Wednesday Caps Clips: Ducks @ Caps Game Day
by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 6:39 AM EST
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- Previews of tonight's dance with the Ducks from Vogs, NHL.com (Rosen), Peerless and SB Nation DC, and be sure to check out our good friends and SB Nation partners Battle of California and Anaheim Calling for more coverage from the other side of tonight's match up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's practice. [CI (Carrera, Wang), Caps365 video (Boudreau, players), bridgetds (pics)]
- Regarding The SlideTM. [CSN Washington (Masisak), WaPo (Hamilton), DCEx (McNally), SI (Hackel), CP]
- Related: Bruce Boudreau's job security. [us, Dump 'n Chase, Houses of the Hockey, FanHouse (Perez), SI (Farber), CBSSports.com]
- The Caps say they're happy with their goaltending... [CI (Wang)]
- ... sorry, John Feinstein (stick to college hoops, my good man). [KOL]
- Yesterday's media hits:
- Brooks Laich on The Sports Junkies... [106.7 The Fan (audio)]
- ... and Boudreau's web chat. [ESPN.com]
- Wait, the Caps are doing some things right? Get. Out. [Box Seats]
- In fact, maybe it's just the goals that have gone away, and not so much the offense itself (if that makes any sense). [RMNB]
- HBO's 24/7: Penguins/Capitals Road to the Winter Classic debuts tonight. The forecast calls for mostly depressing with a 100% chance of heavy cursing. [Puck Daddy, D.C. Sports Bog]
- Speaking of the Winter Classic, the lines are set for the Caps alumni. If seeing Peter Bondra and Michal Pivonka together doesn't get you a little bit psyched, you're probably not a Caps fan. [OFB]
- Jeff Schultz and Andre Carter... BFFs? [Hail!]
- Jay Beagle is getting it done for the Bears. [Patriot-News (Leone)]
- The Cody Eakin love seems to be in abundance these days. [THN, Prairie Post]
- Finally, happy 26th birthday to Kyle Wilson.
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Gosh, I hope no one uses the word “stupid” today so we can all focus on hockey.
by Moonage Daydream on Dec 15, 2010 6:52 AM EST reply actions
Bondra vs 66, one last time.
I was really hoping for Kolzig in net for the Caps alumni game. Brashear will probably be one of the better forwards for the Caps.
What does everyone think about the rest of the selected players? I’m wondering how many of them still play in house leagues\lace up.
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
A bit disappointing (though I’m not disappointed that Jeff Brown – he of the 9 games as a Cap – isn’t there).
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A lot of the names are a bit before my time (as in before I was even born)
I was thinking that Laughlin, Kolzig, Stevens, and Hunter were going to playing for sure. Haha on Brown…I wonder where they pulled that from as someone who “immediately came to mind.”
Do you have any idea why Locker isn’t playing?
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
Hunter is busy coaching the London Knights. What is Calle Jo up to these days? I was kind of expecting him to be involved.
Because now I can justify browsing and commenting during the work day with the argument that I am promoting my business.
by Sombrero Guy on Dec 15, 2010 9:48 AM EST up reply actions
Still 5’11 I believe.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 9:53 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
He is. According to Wikipedia,
After retiring the second time around, Johansson continued to work as a colour commentator and did studio analysis during game intermissions on Swedish Canal+. He was doing both Elitserien and NHL games and was one of the two main colour commentators at Canal+, the other one being former Tre Kronor coach Anders “Ankan” Parmström.1 Canal+ lost the Swedish broadcasting rights for NHL to the Viasat Group ahead of the 2009-2010 season. Together with former Canal+ commentator Niklas Holmgren, with whom Calle has developed a great chemistry when commentating, they subsequently signed for Viasat where they now continue in the same manner as when at Canal+.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 10:02 AM EST up reply actions
I’m waiting for Joe B’s line, “Greg Adams no relation to Greg Adams” during the coverage of the alumni game.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 7:40 AM EST up reply actions
About Cap Alumni Greg Adams
For the 1988–89 season, he was moved to the defending Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers. However, he struggled to find a niche with the Oilers, scoring just 4 goals in 49 games, and was dealt again at the trade deadline, this time to the Vancouver Canucks. This created one of the more unusual situations in NHL history, as the Canucks’ lineup already featured star winger Greg ‘Gus’ Adams. As a result, the elder Adams would thereafter be known as ‘Greg C. Adams’.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
FWIW – Jeff is still out here in St. Louis coaching youth hockey and the St. Louis Bandits of the USHL.
He moved about two years ago, but used to live in my neighborhood. I remember distinctly Jeff bringing his kids around for Halloween, towing a cooler with beers. That’s an ex-hockey player for you.
I’ve chatted with him many times, and had the pleasure of coaching his son in mini-mites alongside my daughter. Now his son is bigger than me and tearing things up.
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Not the entire list, but a number of these guys are the ones who live locally and are active with the alumni team, e.g., Stewart, Cote, Hangsleben, Bondra, Pivonka, Labre, Sabourin, Rausse, plus May is obviously around. It is disappointing to an extent that some bigger names won’t be there, but in general the timing stinks, New Year’s, not local, etc., and from what I know, the Caps alumni group is not as active as many/Caps themselves haven’t been as active on this front as many organizations.
I can’t figure out why Kelly Miller is more of a footnote in that OFB post?
Sylvain Cote!! Just one of my all-time favorite players ever…that’s exciting :)
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Me too. I was a big Cote fan also.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 8:58 AM EST up reply actions
My first Caps jersey was a Cote jersey – I don’t know why I always loved him, but I did. Both tours of duty here in DC, even though he was awful the second time around.
If anyone needs me, I'll be at Kettler.
My first (and only) jersey was a kids size white Dennis Maruk Caps jersey my Leafs-loving dad bought me when I was 7.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 9:26 AM EST up reply actions
Excited for Cote, missing Johansson.
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
Did Johansson ever make up with the team? I recall him being very very upset about the way his exit went.
If it's too loud, turn it down.
I seem to recall Johansson was at KCI sometime within the past year or two, and the Caps posted video on the website of an interview.
Because now I can justify browsing and commenting during the work day with the argument that I am promoting my business.
by Sombrero Guy on Dec 15, 2010 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
No one commenting about the name Pete LeBoutillier? Must be an OFB joke right?
I remember ever other player (and wonder if Mulvey still has those Fabio-like locks) but this one. So – I checked Hockey Reference.
The guy never came near the Caps and last played in Sheffield (yes – England) in 2002.
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Honestly, since I came to become a hockey fan as a result of NHL ’96, I think of Don Beaupre in a Senators uniform. How weird is that?
And I’d never wish injury or illness upon someone, but if Bob Errey were to come down with laryngitis as a result of playing in that game, the world would be a better place.
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 10:15 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs
A quick shout out to Carl P for his legwork at the Glendale Meetings last night. Do yourselves a favor and go over to FfH and give him (and them) a ‘way to go," as it sounds like they’ve got their AZ future tied down now.
