Friday Caps Clips: Rangers @ Caps Game Day

Not to mention your trip on Metro if you’re attending!

were* that bodes poorly for my phone interview in an hour

Mama Ovechkina did a nice job using the borscht bowl on his ’do.

He looks pretty angelic there. Hasn’t found his mad grin yet I see.

Savage Chickens…. awesome web-comic!

Slow your roll, homey – there’ll be plenty of bumps along the way.

Funny you should mention that. This comment did not help the hangover this morning…

…no consistent shot blocking and no clearing the crease. Our defense is laughable. Where is benching Shultz? Or better yet – scratch him for a couple of games and make him watch videos of Hatcher, Chara and Pronger (similar size, really physical guys). In his first couple of games, Orlov showed that he is much better than Schultz.

So true. I popped by CI and was surprised to read some of them suggesting benching Schultz after he had such a good game with a pivotal, game-changing moment in OT.

And a friend of mine would tell this joke about track shoes equipped with timers and the punch line of that joke was “These are the soles that try man’s times”.

I’m sure there is a good fish joke here too, but I’m still waking up at 11:49.

Eh, I expected some sort of supplementary discipline, but am not up in arms about there being none.

It is the view of the Department of Player Safety that in spite of the fact that there was contact with the head, when Bogosian committed to the check, he was coming for Eakin’s shoulder and Eakin’s change of direction and opening up after his dump-in just prior to the contact contributes enough that there will be no supplementary discipline.

I’m not thrilled with the “blame the victim” rationale – let’s see if it remains consistent.

Part of me is a little bit bothered by it, but then again, Bogo has never been called to the principal’s office before and they did fine him. I suspect that he was given a stern warning (in monotone… ) about what he did and to not do it again.

I don’t think Bogo will be someone who qualifies for the frequent hearing plan.

I’m glad they looked at it, but I wasn’t expecting a suspension. It didn’t seem to be a blatant hit to the head.

I think the answer to that is yes.

Speaking of suspensions, Deveaux of the Rangers had a hearing yesterday for his hit on Flash. Rangers have called up a replacement, yet I haven’t seen word yet that he’s actually suspended. Four hours before game time, shouldn’t it have been released?

The CBA says:

For Players that are suspended, either by a Club or by the League, the
Player Salary and Bonuses that are not paid to such Players shall not count against a
Club’s Upper Limit or against the Players’ Share for the duration of the suspension, but
the Club must have Payroll Room for such Player’s Player Salary and Bonuses in order
for such Player to be able to return to Play for the Club.

My interpretation of that is…no. Injuries and illness count against the cap, but I don’t think suspensions do. It looks like from the CBA paragraph that the player isn’t paid for the duration of his suspension.

Possible Freudian slip here? (Guess you may be wondering about the wisdom of some of the Accountability decisions — like the one on Ward, our poor sick forward who was flakier than usual and not thinking as straight as normal post-illness.)

I put “Moron Accountability” into Google Images… lot’s of political stuff, but this popped up:

This might come in handy one day if Ol’ Huck ever returns to SBN…

Pair of tix available

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