Sunday Caps Clips: Caps @ Blackhawks Game Day
by J.P. on Mar 14, 2010 6:00 AM EST
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Your savory breakfast links:
- Previews of this afternoon's game from Vogs, Peerless, PHT, Chicago-Tribune, CapsBlog, CSN Washington and NHL.com, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Second City Hockey for coverage from the other side of this afternoon's match up.
- This is the first and only regular season meeting between between the Caps and 'Hawks (the teams did meet twice in the preseason, with the Caps winning both games, by 3-2 and 6-2 counts).
- The Caps will look to get back on track today against one of the League's elite teams. [WaPo]
- If you're looking for a place to watch the game with good people, you'll find 'em up in Baltimore and over in Fairfax.
- Notes from yesterday's practice. [CI]
- Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun talk Hart Trophy. [ESPN, and for more click here]
- Nicklas Backstrom is more than a little bit
unsignedawesome. [CSN Washington] - The Cap who brings the fewest "intangibles" to the party? Tomas Fleischmann. [TSN]
- "Barack the Red" hits the big time. [D.C. Sports Bog, Puck Daddy]
- After playing a full season in the KHL, Dmitri Orlov is tearing up Russia's second-tier League. [RMNB]
- Locals want you to stop honking after Caps games. (Thanks for honoring their request on Friday night.) [WTOP]
- The Caps make the list of "Biggest Brawls of the last 23 Years." [BtN (with the box score from the referenced game here)]
- Finally, happy 30th birthday to Joe Motzko.
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Can’t wait for this game. . .feel like it has a good amount of SCF implications to it
Bah-Ram-Ewe, Ovechkin will wreck you. Fear the Furious Fleece!
I’m curious how the Blackhawks come out after yesterday’s meltdown against Philly. Combine that with this being the second of a back-to-backer that will be played at essentially 10:30am Chicago time (and less than 19 hours after they finished yesterday) and you’ve got some interesting dynamics going on.
It’s very frustrating that this game is going to be starting right after I go to sleep.
I have to go. But if I find one single dog hair when I get back, I'll rub... sand... in your dead little eyes. I also need you to buy sand. I don't know if they grade it, but... coarse.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Mar 14, 2010 6:51 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Caps are dominant at ES
Considering their lead in this department, I think they can take this game if they play at 5v5 for most of the game. That’s essentially their GD right there, +1 at ES per game almost.
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He also leads the Capitals with 54 helpers, and if he records just one more this season, Backstrom will join Wayne Gretzky and Peter Stastny as the only players in league history to record 55 assists in each of their first three seasons in the league.
From the CSN Wash Backstrom link. Just wow.
Those of you who’ve been following hockey for a long time, is it plausible that the Caps have three super special talents in Ovechkin, Backstrom, and Green?
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Of course it’s plausible. I also think it’s harder to make the case that that’s not true than it is.
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
by Fehr and Balanced on Mar 14, 2010 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Wasn’t up when I set this to publish last night. Will add it I get a chance.
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by J.P. on Mar 14, 2010 9:46 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Alright, sorry.
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions
I love the intangibles article. Sure, we all know there is more to hockey than just scoring, and everyone needs role guys. With that said, any metric that makes the Maple Leafs look like they are filled with all stars is probably just off a little. And Carcillo topping the list for Philly? Really?
Well, there was that one incident in April last season…but that was bad.
I guess the thing is, by definition, intangibles can’t really be measured by stats (which is what he tried to do). But at least this sort of makes sense as a general metric for intangibles.
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 7:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Unless I’m just missing it, he does a great job of never explaining how he comes to his conclusions, he just lists a bunch of rhetorical bullshit.
There isn’t a great answer for how many blocked shots equates to a goal scored at the other end, or how many hits it takes to be worth the same as a goal. In reality, 100 hits isn’t worth as much on the scoreboard as a single goal, but there should be some way to indicate the contributions of players beyond simply turning on the red light.
So all I know is that 100 hits is equal to one goal. That’s about it.
I should have saved my old signature. Oh well!
by Whiter Mage on Mar 14, 2010 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Although he really doesn’t give a good idea of his methodology, I got a kick seeing Eric Staal at the bottom of the list for Carolina (along with AO at the top of the Caps as well).
