“or if we do, lets do it after we have lost”

or the “maybe they’ll take me next year after we lose to the caps” card

Nevermind that he said that immediately after the game, while still fired up and later retracted most of it.

Plus, he’s (Orpik) the same guy who considers Ovi dirty and reckless. The pot who’s calling the kettle black.

A hypocrite!

Perhaps one who longs for greater defensive ability can best appreciate in others, while those who have it have contempt for all other defenders as being far weaker than their greatness.

During Gonchar’s first few seasons in his DC he was a defensive defensemen – and a pretty good one at that. It wasn’t until Ron Wilson came in and told him to “open it up” that he started using his god-given offensive talents.

Pretty much my thoughts exactly…I laughed when I read it because after watching Gonchar for years, I could see him looking at the Caps’ D and thinking, “hey, they’re not bad!”

Not that our D sucks as much as people think – he’s right, in my opinion. But it’s still funny ;)

Well, to be fair, shouldn’t you be listening to the most offensively skilled players to tell you which opponents have the best defense, and the most defensively skilled players to tell you which opponents have the best offense?

In other words, if Alex Ovechkin were to say “Buffalo plays phenomenal defense”, Sabres fans wouldn’t be like “pfft, what does he know about defense?”—they’d take it as a compliment from someone who would know best.

You heard it wrong. He said, "I think they are a great team, and would be happy to play there for 5.5 mil a season for the next four years."

McPhee replied with “Thanks, but no thanks. Best not to give old relationships another go.”

Pretty much every thing I’ve thought but just don’t have the hockey know how or patience to articulate. Well said, and I completely agree.

I think Hershey running the same system as the Caps is one of the big things that’s helped the development of the younger guys coming up through Hershey. When you get called up on an emergency call or for a shot to make the big team, knowing how the system works is a huge benefit for the player and for the big team since they don’t have to retrain the player for a new system.

What aspect of BB’s system isn’t working, exactly? I think it’s working remarkably well, personally – took a dead-last team when he took over and pretty much instantly made them a juggernaut. Sure, the PK sucks, and there’s always room for improvement, but if he can fix the PK it seems like it’s all very good to excellent to me. I’d like to think the PK can be fixed somehow. It’s really the only major flaw that this team has.