTEAM of all defenders.
by psuscott1 on Jan 11, 2010 1:40 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Bring good Schultz stats, get rec’d.
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I KNEW he was just lucky from skating with Green!
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by Bald Pollack on Jan 11, 2010 1:45 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Some more love using your same criteria: If you sort by +/- over 60, Schultz is first, Green is second, Pothier is third, Erskine is fifth, and Poti is 16th. Only six D out of the top 20 in this stat have a positive QualComp and three of them are Green, Schultz, and Poti. Out of those six, Poti has the highest QualComp.
"It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."
by Laich It Or Lump It on Jan 11, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
More Norris Material...
Jeff Schultz (CincoCinco) and Nick Lidstrom (Cinco) have never had a negative plus/minus season, both have one goal this season, and both shoot left. Coincidence? I think not!!!
This could be fun:
So, it’s been said that Seabrook got the nod because of chemistry between Keith.
Who would you rather have? Schultz/Green or Keith/Seabrook?
Schultz/Green by a mile – we already had Keith Seabrook. Oh, wait…
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by J.P. on Jan 12, 2010 2:15 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I think its more than a coincidence that Poti has his best offensive week in forever after being paired with 55 last week.
This. I think Poti has to feel a lot more comfortable jumping into the play knowing that Sarge is back there instead of anybody else he’s been paired with. I think anyone would.
by BradleyFightingVehicle on Jan 11, 2010 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
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| GP | W | L | OTL | PT | |
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Florida
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53 | 25 | 17 | 11 | 61 |
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Washington
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54 | 28 | 21 | 5 | 61 |
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Winnipeg
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56 | 26 | 24 | 6 | 58 |
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Tampa Bay
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53 | 23 | 24 | 6 | 52 |
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Carolina
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55 | 20 | 25 | 10 | 50 |
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