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Lecavalier is a healthy scratch tonight apparently. $4.5M/yr until 2018.
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Adam Oates went on Wyshynski's podcast yesterday and was talking about the "dangers of puck possession". His argument was that it was dangerous to possess the puck so much because you take more hits and therefore get more injuries. So that's why he had Jay Beagle centering the first line!
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Anders posted:How did Wyshynski react? I didn't actually listen to it, I just read some Twitter comments about it. Oates always preached "territory" over "possession", i.e. when you get the puck dump it into the offensive zone, and then retreat like poo poo to your own defensive zone so the other team doesn't score! And then hope to hell for some fluky penalty against the other team so Ovie can hit a dinger. The Dirty Burger posted:Methot returns tonight, and Karlsson's out Wait what? Is Karlsson injured?
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quote:Jeremy Rutherford @jprutherford 3m3 minutes ago Just Wins Games™ now has monetary value.
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Joey Crabb also made his way onto the first line of the Capitals somehow. Ovechkin-Beagle-Crabb. That was a real life NHL first line.
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Brodeurs Nanny posted:Welp DeBoer is really starting to sound pissed in his pressers now. He's finally showing some emotion. "They were better on the power play, better on the PK, their goalie was better than our goalie, it was across the board." Asked about the injuries (Cammalleri got hurt again tonight, awesome) and it was just "it doesn't matter, nobody cares, you have to find a way." Brodeurs Nanny posted:Hahah drat DeBoer is on fire. "There were some guys who played who weren't 100%, you credit them for trying to help, but they weren't a big help for us tonight." Then asked whether they can afford to sit games out until they're 100% and his answer was, "they played because we all know the answer to that." There's only so much a coach can do when his old as poo poo roster breaks down. Also it would help if his backup goalie wasn't Scott Clemmensen so he could maybe rest Schneider every now and then.
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Vicas posted:Flyers g...good? Slow down, tubby. You're not on the moon yet!
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Paul MacLean fired.
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Aye Doc posted:I saw some tweet earlier that I can't find showing the top 5 teams in the NHL by possession time and st. Louis is at the top by a wideish margin iirc, so yeah. stellar team, fat goalie, still wins    I wonder where this data comes from?
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Dec 9, 2014 16:17
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I forgive Jagr mainly because it must have really sucked playing for Bruce Cassidy as head coach. But I still don't like him because he regularly tormented the Capitals in the 90s.
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Austrian mook posted:The best team in the NHL, folks. Nope. Also winning that many 1-goal games is generally not a trend that any team continues. Ask the Avalanche.
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Dec 12, 2014 19:37
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@drosennhl: Rutherford on Crosby: "There is no indication at this time that this is the mumps, but we are going to hold him out as a precaution."
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Dec 12, 2014 22:09
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Chicken Doodle posted:Can we send Miller to Pittsburgh? Y'know, for research purposes. Miller's face might actually look normal if he contracts the mumps.
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Nate Schmidt has been really good for the Caps. Check it out: http://www.japersrink.com/2014/12/15/7392213/is-nate-schmidt-the-caps-best-blueliner-to-date This is good news for the Caps because Orlov's recovery from wrist surgery is way behind schedule. I wonder what will happen to Schmidt when Orlov is ready to come back, because Schmidt has proven over the past two seasons that he belongs in the NHL and not in Hershey. An interesting scenario (and one I'm not really against) is maybe trading Karl Alzner because while he is okay defensively, he's not very good in the offensive zone and his perceived value is probably higher than his actual value. Obviously I would prefer Orpik and his contract to be gone, but that's not a realistic scenario. In any case, Washington's blue line has gone from a crippling weakness last season (partially due to poor coaching) to a position of strength under Trotz, even with Orpik getting first pairing minutes. They drive possession (currently 7th in Fenwick Close) and Carlson, Green, and Niskanen have 22, 12, and 12 points respectively. They still have their issues but things are looking up again for this team, which is nice after last season's catastrophe.
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Gunjin posted:I really hope Orlov is able to fully recover and have a nice career in Washington, I'm a fan of that kid. I'd love to see them move Orpik, but like you said, not gonna happen. I could go for the Alzner move, but I've always gotten the impression that Capitals management thinks he's better than he really is. What I am going to guess happens if Orlov fully recovers they let Green walk (which is a mistake, unless he wants crazy $) because it's the easiest move. I wonder what Green would fetch on the open market or what his trade value would be at the deadline. When healthy he deserves the contract he has, but I wonder how his injury history affects the amount teams would offer him. I fear that they will let Green walk too because MacLellan doesn't seem to be high on him. But depending on how the rest of the regular season works out I think trading him could be a mistake too because he is so valuable at ES and on the PP. I'd love to see a contract extension in the ~$5M/yr range but I don't know if Green or his agent would go for that.
