Saturday Caps Clips: Wings @ Caps Game Day
by J.P. on Oct 22, 2011 7:48 AM EDT
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- Previews of tonight's battle of undefeateds from Vogs, NHL.com (Hunter), SI (Hackel), SB Nation DC, Peerless, Puck Buddys and CRtC, and be sure to check out our SB Nation partner Winging It In Motown for more coverage from the other side of tonight's match-up.
- Notes and assorted whatnot from yesterday's practice, including the latest on Michal Neuvirth's and Jay Beagle's injuries. [Caps365 video (Kettler Report, Boudreau, Neuvirth), 106.7 The Fan (audio), CI (Carrera), CW (Whyno here and here), DCEx (McNally), DSP]
- Tonight could be your last chance to see Nicklas Lidstrom in person (insert jinxtastic joke here). That's not lost on a couple of Caps Swedes. [Dump 'n Chase, WashTimes (Whyno)]
- Sidenote: Bruce Boudreau rounded out his career as a hockey player with the 1991-92 Adirondack Red Wings. Lidstrom's rookie season in the NHL was that very same season, with Adirondack's NHL affiliate in Detroit. Mind blown?
- Most of the Caps have little more than a passing familiarity with the Wings. But not Troy Brouwer and Joel Ward. [KOL]
- Mathieu Perreault provides a nice fourth-line spark. [WashTimes (Whyno), CI (Carrera)]
- Thursday night was certainly a step in the right direction for Alex Ovechkin. [WashTimes (Whyno), DCEx (McNally), SB Nation DC, CSNW (Gormley)]
- As for Tomas Vokoun, facing 40-plus shots in a game is a plenty familiar feeling. [CW (Whyno), CI (Carrera)]
- Some numbers on those last two chaps. [NHL.com (Kreiser)]
- Dennis Wideman did a phoner with the boys at NHL Live yesterday. [Capitals Overtime]
- Balance, baby. Balance. [CSNW (Gormley)]
- Where are they now (and how are they doing)? [CI (El-Bashir)]
- Milestones, ahoy. [RtR]
- Starts, streaks and stats... [Capital Spirit]
- ... and end-games. [THW, Sick Unbelievable]
- What has two thumbs and isn't buying the Caps' hot start? Chris Stevenson. [QMI]
- Apparently this whole "not losing" thing (in regulation, at least) runs in the family. [Patriot-News (Leone)]
- Good stuff on prospect Caleb Herbert. [Duluth News Tribune]
- Finally, happy 31st birthday to Matt Pettinger and happy 43rd to Terry Yake.
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JP, do you just not sleep?
I am continually impressed at how you roll out these big old set of links in the wee hours of the morning.
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The Rink does provide an awesome amalgam of a-hreffage.
I think about all the shots we allowed against PIT and PHI, and I’m reminded of the series against the Habs, where we were bombarding the goaltender, to no avail. I don’t know if shooting percentages bear it out, but it feels like this incarnation of the team, thus far, is getting more with less – more goals per shot.
Related; I haven’t slept yet. Been reverse engineering IA32 assembly code since 6pm yesterday. _
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Tonight’s lines:
1000-10011-10100
11100-1011010-10110
11001-10101-101010
11010-1111-110101
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by Gould Old Days on Oct 22, 2011 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nice Gouldie.
Everything ends badly...otherwise it wouldn't end.
by Davethecapsfan on Oct 22, 2011 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Too much free time? How bout some octal or hexadecimal numbers?
"Everything in excess... moderation is for monks"--Robert A. Heinlein
"Facts are meaningless, they can be used to prove anything"--Homer Simpson
I dig hex:
8-13-14
1C-5A-16
19-15-2A
1A-F-35
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by Gould Old Days on Oct 22, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, Gouldie, it’s obvious what field you’re in. (Brings back old memories of reading core dumps.)
Rocking the Red for teams on the banks of the Potomac and at the Gateway Arch and Singing the Blues about Hockey.
Yup, you guessed it — law
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by Gould Old Days on Oct 22, 2011 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Or are you like my math major friend who became a lawyer?
Rocking the Red for teams on the banks of the Potomac and at the Gateway Arch and Singing the Blues about Hockey.
Econ, but there’s not much call for hex in a microeconomic model.
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by Gould Old Days on Oct 22, 2011 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
We all know JP was piss-drunk watching the Syracuse game last night. Clearly these clips have been outsourced to India. Just another corporation taking good, non-paying jobs away from medium-hard working Americans.
#OccupyTheRink
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Oct 22, 2011 8:25 AM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
At least part of that is 100% accurate.
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by J.P. on Oct 22, 2011 9:33 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
The part about India is not true. I’m here now and no one yet has definitively told me that there is even one skating rink. Hockey here is field hockey.
Nice guys finish first, but sometimes the season is awfully long.