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Easier to do with a link. Just sayin’.
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"If you don't shut the [hell] up, I'm going to kick you in the balls so hard your dentist is going to have to work around them at your next cleaning."
by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 7:24 AM EST up reply actions
I'm using the word twice!
Grabbing Brian Rolston off waivers…stupid or not stupid?
And as it’s my personal opinion, I’d appreciate not being told it’s stupid, thanks.
Stupid at even half his contract.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 7:37 AM EST up reply actions
“Nashi.”
It indicates the absence of something, as in “we have no bananas”.
The appropriate word in this context would be “iya”.
Patron saint of quality footwear.
“iie” was indeed what I was thinking when I saw it. “iya” is slang-y. SME is the authority, though.
by DrinkingPartner on Dec 15, 2010 9:06 AM EST up reply actions
“Iie” is more a response to a factual proposition: “did you go to the theater last night?” “No, I did not.”
Questions of volition or desire – “do you want Brian Rolston” – are properly addressed with “iya”, which indicates dislike, distaste or lack of enthusiasm.
Patron saint of quality footwear.
Hmm, alright. I don’t think I’ve ever specifically gotten that explanation between the two. I do remember that my teacher was very hard on us using “iya” in any written form unless it was as a part of a quotation/dialog.
/but OT
by DrinkingPartner on Dec 15, 2010 9:14 AM EST up reply actions
なし technically does mean without, but I feel like this isn’t exactly proper use of it.
僕は財布なしでコンビニに行った。Would be “I went to the store without my wallet.”
I don’t think it’s ever used on it’s own (except in the most casual conversations) or in this manner. But I could be mistaken.
The guy is Peter Schumpmaker. Lord knows what a schump is, but you can bet your bippy his ancestors made them. What he's doing is far worse than crafting fine schumps.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Dec 15, 2010 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
Stupid. We don’t need more wingers and if he can’t even crack the NJD lineup then that doesn’t bode well for us. If we really needed a guy that can PK maybe I’d think about it, but I think we’ve got enough PK-worthy forwards (and I’m not even sure he can still PK like the Brian Rolston of old).
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Cody made Team Canada.
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by EmilyB on Dec 15, 2010 7:23 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
Hope silver and ginger go well together.
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 7:28 AM EST up reply actions 12 recs
Yeah Cody! (but Boo! Team Canada!)
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
We can hardly wait until Cody is playing for us - on our side.
Rocking the Red for teams on the banks of the Potomac and at the Gateway Arch and Singing the Blues about Hockey.
For a certain NHL team that dresses in the colors of the American Flag.
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Vive les Habitants!
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 4:59 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah Cody! (and Yay! Team Canada!) ;)
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 7:38 AM EST up reply actions
A poll currently running at Sportsnet.ca
What is the most memorable World Junior Championship moment?
* John Carlson O.T. winner against Canada in 2010
* Eberle tying goal against Russia in 2009
* Toews three shootout goals in 2007
* Bench clearing brawl against U.S.S.R. in 1987
Submit Answer
View results
* Eberle tying goal against Russia in 2009
54%
* Bench clearing brawl against U.S.S.R. in 1987
24%
* Toews three shootout goals in 2007
21%
* John Carlson O.T. winner against Canada in 2010
1%
Lulz.
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by EmilyB on Dec 15, 2010 7:39 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 7:40 AM EST up reply actions 19 recs
I would have gone with the 87 bench clearing brawl. I remember watching that game. It was a true WTF moment. Especially when they turned the lights off in the arena.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 7:45 AM EST up reply actions
“You don’t kick our boys!”
Great stuff. Still have it on tape/DVD somewhere.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 7:55 AM EST up reply actions
A CBC news clip for anyone interested in the “Punch Up In Piestany”:
http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/01/04/
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 7:58 AM EST up reply actions
Some familiar names on both sides: Mogilny, Konstantinov, Fedorov, Malakhov, Shanahan, Turgeon, Fleury, Corriveau.
IIRC, that might have been Sean Simpson hitting the Russian goalie in that clip too.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 8:10 AM EST up reply actions
I remember Shanny on the Canuck team most but man was that Russian team loaded. Amazingly the Russians had a really poor round robin and were expected to not even medal so that game was just a thorwaway for them. Evegny Davydov, the Russian who jumped the bunch to fight Fleury, even had a short lived NHL career in the early 90s with the Jets, Sens and Panthers.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 9:03 AM EST up reply actions
Yep. Zelepukin was another name I spotted too.
Damn, now I want to watch that again (along with that year’s Canada Cup).
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 9:06 AM EST up reply actions
One of the best parts of watching that Canada Cup here was CTV had the voice of the Blues, the late Dan Kelly doing play by play.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 9:09 AM EST up reply actions
Apparently Canadians are quick to forget losing, or at least say they are in polls.
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Guess it depends on how you interpret “memorable” – is it “what I currently remember best” or “what will be the most lasting”?
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No one can really be surprised by this poll. I mean Canada’s second largest sports network asks its viewership ( who are primarily Canadian) their most memorable World Junior Championship moment. Of course it’s going to be skewed to Canadian moments. If ESPN asked its viewership (mainly American) their most memorable Olympic hockey moment it would no doubt be Lake Placid in 1980 not Crosby scoring in OT this past year.
As said above, I would answer the 1987 bench clearing brawl because that was such a “Did that really just happen?” moment.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
Right. I would say the Carlson goal is probably Canadian fandom’s most forgettable moment, at least of recent vintage.
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As a Canadian, I can’t say I really lose much sleep over it. I said last year in the GDT for the Final that I was happy for Carlson, although my rooting interests were for Canada. I still am. What I took most from that game is that it was the most exciting hockey game I saw last year, regardless of the outcome.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
Exactly, but if it was so exciting, I would have thought it would be more memorable, even for Canadian fans.
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Exciting + the team you are rooting for winning the game = Doubly exciting for most people.
I would maybe ask this. If Carlson wasn’t a Capital and was drafted and played for, say the Columbus Blue Jackets would the play stick in your head as much?
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 11:53 AM EST up reply actions
Maybe a bad example since you are from Ohio Don. Feel free to change example to Minnesota Wild
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 11:54 AM EST up reply actions
No doubt about that.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 11:57 AM EST up reply actions
It would sure give me a reason to not hate CBJ. I have a man-crush on Cam Fowler because of that tournament (and a resultant man-hate on McIlrath).
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Do you actually have reasons to hate the Blue Jackets? I kind of regard them with utter indifference.
Well I’ve always hated Hitchcock so that started me down that path, then there was the whole AO injury thing last year (which is kind of lame, I admit, I don’t even think they did anything too hate-worthy there), then they picked up Umberger. I guess I don’t have a good reason, just a lot of things that keep rubbing me the wrong way.
I do like that GMGM owns them on the trade circuit, though.
