Non-Recap Recap: Caps 2, 'Canes 1

More love for Orlov. Congrats, kid, on your first NHL goal. Keep those smiles coming.

Caps played rope-a-dope hockey the entire third period.

Fuck Jeff Skinner. Next we meet, Hendricks needs to WWE his ass too.

inexcusable officiating on the Laich goal/non-goal. Get your stories straight boys, the conflicting report are damning

They gave Carlson a roughing at the end
6 3 20:00 74 J.CARLSON 2 Roughing

Hard to tell who was on the back end of B2B games tonight. 82 attempts at net for Carolina, vs. 38 for the Caps. And yet…

Congrats to my good friend Dmitriy Orlov on his first and GWG in the show. #Caps #finallyShootThePuck

Winning because your goalie makes 43 saves is not a good habit.
On another note, the one day rest didn’t help the Bolts, 3-6 losers to the Pens.
What’s Guy’s excuse today? Jet lag?

Feels good having a number one goaltender again. The other Tomáš on the other hand is AHL bound very soon. Good for him to see some NHL action but his not being an NHL defenseman, showed numeral times today.

NHL has another headline “(Orov of the Game”) where the person mentioned can’t be seen in the photo.

For Neil and the rest of the #fancystats crowd – I get it.

HOWEVER — These are the types of games that you steal in the playoffs. This is the type of game that the Habs took from us way back when. We need to shoot more and score more, but I’d also like to win more of these.

"That just doubles the fun, doubles the positive emotions [that it was a game-winner]," Orlov said.

"I was yelling and filled with elation, so I can’t remember what was said to me."

Worth going back to watch the whole game, or just the goals? Migraine had me laid up for the entire second and all but the last five of the third.

I just got home and came here to understand why that goal was called off. Hunter was told that it was disallowed because of interference but the near ref called the goal good. I thought goalie interference calls were non-reviewable but I wonder if there’s a clause for when the two refs disagree they are allowed to have Toronto decide.

All in all it felt as though the refs were calling the game in favor of the Canes—dubious icing calls, the tripping call, the uncalled boarding that upset Wideman, etc. It’s bad when so many dubious calls, goal reversals, and non calls are shown on the big screen clearly show the refs are in error.

The refs really messed with the momentum in that game, not that I’m particularly pleased with how slowly the guys started. I’m kinda cranky despite the win.

Luckily a win isn’t determined by the gusto with which it was earned. We’re back on the top of the SE division and third overall. It’s ok to smile for a night.

YAY! :D

We don’t care that the Caps were outshot, or that the Canes had a little more jump to their step, or that the refs sucked. My sister and I had fabulous time and the Caps won to take back the lead in the SE!

The little sister’s favorite things about her first live Caps game: Dima’s first goal. Hendy’s bodyslam. Sasha scoring. She was infuriated by the refs, especially by them stealing Brooksie’s rightful goal. She loved unleashing the fury. She vibrating with joy and excitement throughout the whole game, and, in general, declared it AWESOME!

So, I’ll take that response over #fancystats, any day. ;)

Thigs I want to see replays of but can’t so far:
Ovi’s hit
Disallowed goal
Judo flip by Hendy

Minus One
Ovi hit is on Caps site.
Should I Tebow now?
(nope, it already jumped the shark)

My wife went with me to the game tonight and she said she couldn’t beat that one hour nap that was the first period….

1) Ok, the first period was a snoozefest. That said, the Caps should have gone at the ‘Canes hard. They played last night against Boston and should have been somewhat tired. The Caps should have jumped right on them at that point. No, the Canes are not a good team, but that doesn’t matter.

2) Bull[Gretzky] call on the Laich wave-off. I don’t see where anyone messed with Ward, or stopped him from making a play. The NHL’s Situation Room blog (http://www.nhl.com/ice/blog.htm?id=213) is quiet about the situation as well.

3) Sweet shot by Semin to score the first goal. I bet Ward hangs pictures of Sasha up as Halloween decorations.

4) Nice to know Hendricks cares… loved the bodyslam.

5) Awesome to see Orlov get that first goal. Now that the ice has been broken, let’s see some more.

6) Last game Kundratek looked ok for a rookie, but tonight he looked like an AHL player. He got beat really bad on several occasions. Admittedly, he’s still young, but I think Schultz or Erskine could have handled those plays better.

7) Eakin is also still not 100% NHL ready. He made some nice moves that would work at the AHL level…. they don’t work at this level.

8) The Caps are in first place… where they belong.

Next up the schedule continues with the parade of well-managed, well organized teams: Islanders, Canadiens and the Canes again… the points are there for the taking…

I’m probably reiterating stuff everyone else said on the game

1) Period 1 — Caps were badly outshot. Lucky to be still tied 0-0.
2) The Caps looked much better during 2nd period, overall. It looked like they got on via the Laich goal but it was waved off. No explanation given to the crowd, which was unusual. Normally, waved off goals are explained to the crowd.
3) Sasha broke the ice and scored — for real. Nice goal!
4) Carolina scores near the end of the Power Play and the end of the period, the types of goals that can be disheartening if they were go ahead goals. I was still annoyed.
5) At least the Caps didn’t get disheartened and Dima scored his first goal to put the Caps ahead. Seemed that several Caps jumped from the bench to celebrate, including Semin. (Gotta look out for the kid from your country, Sasha.)
6) Seemed that between penalties and numerous icing calls, the rest of the game was a white knuckles affair. (That’s been the case a lot lately.)
7) It was Kids Day at the game, with a mascot game (even though I didn’t watch the mascot game since I usually take a walk around the concourse during intermissions.) They gave all fans a sticker book after the game. Granted, that’s more for the kids but still. I hear they had a kids hockey game before the Caps game.

Orlov is certainly flying high — flying like an Eagle. He’s having only positive emotions — to use his words.

An interesting note. In today’s free program they give out before the game, the player featured was Orlov. In Friday’s free program, they featured Brouwer and that night he got the hat trick. Hey, we’re on a streak here, of 2 games. (Previous programs had featured Oisk, who was likely scratched and Semin, who was out with an injury.)

Did anyone see who that Carolina player punched? 44 came into the crowd of celebrating Caps and threw down AFTER the end of the third period. I was at the wrong end of the arena to see it clearly.

GoalieMama’s seats are AMAZING.

It looked like someone was seriously hurt by the puck Carlson sent over the glass and got a delay of game penalty on during the first period. The puck seemed to stay in the air forever so I don’t know how they didn’t see it, but it hit a man in the section next to us. It was a big scene, the ushers came down to help but it seriously took over 5 minutes to get the paramedics there. It took so long that the Caps doctor that sits right behind the bench went over there finally to help it. It was really odd that it took so long, because this was section 100. The poor guy looked completely out of it, they had to carry him down the row into the aisle which required two burly men and then strap him into this special chair stretcher thing and carry him up the stairs. He looked unconscious. The penalty was at 5:49 of the first and they were just carrying the guy up the stairs when the first intermission started. I hope this poor guy is ok, he was there with a family, including some kids.