GDT: #22| Washington Capitals @ New York Islanders | November 26th 7:00 PM | F/OT 3-2

[The Underboss]

Washington Capitals @ New York Islanders​

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Uniondale, NY 7:00pm EST

Islanders Potential Lineup:

Forwards:

N. Kulemin J. Tavares K. Okposo

J. Bailey F. Nielsen M. Grabovski

A. Lee R. Strome B. Nelson

M. Martin C. Cizikas C. Clutterbuck

Defense:

N. Leddy J. Boychuk

T. Hickey T. Hamonic

L. Visnovsky C. de Haan

Goalie:

*Starter
J. Halak

**Went with previous lineup since that's what available as of now.**

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Capitals Potential Lineup:

Forwards:

Alex Ovechkin – Nicklas Backstrom – Tom Wilson

Marcus Johansson – Andre Burakovsky – Troy Brouwer

Jason Chimera – Jay Beagle – Joel Ward

Michael Latta – Evgeny Kuznetsov – Eric Fehr

Defense:

Brooks Orpik – John Carlson

Karl Alzner – Matt Niskanen

Nate Schmidt – Mike Green

Goalie:

Braden Holtby *Probable Starter​

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[Belarus]

Man, that Boychuk on the first pairing sure does look a lot like Visnovsky

 

[Strome18]

The Lord knows that Strome and Leddy are divine. They have such a glow to them.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Nice GDT!

As of right now Mike Green and Brooks Laich are officially out and earlier today Ovie tweaked something and 60/40 going to play.

Lets keep the ball rolling out some more distance between us and them.

 

[LeapOnOver]

I think we need this video for the GDT, lol. For so many obvious reasons!

http://youtu.be/-_VhoZkS2L4

I just don't know how to add the actual video.

 

[islesfan186]

starting up early huh?
they're talking about the isles on NHL on the fly. One of the guys (don't know name) says he has Garth Snow as GM of the year right now

 

[seafoam]

Looks like Caps aren't at full strength right now but Trotz could clog up the neutral zone and give us tons of trouble.

Wouldn't be upset with a split against them.

 

[Words Of Wisdom]

Definitely want a split at least against the Caps. We've been on a year and you can't win them all, just don't wanna lose two to them. Here's hoping the offense explodes once again. Really would love to see Tavares show up Ovi'.

 

[13th Floor]

We haven't scored the first goal in 5 of the last 6 games. Ironically, we lost the game we scored first and won the 5 that we didn't. Go figure.

With a depleted roster and a slightly injured Ovie, we need to win the home portion of this mini-series. Hopefully we can come out flying, which will help our momentum and hurt theirs.

None of these divisional games are easy. I imagine Halak goes again.

LGI!

 

[islesfan186]

Ovechkin game time decision for tomorrow. Left practice with an upper body tweak

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=740907&navid=nhl:topheads

 

[BossyMVP]

Ok. Just realized it. Our team is ugly! But damn, can they skate.

 

[13th Floor]

Also, is there any word on de Haan and Hickey? We really can't be without them for too long. Even one of them back is huge.

 

[BossyMVP]

Just wondering, who's going to the game tomorrow? Would like to know which one of my islander "family" from here will be there. Taking my friend from work to the game tomorrow and going with 7 others. I have promised him that I would take him to a game for the last 9 years but didn't want him to witness the misery. So i'd like to know who I will be celebrating a thanksgiving win with. I'm sitting section 301 row M. Anyone else?

 

[TheWhiteWhale30]

Want both games...especially at home. They don't have my permission to lose again until they play St. Louis.

 

[The Underboss]

Man, that Boychuk on the first pairing sure does look a lot like Visnovsky

Damn! Picked the wrong link. I'll fix it in the morning when I'm back at my computer.

Nice GDT!

As of right now Mike Green and Brooks Laich are officially out and earlier today Ovie tweaked something and 60/40 going to play.

Lets keep the ball rolling out some more distance between us and them.

Thanks!
I had to go back to the Caps previous game on Saturday to get just that info.

 

[The Underboss]

starting up early huh?
they're talking about the isles on NHL on the fly. One of the guys (don't know name) says he has Garth Snow as GM of the year right now

Yeah cause I have something to do in the morning.

 

[KnishOfTheCrease]

Brock looks like Beaker from the Muppets

Isles 9
Caps 1

 

[thedonger]

Also, is there any word on de Haan and Hickey? We really can't be without them for too long. Even one of them back is huge.

towards the beginning of today's point blank podcast, they mentioned hickey and cdh both skated with the team today.

 

[thedonger]

Brock looks like Beaker from the Muppets

Isles 9
Caps 1

wrong...this is his doppelganger:

forgot who was the first to mention this, but i remember it from the brock nelson draft thread and it's been burned into my mind ever since.

 

[13th Floor]

wrong...this is his doppelganger:

forgot who was the first to mention this, but i remember it from the brock nelson draft thread and it's been burned into my mind ever since.

Brock Nelson's name just reminds me of a bully in a high school movie. When he repeatedly shot it into the net after Lee scored against Pittsburgh, I just pictured him saying "O'Doyle rules" over and over.

 

[Knoxville555]

If Ovechkin doesn't play:

Isles 9
Caps 0

If Ovechkin plays:
Isles 9
Caps 1

 

[CodeE]

Why is Grabovski's head significantly fatter than everyone else's?

 

[thedonger]

Brock Nelson's name just reminds me of a bully in a high school movie. When he repeatedly shot it into the net after Lee scored against Pittsburgh, I just pictured him saying "O'Doyle rules" over and over.

haha, i got a kick out of that too.

 

[BillD]

Also, is there any word on de Haan and Hickey? We really can't be without them for too long. Even one of them back is huge.

Jack said yesterday that deHaan and Hickey are fine, will play against the Caps.

 

[Islesfan22]

Imagine if we had Nino on that first line. Hopefully dallcolle will be the future with Tavares and management won't mess him up like they did with Nino.