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ElwoodCuse posted:Momentum isn't real. Bulletin-board material isn't real. Locker-room chemistry isn't real. The idea that pro athletes are there to show up and cash checks and need some sort of special motivation to excel and win exists only to fill airtime and column inches. I was thinking about this at the game, when the room got deathly quiet after one of the Caps' handful of big fuckups. You read in columns sometimes where coaches or whoever talk about "taking the crowd out of the game." Or especially as it concerns Washington, how the groans from the stands lending a sense of impending doom or some poo poo that affects how the game is played on the ice. But that's such horseshit. People showed up ready to cheer — they just need something to cheer about. If the team on the ice plays sloppy and scared after giving up a go-ahead goal, why is there any expectation that the crowd would somehow forgive them and get them going again? A crowd is reactive, it's the people on the ice that make things happen. And by people on the ice I mean the refs too. The Caps momentum after that first goal was squelched completely by what felt like dozens of whistles in the ensuing few minutes.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Momentum isn't real. Bulletin-board material isn't real. Locker-room chemistry isn't real. The idea that pro athletes are there to show up and cash checks and need some sort of special motivation to excel and win exists only to fill airtime and column inches. These things are all real and can matter at the margins. The tremendous mistake old school hockey journalists/coaches/dumb players make is believing that the degree to which they matter might outweigh a moderate or severe lack of actual hockey skill.
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glynnenstein posted:These things are all real and can matter at the margins. The tremendous mistake old school hockey journalists/coaches/dumb players make is believing that the degree to which they matter might outweigh a moderate or severe lack of actual hockey skill. Also the degree to which these things are controllable, or rather within the purview of one player to control.
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https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/997529851027509249 oh man i want to see this
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This "oh they played real well" is bullshit. Consolation horse poo poo like this doesnt exist at this point in the Capitals. This isnt some plucky underdog team with mostly young players. If you play well then you loving WIN. Period. And that doesnt mean theyre going to play "well" the next game. For all we know they will crap the bed. This is the playoffs. This is a best-of-7. You win or you lose. There is no "played well".
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Kawalimus posted:This "oh they played real well" is bullshit. Consolation horse poo poo like this doesnt exist at this point in the Capitals. This isnt some plucky underdog team with mostly young players. If you play well then you loving WIN. Period. And that doesnt mean theyre going to play "well" the next game. For all we know they will crap the bed. The better team doesn't always win this isn't tennis
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Veskit posted:The better team doesn't always win this isn't tennis Yeah, just look at the 2017-2018 Caps-Pens playoff match-up. 
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Veskit posted:The better team doesn't always win this isn't tennis It's Kawalimus. He bitches when his team wins because they didn't win good enough for him.
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May 18, 2018 20:04
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lol if you're taking kawalimus seriously in TYOOL 2018
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I think Jaroslav loving Halak and the 2010 playoffs should disabuse any Capitals fan from the notion of the best team always winning. 7 games is a small sample size. poo poo happens. poo poo happens a lot to the Capitals. Hopefully this year the poo poo happens to the other team, but if it doesn’t there is nothing that we as observers could have done to change the poo poo that happened.
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Kawalimus posted:This "oh they played real well" is bullshit. Consolation horse poo poo like this doesnt exist at this point in the Capitals. This isnt some plucky underdog team with mostly young players. If you play well then you loving WIN. Period. And that doesnt mean theyre going to play "well" the next game. For all we know they will crap the bed. You don't even watch the games, how can you possibly comment on whether they played well
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MANime in the sheets posted:You don't even watch the games, how can you possibly comment on whether they played well Because I got an approved recording of a Bicknell's Thrush early this morning 
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glynnenstein posted:These things are all real and can matter at the margins. The tremendous mistake old school hockey journalists/coaches/dumb players make is believing that the degree to which they matter might outweigh a moderate or severe lack of actual hockey skill. yeah, I get that the analytics movements went hard in one way, but athletes are people and not robots
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Kawalimus posted:This "oh they played real well" is bullshit. Consolation horse poo poo like this doesnt exist at this point in the Capitals. This isnt some plucky underdog team with mostly young players. If you play well then you loving WIN. Period. And that doesnt mean theyre going to play "well" the next game. For all we know they will crap the bed. This would be true if both series were over
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Lessail posted:yeah, I get that the analytics movements went hard in one way, but athletes are people and not robots Yeah I don't think Vegas playing like they have something to prove is THE REASON they're getting lucky and having career years but I'd think that locker room is full of guys who want to show up the managers and coaches who thought they weren't worth protecting which probably helps the luck factor a bit.
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Vegas is this far because of Fleury whose split with the Penguins was 100% amicable. The Penguins could have unloaded him on anyone not on his list at the trade deadline if they thought he sucked and wasn't worth a second thought
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dale tallon needs to be tried for crimes against humanity
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If Vegas wins the cup can we also get gun law reform
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wow this loving sucks
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If a luck based team can win 3 in a row, a skill based team can come back and finish the last 3.
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i am the bird posted:If Vegas wins the cup can we also get gun law reform one miracle at a time mate
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News: The Vegas Golden Knights are a win away from playing for the Stanley Cup Views: 
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Number19 posted:News: The Vegas Golden Knights are a win away from playing for the Stanley Cup it's not quite the climactic good v evil vgk vs pens final i was secretly hoping for but this is still magical to watch
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https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/997652618766774272 put this on my headstone
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i am the bird posted:If Vegas wins the cup can we also get gun law reform No but they'll all take a picture with Trump doing the thumbs up.
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Maybe losing will mean Winnipeg hires a new coach to push them over the edge
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i am the bird posted:Maybe losing will mean Winnipeg hires a new coach to push them over the edge Maurice is getting out coached pretty well by Gallant but so did everyone else this year. I don’t think there’s a better option out there for the Jets
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Series ain't over until one team wins four games, but VGK are exceedingly well positioned to do so.
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What’s quebecois for “suck my rear end in a top hat Marc”
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Lessail posted:Series ain't over until one team wins four games, but VGK are exceedingly well positioned to do so. you've been bitching constantly for three rounds with wild success can you teach me how to do that
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FBS posted:you've been bitching constantly for three rounds with wild success He's channeling kawalimus
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Keep the shade coming for the Knights, it feeds me, makes me stronger
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I personally can't wait for MAF and his team of nobodies to win the cup. It's a pretty cool story.
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FBS posted:you've been bitching constantly for three rounds with wild success It is called posting from the heart
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i am the bird posted:Maybe losing will mean Winnipeg hires a new coach to push them over the edge first time to the conference finals? No way dude.
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Lessail posted:It is called posting from the heart but can you put it in a chart?
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Bill Dungsroman posted:Keep the shade coming for the Knights, it feeds me, makes me stronger were you.. actually posting at all about the knights during the regular season? I don't remember.
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bill is good people
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