Lockout talk makes me want to go out and choke an old lady - Elliotte Friedman
Does anyone have a reason to like the Blue Jackets might be a better question.
by Chris Burton on Dec 15, 2010 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
Yep. I largely feel apathetic towards them, in much the same way one feels apathetic towards a younger brother to whom you continually give a swirly.
Or something.
by Chris Burton on Dec 15, 2010 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
Ouch. Just apathetic?
The guy is Peter Schumpmaker. Lord knows what a schump is, but you can bet your bippy his ancestors made them. What he's doing is far worse than crafting fine schumps.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Dec 15, 2010 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
Until I get that damned Commander in Chief trophy.
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You have a better chance at winning the Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez Trophy
Release the Mackan!
by Killer_Carlson on Dec 15, 2010 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
I’m going to lock down that Participation Ribbon.
The guy is Peter Schumpmaker. Lord knows what a schump is, but you can bet your bippy his ancestors made them. What he's doing is far worse than crafting fine schumps.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Dec 15, 2010 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
We’ll see about that. My team is sure trying to throw its hat into the ring this week.
Release the Mackan!
by Killer_Carlson on Dec 15, 2010 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
Other choices that would yield higher results than RAHJC
Crosby wins Gold in 2005 WJC
Ovechkin gets drilled headfirst into the boards in 2005 WJC
Crosby caught picking nose during 2005 WJC medal ceremony
by S h a g g y on Dec 15, 2010 12:14 PM EST up reply actions
I’d guess the 2004 game with the Fleury flub/O’Sullivan GWG might even rank higher in the memorable for being less than memorable moment from a Canadian perspective, but that might be a toss-up with last year’s game?
I’d say in general an OT game takes the cake. Then consider how tight the game last year was compared to the ‘04 game that looked over after two periods and I’d say it was probably a better game in ’10.
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Better game in ’10, I agree, but the US comeback and Fleury flub are pretty memorable in the games Canadians want to forget category, IMO.
As a USA fan, I prefer the ‘10 game; as a Caps fan, it’s a no brainer to prefer the ’10 game.
To be honest, I had forgotten all about the ’04 game and the MAF flub. Not really forgetting as in I had banished the awful memory from my mind. It just skipped my mind.
It could be because International hockey for me has never been as memorable as NHL hockey. If you mentioned hockey error to me the first thing crossing my mind would be Steve Smith for EDM scoring on his own goal in 1986 of the Smythe Division Final vs CGY than MAF’s mistake.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
Not “The Curse of Scott Hannan”?
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“Flash’s Revenge”
If you've read this far...seek help.
by ThePeerless on Dec 15, 2010 8:22 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
How about the “Skins Simulation” or “Doing the Wiz” or “In a United State”?
Wow – DC teams aren’t good. :-(
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Hey now, DC United WAS good, once.
Less drama, more hockey
by SeattleCapsFan on Dec 15, 2010 8:56 AM EST up reply actions
The Bullets won in 1978. The Skins won last in 1993. The Nats in 1924?
I forgot the Nats in my first post. How about the “National Deficit”?
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Alright, DC United WAS good, once, in recent memory.
Less drama, more hockey
by SeattleCapsFan on Dec 15, 2010 9:08 AM EST up reply actions
United was MLS’ first dynasty, appearing in the finals the first 4 years of the league, winning 3 titles. They’ve also won a 4th title, the US Open Cup twice, the CONCACAF club championship once, and there was one year when they won and “Inter American Club Championship” beating the South American club champion from Brazil…
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Dec 15, 2010 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
I thought it was 1991…guess that shows how long ago it’s been since they were respectable…or how bad my memory is.
1991 season, game in 1992.
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From Wang’s CI piece:
Coach Bruce Boudreau, who vigorously defended Michal Neuvirth and Semyon Varlamov today after practice when questioned about local and national media reports suggesting an upgrade at the position was necessary:
“I’ll tell them the same thing: We’ve got two great young goaltenders,” he said during a heavily attended media session at Kettler Capitals Iceplex. “Not good, but great young goaltenders. We’re not going after anybody else.”
I watched the presser and agree with Wang; it was a “vigorous” defense. And yet somehow, Dreger on OTF last night states that the Caps are “quietly saying they’re going to be fine,” implying that they’re not really sure. Who is saying this quietly, Mr. Dreger, besides you?
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
Oh, they’re saying it quietly. They’re just saying it loudly, too.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Dec 15, 2010 8:07 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
It just pisses me off when so-called “reporters” change the actual story to fit their narratives. Especially ones that have such a big stage.
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
I heard it driving in this morning – it was really vigorous, I was almost surprised (but pleased) at how strongly he stood behind the goalies.
The media will spin it however they see fit, though. Sadly.
If anyone needs me, I'll be at Kettler.
“It was too vigorous. It’s as though he was trying to deflect the criticism, knowing that the team has made a poor decision, but has its hands tied now. The fact is that the Caps continue to be in trouble in the net.”
How’s that?
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What’s odd about it is that, to be perfectly honest, the goaltending hasn’t been very good over the past four games. I mean, I get the defense of the guys, but they’ve been as much to blame as anyone during the latter part of The Slide.
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Both goalies have had some amazing games and are clearly talented. Do you think this breakdown is a result of them both being young and not having a veteran goalie (on the team, not as a coach) as a mentor?
There's always more to learn about Hockey.
Related (and take it for whatever it’s worth) Nabakov’s Russian agent says the Caps might be interested, but unless he’s working with Meehan on it he’s talking shite.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 9:09 AM EST up reply actions
All I keep seeing in my mind for Nabokov is the Olympic game against Canada and ask why we’d want him. I know that’s not fair and he was pretty decent for the Sharks last year, but I see no reason why it would be worth it to send one of the kids to Hershey to bring him in.
And not necessarily to defend the goalies, but we know Neuvirth was too sick to relieve Varlamov the other day, but do we know if Varly isn’t 100%. I hate it when the flu or it’s relative charges through the locker room and makes everyone sick at the same time. How do you determine how much is illness and how much is just general suckitude?
"It's always good to have vikings."
At this point I’d determine that it’s because between them they’ve played a little more than a full season of games combined, but that’s just my spitballing.
*damn, Nabakov? I got up too early.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 9:17 AM EST up reply actions
Nabokov would be an instant upgrade on most goalies in the league, let alone our kids. I’d take him in a second and alternate Varly and Neuvy in Hershey, because they’re both clearly NHL goalies, even now.
by DrinkingPartner on Dec 15, 2010 9:17 AM EST up reply actions
His lack of greatness in the playoffs/Olympics concerns me, but I think I’m with you at the right price. I wouldn’t want his signing to take cap space that likely will be needed for a 2C at the deadline. So maybe at $1.5 – 2? Unfortunately, I think Tampa will pay more than that. They’re much more in need of a G upgrade.
Ehhh…the stats people say Nabokov is average, if not replacement level. I’m not sure what to think about him, but I do think Varly and Neuvirth are nearly unbeatable when hot, and their hotness or lack thereof is really going to make or break this team in the playoffs (that’s how it always seems to work—hot goalies win otherwise close series).
