Shady Machine
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In retrospect, it really should have been obvious that Lou would end up making himself GM...
No more beards or long hair
In retrospect, it really should have been obvious that Lou would end up making himself GM...
Are you ten or just a broken record? We get it, you hate Letang, stop beating the dead horse.
Why are you guys crowning the Caps already? One week ago Vegas looked unbeatable and the Caps have a long history of finding ways to lose themselves. Anything can happen. Vegas missed like a zillion glorious chances in game 4.
And for the record I totally don't want Oshie to get a career ending injury or at least a punch in the face. Not at all.
Agree MAF has regressed. Don't agree that these goals go in all the time. On a low angle shot on 1st goal that rebound HAS to stay short side. 2nd one goes through him. These are goals he was not giving up, til this series.
Bottom line, Knights are facing multiple things they have not yet had to deal with. Trailing in games, trailing in the series, goaltender giving up comparitively large numbers of goals, and NOT making those extra saves, as Torts said. Make a save.
Knights look un-nerved now and are NOT finishing like they have for 3 full series. Literally missing completely empty nets, multiple times in critical situations like late G2, early G4 when the tone of the game could have been different.
At least as important, Braden Holtby apparently has horseshoes surgically implanted in his arse. Far up his arse.
Pens certainly got puck luck last year, but as a G myself, not sure I've ever seen this much ridiculous horseshoes, posts, whiffs, continually, for one goaltender for this long. Ever. It's insane. Hope Braden didn't sell his soul for this. But it sure looks like it.
You and vikingoalie must have not watch much of the VGK first three series. While they dominated the series in terms of games they were the luckiest hockey team i've ever seen. Everytime the other team would score a hardworking goal the knights would get some bull**** crap chance that alwasy went in 2 minutes later. Fleury was making saves on pucks he didn't even know where being shot. I think he had 3 saves off the knob alone.
No more beards or long hair
Are you ten or just a broken record? We get it, you hate Letang, stop beating the dead horse.
Why are you guys crowning the Caps already? One week ago Vegas looked unbeatable and the Caps have a long history of finding ways to lose themselves. Anything can happen. Vegas missed like a zillion glorious chances in game 4.
And for the record I totally don't want Oshie to get a career ending injury or at least a punch in the face. Not at all.
They are up 3-1 and dominating. It would be an absurd comeback for Vegas to win this.
Eh? Didn't say MAF was not lucky in the prior 3 series, he certainly was at times. But was also brilliant.
Don't agree the VGK were lucky to win, I thought for the most part their speed overwhelmed their opponents, but Helly had a couple of awful games to help them past Peg.
Anyway, not even sure what you're saying.
They are up 3-1 and dominating. It would be an absurd comeback for Vegas to win this.
I'm saying I don't think vegas was ever as good as their results. They are more lucky for a variety of reasons to be here than the caps.
I agree with MAF, he played great and also got lucky on a lot; same with holtby.
Like the Habs in 2010?
Seriously, of course it's unlikely to happen but you never know. Vegas getting to the final was more unlikely and it happened. The Caps won Game 2 by an extremely fluky goal and one in a million save in the end, that win is the difference in the series. They have the killer instinct that previous Caps teams lacked and kudos to them for that but this doesn't make the invincible.
Like the Habs in 2010?
Seriously, of course it's unlikely to happen but you never know. Vegas getting to the final was more unlikely and it happened. The Caps won Game 2 by an extremely fluky goal and one in a million save in the end, that win is the difference in the series. They have the killer instinct that previous Caps teams lacked and kudos to them for that but this doesn't make the invincible.
What is it about this system which has been seen before , or maybe how they're doing it?...which is making it so crazy good?
Now that the Caps are on the brink I honestly don't want to watch.
From a tech standpoint, they've seemingly used a fairly plain 1-3-1 and completely snuffed the speed of Pens, Bolts and now Knights. Bolts caved embarssingly of course, and our Pens were whipped...but no excuse for the Knights.
What is it about this system which has been seen before , or maybe how they're doing it?...which is making it so crazy good?
Ovie, Kuznetsov and Backstrom are finally producing consistently (Kuzy especially) compared to their regular season numbers. Quality depth production. People underrated their D which is perfect for today’s NHL. Holtby is literally the best post season goalie in the last ten years.
Bolts? They sucked. Even the three games they won they sucked. I had zero, zero doubts even after 3:2 that Caps would won. Pens had a legit shot, that was lucky bounce and goaltending going their way (even that we did not play the greatest hockey)Nothing special. Pens and Bolts should have beat them. The west is slow. Vegas won with our b team because of their speed. The fastest team they played was Winnipeg. We didn't get to see them against the Preds who would have given them fits. Capitals beat two of the fastest teams in the league; Pens and Bolts. Vegas has Engelland and McNabb on their top 2 D pairs and it's catching up with them.
this....everything clicking, and their bottom six is flying, they never stop skating, they are disciplined, playing winning hockey...Ironically, the Caps are winning because of one of the same reasons the Pens won back to back: They have multiple elite players and they're finally producing like elite players.
Come on @vikingGoalie you’re making it hard for some to take your critique seriously when the Pens played the same team and Murray was getting smoked on pretty similar plays and defensive breakdowns. In one series, it’s mostly on the goalie and the other, it’s “those go in on any goalie”. Maybe it’s a combo of both?