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glynnenstein posted:Kuznetsov is also very obviously trying a lot harder with Kovalchuk around now, which is the sort of thing I think of when people make fun of players saying they have to work harder. Sometimes it may be blather when they don't really want to say the other team is better than them, but sometimes guys just aren't really giving 100%. Players are humans and motivation is variable, turns out. Yeah Kuzy has definitely acquired Alex Semin disease. Get lazy during the regular season knowing you can just turn it on in the playoffs and then the playoffs come and you find don't have "it" anymore. He was such a beast in 2018, they really need that version of him.
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Mind_Taker posted:Todd Reirden freakin’ stinks! He's really good at smiling ironically when the refs give his team a bad penalty. That's about it.
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Mar 5, 2020 13:24
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Pens defense somehow worse than Caps defense. Quite a feat. Unlike the Caps D which just gives up breakaways all the time, the Pens just kept overextending in the offensive zone and giving odd-man rushes. Chad Sexington fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Mar 8, 2020 |
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/ChartingHockey/status/1237396103517044736 Is this the year Caps fans finally welcome seeing the Penguins in the first round? Of course not. Somehow just the right combo of players will get injured to make them good again.
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quote:D.C. Health Department officials are recommending that “nonessential mass gatherings, including conferences and conventions,” be postponed or canceled in the nation’s capital. The recommendation is in effect through March 31. Caps host Detroit tomorrow. Haven't heard anything about sportsball matches...
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Ginette Reno posted:They might as well just suspend the season. There's no reason to risk it, and playoff games with empty stadiums would be lame. But I need something to watch from quarantine!
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Mar 12, 2020 14:59
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Capitals are Metro division winners for 2019-20. No take-backsies.
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Mar 12, 2020 18:39
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Duckman2008 posted:Since we are talking about rivalries, I’m gonna stop by here to say: This is a man of philosophy. e: Their dirtbag fans throw bottles into crowds from across the street at D.C. games. Philly fans seem to always get tickets close to the announcer's booths in D.C., so I feel like I always hear them on broadcasts. That is a strategy I appreciate. Chad Sexington fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 17, 2020 |
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Mar 17, 2020 19:00
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Watched the Russian Five doc on TV last night. I never get used to all the uncalled hooking and grabbing.
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Flyinglemur posted:This whole thing is obviously a Russian weapon engineered to let the Capitals remain champs for another year, guaranteed. While the Caps are still champions in my mind, the Blues might have something to say about that.
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Mar 23, 2020 15:44
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Mar 23, 2020 18:29
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DJExile posted:That's a few times now that Ovi's gotten dressed up for some fashion shoot and the suit just does not fit him at all I imagine it's hard to tailor a suit to wear correctly on that large a hunk of beef.
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Winner gets the all-time goal record. https://twitter.com/Capitals/status/1250793842217025536
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AsInHowe posted:This quarantine has finally broken me. Don't believe them. If you haven't played a modern NHL game it's worth playing at least one. They're not perfect, but they're hockey. (With Snoop Dogg!)
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Scaramouche posted:NHL Hitz still has some fun in it if we're breaking out the classics. I worked at the company who made it (and 2k Dreamcast) and ea acqui-hired us and some of those guys are on the core NHL team now. The threes mode in NHL 20 has very strong NHL Hitz vibes. It's pretty fun, if mindless.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Just spitballing here, maybe the Jackets system is very kind to goalies and the Panthers system (to the extent there is one) is very mean to goalies. I'm reminded of a Ken Dryden quote. quote:A good “bad team” goalie, numbed by the volume of goals he cannot prevent, can focus on brilliant saves and brilliant games, the only things that make a difference to a poor team. A good “good team” goalie cannot. Allowing few enough goals that he feels every one, he is driven instead by something else—the penetrating hatred of letting in a goal. I don't mean to say that CBJ is a good team, but plenty of goalies have thrived or at least have been fine in that lack of structure in Florida: Craig Anderson, Lu, Tomas Vokoun, Jose Theodore. Seems like Bob just isn't a bad team goalie.
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May 5, 2020 12:54
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I have zero recollection of the Caps signing Leipsic.