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by red army line on Dec 15, 2010 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
I can’t argue stats, but he’s a solid goaltender when I watch him play. He’d probably be a good mentor for Varly.
by DrinkingPartner on Dec 15, 2010 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
My impression of Nabby is that he mixes long stretches of OK-to-good play with a few games of putrid work and then the occasional excellent effort.
Which really sounds quite a lot like what we already have.
I’d rather do without him.
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Varly’s lows seem to be really low. I’d be ok with an insurance policy for the playoffs.
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
Isn’t that Neuvirth?
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by red army line on Dec 15, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
I think Varly is a little worse in that department. How many times have we seen one bad goal turn into three quick ones against him?
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
I mean, isn’t the insurance policy Neuvirth?
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by red army line on Dec 15, 2010 11:43 AM EST up reply actions
And really, what kind of “insurance policy” can any goalie be? Is there someone you know for an absolute fact will come in and have a .910 save percentage and allow 2.50 goals against per game?
I get “insurance policy” from a health standpoint – valid concern with these guys, especially Varly. But from a performance standpoint? Not so much.
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From what I understand, the Russian agent has nothing at all to do with Nabokov’s NHL negotiations.
If he ends up somewhere, I’d guess Tampa.
by Chris Burton on Dec 15, 2010 9:26 AM EST up reply actions
I think they deserve blame, but not necessarily as much blame as the guys in front of them. Both guys are clearly talented goaltenders, but it seems to me that they are still at a point where they need at least a little bit of help from the guys in front of them. Not to say that they’re incapable of occasionally stealing a game single-handedly, but I think the poor goaltending is much more a function of the play of the team overall rather than anything that Neuvirth or Varlamov is doing wrong.
My thoughts exactly.
When you’re not scoring, the absolute biggest thing you can’t do is give up soft ones, which they’ve been doing. Of course, the other thing you can’t do is give up a bunch of gilt-edged chances, which they’ve also done regularly.
But the goalies have to be better.
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Right, and he acknowledges that to some extent – he points out that as young goalies (just like young guys in any position) they have their rough patches. He also made mention of the fact that Varly would give up one goal and think the world was on his shoulders, which just wasn’t true.
Another interesting part of the interview, at least in my opinion, was that he took that idea of Varly wanting to be perfect and extending it to the rest of the team. In other words, they’re so afraid to mess up now because of the slump that they’re trying to be perfect and it’s not a perfect world.
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It’s been a team thing… they can’t score (eight goals in six games), they can’t defend, they can’t stop pucks, they have no power play, they can’t kill penalties, and every time I see a shot of Bruce behind the bench he seems to have this thousand-yard stare look about him.
You’d think they were calling Redskin Park for advice.
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The goalies usually don’t get much blame when a team is getting shutout multiple times. In most those games the Caps could have been down 1-0 or 2-0 and still lost.
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I really appreciate G. Wang’s range—his fantasy football chat is pretty solid and he keeps his undying love for the ‘Boys in check for the most part—but one can tell he’s a hockey rook with the confusion of the Gordon boys. Where’s that pesky fact checker, anyway?
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I firmly believe that the Caps will continue to roll Neuvy and Varly, but…
Fleischmann, a talented left winger, was the center of trade rumors this summer, but Boudreau said it’s time to end the speculation. “Oh yeah. Those trade rumors, I think you can faithfully put all of them to bed,” Boudreau told Sporting News. “We laugh at so many of them that have no substance. I don’t know who makes them up. Some people have very vivid imaginations.”
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by Sombrero Guy on Dec 15, 2010 9:57 AM EST up reply actions
It’s possible that Bruce didn’t know about the on-going talks.
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Probable even.
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by Sombrero Guy on Dec 15, 2010 10:00 AM EST up reply actions
As with any and all trade-related communications coming from team officials… take ’em with shakers of salt.
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actual url
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
by jordanDC on Dec 15, 2010 9:59 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The RMNB piece provides some interesting data. Nothing you didn’t know intuitively – the Caps aren’t scoring – but it does bring in to focus a couple of things.
One, the Caps are generating chances – and not just the subjective “they couldda scored there” chances, but shots from the high end real estate.
Further, the conversion rate blows. But it blows to such an extreme extent that it beggars belief to think it stays the same.
This did strike me:
Convert percentage is simply goals-for divided by scoring chances-for. […] Remember, not all goals are scored from "dangerous" scoring areas, so they aren’t logged as chances.
I’d like to see a conversion rate that scrubs out the non-scoring-chance goals, to give us a true conversion rate. It would give us an idea of how many “lucky” goals have driven the results prior to The Slide.
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I’d like to see a conversion rate that scrubs out the non-scoring-chance goals, to give us a true conversion rate.
The total scoring chances are there, except for CAR game noted. You could just divide total goals-for (minus the goals scored during CAR game) by the total chances listed in RMNB post.
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I thought that’s how you were doing it?
Or are the GF you list just those scored on bona fide chances?
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The GF I list are just those scored on bonafide chances, which is why they total less than actual GF.
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Gotcha. Sorry, I misunderstood.
Glad we have a “true” conversion rate. If I get some time I’ll work up the other end of it.
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I just re-read RMNB post and saw I must have deleted that clarification. Sorry for confusion.
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I don’t even know ’er…
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Dec 15, 2010 8:18 AM EST up reply actions
Gabby is nothing if not eloquent.
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by SeattleCapsFan on Dec 15, 2010 8:20 AM EST up reply actions
Since you brought up Michal Pivonka...
I wouldn’t mind him as a 2C right now. :)
by Danny Burrito on Dec 15, 2010 8:20 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
Bourne gives us one more reason to appreciate the team’s handling of Alzner and the young goalies; to marvel at Carlson’s rapid rise; and to recognize what an advantage Matthieu Perreault has over Marcus Johansson this season.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
Great read, this line in particular reminds me of the on-going debate I’ve been having with D’ohboy regarding Mackan:
For young players entering the NHL, there’s a sizable learning curve, and I’m not convinced that only giving a rookie a moderate amount of ice time early in his career is a detriment to his development. I know it helped me in college.
I’m not trying to call checkmate, just pointing out Bourne’s take on modest ice time for rookies. That’s been one of D’oh’s biggest complaints and I know he respects Bourne so I found it interesting.
Regarding Stamkos, I wish Bourne would have also pointed out that Stamkos didn’t really take off until February or so, not right after Melrose got fired. It’s even more evidence in favor of his conclusion.
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by Knee high to a duck on Dec 15, 2010 4:18 PM EST up reply actions
Thinking about leadership and our Russian players, I tried to do a little research on how Datsyuk became Datsyuk. This article about how Hull and Larionov helped push Datsyuk alongis a fascinating read.
I wonder if all of the Caps’ skilled forwards could use a little more time with some future hall of famers.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
I know hindsight is 20/20 and all but the fact Datsyuk was skipped over in two drafts and ended up going 171st overall never ceases to amaze me.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 9:18 AM EST up reply actions
One more non-Caps article: This one in the NY Times today about the opening of Madison Square Garden 85 years ago is an instant classic. Amazing stuff.
