Thursday Caps Clips: Accountability, FTW

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Hey Cheryl!

it’s #cutestats

Followed by “Bruce Boudreau is the early front runner for the Jack Adams”

Meme 1- Turning Point
“If the Caps win the Cup you can look back at 11/1 as a turning point in their season.”

Meme 2 – Maturity
“The way Ovi handled his benching show the type of maturity that it takes to be a leader in this league”

Meme 3- Hot Seat Bruce
“Boudreau knows he’s on the hot seat and can’t afford to baby his young stars any longer”

Meme 4 – Yzerman
“It took Stevie Y to change his game before the Wings became winners. Ovi needs to take the same approach and play a more well rounded game.”

Meme 5 – Crosby
Because you can’t talk Ovi without talking about how Crosby would handle the same situation.

First time he scores two in a Versus game this year, I can guarantee you that Jonesy and Milbury trot it out.

The alternative is that Bruce should be fired because it didn’t work. Yawn.

I thought it was Enrico Palatzo?

So we need to explain baseball to you?

Also, “hose two had a pretty healthy distaste for each other already.” Any evidence that that’s the case with Alex and Bruce?

Though he could have been talking jive. He could talk some jive like you never heard.

And a terrible racist and anti-semite.

Unless you can get fluthered on Haagen Dazs Rum Raisin ice cream

Don’t make me bust out the garey busey :)

Coincidentally, MP was doing his best Chong Li impersonation for the celebration on the bench

In “the world is nigh” info, for anyone who thought Alex Semin would have three times as many PIMs as Cooke does right now, I’d like to meet them so they could have told me what the Powerball numbers for last night were.

Was “Bloodsport” the movie with the tournament that featured the guy who fought like a monkey?

They should figure out some way to bring in Yanic Perreault as a consultant or something. That guy was awesome.

Yup. Dean-o.

Best and worst faceoff takers since 1997

Rank Player GP FO W L WPCT
1 Yanic Perreault 701 7803 4752 3051 60.9
2 Mike Zigomanis 189 1360 809 551 59.5
3 David Steckel 224 1917 1137 780 59.3
4 Scott Nichol 485 3620 2146 1474 59.3
5 Rod Brind’Amour 860 12314 7289 5025 59.2
6 Joe Nieuwendyk 562 7791 4596 3195 59.0
7 Mark Janssens 198 1769 1043 726 59.0
8 Jason Krog 202 1437 839 598 58.4
9 Tim Taylor 607 5635 3270 2365 58.0
10 Kris Draper 875 7873 4560 3313 57.9

Trent Whitfield is ranked 20th

Really surprised that a beast against teens didn’t play home games at the old Maple Leaf Gardens.

Just clarifying. (FTR, Turris was 50% on his 540 draws last year. I’ve got no use for him.)

I meant natural in the sense that they both fit the same slot (2C). Agreed about him not being enough of an upgrade to make a trade worth it.

It’s a more reasonable deal, to be sure, but it does little to solve the problem of where Turris would fit into the lineup and/or how we afford him.

I don’t think it works unless we ship some salary back out. Brooksie maybe?

All hypothetically here of course. Don’t think any kind of move would help the caps enough to be worth it.

No way I trade Laich for Turris. Turris is acting like a petulant child and has not lived up to his draft position (granted, he is still young and in a rough market, but others have succeeded there). Laich, meanwhile, is part of a dominant third line that is one of the biggest improvements for our team this year. Unless we get back a center who can do that (not necessarily at the level/salary of Laich, but enough to contribute).

Why wouldn’t he have made that clear on July 1? Letting it look like a contract dispute for so long doesn’t help his position.

Not at all. But I was wary from the start at the cost for Hamr given his age, despite his playing well for so long. Then again, I felt this way about Knuble at the start of last season, and he turned out to have plenty in the tank for the second half.

Nevertheless, if there had been an offer on the table to Hannon (I don’t recall there being any offer reported) around 2-yr for $4M total, I imagine he would have taken it for the chance to win a Cup. He’s a bargain at $1.5M for Calgary.

The additional intangible value of how much Hannon versus Hamr would be able to teach to the younger D-corps – that’s a question only coaches and other professionals would know.

Hell no. If he had, Hannan would be here, likely with an ear-to-ear grin plastered on his face.

On the one hand, he did not have a training camp and Hamrlik did. On the other hand, the rest of the club was not integrating several new pieces then, and they are now.

The whole issue is moot for the time being, though, what with 52 being out and all.

When Green comes back, which is going to be at least another couple of games I would reckon, if Hamrlik is still going badly, probably time to scratch him.

Jeff Dunham instroduces a new character to his ventriolquist act… “Sasha, The Caring Hockey Player.”

Walter sez…" well la-a-a-a-a-a-a dee dah!"

I agree with putting Knuble back on the top line. Clearly those three have had chemistry in the past. I’m not sure exactly why Knuble is in the coach’s doghouse. He’s historically a slow starter; is that just not acceptable this year?

I’d be interested to see how Semin’s numbers look with and without Laich. I dunno how it plays out in the #fancystats, but my gut tells me Brooks had a fairly significant role in creating chances for Semin.

Jokinen out 3-4 weeks with a sprung knee.

But, yeah.

I don’t think fighting Asham was hubris, it was realistic. Beagle doesn’t have too much upside. He’s like a 15th forward. He’s the definition of replaceable. Fighting and doing well would have allowed him to be much more likely to stick, especially over the soft competition like MP. And he did well for a bit, then got taken down.

I don’t think he’s as bad as Kaleta in terms of the dirty play.

Before he left for Finland, J. Ruutu would have to be on that list.

Yeah, it’s the dirty play + running away from the consequences that put Kaleta into a special class.

Plenty of guys that are too handy with their sticks, elbows and feet for my taste, but none of them are as weaselly as Kaleta and Neil.

I don’t have significant ire for those players, obnoxious d-bags they may be, because they aren’t really dangerous.

Well, the issue was gutlessness (if that’s a word), but yeah, I agree, Neil and Kaleta are in their own little club.

To be clear, it was actually Shanahan who said that.

Sorry…obviously Neil did not hit Alfie (not in that game anyway being on the same team. Getting my lack of suspensions confused.

That hurts, but when you’re wearing a cup it’s not going to put you on IR. Weaponizing a helmet is awfully dangerous.

I’ve no particular hatred for the Sabres as a team, but in my experience their fans are some of the least-respectful people I’ve ever had the displeasure of dealing with.

To tag on to this, I’ve noticed that often on the Clips page when an announcement is made about new content on the front page, no link is provided. I would happily click a provided link and open it in a new tab, thus keeping the Clips present as well. This convenience would be much appreciated. Instead, I have to scroll to the top/bottom of the page, open the home page link in a new tab, load the entire home page, then click on the new article. #firstworldproblems and all that.

That may be the single best compliment I’ve ever gotten.

Everyone loves a good scandal.