Monday Caps Clips: Round 1, Game 3 Game Day

And who could’ve seen it coming – he only led the Habs in scoring this year, had four goals in four games against the Caps and 19 points in 20 career games against our guys.

It looks like he’s becoming Tomas Jagr now

That’s a laffer.

They obviously never watch an NBC broadcast, but being in Canada that’s understandable.

I think the tripping call on Carlson in the third was a bit iffy. But the Ovechkin slash was pretty straight-forward.

They “suddenly” ran into penalties in Game 2 because “suddenly” the Caps are bigger and faster and “suddenly” all those blocked Ovechkin and Green shots hurt like hell and “suddenly” AO decides to lay out hits like he’s Elvis and “suddenly” it’s easier to start hooking and tripping and slashing.

Suddenly.

they suddenly ran into… penalties a better team that actually played hard and focused hockey for the first time in the series

I saw the

most promoted team and most promoted player

I took a long look at that goal yesterday (all goals can be seen on NHL.com) and decided – IMO – Knuble did interfere with Halak at :49 of the replay. It all just happened really quick. Your opinion may vary, but I don’t think teams would like this specific play (or accident) become standard fare against their goaltenders as the prep to receive a shot. I’m glad we got that goal though, we needed it.

Holland. Regier. Poile. Lamoriello. That’s all I can think of.

my bad. I just pulled the numbers straight from the caps website, didn’t even think to check the numbers. I guess that’s what I get for posting at 9 am

He did mention you by name…

On the contrary, myself and others have said some pretty complimentary things about his blog here. That was before the game two recap though.

I know a few people would have complained about officiating, but for the most part those people would be stymied by others on the site.

I imagine there’s good content there most of the time and, yeah, it’s a hard loss to swallow. I know I wouldn’t want to have to write a recap if the situation had been reversed.

But if you blame the entire thing on bad calls (despite evidence to the contrary) and an NHL conspiracy (really?) without ONE self-recrimination, then you sound like a 4th grader crying and kicking cans on the way home from the ball field (I’m going to milk childhood memories for all its worth here).

The recap would’ve been easier to take if they’d tempered it with some objective analysis about MTL’s slip-ups and weak spots, even if they’d stuck with their “ref’s stole it from us” mantra. But they didn’t and it made them sound like homers.

It wasn’t the refs, they said it was Bettman who was calling the shots and ordering the refs to throw the game to the Caps’ favor. Let’s get our paranoid accusations straight.

The goals breakdown post totally makes up for the hysterical recap post. It’s like hockey school over there. (And he behaved himself, mostly, in describing the Knuble screen on the Backstrom goal, no?)

I know you can’t use a broken stick. That’s the opposite of what I was asking.

You cannot shove a dropped stick (not broken) while in play, otherwise it’s interference. AO got a penalty for that exact play earlier this season. It shouldn’t matter if it’s broken, though.

I meant Carlson, not Halak. Whoops.

Right. He busted ass up ice to get in the play when AO had to leave. So 3 players didn’t quit. Two were ours and one was theirs. That’s what they should complain about.

Yeah SJS dominated. If they keep that up they win.

Brian Burke was on NHL Live and said Dan Boyle couldn’t make that shot again if he tried 1000 times. Obviously he was remembering Dan Boyle shoot at an empty net from the point on the PP during the Olympics.

That’d be a great YouTube video… a player slewfooting himself.

Yeah, but it was a pretty sweet shot ;)

Many thanks, sirrah!

So, only Lamoriello and Rutherford came in before 1997. Pretty cool. You don’t think “continuity” when you think Washington Sports, but at least on franchise has it.

If there was a drinking game for every syntax error made by Sabourin, you’d be drunk by the ten minute mark of the first period. When I listen to the Rangers broadcast with Kenny Albert or the Islanders broadcast with Charlie Rose, I realize just how bad Kolbe is.

I remember the old Mike Fornes/Al Koken days. “A shot… and a goal!”

Man, if only it were Marv Albert, because between him and a guy named Rimmer, there’s a filthy joke just waiting to get out.

I listen to Walton all the time. He’s not much better at painting a picture, but I do enjoy him more for his wit and amazing recall ability when it comes to stats and historical information.

It sounds to me like you want a guy like Chuck Kaiten, and that’s cool, just not the type of call I like to hear.

Kolbe was trying to set-up the overtime. Not sure what he was doing during the 15 minute break. Set-up should have been done during play stoppages, especially in overtime.

I grew up with Lou Boudreau and Jim West in Chicago, followed by Pat Foley. Totally spoiled me.

Any chance John Walton might get a bump up from Hershey? He’s fantastic. Can’t understand why he’s not in the NHL now. He made the AHL play-offs last year a total pleasure. True NHL quality talent.

I am not a huge Kolbe fan and can’t stand Sabourin, but I do think it’s challenging to criticize him for the OT call.

Did anyone listen to Sam Rosen? He was also setting up the OT by talking about no home OT playoff wins since 1998 and cut himself off to call the goal. I’m sure there are Sam Rosen critics out there, but I think he’s certainly a very competent, if not very good announcer.

And plays with someone named Backstrom…