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by STLSpidey on Oct 22, 2011 1:33 PM EDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Any idea how good their team may be? Men’s league? ECHL? bottom-feeder CHL?
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by red army line on Oct 22, 2011 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
This will make the third time in seven games the Caps have faced a team on the back end of back-to-back games. I note it only because I had become convinced that the schedule maker only hated the Caps and never loved them. I guess I was wrong.
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Meh, the schedule maker knows even the most jaded " we aren’t winning the right way" fan will eventually be won over with large numbers of early season wins. After he gets us all on gung ho, he will crsh our spirits with a brutal schedule later
by HateOffSeason on Oct 22, 2011 8:39 AM EDT up reply actions
The Caps can only win the games they are scheduled to play. And so far, they have.
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And the Caps have had their fair share of poopy schedules – 9 game road trips in February, a bazillion back to back games…and lest us not forget Yanni.
So I’ll not apologize for the schedule thus far.
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They only play 11 games a day after playing one.
Wait what? Damn.
Capitals goal scored by #22, Mike...
by KNUUUUUUUUUUBLE on Oct 22, 2011 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually that is less than how many they played last year. They went 5-7. Bleh.
Capitals goal scored by #22, Mike...
by KNUUUUUUUUUUBLE on Oct 22, 2011 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Winterion’s seen so much machine code lately, he thought you were talking about 3 games, not 11
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by Gould Old Days on Oct 22, 2011 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
February and March this season will be interesting; 30 games in 59 days.
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by AMusingFool on Oct 22, 2011 11:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Babcock could have played Conklin last night and started Howard tonight, but chose not to. The Caps can only score on the goalie that is actually in the net. And so far, they have.
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I know last night was a divisional (thus important) win for them, but Babcock could have played a goalie from the Grand Rapids Griffins last night and still won; Columbus is really, really, bad. No Carter, Wisniewski, or Boll, and Nash didn’t even put a single shot on goal. Wings were coasting last night, and since that was their first game in a week (last game was Sat 10/15 against the Wild), I don’t expect them to be tired one bit.
"You can want to get to April but when you get to April you may not like the answers you get, so you might as well enjoy the ride while it's going on." - Brian McNally on JRR, 8/29/2011
DET barely broke a sweat in that one. It’s pretty rare to see an NHL team that badly overmatched.
They’ll be plenty fresh tonight.
No Holmstrom, though, so that’s something.
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Despite the score, that was probably the sloppiest the Wings have played at 5-on-5 this season.
I think that it wasn’t so important to have the starter out against the divisional opponent as it was to make sure the team was focused. If your head coach throws the backup out there for a Friday game when you haven’t played for a week, he’s at least subconsciously telling his team that this game isn’t as important as the real measuring-stick game the next night.
Yeah, they’re all professionals, but the Wings spent the week serving coffee and playing SWAT. Being told through the coach’s actions that your first game back isn’t important enough to play your starter is a great way to fall into a trap game.
by J.J. from Kansas on Oct 22, 2011 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I’ll note that DET has not exactly played a murderer’s row:
OTT
COL
VAN
MIN
CBJ
They also can only beat the teams that are on the schedule, but this should be a measuring stick game for the Wings as well.
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When the schedule came out, i was comparing the Wings schedule to the Caps schedule leading p to tonight. Caps schedule is much more demanding, even if it turns out the Tampa is a hell of a lot worse than I thought they would be.
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From the where are they now article, Steckel was playing on the first line, 18 minutes, and PP time? I thought this was a team people were picking to have a shot at the playoffs. Not with Stecks at 1C. What the hell happened up there in Toronto?
Colby Armstrong left that game early with an injury and all of TML’s lines got a little crazy. But, yeah. Coach Wilson and all of Toronto are spoon/moon/June mad in love with Dave Steckel.
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Borderline miraculous transformation from bilious headhunter and cheapshot artist to commendable role player maximizing his opportunity, isn’t it?
I can’t think what could have prompted it.
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If it gets people to start believing that the collision with Crosby was unintentional, I’ll be extra happy for him.
by wickedwitch on Oct 22, 2011 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Leafs are kind of like the Caps in that they have a bunch of 3C/4C guys, but they don’t really have a 1C either whereas the Caps have Nicky.
You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is "Never Try."
Well, to be fair, Connelly, Lombardi, and Bozak are all decent 2Cs, they just always seem to be hurt. They also have a couple Fleischmann like guys who can be a center, but are better on the wings.
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by Flash in the Pan on Oct 22, 2011 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Grabo is mediocre, Connelly (Who they signed to be their 1C or 2C, depending on Grabovski’s play) is hurt, and as posted, Armstrong was injured.
