Thursday Caps Clips: Swedes Shutout Germany

Agreed. All of NBC’s hockey coverage is an absolute joke, except Doc Emerick.

I seriously think we should start a petition trying to get Milbury/McGuire off the air.

I am not good at this interweb stuff, so I am not going to do it.

Call to arms! Start the Revolution!

After the Swedish game the players talked about the extreme heat in the building, or in Forsburg’s case – looked like they’d just spent an hour in a steam sauna – absolutely pouring sweat.

That’s obviously really bad for the ice and, again, will probably detract from the ability of the most skilled players in the world being able to perform at their peak.

born after dec 31, 1974 have to wear visors

Pol Pot was a jerk.

Not to sound like a total dick here, but I think every fanbase in every sport thinks every writer/broadcaster has a bias against their team….with a few exceptions*.

It seems like when people read articles that aren’t about their team, they think “They are writing about this? They never write about my team!” And when they read an article about their team they think “It’s about time someone wrote about this!”

I really think it all evens out. People just tend to look for the negative.

There could be some truth for your reasons of hating Burnside, but I honestly don’t see it….probably because I never read what he writes.

• Matt Barnaby – Loves the Penguins. Shows it. Barry Melrose – notsomuch.

Burnside isn’t the only member of the media with entitlement issues. It’s hard wired into them. Of course, I can see why the “media” would lavish their praise on Crosby in this instance. They get pre-programmed, pre-packaged, white-bread and cheese answers that they’ve heard 5,000 times before, and they can just reprint them. There is literally no work involved.

It’s not just Burnside, a large number of “journalists” at ESPN seem to feel that way. It’s almost like they can’t fathom the fact that an athlete would rather talk to another media outlet. In the case of hockey especially, ESPN’s coverage has not earned it the right to be considered as the premier hockey outlet.

That said, I do think Ovie should probably engage the English speaking media some, but since we don’t know if there is any background here I’m not going to say too much. At least he hasn’t gone Mike Richards on them yet. Maybe he’s trying to send a message that Tarik or Corey should have been sent to Vancouver?

Just read the column. That sure was nice of him to refer to Ovi as a “ghost” seeing as he’s played exactly one game so far, and at midnight ET.

It’s fascinating that everything regarding hockey devolves into Crosby vs. Ovie.

What is heaven’s name does Ovie’s interview schedule have to do with Crosby?

We say this in closing, and with a high level of confidence: Sidney Crosby Alan May would never behave this way

I don’t disagree that Ovechkin should. But to me Burnside just sounds like a whiny brat about it. While Ovechkin should be talking to the media, no one group is entitled to an interview with anyone.

I completely understand Ovechkin giving most of his attention to the Russian media, it’s not exactly like he has this opportunity for this amount of Russian interviews during the NHL season (I’d imagine).

Err, and apologies, I’m not exactly all puppy dogs and rainbows right now.

Burnside might be somewhat right about his complaint but devoting an entire column to the subject is just excessive and comes across as self-absorbed. A journalist complaining about a star not talking to them carries as much sympathy as a pro athlete whining about being “disrespected” for only being paid $5 million a year. And to paraphrase Burnside’s last line about Crosby never ignoring the press, I can pretty much guarantee Bob McKenzie would never devote more than a throwaway sentence to the subject.

One such folk didn’t cooperate

It seems like it’s more than “one”, which puts Burnside in the position of bitching about Ovechkin sticking to his team. I’d also beg to differ that other folk are in any way required to cooperate with media: Burnside’s is to find and tell stories. Ovechkin’s is to play hockey, for Russia.
I suppose each of them is playing to his audience, but for my rubles Ovechkin looks far less lazy and less childish than Burnside does here.

But it was a diatribe not a comment. So I can’t side with Burnside here.

Besides there are only 2 questions that the US media is going to ask – and Ovi is probably tired of talking about them. I would be. Comparisons to Crosby was unnecessary. How many interviews has he given to the Russian media?

Also it doesn’t rest solely on Ovi to make the case for future NHL participation in the Olympics.

Burnside had a point…until the end of the article when he starts calling AO a child and saying that his desire to play in Sochi is disingenuous. So because he is talking more with the Russian media it means he doesn’t really have a strong desire to represent his country in the 2014 Olympics? Call me crazy, but I’m guessing the motivation for AO and all other athletes to go to the Olympics is to compete in their competitions at the highest level and represent their countries, not for the honor of speaking to people from ESPN and other self-serving media.

It’s not that urgent. Go to work.

Except that it costs over 5 mill and it won’t work without it’s pair. They are pairrots! Get it?

There must be a lot of New Jersey Devils / Washington Capitals on team Sweden for Wysh to say that….

If you looked at the clips from the back that they showed, there’s no question. There absolutely is contact, and it sent Greiss staggering backwards.

Not thick enough for me, sorry. Brett Hull scored, and so did the Swedes.

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I agree: I was strongly reminded of the old Canucks in a good way.

LOL!

That would be good. Much better than the Ameritel Triplets…

We knew it!

Hossa / Demitra / Gaborik’s magic, sersly.

Wish Demo would continue after the Olympics.

Only in the way that black people use it.

Draping yourself in red, white, and blue does not an American make – the Russian flag is the same color :)

They have a guy who shot a teammate in the face (ok, the ear) with a shot.

but none of the Caps guys are Canadian/American. I think that was the original point.

Yes, but the other teams sending more (I think) all have at leasy one guy on either the CAN or USA squads. Caps’ guys are all on Euro squads.

Anyone south of the Mason-Dixon.

“26” is the incorrect number of World Series they’ve won, which is the only “fact” that most Yankees fans know. It’s popular now because it was the number they had before the Sox won their two recently and it was the popular retort to gloating Sox fans, so it’s now burned into their heads.

theres a big difference between people who wear Yankees stuff and the people at the stadium, though that may change now that there crowd is mainly rich wall street types since the prices are so ridiculous at the new place