GDT: #17 Devils vs Capitals: Groundhog Day Part I

[Status Quo*]

Wooo more flower play time.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Come on you bums!

 

[hlaverty06]

Our POWERPLAY is hopeless

 

[Devils Dominion]

Why do we suck.

They are not a smart hockey club and we have a slow defense with practically no offensive upside.

On a 5 on 3 it is outrageous not to get a shot on goal.

 

[Zippy316]

I don't get why the move the puck so slowly.

Seriously though. Move the puck quick and open up down low. At least have a plan of some sorts. Hell, if you really want to, have Kovalchuk and Zidlicky up high as decoys to open up down low.

Elias is seemingly always WIDE open and they don't use him. Just do a quick passing play to the point and then to Elias and have him find the open man on the far side, no way a goalie is able to move that quickly.

 

[MrLouniverse]

boundless optimism, feeling good about this next one

 

[JK3]

Show me what you got offense

 

[NJDevs26]

Hah, maybe someone told the refs how unbalanced they were in the second period and now they're trying to even it out. Of course the Devils' PP is so pitiful it probably won't matter. They'll fail to convert on like two more power plays, luck out with a goal at the end of regulation then somehow win a shootout and people will mock the 'panic'.

 

[njdss4]

No shots on goal in the whole power play...what happened to the 'shooting powerplay'? Talk about a misnomer.

Devils don't seem to have enough players that think 'shoot' first. If it's being left up to Loktionov and Butler to shoot a lot, they're screwed.

 

[BenedictGomez]

This team's 5x3 efforts have been terrible since at least 2006.

But to have over 1.5 minutes of 5x3 and not register a single shot on goal, is beyond embarrassing.

It's not the "Caps killing penalties well", it's incompetence.

Andy Greene taking PP point shots = coaching incompetence.
Ilya Kovalchuk being allowed to take sharp angle slappers on the PP which are 100% to leave the zone if he misses net = coaching incompetence.

 

[GentlemanOfLeisure]

$50 says we lose the faceoff in the caps zone here.

ok you can owe me

 

[Kensu]

can't believe this powerplay is 9th in the league.

 

[aemoreira1981]

At least the Devils are getting shots...3 SOGs.

 

[Saugus]

I'm astonished that our PP is ninth in the league. That can't be right.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I don't get why the move the puck so slowly.

Seriously though. Move the puck quick and open up down low. At least have a plan of some sorts. Hell, if you really want to, have Kovalchuk and Zidlicky up high as decoys to open up down low.

Elias is seemingly always WIDE open and they don't use him. Just do a quick passing play to the point and then to Elias and have him find the open man on the far side, no way a goalie is able to move that quickly.

That is what I didn't get. We moved the puck faster 4-4. The 5-3 was molasses.

 

[Rob Nieds work ethic]

Pathetic effort. I'll say another no show. As bad as Tallinder has been it's not his fault we couldn't score on a ****in 5 on 3. Or even strength either.

 

[Traitor Zach]

I'd like to see Larsson on the PP and move Kovalchuk off the point every now and then. Change it up a bit.

 

[PWiz30]

When's the last time kovy scored on a onetimer?

Carolina

 

[Jersey Man]

i think im going to be sick.

 

[Status Quo*]

This power play makes me want to rip my hair out.

 

[Devilsfan92]

Larsson to the PP, please.

 

[JMarce]

this team is so depressing, it shouldn't be this hard to score a goal

 

[aemoreira1981]

Butler met an invisible banana.

 

[Rhodes 81]

Anybody think the caps PK on that 5 on 3 was pretty solid? Or is the other team always just a bunch of pylons that the Devils can't beat?

I'm not getting the outcry either. The devils moved around the perimeter but the caps need once allowed themselves to be pulled out of their lanes. The other team is playing too

 

[Devils Dominion]

Wide again. But I like the rip.

We couldn't score into an open net on the pp