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The original was built in 1879 and actually was at Madison Square (26th and Madison Avenue). There have been four MSG’s in all. I’ve never been to this one, but I was at the one that was at 49th St and 8th Avenue (the one built in 1925), the third in the series.
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The destruction of Penn Station to make way for the current incarnation was a tragedy.
You had me at no problem.
Wasn’t this covered on Mad Men in the last couple seasons?
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 9:55 AM EST up reply actions
From Puck Daddy Interview w/ HBO
I’m really, really excited to see this thing.
In the Rangers game, during the timeout Boudreau called, you saw on TV that he was giving hell to his team, but you couldn’t tell what he was saying. We have every word that he said. At one of the lower moments a team like that could ever have, you’d imagine in one of, they’d say “you can’t use that,” but no: They said “he said it, you shot it, it goes on the air.”
It sounds like we’re going to get mic’d up fights and penalty box chirping and hot-headed coaches ranting in the dressing room.
Saw that, and thought immediately of Boudreau’s position that he wasn’t so much blasting the guys as encouraging them.
Apparently, we’re going to find out.
Or, you’re going to find out and tell me about it, as I do not have HBO.
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I dunno, in between a liveblog while using this would be pretty damn entertaining.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 9:53 AM EST up reply actions
For anyone who wants a little pugilism in their morning
There was a pretty good tilt between Zack Stortini and Colton Orr in last night’s TOR-EDM game
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5654970/stortini_v_orr/
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Caps recall Gordon, Beagle, re-assign Fahey, per the team.
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Just about to post the same thing. So – speculation:
Sloan or Green (fingers crossed for the latter) ready to go.
Semin and MarJo not ready to go?
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and Boyd Gordon is injured.
Someone that talked to Green at his charity event said Green said he’s playing tonight.
Forgot – 15 out 1-2 weeks.
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Vogs’ pre-gamer sez 1 week, LBI.
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I still think GMGM should have followed YLM’s advice and signed Dustin Boyd off waivers from MTL so the headline could read “Caps lose Boyd Gordon, Add Boyd, Gordon”
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 9:25 AM EST up reply actions
gotta keep our Gordons and Boyds in the proper ratios, or it all falls apart.
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A Boyd in hand is worth two in the bush.
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 9:31 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I’m waiting for them to announce they’ve come to terms with James Black and Dustin Boyd early one morning next summer so I can run a post with the title, “Black, Boyd signing in the dead of night”
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 9:37 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
LOL. Nice one.
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I would say don’t encourage him, but…that was pretty good. Awful, but good. Which means my dad would probably find it hilarious.
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I’m easing into “middle-aged Jew” nicely.
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 9:40 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Which means making jokes that your parents made and, at the time, you never thought were funny. I’m right there with you.
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Yeah, I’m finding myself doing that a lot too. Must be in our blood. I tell a lot of “dad jokes”.
You had me at no problem.
I lol’d
"Now wait a minute. This is just purely a social call. You know, just two adults getting a stew on, man."
by The Ghost of Bebop on Dec 15, 2010 11:19 AM EST up reply actions
My favorite:
“Daddy, I’m hungry.”
“Nice to meet you Hungry.”
DAAAAAAAAD
"Quint?"........"No."
by NJNJ on Dec 15, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Oooh… that’s a nice one to add to my arsenal.
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When asked if she liked my brother or me more, my mother used to reply “I dislike them both equally.”
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 11:46 AM EST up reply actions
My husband does that one to our son, with the same response.
One my mother-in-law used on my husband, that I have appropriated for the kiddo (and sometimes hubs too):
“Mom, have you seen my shoes?”
“Last time I wore them, I put them back.”
You had me at "no problem"!
Staple of my childhood:
“Can I have some ice cream, dad?”
“I don’t know, can you?”
Release the Mackan!
by Killer_Carlson on Dec 15, 2010 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
Staple of right now as well.
The guy is Peter Schumpmaker. Lord knows what a schump is, but you can bet your bippy his ancestors made them. What he's doing is far worse than crafting fine schumps.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Dec 15, 2010 1:21 PM EST up reply actions
I did that to my daughter just the other night.
“Can you drive me to the mall?”
“I can, but the question is will I?”
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Ugh my dad did all of these. But his favorite:
“It was like, annoying”
“Was it annoying? Or only like annoying?”
He had a field day with my middle school friend who talked like a valley girl. Oooph.
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by SeattleCapsFan on Dec 15, 2010 1:54 PM EST up reply actions
That’s another one our dad loved (still loves).
The guy is Peter Schumpmaker. Lord knows what a schump is, but you can bet your bippy his ancestors made them. What he's doing is far worse than crafting fine schumps.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Dec 15, 2010 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
If he plays tonight, expect he will, this will be Andrew Gordon’s first non-preseason game at the Verizon Center. Here’s hoping he celebrates his 25th birthday a little belatedly with his first NHL point!
OT: So it’s the year anniversary of Wilson celebrating his 25th bday in Colorado with his first 2 NHL points; he now has 11 NHL points total. Columbus plays in Vancouver tonight.
Happy birthday, Kyle
My, how time flies.
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From HotH (the blog, not the planet that’s warmer than it is here in D.C.):
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 9:39 AM EST reply actions 9 recs
Awesome.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 9:41 AM EST up reply actions
“B-de, B-de, B-de, that’s fuckin’ all, folks”
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
Ah, hahahahahahahaha. It’s so appropriate.
by DrinkingPartner on Dec 15, 2010 10:09 AM EST up reply actions
Out in western MD, last night it was 9 degrees, snowed 3 inches, and with windchill felt like -8.
And you talks about teh cold.
Bruce Boudreau when asked about Brooks Laich's return to the lineup, he said: "He just adds another dimension to our team. If it was puzzle, he just fits that thing. He completes us."
Brooks Laich completing everything from teams to tires and everything in between.
Corey's article
I’m definitely in the “stop the talking and do” camp, but the one thing that struck me was the quotes from Poti. He’s by all accounts a very quiet guy. Having him step up and say the right things was good to see. Grasping for straws, I know.
Those Laich quotes must have really grated on some ’round here.
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At least they didn’t contain a “we always said back on the farm that when the cows don’t give milk in the morning, you try again in the evenin’ til you fill the bucket” or some such.
Nice.
“It’s like when you’re a kid and you’re buried up to your waist in cow shit and all you want to do is play hockey outside in -40 degree weather – you know there’s only one way it’s going to happen and that’s by grabbing a shovel and starting to dig.”
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by J.P. on Dec 15, 2010 9:49 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Would be sad to find out that Brooks actually grew up in a town house on a cul-de-sac in Wawota. Driven to indoor rinks in his mom’s mini-van…
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 9:55 AM EST up reply actions
Yes, I would weep openly…
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
You can probably rest easy since there are no townhouse in Wawota.