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by Whiter Mage on Oct 22, 2011 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Tim Connelly got hurt? Damn, I did NOT see that one coming…
by Murshawursha on Oct 22, 2011 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
The SBN app went to 1.1 this morning and looks pretty good (for those who have it, DL away).
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"This [job] would be so much easier if it wasn't for the fucking [customers]."
by Bald Pollack on Oct 22, 2011 9:35 AM EDT via iPhone app reply actions
Ooh, nifty.
That'll make your weagle wink!
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by boutros23 on Oct 22, 2011 9:41 AM EDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Yarp. Also had a “mark all as read” and “load next unread” options from what little I saw.
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"This [job] would be so much easier if it wasn't for the fucking [customers]."
by Bald Pollack on Oct 22, 2011 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, this feature alone makes the app usable for GDTs (at least until the 2nd period thread which still isn’t accessible).
by lagomorph on Oct 22, 2011 2:40 PM EDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Hmm… I see fanposts but not fanshots.
by lagomorph on Oct 22, 2011 3:05 PM EDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Quite a milestone for N. Lidstrom tonight playing in his 1500th game. I would hope we recognize him on the jumbo tron.
This has probably been pointed out elsewhere, but yeah, the Caps have faced mostly backup goalies. Strange then, that they tooled the two starters they faced – Rolo and Bryz – and made Markstrom (???) look like Halak. What does that say?
by katzistan on Oct 22, 2011 9:51 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
though Johnny is no slouch in October and November.
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USA Today Ratings
Interesting methodology, thought it might be worth a link.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/nhl1112.htm
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LOL
http://www.arcticicehockey.com/2011/10/21/2505696/mark-spector-is-right#storyjump
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RedBirdie, this one's for you.
Byfuglien’s craptastic D has come to the attention of the Arctic Ice Hockey guys.
http://www.arcticicehockey.com/2011/10/21/2503931/get-buff-off-of-the-blue-line
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Thanks! So glad they have seen the light—although this is not going to do anything to dissuade me from thinking that I’m always right
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So Katie says Beagle has a concussion. I didn’t see anyone else also call it a concussion though.
@kcarrera Katie Carrera
Boudreau says there’s still no timetable for Jay Beagle’s return. The winger has now missed 8 consecutive days of practice w/ a concussion.
As Boudreau has mentioned protocol in the past, putting two and two together…
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by Bald Pollack on Oct 22, 2011 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t really understand the focus on this issue on the part of fans and the media, whether it pertains to Beagle this year or Perreault/Green last year.
Is the player out?
Yes.
How long?
We don’t know.
Past that, who cares if they’ve got a concussion or not? Isn’t that properly the business of the player, the team, and the training staff/doctors?
Unleash the Apathy.
I think the concussion issue is different, and making it known could have some importance for young players and their parents who look to the pro team, rightly or wrongly, as role models in how the issue is handled. That said, if there is an adversarial relationship between the team and the media in getting that information out there, that’s what we have bloggers and beat writers for.
Terrifically juvenile.
melrose...
nice to see him not slam the caps in his preview of the game
Shoot puck, score goal, win game.
by humanhockeypuck on Oct 22, 2011 12:44 PM EDT reply actions
“That looks good but is not impressing some people in The District, who point out they have seen the opposition’s backup goaltenders in four of those six games (Brian Boucher, Carolina; Brent Johnson, Pittsburgh; Alex Auld, Ottawa; and Jacob Markstrom, Florida). The two No. 1s they have faced are Tampa Bay’s Dwayne Roloson and Philadelphia’s Ilya Bryzgalov.”
So we don’t get credit for having a backup goalie in net ourselves against Boucher?
And Boucher played in 34 games last year when he was on a different team. And is Jacob Markstrom such a massive downgrade from Jose Theodore? Would Craig Anderson have performed markedly better than Ottawa? I mean, they’re goaltenders. A backup isn’t an automatic 5 goals.
Talk about spurious reasoning. Of all the things you would use to judge a team’s performance, how many backup goaltenders they’ve faced should not be high on the list.
Capitals goal scored by #22, Mike...
by KNUUUUUUUUUUBLE on Oct 22, 2011 1:53 PM EDT reply actions
People just hate …. they are jealous
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Oct 22, 2011 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
It is an interesting stat, though. Do teams just assume, “Screw it, it’s the Caps, might as well just start Swiss and give Sharp Cheddar a rest.”, because that’s a pretty high compliment to be paid if true.
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Wait, what does Jonas Hiller have to do with it?
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by Gould Old Days on Oct 22, 2011 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Yea his article was about as interesting a read as mark spectors. Asinine. This is the effing NHL not some youth hockey league. Every player as had to earn his way here by being damn good. Yeah some of the backups are farcrys from the starters but I’m sure he’d slam the caps for beating Tukka Rask instead of Thomas afterall the previous season it wasn’t like he unseated the again then reigning vezina. Brent Johnson is a heck of a goalie and is IMO one of the best backups in the league.
