Friday Caps Clips

It has been pointed out that a classic Semin hat trick (goal, assist, offensive zone stick penalty) means that the Caps have scored at least two goals and have been in position to threaten for a third.

I’ll go with the latter

Thanks, RB.

Did you notice F&B wrote it, but JP posted it? I suspect this is like a parent letting their child drive the car, but not giving the child his own set of keys.

Even so – good stuff.

Well, he realized he’s going to miss the Front Page’s deep fryer.

/shows himself out

I don’t know if we disagree. The acquisitions made at deadline and those made in the off-season really are two different species. The in-season, deadline acquisitons seem to have been made to inject something the core didn’t yet have — a sense of how to lead. Certainly Fedorov and Arnott had that capacity, both players in the autumn of their careers, skills-wise. The other of those acquisitions did not require long-term commitments (i.e., they were rentals). Making those commitments by bringing on players with years and money left on their deals, might not have made sense if the core wasn’t ready.

But sign Knuble in 2009, bring on Wideman (with money and time left on his contract), sign Hamrlik, Halpern, and Ward. Trade for Brouwer. If the team has confidence that its core is ready, they can make such commitments without fear of wasting the early years of them waiting for the core to mature.

Teemu by a whisker.

Also a reminder of how insane Selanne’s season was.

(OTOT…)

If F&B’s post prompted the Post to do a little more digging on the story (who knows if it did – they might have had a call/email in for weeks that finally got returned… who knows), that’s great. Reporters reporting is always a good thing, and if they happen to receive a nudge from somewhere else, that somewhere else has provided a useful service.

I support this idea one gazillion percent.

They could call it The Keynesy and Friedy Show, with the tagline Where Hockey, Hot Karls, and Master Debating Collide

With Greenberg gone, is it possible/probable that HBO doesn’t do another NHL 24/7?

I think the NHL has found that the rivalries thing works for the WC. and you don’t have many inter-conference rivalries these days (other than, say, PIT DET).

they did an E/W thing for the heritage classic this year, though

Given that PHI played in 2010 and is hosting for 2012, I kind of expect the Caps to get their home game in 2013. Then we get to go back to the game of who do they play? Going on the inter-conference theme, I wouldn’t mind Chicago. They’ve hosted already, so their next game should be away. And the past two CHI/WAS games have been pretty exciting.

Until they have reliable scoring I don’t see how they can mean much.

Yeah, they’ve been meaningless for a long time. I’ve long thought they should do away with giveaway and takeaway entirely and go with turnover plus/minus – you lose the puck, you get a minus; guy gets the puck, he gets a plus. As it is now, one scorer sees something as a giveaway, another as a takeaway and it fucks everything up.

Example – Jeff Schultz fumbles a puck he’s trying to pass, Marty St. Louis gets it. One scorer could see it currently as a Schultz GvA, another as a St. Look TkA. Under my scoring, it would be a – for Schultz and a + for MSL.

Not sure that +/- would even have that much utility, but it would certainly be better than the current crap.

Ward wasn’t signed for his offense.

Nice first post! Ward is probably overpaid, but he is a very good defensive player. He’ll contribute to the Caps no matter how much offense he brings.

In fairness to Pisani, he had significant injury problems after 05-06 (ulcerative colitis at one point) which contributed to his decline in production. Also, I don’t recall Pisani being much of a grinder, which is what Ward is really being brought in for. One of the big problems in the playoffs this past year was that the bottom six contributed hardly any offense.

It’s a comparison that occurred to me as well and I think there’s something to it.

Let’s not forget through, Pisani’s career was derailed in large part by his ulcerative colitis. He was overpaid for his playoff heroics, but his next years may have been different had he not fallen ill.

Thanks for joining.

The fact that you guys can generate substantive content at all during this period of the off-season is astounding.

I don’t blame Trevor Gretzky one bit.

He’s a longshot.

i like the slideshows, but otherwise, their analysis and writing is just not good.

watching that…..wow, such happy little Caps. Had forgotten just how exuberant they were that night! And damn it’s weird to see Knuble in the Flyers jersey.

If you need stats to tell you that. . .

Joffrey Lupul doesn’t look so good under those lights either…

Pretty interesting measurement, considering the high scoring percentage of those chances.

I love the new logos, although I like the old jets logo better then the one in the bottom right-hand corner.

eh.

You’d think the team played in Canada or something, eh.

The upper right one looks like a headless duck, which was my first impression looking at it small on my phone.

Not horrible, but IMO they would have been better served going with an updated look of their pre-relocation jerseys (similar concept to the Caps’ unis).

those colors have the ability to be really bland.

F 16, right?

Of these logo’s I’d of had the main logo as a patch, and the 2 patches as the two uniform main logos with the cursive jets being the away – white jersey logo, and the wings being the home – color jersey.

The compass/jet/leaf/bulls eye mash up is pretty bleh. I could make that logo on windows paint.

The jet in the actual logo appears to be an FA-18 or CF -188(same plane, made for US) not an F16. If you compare the actual logo with the silhoette knee high posted while modern jets have similar designs the big telling difference is the tail fins. The F-16 horizontal tail fins are perpedicular to the plane. The FA-18 have angular ones.

Also I literally made this using Knee High’s image and a generic red maple leaf in 2 minutes on Windows paint. It still goes with the RCAF bull eye with the red leaf for a certain without looking half as dumb considering the effort, minimal. Would look better with a fatter plane imo. Like a B-2 bomber to allow the bulls eye within the jet thing to work better. But still the logo is a pretty basic layering technique.