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
There goes my plans for a summer home…
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 4:23 PM EST up reply actions
I was wondering… with four episodes of this HBO thing, why aren’t they doing a feature on bloggers? The Rink, Pensblog, RMNB, Pensburgh…
Sorta like “The Superfans,” but… different.
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Sounds like the best photoshop project in the history of the world.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 9:46 AM EST up reply actions
So question to JP and the rest of the staff, and it’s probably silly since it will be done anyway but
Should we expect clips from 24/7 and/or translations of speeches tomorrow?
I don’t have HBO but will be scouring the interweb for some kind of feed. I know most of our itnerest is piqued for what exactly BB has been saying. Especially when Puck Daddy broke that interview yesterday and specifically said that they had every word Gabby said to his team during the timeout against the Rags.
Bruce Boudreau when asked about Brooks Laich's return to the lineup, he said: "He just adds another dimension to our team. If it was puzzle, he just fits that thing. He completes us."
Brooks Laich completing everything from teams to tires and everything in between.
We’ll do our best to link to what others are posting on it. Not sure what our own coverage will look like, but I think we might do an Open Thread if that’s something that people are interested in.
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I don’t have HBO. A live blogging thread would be of interest to me.
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I was thinking the same thing. I’m sure they’ll be one.
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Just to spite me, there seems to be an HBO outage on the system here at the moment. It had better fix itself soon.
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by CapitalCentre on Dec 15, 2010 11:34 AM EST up reply actions
sounds like you can expect some transcripts from dan steinberg at the very least.
by Natty Bumppo on Dec 15, 2010 9:58 AM EST up reply actions
Got shut down by Comcast when I asked the other day :(
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
I answered the telemarketing call last night. Comcast wanted to give me HBO for six bucks a month, cancel anytime.
Boom.
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Dammit! The roped me in for $10/month.
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Very funny article from Puck Daddy on how to watch 24/7.
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That’s awesome. Although that drinking game sounds like a recipe for alcohol poisoning.
Related question, what exactly is the “F-bomb in Russian” and the “F-bomb in Swedish”?
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by SeattleCapsFan on Dec 15, 2010 10:54 AM EST up reply actions
I can point you to what @dchesnokov sent out on Twitter for Russian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mat
but no clue on Swedish…
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by IRockTheRed on Dec 15, 2010 11:14 AM EST up reply actions
From a transliteration perspective:
yobe (like robe) is Fuck!
yobanni is fucking as an adjective
yebatsya is fuck yourself
xooey is male anatomy
gavno is shit
pizda is the unprintable female anatomy
svoloch is bitch
The Wikipedia site above is actually pretty good.
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For Swedish, Russian or other languages, I’ll be intrigued to see if there is any closed-captioning. Doubt it.
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head full of piss.. brilliant.
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
I have a Russian Obscenities dictionary at home. The best thing I remember is that there is one word that means “to be covered in shit.”
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I actually really dislike power v. power, but that’s another discussion altogether.
—D’ohboy yesterday
Why? If you’re short on talent, I’d agree, but the Capitals have so much talent that when everyone is playing at their normal level (so AO much better than now) I think it’s what should be done.
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I’ve wanted to make a fanpost on this, but it’s actually pretty simple – it’s all about comparative advantage between players.
Let’s take Datsyuk for example. He is, by all accounts, Detroit’s best all-around forward. For the sake of simplicity, let’s say he’s a 10 on offense and a 10 on defense. Now take Darren Helm, Detroit’s version of Boyd Gordon. Let’s say he’s a 3 on offense and a 7 on defense. While Datsyuk may be the better defensive player on an absolute level, Helm’s got a comparative advantage on defense. By putting Datsyuk out there for tough defensive assignments time after time, the coach is using his assets less efficiently than he could.
To make this a little less theoretical, there are a shitload of guys in the NHL/AHL/KHL/SES who can play defense. The recent post-expansion era (late 90s through early 00s) taught us that. There are tons of guys out there like Boyd Gordon, or Matt Hendricks who are capable of giving you 12-15 mins a night of solid defensive hockey but who, for the most part, couldn’t score in a brothel. Maybe their defensive ability is slightly less than that of an elite player like Datsyuk, but the difference is minimal compared to the delta between their relative offensive capabilities.
An efficient use of talent would exploit the comparative advantage that guys like Helm/Gordo, etc. have on defense by putting them out (where possible), against tough assignments, thereby letting Datsyuk make the most of his shifts on the ice.
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by D'ohboy on Dec 15, 2010 11:18 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I think that when it comes to line matching, what matters most is not the composition of your own team in a vacuum, but how it stacks up to others.
Power vs power puts our offensive studs out against theirs, and our defensive stoppers out against theirs. There’s no obvious competitive advantage.
Likewise, line matching puts our good defenders against their good offensive players, and vice versa. In theory, this should lead to fewer goals overall, but in the abstract it’s impossible to say which team it benefits.
In both cases, the strategy is the same for both teams, whichever strategy is being employed.
I really like Boudreau’s philosophy. He says “Fuck you, opposing coach — I’m going to put out whoever is my best player who’s rested and ready to go. You’re not going to dictate who I play.” This has got to get the best players many more shifts over the course of the season. To use your example, it maximizes the use of your 10-10 Datsyuk, and minimizes the use of your 3-7 Helm.
At the same time, Boudreau does pay attention to zone starts. He puts his better defensive players out there for defensive zone starts, and his better offensive zone players out there for offensive zone starts. That’s playing strength to situation.
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by Gould Old Days on Dec 15, 2010 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
I think I’ll have to dwell on that argument a bit, but my initial reactions are
1) does TOI mess things up?
2) a team as deep up front as Washington can match or better 25 or so other teams line-for-line at least, and having all the 5on5 time in DC’s favor is a good thing
3) in hockey, a bounce here or there may decide the game, and I’m more comfortable with all the 5on5 time being in the Caps’ favor instead of some heavily in their favor and some not, and
4) Datsyuk can only score so much (his stats will start plateauing) at which point it becomes an advantage to toughen his matchups until his boxcars start to take a nosedive. I’m thinking Backstrom + Ovechkin would take a minimal hit in boxcars, but benefit the team hugely defensively, going power versus power against most lines. They’ll be forced to play better to achieve the same results, and this season I’m fairly sure they haven’t been playing their best yet.
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by red army line on Dec 15, 2010 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
Morning Skate
Have to say that I am a little surprised that Ovechkin is not out for the morning skate.
I’m hoping they called up A. Gordon AND Beagle because Ovechkin is finally taking time to sit and get healthy. A pipe dream, I’m sure.
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If he hasn’t sat yet, he ain’t sitting now (barring something new, of course).
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Six game losing streak,3 days between games and the only players not participating in the morning skate are a guy who’s hurt, a guy who missed practice yesterday, and the Captain.
Bad optics there.