Bruce Boudreau when asked about Brooks Laich's return to the lineup, he said: "He just adds another dimension to our team. If it was puzzle, he just fits that thing. He completes us."
Brooks Laich completing everything from teams to tires and everything in between.
by breaklance on Oct 22, 2011 4:25 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Checking in from the atl airport. Ran into a wings fan at my conference and he said the caps are the team he’s most worried about out of the east. That was nice to hear
by Beakers Lab on Oct 22, 2011 2:45 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Those of you who have attended rookie camps in the past – Andy Miele was called up to Phoenix last night. Good for him.
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I remember being pretty impressed, but he was also playing with one of his college linemates and, as a result of being in college, was one of the older guys if I remember right. He wasn’t too bad.
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Any thoughts on what is going on with Carlson? He has 1 point, whereas Alzner has 3 (one more than Green even!). I’m not worried about it; 6 games is too small a sample. But, I guess (obviously) it has to do with the playing time and productivity of Wideman. I’m nor sure how BB can re-juggle his right D to get Carlson more scoring chances but it doesn’t seem like there are enough non-pp minutes to split among them. I should also note that his defense has been tremendous so far, even better than last year it seems. I don’t know how he feels about this but I hope no issues develop with him.
That line seems to be spending its time being defensive colossi. If that means we lean on Green, Wideman, and to a lesser extent, Hamrlik (and how many Schultz shots have been deflected in thus far? What a neat situation that is!) for offensive production, I bet the team is fine with that.
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Yeah, I hope so. Our D is just spectacular this year. Peerless, like you, gave a little justified love to Sarge today, by the way. At this point, Wideman is my #1 Caps star for skaters over the 1/2 dozen games.
I was just wondering if Carlson has said anything about his own situation. Frankly, considering his age, I think this time in his development with less spotlights and pressure is probably a good thing. Perhaps that is why is defense is really shining.
I’d go with Laich. Sample size aside, he’s completely proven himself at 3C thus far, something we were entering the season with varying opinions of potential on. Wideman, Chimera, Vokoun, and Backstrom would round out my “greenest arrows” to start the year.
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Considering Carlson has been on the point for PP unit #2 with Hamrlik, getting more PP’s that actually last the full 2 minutes (aka not sabotaging it with a penalty of our own or scoring in the first minute) might help him have more of a chance for points. Otherwise as winterion says…keeping goals out of our net just as good as helping us put more in the opposing net.
Everything ends badly...otherwise it wouldn't end.
by Davethecapsfan on Oct 22, 2011 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Carlson didn’t get too many power play points last year. He was 31 at ES, which actually was T-4th in the league among blueliners (though no doubt Rafalski would have passed him with a few more GP). As I recall Carlson had his ups and downs in terms of scoring last season, too. As long as his actual play doesn’t take a nosedive (it hasn’t), I’m not worried.
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by red army line on Oct 22, 2011 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed, I had just noticed in the first couple games with Ovie firmly off the point in 5 on 4 situations, BB had gone to 6 and 52 with the first unit, and 44 and 74 with the 2nd unit. Last few games they just haven’t seemed to get much ice time on there because of us taking penalties up a man or scoring early on in the PP.
Feel like with set pairings on the point Carlson could get more PP points this year.
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by Davethecapsfan on Oct 22, 2011 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t think Carlson has really hit his stride yet this year.
Which is cool, because it means the D can get better…
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by Gould Old Days on Oct 22, 2011 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Exactly. That is one reason why it is so much fun watching the D this year. It is just great. I don’t know what I enjoy more: Greenie’s stickhandling, Alzner’s spot-on instincts, Wideman’s all around superb ice presence, and even Sarge laying on everyone, etc. What fun. And to think Carlson has even hit HIS stride!
I think Carlson has looked phenomenal. His first job is stopping the opposition’s top line, and he’s doing a goddamn good job of it. The points will come. Of all the things on this team, one of the last that I would worry about is Carlson (and Hot Karl).
Unleash the Apathy.
As I said, I am not worried at all. I am enjoying him and Karl immensely. We are so lucky to have him. I was just asking if anyone has seen or heard anything that he might have said about his performance this year because Wideman may (I don’t know for sure) have taken away some of his offensive minutes….
Speaking of Lidstrom, anyone else see DGB’s piece yesterday about upcoming NHL milestones? Here’s what he said about Lidstrom:
Nicklas Lidstrom – Will reach the 1,500 game milestone tomorrow night, which is great because he’s always seemed like a good kid and it will be nice to see him finally accomplish something.
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by Flash in the Pan on Oct 22, 2011 4:19 PM EDT reply actions
Penguins and the Redwings to stay unbeaten?!?!?!?!?
I’m in heaven!!!!1
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