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AsInHowe posted:How many of the recent Stanley Cup champions will be Hall of Famers, and how much does winning the Cup impact that? No way Holtby is a HOFer. Ovechkin definitely, but I think Backstrom would take a while to get in. e: Really maybe none of those goalies will. Goalies in the HHOF in the last 30 years: 1993: William John "Billy" Smith 2003: Grant Fuhr 2006: Patrick Roy 2011: Ed Belfour 2014: Dominik Hasek 2016: Rogatien "Rogie" Vachon Chad Sexington fucked around with this message at 14:28 on May 7, 2020 |
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Aphrodite posted:There's maybe 4 people on this list who will make the HOF and 2 of them were Crosby and Ovechkin gimmes. Other two are... Kane and Malkin?
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Dr Zaius posted:Toews is a no-brainer as one of the top 100 players of all-time. But seriously, he'd have a good case considering he's won at every level. Oh whoops, yeah, he was 2018.
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May 7, 2020 14:48
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ThinkTank posted:People rip on Toews, but I think the only other captain to have led their teams to three cups and not be in the HHOF is Crosby who is currently active. He's a first ballot guy despite never being a top ten player in the league. I mean if Mats Sundin can get in then anything is possible.
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DJExile posted:it is easier to bait yall into HOF arguments than it is food or beer arguments and that is really saying something Baiting implies I wasn't looking for an excuse to argue about hockey in the first place.
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fawning deference posted:Also Patrik Elias should absolutely be in the HOF co-signed
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May 8, 2020 01:06
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Every single member of the 90s and early-00s New Jersey Devils should be banned for life from the sport of Hockey Elias is not guilty of Scott Stevens' crimes. He is a cutie patootie. 
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Aye Doc posted:goodbye, dumbass! buh bye https://twitter.com/CapitalsPR/status/1258773185966850054
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grack posted:He's not content being a lovely ref, now he's organizing pit bulls to attack children? that is definitely how I read it
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Schremp Howard posted:Man looking back and I forgot just how much of a trashheap the South East Division was. Here's a thought exercise: was the junky Southeast division good or bad for the early Ovechkin-era Capitals? Given that the second round exits to the Rangers/Penguins happened anyway after the switch to the Metro, I'm inclined to say it wasn't much of a factor. But maybe playing in a more competitive division might have forced those early run and gun teams to figure out how to play tight games a little better.
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ThinkTank posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdvoDFTcTLw Jagr and Seguin in Boston jerseys really dates it.
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DJExile posted:Jagr spent 2 seasons in New Jersey, i'm sure played several games against the Flyers that I watched or listened to, and I do not recall him being there at all I was just thinking, "Wasn't he a big part of their Stanley Cup run around then though?" Kovalchuk. I was thinking of Kovalchuk. I was a Devils fan growing up and follow the team and I messed that up in my mind. But yeah, Jagr was a leading scorer for them in 2013.
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Mind_Taker posted:*2 first line dopers 3 dope first liners
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Downie was an incredible fantasy hockey asset for a couple years there.
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Jovial Cow posted:The gods demand more Rangers Caps playoff hockey. No thank you.
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ThinkTank posted:Honestly the only thing they can do is shut down that hub for two weeks and wait it out. I think part of the reason they're so eager to get going is this could potentially take months to wrap up with a couple stoppages. I imagine it's more to do with a captive (inter)national audience.
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Aphrodite posted:Maybe being the rep sucks so they all made the fringe guy do it. Or the single guys. Can't imagine why else the Caps have Thomas Wilson repping.
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Mr. Kite posted:They should just replay the 2014 West Finals on repeat since that was the best series in the last 20 years. I had a major surgery in 2013 and I will forever remember the day I came off anesthesia and watched a hockey game from my hospital bed that both objectively and subjectively seemed to go on for infinity. Thought it was Hawks/Kings, but it must have been the first game of the Finals against the Bruins that went to 3OT.
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Twin Cinema posted:Am I the only one who thinks Brodeur's career wins is going to be almost impossible to ever reach? Basically: Goalie has to still be trotted out as a starter for about four seasons after he's cooked just to pad the stats a little.
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I would welcome the opportunity to watch sportsmans and I don't think that diminishes the seriousness of what else is going on in the world.
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