Two of those guys also skipped the Game 7 skate last year.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
Honestly, I’d rather Ovi be in the film room watching how teams have been defending him (and a few clips of his..um..defense in a few of these games) then participating in a meaningless morning skate.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
Not sure how meaningless it is right now to remind everyone that they’re in this all together and they have a leader ready to lead them. That said, if he’s sick, sure – skip it.
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I’m not in the room, but I don’t get the impression that guys really value the morning skates too much. If they need the symbolism of Ovi skating around for 45 minutes to remind them that they are all in this together, then they are in more trouble than we think. Hopefully they value what Ovi does on the ice during games more.
That said, I imagine the only reason Ovi isn’t out there is due to sickness or maybe a bad reaction in his knee after yesterday’s practice.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 10:59 AM EST up reply actions
Ovechkin leads by example. The team follows him. If they see him busting his ass, they bust their asses. If they see him coasting…
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On the other hand, if his knee really is hurt and he’s sitting out, it might show the other guys that it’s fine to rest if you’re hurt.
There is no problem a hammer cannot either fix or make irrelevant.
Boudreau says AO is fine (Semin questionable for tonight).
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Boudreau or GMGM saying that doesn’t mean much to me. I believe they said the same during the 2008-9 playoffs when Green was hurt.
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by timmyv38 on Dec 15, 2010 11:12 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
My thinking is, the other Caps will know if Ovie actually is hurting. If he is, this could set a good example. Even if it’s not an injury that would cause him to miss a game, the fact that he is trying to rest it so as to be ready for the game tonight is good.
However, this is all going off the assumption that the puck to the knee that Natty mentioned actually stung him.
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That’s a valid guess. No less valid, though, would be “I’ve got bumps and bruises too, but I’m out here,” no? It’s all speculative and probably not terribly productive on our parts.
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Very true. I guess I’m thinking of the fact that Green seems to be having issues with his shoulder and didn’t want to rest it. That just seems to be a hockey mindset that I think is a bad idea.
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Agreed. But I guess the difference is that if you’re healthy enough to play a full-contact game, you’re healthy enough to take a morning skate. Wanna sit? Sit both.
Obviously there are different rules for different players, though.
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He takes morning skate more often than not. My guess is his knee is sore and he’s resting it. I don’t think anything else needs to be made of him missing one morning skate.
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I’m not trying to make a lot of it, b/c I agree, not a huge deal.
That said, I wonder where he’d rank among NHL captains in % of morning skates taken.
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I’ve wondered that often, too, simply out of curiosity (not Ovechkin specifically, but captains as a whole).
by Chris Burton on Dec 15, 2010 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t think it’s a huge deal, but it’s at least something to note, no?
I do feel like a large percentage of us here would find a way to excuse almost any conduct from AO. But when things aren’t going well, it’s fair to take a look at the non-game aspects of his conduct, and think that there’s a spillover.
At least imo.
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He’s probably not emo, either.
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I'd sure as hell hope he wasn't Emo.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 11:25 AM EST up reply actions
Totally agree. I just don’t see morning skates as “ass busting” exercises. Practice, yes, which he did yesterday. I view morning skates as just an old tradition that really has no impact on the game or preparation for the game.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
Every time I’ve gone to a morning skate I’ve asked myself “Why the hell did I come down here to watch this.” It’s a whole lof guys gliding around the ice, shooting pucks against the boards and talking. If it were like the NFL morning walk thorughs where the coaches and the team actually went through plays and formations, I could see the argument, but to my untrained eyes, morning skates just seem like individual loosening up periods. If they were important, I’m guessing they wouldn’t be optional.
Agreed, they are low-key, low-energy affairs. BB said in an interview last year that the main purpose was to “get the guys out of bed”. Greg Smith said that there is a lot of evidence that energy spent in the pre-game skate is energy taken away from the game, and that pre-game skates really shouldn’t even take place — but tradition in hockey is strong. So they try hard not to have the guys expend too much energy.
I’ll try and look this up, but I’m guessing the tradition started to make sure the guys weren’t hung over from the night before. Could have also been to get guys legs moving after a long overnight bus/train ride from wherever they were playing the night before.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
i want to sit the Caps down and show them a highlight reel of themselves, so that they can regain some of the swagger we’re so used to seeing.
by DrinkingPartner on Dec 15, 2010 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
He’s busy sparring at Gold’s Gym.
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by Rather Bengt on Dec 15, 2010 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
didn’t AO take a puck to the knee in the rangers game and never take another shift? why is it a surprise he might be injured? has he practiced since then? it looked brutal in person. he was keeled over on the bench the rest of the game.
by Natty Bumppo on Dec 15, 2010 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
IIRC, the Boudreau comment was he could have put him out there again provided it wasn’t already 7-0.
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by Bald Pollack on Dec 15, 2010 10:59 AM EST up reply actions
smoke screen. AO was hurt. i thought at first the puck had hit him in the head he was so woozy.
by Natty Bumppo on Dec 15, 2010 11:00 AM EST up reply actions
I think he’s banged up some. Yesterday during practice a trainer came out with a squat container, sort of the size for car wax, called Ovi over, who turned around with his back toward the trainer and it appeared the trainer put his hand down inside the neck of Ovi’s jersey rubbed whatever it was on his back. Ovi had this look of it hurts so bad, it feels good.
Have to wonder if that means he’s not playing tonight; also, a possibility with Semin?
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2G: Neuvirth and Varlamov
13F: Backstrom, Bradley, Chimera, Fehr, BGordon*, Hendricks, Johansson*, Knuble, Laich, Ovechkin*, Perreault, Semin*, Steckel
7D: Alzner, Carlson, Erskine, Green*, Hannan, Poti
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Last game played notes:
Sloan – last game played 12/4
King – last game played 12/6
Schultz – last game played 12/6
Green – last game played 12/9
BGordon – last game played 12/12
Johansson – last game played 12/12
Practice updates from 12/14-15 from C. Masisak:
- Semin is day-to-day
- Boyd Gordon is out 1-2 weeks
- MJ90 is sick (12/14), but practicing 12/15
- Sloan, Green, and King practicing
- Ovechkin and Semin not practicing on 12/15
Eh, its a morning skate. He did practice yesterday, no?
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Dec 15, 2010 10:39 AM EST up reply actions
He was in the parking lot sacrificing a goat.
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I would be shockingly okay with that.
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by Hang a Laingtern on Your Problems on Dec 15, 2010 3:15 PM EST up reply actions
I’m not clear why people want Ovechkin to sit. He seems to have a sore hand, but I’m not aware of other injuries.
Why should a pro hockey player need to rest? I want him to play as often as possible. He’s our captain and (I hope) our leader. He should be out there. Let him skip all the practices he wants, as long as he plays in the games.
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Speaking for myself, I suspect that the reason he has been playing poorly is because he is far less than 100% physically, so I want him to sit to “heal,” not to “rest.” A la Green recently.
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I think “he’s hurt/less than 100%” is wishful thinking. Not that it isn’t possible or even likley, but I do think people want an explanation for why he has been so un-Ovechkinlike, and that’s the only one that really is even mildly comforting.
