Thursday Caps Clips: Better Effort, Similar Result

What, you’re not comfortable having your team led by a man who wears briefs?

You have to hope (and assume) that he’s not like that when the team is winning. Wow.

At least so far this week the Pens haven’t won either, so there’s that. Just need to get Sid off his points streak now. And Alex back on one.

He didn’t say “cocksucker” once!

Deadspin.com would agree with you…

HBO’s 24/7 Penguins/Capitals premiered last night, and we were promised profanity. Either we got it, or they accidentally put Deadwood back on the air.

What I thought the most revealing thing about the show (besides learning Mike Green has a knee issue, NOT a shoulder issue)…

The two are not mutually exclusive, of course.

I believe the show confirms a theorem posited by Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh, who said “I loooove winning. It’s, like, better than losing?”
Also that, contrary to what my wife has suggested, if anything I’ve been underusing the word Fuck. Even after last night’s game.

I thought they were similar. From what I remember, we got to see a whole lot more of Shero and Bylsma than we did GMGM and BB. The only BB, GMGM interaction we got to see was the two of them talking about Green and everyone being sick.

Maybe it was just blind homerism or they shifted more of the Caps stuff to the end, but it seemed to me like we saw more of the Pens stuff than we did the Caps. Does anybody have a time split on the two?

Scott Hannan, definitely rent

I’m recing you so hard.

Will we see Sid cussing and drinking?

No way, no how. He won’t let himself cuss around the cameras. I’m being serious. He has an image to uphold.

If Sid is heard saying “Fuckin Flyers. God fucking damnit, let’s grow a dick and kick their fucking asses sideways,” all hell breaks loose in Canada.

They could have two versions, but I’m not sure with this.

While filming the Sopranos and Sex and the City all those years, they always shot two versions, knowing they’d be eventually shown on other channels.

Not sure where I read it, but the edited version is just supposed to be “bleep, bleep” over the actual swearing. Won’t leave too much to the imagination.

There may be an edited version that runs in the afternoons or something along those lines

I have a hard time believing that the Pens don’t talk about the WC at all. They may not have shown it on tv but I’m sure they talk about it.

Let’s not forget that this is edited down and that plenty – from complete conversations to potentially leading questions – are left on the cutting room floor.

Guaranteed the Pens players have talked about the WC. It’s the biggest thing to hit the Pittsburgh sports scene this winter, short of the Steelers going to the Super Bowl. Plus they’re hosting it and the players are probably being deluged with ticket requests. HBO just made a decision not to include it in this episode, but I bet you’ll see plenty of discussion about it in coming episodes.

I think your friend needs to get out more. That kind of stuff goes on in every pro locker room and if coaches were fired because they swear too much, 90% of them would get canned each season.

Brads said hockey players don’t curse….

It’s blind fury. You’ll also notice that Laich’s “I’m tired of this fucking shit” wasn’t directed at Bruce (it seemed to me), it was directed at losing. I don’t think Bruce is in any trouble in terms of losing the team’s ear.

There is little that is new that can be said in locker room speeches. Chris Cooley has chatted about them before and said that if a locker room speech/tirade is what a team needs, then there is more to worry about. I think we get caught up in the great Hollywood speeches…win one for the ’gipper, Hoosiers, etc., which are crafted by gifted screenwriters. If only it were that easy! Bruce and Dean are reacting to an immediate situation. Like DP said, it is anger and an outlet to release that anger/frustration.

I hate that after it happened I saw all of these non-Caps fans saying things like “how’s that trade looking now, McPhee?” as if they know Flash and what happened with him here.

The trade’s still looking fucking awesome, thanks, because we don’t have a guy who, while talented, isn’t suited to any of the roles we have available to him. The fact that in one night he almost equaled his offensive output of 23 games w/ the Caps should be telling.

They’re tight because they’re unlucky. They’re both playing well and both had good games last night. If Alex doesn’t hit that post on the breakaway, I’m betting that line goes on a tear because they finally see that they can score, again.

Yeah, he still tried that cut to the middle move at the top of the circles about five times last night and, shocker, it didn’t work.

That plus line matching… Bruce showed a lot of changes from his usual system. It was weird to watch… But it also should have won the game, and would have if the Caps’ big guns had buried their wide-open chances.

no forecheck, no pressure,

Disagree completely. They did fall back against the 10/15/9 line, but against the other lines, they generated a ton of chances on forecheck pressure.

The third period was all about falling back and not pressuring the zone. It’s like they were playing to protect a lead that they didn’t have.

It’s funny. It’s almost like BB is now coaching to answer some of the CW this team’s critics have levied against them during his tenure.

But even if he’s getting a more disciplined team defensively they’ve scored a mere 1.29 goals over this seven game streak. That’s just not good enough and it can’t go unaddressed from a tactical standpoint IMO if this team is really going to get things turned around.

Didn’t I read that they’re going to show an edited version during the daytime? Not much dialog to be broadcast from the Caps’ end then.

I’m glad I’ve not been exposed to this thing.

Yes. He’s awesome, I think.

He does most of the VO for HBO documentaries I believe.

…but with added comments!

My bad. Apologies.