Tuesday Caps Clips: Caps @ Bruins Game Day

That was the joke :)

Its been airing on DirecTV only during the fall. We’ve been keeping up on it weekly through the wonders of the internet.

Its a great show. I can’t think of a better TV couple than the Coach and his wife. Good stuff.

Its a great show. Give it a few more episodes, especially the one where Don gives the presentation about the Kodak carousel.

Very much so, once they get done with the whole “we’re smoking, everywhere!” gimmick.

He’s an upgrade over Toskala, and his contract, while large, expires after next year. And like I said, they’re not going to win this year or next year, so it doesn’t matter. At the same time, they get a guy who’s much MUCH better than Toskala ever was, and they got rid of two terrible players at the same time. That’s a good deal for Toronto.

Giguere’s trade value next year wouldn’t have mattered. The fact that his contract was expiring would have been enough value. And when they only got Blake and Toskala back for him, they squandered any better gains they could have gotten out of it. That’s enough, in my opinion, to say its a bad deal for Anaheim.

Blake scored 50 goals in 216 games for the Leafs. That’s not because of teammates, but because he’s not good any longer. And he’s also 35. His offensive GVT is 2.4 (ahead of only Evgeny Evgeny Artyukhin among ANH forwards, and his defensive GVT is 1.4, and has a total GVT of 3.8, putting him between Dan Sexton (28 games) and Joffrey Lupul (23 games). Blake has played 57 games.

If they want to pay that guy 3 million each of the next two years, i’m all for it.

Don Cherry’s suit resonates at the same frequency as the human brain. Do you think that’s by design or by happenstance?

MIND CONTROL.

Just because they thought of it first.

Not to derail it, but I wish that next year the voting would be some combination of fan voting and the coaches (or GM’s or something). Sure, the ballot stuffing will still happen, but it can’t completely hijack the process.

Right, but the Habs making the starting lineup pushed some deserving guys out of the rest of the roster b/c each team had to be represented.

Andrei Markov deserved to be there – was probably the one member of the Habs who DID imo. Komi…not so much.

Elliotte Friedman, CBC, 12/14/09: Follow-up: I’m not sure Yzerman’s scouted anyone harder than Green. Sounds like he’s really wrestling with it. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/blogs/2009/12/nhl_expansion_relocation_and_3.html

Tarik, 12/26/09: Yzerman was spotted talking to Green after the Capitals played in Detroit on Oct. 10, and according to Green, he told the fourth-year Calgary native that the Team Canada brain trust wanted to see more balance in his game. Since their chat in the bowels of Joe Louis Arena, Yzerman has dropped in multiple times to evaluate Green. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bal-sp.capitals26dec26,0,7594127.story"

Referenced multiple times during discussions on the Rink (e.g. 12/31/09, “it’s Hockey Canada. They’ve seen plenty of Mike Green and the other candidates from the east. They scouted the hell out of this team since last season.” http://www.japersrink.com/2009/12/31/1227164/the-snubbing-of-mike-green

Maybe now, but not in the 80s when it had just come out of the WHA. And if its not Original Six, its not “traditional”.

You can make the argument that ESPN does the same thing for Boston and New York.

i’m more familiar with the concept that individual media power players can move the dial one way or the other. the guys that have earned their way to the table with years of hard work, voice their opinions rarely, but carry a lot of weight in their respective sports. within SEC football, it’s jeremy fowler and tony barnhart (no one really pays attention to gary danielson, he’s always saying something crazy). within MLB, it’s ken rosenthal and peter gammons.

in hockey, a majority of the top media members are concentrated in canada, and with the platforms given by TSN and HNIC, i can see how accusations of bias and provinciality come about.

[not sure if this fit here, just wanted to fit in my 2 cents.]

I’ve run into him several times and he’s always been shy and sweet. Perhaps on those occasions he’s just being nice to an old dearie. I think our boys have the killer instinct on the ice but they’re not a bunch of ruffians. In fact, they have decreased the dumb penalties that plagued them last year. It is a violent sport, so trouble will happen and there will be consequences. Green is taking it like a man, I notice. I must also say that I adore Alan May and bless his rants. He was a killer on the ice and I hated to see him go. He may have tossed his toys out of the pram the other night but there is truth to what he said. The league rulers are unabashedly biased. They will never warm to Ovi or any other Russian, and we shouldn’t try to make them. After all, all they have is cheddar cheese, salmon and moose, and a system that puts children into professional sports before they are old enough to drink, so come on, give them a break, they have to feel superior about something and it might as well be hockey since no one plays lacrosse professionally.

He looks more like Bruce Vilanch

Both comments get recs, for an always amusing shot at rumor mongers and the great response.

Duke having an off decade yet still being hyped by the national media killed ACC basketball, not to mention Maryland having several bad years in a row, nothing to do with football.

If Canada loses to Russia in hockey and curling, they’re going to need to be talked in off the ledge.

the NHL Olympians will not arrive in VAN early enough to participate in the Opening Ceremonies. :(

That’s probably a good thing. Keep the circus at bay.

Will they be staying for the closing ceremonies, though? That’s when the fun athlete stuff tends to happen.

McKenzie’s better than most, but he’s the exception rather than the rule. I see what you’re saying, though.

Anyone who was paying attention when the Capitals went to Vancouver in December could see how Ovechkin was received. Like a rock star, or a prince. They couldn’t get enough of him.

The Olympic Superstore had lines out the door for his appearances there. He did one private signing and one public signing, and was a perfect ambassador for the Washington Capitals, Team Russia, and the sport and sportsmen of hockey.

He was also received the same excellent treatment in Calgary and Edmonton. Hockey Night in Canada created two Peter Puck videos about Alex. One in English, and one in Punjabi. (I’ve been searching fruitlessly for the Punjabi version, but I know it’s out there.)

That’s true too.

Add to that it’s the nature of the media beast human beings to poke holes in any front-runner (see, for example, politics), and you get what you’ve got.

The media aren’t the only ones that love to poke holes.

I don’t necessarily agree, but somebody could argue that Burrows isn’t a “good Canadian boy”, so that’s why he got grilled (unfairly).

Xenophobia
–noun
an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.

Nationalism
–noun
1. national spirit or aspirations.
2. devotion and loyalty to one’s own nation; patriotism.

I don’t think they are interrelated at all; one can be nationalistic without being xenophobic. Likewise, one can be xenophobic without being nationalistic, because one can be xenophobic about differences among their own countrymen as well.

Maybe she was watching Shawshank? ;)

I’m referring to the persecution complex you mentioned that so many Caps fans seem to have and that it might feed it.

What I’m saying here is that it shouldn’t. As someone said above, Alan May is a crank, but he’s a crank with a point. I’m expanding on that point and examining some of the reasons why – and saying that what he’s saying is true to some extent but that it shouldn’t bother us as Caps fans or make us think we’re being persecuted. I think they are scared after the WJC, and the Caps are a convenient target, because they’re front-runners with a decidedly Russian flavor. It’s not personal.