Of all our iniquities ignorance may be the worst
by Killer_Carlson on Mar 14, 2010 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
•Locals want you to stop honking after Caps games.
You want to live in the city but you want to go to bed early, so you move next to a building that 50 or so times a year has tens of thousands of fans exiting around 9:30pm. That makes sense.
Right, except I live decently close to the P-Nats stadium, and (though it would never happen), if they were honking after games there, I’d be pissed off too.
I should have saved my old signature. Oh well!
by Whiter Mage on Mar 14, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, but Woodbridge isn’t Downtown D.C.
Put another way, forget it, Jake – it’s Chinatown.
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by J.P. on Mar 14, 2010 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’m not comparing the cities, I’m saying I’d be mad if I had horns going off in my neighborhood. That’s all I said.
I should have saved my old signature. Oh well!
by Whiter Mage on Mar 14, 2010 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Fair enough~
I should have saved my old signature. Oh well!
by Whiter Mage on Mar 14, 2010 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Well, if you want the city environment without the noise they can always move to SE next to Nats stadium. There’s never any honking after their games.
by b.orr4 on Mar 14, 2010 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yea, but you trade the noise for crack dealers, at least when its not baseball season
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Popsicle Division in the Cupcake Conference
Got a kick out of reading the ‘other’ side’s view of today’s game-check it out. Still think it will be tough for both teams playing so freakin early in the day and DST won’t help matters.
But I’m also confident that the caps will be ‘on’ for this matchup and will get a win-esp w Jose in net. Hopefully BB will quit experimenting w lines for this tilt and have Schultz& Carlson back in. Belanger should be 2nd line C w 21-28 & I hope #15 will also be back in w #39&10. Flash better be in too.
Well, I know I’m not the coach but I’m just sayin’.
by nls13 on Mar 14, 2010 9:44 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I’m so annoyed that I’m going to miss this game. I’ll be on a train to NY that leaves Union Station at 12:19. Perfect timing to miss every minute of it. If I tape it, I won’t be able to watch it until Wednesday night.
If you’re on the Acela, you can at least follow the GDT. They finally have W-Fi.
by MassCapsFan on Mar 14, 2010 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Good luck with that:
I was in the business section on my journey up to New York and found the Wifi so painfully slow, I was pining for the days of dial-up. Trying to load the Atlantic’s web page? I gave up after it took nearly 5 minutes for the just the Atlantic masthead to appear on the page (luckily, I had a hard copy with me . Google news managed to load after about two minutes, but when I clicked on a story from PC World, I was redirected to another page which informed me the site was being blocked because it may contain content deemed offensive to other passengers.
From a James Fallows reader. Hope your experience is better.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Mar 14, 2010 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions
From the trickle of comments so far, it’s obvious a lot of the Rinkers were out celebrating St. Patty’s day last night and/or are still on standard time.
not me
But I’m not really a Rinker. No party last night, though.
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by Chris Burton on Mar 14, 2010 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Others of us have been up since 7 am. My son was being picked up to go back to school at 7:30. Back to a quiet house until May. Well, except for screaming at the TV for Caps games.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Its ten AM, so a lot of Rinkers could be on the way to Baltimore ESPN Zone.
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by Chris Burton on Mar 14, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m about to be one of them. :-)
I need a snappy signature...
by IRockTheRed on Mar 14, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Or Fairfax, if I’m reading right. I’d go, but I’ve got a pretty bad cold, and I want to save my voice for screaming at children tomorrow instead of at a TV today.
I should have saved my old signature. Oh well!
by Whiter Mage on Mar 14, 2010 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Nothing to celebrate about that. And I wish I hadn’t stayed up to the end.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
I know, but it was a great game, but a 9pm start when the game is played on the east coast and is the only game played there that day is ridiculous
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Well, looking at that Puck Daddy article, it looks like I’m NOT the only Caps fan who wants nothing to do with Barack the Red. I don’t want the security nightmare, and I don’t want the publicity. The Caps do well enough without Mr. President in the house, TYVM.
I need a snappy signature...
I personally don’t get why it’s such a big deal that he doesn’t go to games.