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Why didn't Tavares get 5 and a game for that? Is it because he's a star player? (I know the answer)
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quote:Chris Johnston @reporterchris 58s58 seconds ago First star of the month: The mumps
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Here's my favorite part of the shootout: http://i.imgur.com/TZDBBuW.gifv Worth every penny of his contract.
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Gunjin posted:Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Trotz has been good this season. The Capitals have moved from bottom 5 to top 10 in possession (Fenwick close), he's helped stabilize the goaltending situation, the power play is still really good, the penalty kill is improved (in terms of Fenwick/60 allowed), the transition game is much smoother, he's playing the best 6 defensemen in the system every night instead of Connor Carrick and an AHL-lifer, Carlson has shown a great improvement this season, and he doesn't seem to alienate players despite the whole Burakovsky situation. That being said some of his lineup decisions at forward have been a little bothersome, but I guess every coach has his own lineup quirks. It's also been beaten to death by the blogging community how poor the Capitals are at playing with a lead so it's something they need to clean up. Overall I still think Trotz is doing a good job, if Holtby and Peters had been near their career averages the first ~20 games I bet they'd have a few more points right now. They also really need another center and I think players like Alzner and Brouwer should be in play as pieces in a trade for another center.
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T-Bone posted:People see the defensive mistakes but don't notice that these guys make much more high quality exits and chance creating decisions on a regular basis. Whereas Devils fans already love our big retard Hegelson who is incapable of making a clean outlet but hey he hits and chucks the puck to center ice at least it's not in our own zone oh wait it's coming back again gently caress Here's a post that I saw on JapersRink the other day (very good Capitals sbnation site) that speaks to your point about how people obsess too much over the big mistake: http://www.japersrink.com/2014/12/16/7399233/on-giveaways-and-big-takeaways Basically our minds very easily remember the big mistakes that players make, such as a defenseman turning the puck over at the blue line leading to a breakaway goal. But they'll never remember when a defenseman makes a great play along the boards and finds the center skating up ice with a nice pass that leads to a 3 on 2 that leads to a shot on goal that leads to a rebound that leads to puck possession in the offensive zone that leads to another SOG that leads to a rebound that you score on. There's no way the human mind can process this, but stats can. Bad defensemen cannot make that initial pass very often, so they are hemmed in their zone more often than a better defenseman and suffer a worse Corsi/Fenwick. And this is why I still like Mike Green when 75% of the fanbase wants to trade him for like a 2nd rounder.
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Pornographic Memory posted:its funny because his cancer was probably the least bad thing to happen to him medically so far (considering it was detected early and was of a relatively not-dangerous type that was removed without complications) I dunno I'd rather have the mumps than cancer, even if it is a less dangerous form of cancer that was supposedly already taken care of.
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Ovie's goal was really great but my takeaway from that game is how bad the Devils are. They are old, slow, unskilled, and just boring. They only managed 4 shots in the third period and that was with them being down by 2. They need to just blow it up and trade all of their old players if they want to be competitive again. But I hope they don't.
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whatis posted:maybe i'm completely biased, but it seems pretty incredible how often sabres' players are injured by questionable hits that never see any sort of supplemental discipline. it's also pretty incredible how the same sort of hits perpetrated by sabres' players are severely punished. The Sabres have employed professional piece of poo poo Patrick Kaleta since 2006 and he's deserved every one of his suspensions, so I'm cool with Bartkowski not getting any further discipline.
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whatis posted:I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, but I hope you feel better for having written it I hate Kaleta, he's deserved his suspensions, and last night's hit was probably deserving of at most a game misconduct (which he received), so I'm cool with everything you are upset about.
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Levitate posted:Is Holtby or Peters starting tonight? Actually Trotz was hinting that Holtby might get the start tonight after last night, given that they have the Christmas break coming up. Silly reasoning since Holtby and most other goalies see a decline in save percentage in the second half of back to backs, and it's also a third game in 4 nights for Holtby.
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I got an Ovechkin Winter Classic jersey. It is a really great jersey.
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Congrats on your ~20% chance of McDavid, Devils fans.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:It's weird thinking about how bad the WC is gonna be this year. The best team in the league against a pretty good team with some legit superstars? Obviously I am biased but it seems like a pretty attractive matchup even if they aren't rivals.
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Here Columbus fans, have a chart to help quantify how injured your team has been:
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 The players are going to skate from the capitol across the reflecting pool and onto the ice during the introductions. Owns.
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Somehow Brooks Orpik is walking without a limp after going knee-on-rear end last night with Cal Clutterbuck. It looked horrible and he couldn't put any weight on it after it happened, so it looks like he got really lucky.
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