Thursday Caps Clips: Beatin' the Blues; Caps @ Stars Game Day

I don’t think so. But he probably has the worst current contract on the team.

Hah, I’ve seen that video before. . .I can’t imagine he made any friends with that Easy Button; but, that is one bad-ass hockey celebration

It’s no Stjarnan FC, but it’s pretty good.

If Ovi had done that, Milbury’s head would have exploded.

awesome

reply fail =<

It’s because all he cares about are personal achievements and he knows he has a chance to set the record for the most assists in a season by a LW. No other way to explain the risky pass (who knows if the puck skips, Backstrom falls down or pulls a Patrik Stefan, etc.) versus just shooting on the gaping goal.

On the Blues broadcast and again on On The Fly, the focus was not on Ovie not scoring again, but on his pass. And they didn’t comment on his unselfishness, but on the quality of the pass as he squeezed around the D laying in front of him and made a perfect dish to Backstrom.

I’d like to think the media is coming around to point out that the Caps are winning with better D and secondary scoring.

I think he was selfishly shooting for the goal but his hand started to shake and he missed.

Sid would have done the same, but the puck would have magically spun softly into the net and he would have been awarded both a goal and an assist.

If it was Crosby, angels would have borne the puck into the net on their wings.

Me likey.

Maybe he saw how easy it was for Henrik Sedin last year with 2ndary Assists and just decided to be the dish-master

I like that idea… although have you seen the Conn Smythe trophy? It’s freaking huge! It’s an almost full-scale replica of Maple Leaf Gardens….

I think Burnside finished that article into a moist towel.

First The Crosby made heaven & earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of The Crosby was moving over the face of the waters. And The Crosby said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And The Crosby saw that the light was good; and The Crosby separated the light from the darkness. The Crosby called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day

Jesus. Somewhat related, this headline from Y!: “Crosby not quite NHL’s highest-paid player”

Sid is mentioned in 10th paragraph.

I honestly feel for the dude – there’s no way in hell he would want all of this attention (especially the unwarranted stuff like Y! using his name in a headline just to draw people in).

Okay, this scores high on the Creep Factor scale. Sid might want to put some bushes with thorns in them outside his windows.

In 2007-2008 Alex Ovechkin had a season that was quite literally “for the ages,” having set a record for goals by a left wing and, given the era, perhaps the most dominating goal scoring season in the history of the sport — certainly by a player not named “Gretzky.” And in the end, what did he have for it? Four trophies and a first round playoff exit.

Sidney Crosby is on a pace for a 57-73-130 season. You could argue, given the era, that such a season would rank among the most productive in NHL history (although his being on a pace for a plus-minus less than half what Ovechkin put up last year while missing ten games, plus the fact that he is 30th among forwards for highest goals scored against/on ice (Ovechkin is 86th) makes me wonder a bit).

But like Ovechkin in 2008, Crosby has a problem in 2011. That team around him isn’t really all that good, certainly not as good as the roster in Philadelphia or in Washington. Truth be told, the inconsistency of Marc-Andre Fleury makes it a near certainty that it is his performance — not Crosby’s — that will determine just how far the Penguins go in the spring. If Fleury has a spring time that looks like November, the Penguins can go far. If he has one that looks like October, one and done looks more likely.

I expected the same, but I guess the losses last year offset it some? I’m sure Ted will comment on what a joke those valuations are.

Actually, when I looked at the Forbes ratings, I was a bit surprised. I, too, thought the Caps would be much higher on the list, especially with the acquisition of the arena rights. That being said, Leonsis is putting alot of money down on sed acquisition the newer developments the arena is seeing.

The business of hockey is certainly not a short term thing, seeing a 1-year turn around on a franchise is pretty unlikely. That being said, I don’t exactly trust all of the metrics they use to rate the net worth and such a of a franchise; and, in a few years, that number will most definitely increase

You would think the Caps would get increased revenue from board ads, club seats and concessions, which they didn’t get much of under the previous lease. However, just because Ted owns the whole ball of wax, doesn’t necessarily mean the Caps have a new lease or additional revenue streams.

Its of interest because team revenues have an impact on the salary cap. So conceivably the more revenue the Caps generate the greater potential for the salary cap to increase. Not to mention the impact on revenue sharing (hi Damian). Ted may be incented to keep the Caps revenue down.

Also, if the Caps are equal partners in sharing the revenues from the building, no doubt they probably share in the debt service (vs. just being a rent paying tenant). We’ll never know the true economics of the deal.

I don’t know, I rather like that article…

But I agree. Waddell was awful.

Sweet seats, Spidey. :)

Nice, Spidey.

That’s almost exactly where I sat last at last year’s game in STL. I hope your wife wasn’t the woman in the same section last year wearing an Ovechkin jersey who got into a fight with a Blues fan!

I Rec Red Line Station!

Agree. RLS is now high on my priority list.

The H2H chances are data I don’t find anywhere else, and very interesting to ponder.

Thanks everyone for the kind words and encouragement!

Yeppers.

<3

Maybe he read it wrong and thinks his name is “David Stockel”

When I think PJ Stock, I think Stephen Peat. Epic. A 9.7 on hockeyfights.com, FWIW.

Steckel’s ES tends to be solid, but it’s amusing as hell he lauds Steckel right before Maholtra. Now that guy is what people think Steckel is.

“Hmmm, need some content…”

“Lessee, lessee…’Crosby’s Awesome’?…nah, everyone does that one…lists, lists are good….could go with ‘Best Right Wingers Ever’…bleh, too much work…”

“I know, best underrated guys! Hell, I was one myself, so people will totally buy it!”

“All right, who are the underrated guys? Ummm…crap, dunno.”

“Well, what do the underrated guys do? You know, heart and soul guys, character guys, leadership guys. They block shots, play defense, win faceoffs…”

“Hey, look, at nhl.com I can see who wins faceoffs and blocks shots. Those guys all play great defense.”

“Write down the salaries…get mom to sort them for me…man, what a great job, the posts just write themselves.”

Boyes still can’t believe he couldn’t score on Varly: “I hit him in the head.”

Link

Game Time is, uh, an interesting place.

All to say that a cold streak can find you at any time, and the only cure is to keep trying (and hope it doesn’t arrive at a critical time) the guys well hydrated on fluids high in vitamin C.

Ovechkin out at the point with a pass first, shoot second mindset makes all the difference in the world. People cheat so hard toward Ovechkin on defense that him doing anything other than attracting a crowd is going to end up with a low percentage scoring chance at best. Until people get tired of being burned by Backstrom and Semin they should utilize Ovechkin as bizarro paper tiger as they are now.

That was a game the Caps controlled, could have dominated, yet allowed to become a back-and-forth affair that went to overtime. It was against a lesser Dallas team that appears improved based on the standings.

I always go to the Caps games in Dallas, but I just got back from Thanksgiving up there and have missed work with the sickness this week. So after looking fwd to this game since the schedule came out, I will be passing on it. Sadness.

Another member of my fantasy team bites the dust…

If it’s his opinion thatthe Pens are better than the Caps, then he should rank them that way and leave it at that. Geez.

We all knew we were doomed to a year of this after Montreal. It really, really, REALLY doesn’t matter how well the Caps play this season(as far as media fluff goes). We could win 75 games, and columnists would say “Gee the Caps look good, BUT…”