I have to go. But if I find one single dog hair when I get back, I'll rub... sand... in your dead little eyes. I also need you to buy sand. I don't know if they grade it, but... coarse.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Mar 14, 2010 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions
He should have more important things to do. Until he gets my house back to its original value, I don’t want to see him at any sporting event.
So…tempted…to…take…the…bait…but…it’s…a…clips…thread.
OK, so it was a bubble which means things were overpriced because people were artificially raising those prices by bidding more for them than they were worth only it wasn’t happening on the local level it was happening in the financial markets through the use of aggregated mortgage securities which had the effect of artificially lowering the cost of money to be used to buy houses so that people who had no business buying houses could buy them but the effect on the ground was the same because housing prices went up higher than they should have and houses were priced more than they were worth so it’s a shame that maybe a lot of people who read this (if anyone reads this long run-on sentence) paid too much for their houses and they’re never getting that money back but I’m a conservative (little-“c” conservative which means I actually have a philosophy grounded in hundreds of years of political philosophy instead of just believing what one TV network tells me not that the people who believe that other TV network are any better) and since I’m a conservative I don’t think the president should act to raise or lower the price of any asset or commodity in the market although the last two presidents probably could have prevented the entire financial crisis from happening but that’s water under the bridge now but the bottom line is that I’m sorry that your house lost value but the worst policy this country could follow right now would be to put the houses back at their bubble-level of price because those prices were artificially high and so the last thing the president should do is try to get your house back to its original value.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. That was bad and wrong, and any further commentary on this topic should go to an open thread somewhere.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Mar 14, 2010 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Politics suck.
I should have saved my old signature. Oh well!
by Whiter Mage on Mar 14, 2010 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
word. Benevolent Dictator for teh win.
If Popeye got stronger after eating canned Spinach....Imagine what canned Bacon could do for Ovie.......
Alex Ovechkin?
No speed limits!
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
The world would end.
Backstrom on the other hand…Everything would be orderly and tightly managed.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Mar 14, 2010 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Not tightly managed, at least not where you could see. Everything would just work – the right tools laying near to your hand, your favorite sweater clean and folded just where you thought it should be, the milk never spoiled in the fridge.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
And Daylight Savings Time would start almost imperceptibly, with your re-set watch skimming over nightstand clutter to settle neatly on your wrist.
by redlineblue on Mar 14, 2010 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
thanks for using no punctuation so I can easily skip over the giant block of text :P
I agree totally about the stupidity of the average person. Horrifyingly, nearly 50% of people are even stupider!
It’d make sense though that if he goes to any sporting event in DC, it’d be to see the Caps, right? I’d rather him not going to any sporting event while things need sorting out either, but it seems like he’s gonna regardless, so might as well see a winner.
Or maybe he likes rooting against DC and needs to root for teams that actually, you know, stand a chance.
Maybe Hawks-Caps @ VC next season.
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions
I wish PD had stayed out of it, although the person who brought it up in the press briefing made it into national headlines. The posters there are bad enough to begin with, but bringing politics onto that blog is murder. And it’s not like I want to read the comments, but too often you have to click through to get the full article, and can’t avoid them.
I can take it or leave it, but it would be a brief shot in the arm for the NHL.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
He told Ted Leonsis personally that he would come to a game. He should come to a game.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
by EmilyB on Mar 14, 2010 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
To alot of Caps fans, its just another snub, another chip on the shoulder that the Sports Fan in Chief references the Caps in his speeches to score political game and has open invitations from the Big Guy to attend and says he would but he has yet to do so. Me? Could care less, I’d like to see him go for the extra publicity but I won’t hold my breath that a politician isn’t doing what he said he would.
I got quoted over at SCH! I wanted to post to say I was in Japan, and ask what their excuse is. But have that whole day long waiting period. Damn.
I have to go. But if I find one single dog hair when I get back, I'll rub... sand... in your dead little eyes. I also need you to buy sand. I don't know if they grade it, but... coarse.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Mar 14, 2010 11:11 AM EDT reply actions
Any idea on the lines today? What i inferred from the post was
Ovie-Backstrom-Knuble
Semin-Belanger-Laich
Fehr-Flash-Chimera
Gordon-Steckel-Bradley
Free Eric Fehr!