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Do you think the turning point for him was the Campbell hit?
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
No way. He played really well after that as well as in the playoffs. He had 18 shots on goal the last two games of the Montreal series and was all over the place.
I don’t think he’s looked the same since the Campbell hit. It’s a small sample size, but stat wise Ovi had 13 points in his final 11 games of the season following the Campbell hit, which is a 1.18 point per game pace, and averaged 1.57 points per game before the campbell hit.
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by Sombrero Guy on Dec 15, 2010 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
I found this really great preview on tonight’s game.
The video hostess does greatly assume Ovechkin will be playing tho.
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If not hurt, have to wonder if he’s battling whatever illness is going around the dressing room. Still, from watching him this season, I agree with others that there have been many times when it looks like his wrist/hand is bothering him; the fight made me question that a bit, however.
Sure looks like Johansson is sitting and the first line LW slot is waiting for Ovechkin based on Masisak’s morning skate lines.
There’s no doubt it’s all wishful thinking on my part, but the out-of-shape, not good at hockey, suddenly ineffective explanations make even less sense to me.
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The inaccuracy of his shots is what leads me to believe he may be hurt. Never seen him miss this badly on shots from the point on the pp. When did he ever flub one-timers on the rush before?
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Yea. the fact that people even think to claim ovechkin is out of shape makes me laugh and piss myself. He is a machine, he plays HUGE minutes in a very physical and aggressive manner – anyone “out of shape” and eating a poor diet would NEVER be able to do the things he does and play the minutes he does, at the tempo he plays.
That argument was out the window, and mostly wishful thinking for ovechkin’s detractors I think, before it even started.
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Please. According to Professor Bradley, “Hockey players don’t curse”.
Here’s hoping they got Brads in front of the camera a whole lot, strictly for entertainment purposes….
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I’m hoping for repeated uses of Semin’s nickname.
by DrinkingPartner on Dec 15, 2010 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
Mr. Oh-fer-44?
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by ThePeerless on Dec 15, 2010 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
I was doing some research on the success of teams that have fired their coach mid-season and found this little nugget. This was written before the Penguins won the Cup, so the number is now four. That said, if the goal is to win a Cup this season, the odds seem to say that firing a coach during the season isn’t the way to go.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, only three times in the history of the NHL has a team changed coaches during the season and went on to win the Stanley Cup that same season.
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Interesting. The thought of firing a coach who wins like BB does because of a poor stretch of games over the course of less than 1 month (mind you, a losing streak unlike anything we have ever seen since BB arrived), in the first quarter of the regular season – Still makes me laugh a bit every time it’s spoken.
I think it may be more because of the playoff losses than the current losing streak itself. I am sure if we had made the finals (or maybe even conference finals) last year the reaction now would be different.
Yea, playoff woes are a concern, and I think this rough patch will help with that. I just don’t see this as a time to even think about Bruce’s departure from the team.
I agree completely, and I’ve really been shocked at the number of Rink regulars who are suggesting it (or urging it). But I’ve come to see that much of it is a hangover from last year’s playoff outing and a belief that BB was out-coached in that series. Plus, this is DC, where coaches/managers are fired at the drop of a hat.
For me at least, I left the Montreal series thinking he was out coached, but willing to give him another shot. And yet this season there isn’t anything (save for maybe the PK?) that suggests to me that he learned a damn thing from that series. My patience is running thin.
I love the guy, but I’d love a Cup more.
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by SeattleCapsFan on Dec 15, 2010 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
Twice within nine years, I believe (Larry Robinson in 2000 w/ NJD, Dan Bylsma w/ PIT in 2009)
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by ThePeerless on Dec 15, 2010 12:37 PM EST up reply actions
I think the better thing to look at is how many teams had a rough patch like this – worked through it, and then went on to be a much better team and win the cup.
The other question is whether any of those 3 teams would have won the Cup with the coach they started the season with…
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by Gould Old Days on Dec 15, 2010 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
Is the slump building character or revealing it?
it seems there have never been as many young players that have had extraordinarily high expectations heaped on them in recent years. Some have risen up and reached the pinnacle (Crosby and Malkin, Toews and Kane), while we see our boys get close but fall out. I recall Pavel Datsyuk’s struggles early on in his career – he didn’t have a single goal in three playoff runs from 2003 – 2006 (‘05 was the lockout). He and Zetterberg were brought along slowly under players like Yzerman.
Players today don’t seem to have that luxury, and I feel it has hurt Ovie, Semin, Backstrom, and Green. That focus to develop a 2 way game was explored by Hanlon but somewhat abandoned by Boudreau. I’ve been watching DET lately and it never ceases to amaze me to see all 5 players at the dots or below, backchecking until the puck is secured.
Bouds doesn’t need us to teach him how/what to coach his team, but it surely seems as though some of that focus on puck possession has disappeared.
I don’t put a lot of stock in anone’s specific remedies for Bruce Boudreau. The fact is, he forgot more about hockey over his morning coffee than I — and I daresay most any other commentator — is ever going to know. But results are easy to evaluate. This is a team that has underachieved in each of the past three years (they lost to a lower seeded team in each playoff series they lost), and they are playing badly at the moment. The strongest part of their repertoire — offense in depth — has deserted them.
Is it a speed bump on the way to a title, or is it a signal that time (not to mention the Penguins, Blackhawks, and maybe soon the Thrashers and Lightning) has passed this version of the team by?
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I read the Hail piece yesterday. Nice to see the Caps in a Skins piece for a change.
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Flash gets the love in Colorado
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by D'ohboy on Dec 15, 2010 2:23 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
This is so fantastic.
I like Laich, but I <3 Green
by RockinRed4Life on Dec 15, 2010 3:25 PM EST up reply actions
Only when we win. :(
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I like Laich, but I <3 Green
by RockinRed4Life on Dec 16, 2010 5:34 AM EST up reply actions
I hope he is loving it in Colorado as much as his team mates seem to be loving him. Him and Duchene seem to really click.
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by RockinRed4Life on Dec 15, 2010 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe the Caps should have kept Flash and traded for Duchene instead.
The guy is Peter Schumpmaker. Lord knows what a schump is, but you can bet your bippy his ancestors made them. What he's doing is far worse than crafting fine schumps.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Dec 15, 2010 3:30 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Of course, but there’s zero chance COL moves either of them.
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by Knee high to a duck on Dec 15, 2010 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
OMG, YOUR SO RIGHT!!! FIRE GMGM!!!
Release the Mackan!
by Killer_Carlson on Dec 15, 2010 4:04 PM EST up reply actions
Semyon Varlamov is the first goaltender off the ice for the #Caps.
I’m kind of suprised given his last outing. Anyone have info on the choice?
Pure speculation, but could Neuvirth still be sick? Or, maybe Bruce wants to give Varly a chance to get back out there after a bad outing.
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by Knee high to a duck on Dec 15, 2010 4:21 PM EST up reply actions
Tough loss
Again. Man this needs to end. Can someone Tonya Harding Tom Thomas?
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