The Noon Number
3 - Number of games since the lockout in which the Caps got goals from three different defensemen - November 5, 2010 (Tyler Sloan, Mike Green and John Carlson), November 26, 2010 (Carlson, John Erskine and Tom Poti) and last night (Dmitry Orlov, Roman Hamrlik and Jeff Schultz).
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OK, but here’s a new question: In how many games have the Caps scored 3 or more and all by defensemen before last night?
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Sounds like you’ve got a fun little afternoon project ahead of yourself.
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by J.P. on Feb 14, 2012 12:06 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Alright, I’ve gone back through 1987-88 and can’t find a single game in which three Caps’ D’s each scored and provided all of the team’s goals.
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by J.P. on Feb 14, 2012 12:39 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Considering the Cote/Iafrate/Hatcher corps, that’s kind of mind-blowing.
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 14, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
Plenty of games with three different D scoring, but none that I could find in that range in which three D scored and no Caps forwards added anything.
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Thanks for taking the time to look that up, JP. However, I am wondering if it would require going a bit further back, to the days with Stevens/Murphy, etc, to find another such game. However, with the firepower like Gartner, Maruk, etc, that they had in the lineup back in the day, this may very well be the first game that this happened for the Caps.
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by capsfan4life on Feb 14, 2012 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I just looked at the data to which I have access (via hockeyreference.com).
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Here’s another fun site, if not quite as easily sortable:
Hockey Summary Project
http://hsp.flyershistory.com/
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by capsfan4life on Feb 14, 2012 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
Btw, so close, but this pic is going to have to go on my other Tumblr, ½SHP.
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Also the number of times I cried last night. Although, 1 set of tears was out of joy for Schultzie……
From Firewagon to Firehydrant
Here I was back in DC just recently removed from NYC. What a culture shock believe me. NYC is all action, Washington not so much, especially weekends and weeknights downtown DC is a ghost town. Its early spring 2010 what to do?
Text comes in ‘CCCP’. My great Hoya Son-in-Law texts me ‘CCCP’ he need not explain more, I got it. The local NHL Capitals team down 4-1 going into 3rd period musta done another comeback, uncanny. Somehow this cast of perennial handsome losers I knew in 80s were transformed to a hockey team 2nd to none. Absolutely no lead safe versus that howling, clattering firewagon I was learning. CCCP became our text lingo for the big red firewagon with Ovie, Semin, and Varly, all Ruskies. A one timer masterpiece that outscored every other team in NHL by wide margin and won the President’s Cup that 2009 season. Those DC boys were 1st in goals, assists, points and plus/minus, power play goals across entire NHL, monster season. Its a fact, you can look it up. I climbed on board, what a ride. What a ride I say but locals jumped off at an early departure from playoffs, somehow they were offended that Caps got bounced. I said ‘So what you caught a hot Goalie, this team be back getting President’s and Stanley, cant wait for next season. We got Ovie, we rock.’
Unh-Unh. Not to be. The pundits and nabobs round this town (believe me we have many) said this Capitals team must be tamed to win in playoffs and people bought that tripe. Gotta play D in playoffs to win was the mantra heard all summer. Bruce slow it down and play some D. Oiy Veh they convinced Bruce Beaudreau to eschew the firewagon brand play and bring in a foreign, to this team, concept play D. Slow it down, don’t let the forwards head-long rush up the ice, cool the jets, stay home and be organized with the puck. Mature hockey. Canadian hockey. North American Hockey. Washington Hockey.
That was the wrong take on this masterpiece team, yet it played in DC and with Bruce. Slow down, dump the puck in and cycle was kryptonite to their excellent style and the results were predictably quite bad. Bruce put the brakes on and 2010-2011 was forgettable, all the stats show the malaise, 9th in goals, 23rd in power play goals and so on. Local hero also had his locks shorn and Ovechkin scored but 32 goals that season after having 50 the year earlier. We hear Vancouver got President’s Cup. The nabobs said the payoff would be playoff wins. Not so much, those Caps got swept by an average Tampa Bay team and most now knew what they were afraid to say. We threw the baby out with the bathwater. Howdy Doody.
Well in our Hockeytown USA where we rock the red, hope springs eternal. No changes made for 2011-2012. Bruce et al still sold the tripe, just slow it down, have forwards look backwards, bring up the puck carefully without turning it over. Play some freakin D and we deliver Lord Stanley’s silverware to you Yanks trust us we know hockey we are Canadians, we invented it. Of course it did not play. The now completely emasculated style just fell over. Gone, the firewagon has left the building. The anemic thing thrown on the ice is 23rd in Shots on Goal and not near the top in any statistic anywhere. In fact if the season were to end as I type, these recently invincible Washington Capitals, don’t make the playoffs.
The saddest part is somehow we can’t or didn’t learn. The sole hope here is a revival of Firewagon brand, rock the red, rock the league, our way or the highway NHL brand hockey. With Alex Ovechkin and Sasha Semin leading the way the Stanley Cup is ours for years. But, reality bites, Kryptonite kills Superman, and Dale Hunter will destroy the Firewagon forever. His paradigm is unique its all about taking the fun out of hockey and boiling the tripe to a dump and cycle game. He has christened the Firehydrant days. Days of abject failure juxtaposed against a recent glorious past. Its clear to see.
…Do you realize that the system switch was because the “firewagon” style offense had stopped working? BB didn’t switch from a successful offensive system to a defensive system – he went from an offensive system that was failing to produce to a defensive system in an effort to produce wins.
Failure is always an option.
It might be the single biggest misconception out there – that the Caps switched systems and the goals dried up, rather than vice versa.
Or… they’re just assholes who don’t want to see Ovi score 65 goals again (because that excitement and positive publicity sucked) and would rather play 2-1 games than 4-1 games.
Either/or.
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There you go again, letting facts get in the way of the narrative!
by Turnstyle73 on Feb 14, 2012 10:02 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
They look like Russian nesting dolls in that pic.
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