I wouldn’t think that BB would sit BMo, especially since he’s been a bit better lately, but I really don’t know. Maybe he’ll get Walker in there.
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions
Occasionally it collapses all the comments for me, but I think that’s me using some weird shortcut.
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions
I had the same problem in Firefox. I clicked “check for updates” under the help tab, and it updated me and now I’m good to go. Hopefully that works for you.
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Last couple of days since the upgrade everything was fine, but now the Rink’s totally borked (other sbn sites, too, though my profile page is working).
My Rink experience was borked all last night but is now fixed.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
I’m wondering if the Firefox update is the reason my hard drive keeps crashing the last two days.
Every time Nicky scores a goal, an angel gets its wings.
by SeattleCapsFan on Mar 14, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Should be a great game this morning. Bummer that Man City & Caps games overlap today. Might need to put new batteries in the remote.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
I’m more bummed about the SEC championship and the Caps game overlapping
Aim for the head baby Jesus
Not a bad return by Dempsey for Fulham earlier, from what I saw of it.
"You can hit the streets or the sheets, it don’t make Dynamite no nevermind. That’s your bag, baby. You can go or you can come, can you dig it."
by Bald Pollack on Mar 14, 2010 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
I didn’t get to see anything of the game. I just saw Man U won 3-0. Hope Dempsey gets into good form going into the summer. US lack of depth concerns me.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
I think things are starting to trend up for them. Dempsey’s back playing, Gooch has just been cleared to train (combined with Nesta’s injury, he could actually see some quality minutes), Chuck Deezy starting to train this week. Now all that’s left is to not re-injure anything, so cross fingers and toes.
"You can hit the streets or the sheets, it don’t make Dynamite no nevermind. That’s your bag, baby. You can go or you can come, can you dig it."
by Bald Pollack on Mar 14, 2010 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions
Big game for Barca. Gotta keep pace with Real.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Is that game in HD? Otherwise, I may just stream it while the game’s on the TV.
"You can hit the streets or the sheets, it don’t make Dynamite no nevermind. That’s your bag, baby. You can go or you can come, can you dig it."
by Bald Pollack on Mar 14, 2010 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions
Damn, guess I’m flipping back and forth also.
"You can hit the streets or the sheets, it don’t make Dynamite no nevermind. That’s your bag, baby. You can go or you can come, can you dig it."
by Bald Pollack on Mar 14, 2010 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions
For me, Caps and homework. Do I win worst overlap?
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Caps, hw, and exam studying for Weds.
I agree totally about the stupidity of the average person. Horrifyingly, nearly 50% of people are even stupider!
I wish we could get holidays for Caps games. I dunno, maybe a Leafs game is a valid “I didn’t do my homework” excuse in Toronto—seems like it would be
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by red army line on Mar 14, 2010 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
If there's one thing I hate, it's more Sid vs. Ovie talk
…but I can’t help myself….
they’re both great players, they do different things well, I love our guy, whatever.
But this is ridiculous—Burnside and LeBrun think Crosby gets bonus points for leading his team back from a bleh season into the division lead? So Ovie is penalized cause the Caps have been good all year long? And they think Crosby’s case is aided by his teammates having off years? Then why did he get the Hart three years ago when Malkin was having an excellent year?
I know, I know. ESPN. The same people who think Kovalchuk played for the Predators in the latest magazine issue.
If you couldn’t point to specific instances where Ovie has pulled the game out of the fire (includng against the Pens), I could probably seriously accept Sid for MVP, doesn’t mean I’d like it. His team has seriously lagged this year, but Ovie’s stats are so much better in total that I think it’s his to lose.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Somehow I just noticed the reflection of Brooksy in the glass in the pic. Pretty cool.
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Eric Staal with the worst intangibles on Carolina! Bwahaha.
Sidney Crosby not leading PIT in intangibles? What is this world coming to?
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
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| GP | W | L | OTL | PT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Washington
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82 | 54 | 15 | 13 | 121 |
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Atlanta
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82 | 35 | 34 | 13 | 83 |
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Carolina
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82 | 35 | 37 | 10 | 80 |
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82 | 34 | 36 | 12 | 80 |
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Florida
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82 | 32 | 37 | 13 | 77 |
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