Post-Game Talk: BOS @ WAS - 7:08pm EST

[Empty Goal Net]

How did Kuzy miss that one?

 

[Capsman]

Bad game.

Boston isn’t a threat tho. They’re not very good and any of islanders, Pitt, or us play them in a actual playoff series - they won’t beat those teams.

All good. Little bit of a funk to work on.

They were good enough to outclass us. I think most prognosticators would pick Boston over us, I know Mike Kelly did.

 

[Misery74]

Bad game.

Boston isn’t a threat tho. They’re not very good and any of islanders, Pitt, or us play them in a actual playoff series - they won’t beat those teams.

All good. Little bit of a funk to work on.

All good is quite a stretch.

 

[mad4comp]

I’ve been down on him all season. But we all know he isn’t going anywhere.

So back to mediocrity I guess.

 

[IafrateOvie34]

Well we're back to playing a bad team tomorrow.

 

[Langway]

At least 8 got another.

Not sure what this team does well.

 

[Capsman]

How did Kuzy miss that one?

Well, that was a microcosm of Kuzy’s game in general. Inconsistent, undependable . We caught lighting in a bottle in 2018, will always be thankful for that.

 

[TheLegendOfPatPeake]

Positives:

Sheary

Carlson

Negatives:

Schultz

Vrana was floating all game

Carr over Sprong was a mistake

Dillon is a pilon.

 

[twabby]

Inexplicable that during the 4v4 Laviolette played Dowd and Hagelin and didn’t give a single shift to Kuznetsov or Vrana.

 

[bur and 666 others]

Trending down against the playoffs opponents + Rags, make me nervous come to the playoffs. At least we know who they are. Hopefully they'll surprise us.

 

[Misery74]

Glad this is happening ore deadline. This isn’t good enough.

 

[max21]

The Pens beat the Rangers after getting stomped by them the other night

 

[Corby78]

Every team has there slump, we are in ours. We have time. We know this team can play well.

 

[Fred22406Capsfan]

Grade A, hot, dogcrap. No excuse for that crapshow...

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

Bleh...

At least Ovie scored a goal. Up to 1313 points.

 

[troyerlaw]

I don’t think Sammy played all that well tonight. Then again same was true for most of team. Looked like Kuz missed a tap-in toward the end.

Not a good night for us, with Pens, Isles and B’s all earning 2pts

 

[TheLegendOfPatPeake]

Glad this is happening ore deadline. This isn’t good enough.

Don’t count on BMac doing much. He has put himself into a box.

 

[troyerlaw]

I would ride Vanicek for a while

 

[troyerlaw]

Why isn't Chara challenging that shot? It's well within his reach. That's a f***ing poke check, bro.

Get him off the ice.

Well, not to mention he literally kicked the puck to him. Bang-bang play, but yeah, Z was another Cap who was noticeably unimpressive tonight

 

[Misery74]

Don’t count on BMac doing much. He has put himself into a box.

Unfortunately, you are right. He handed out 4 year deals like they were candy on Halloween.

He needs to shake this thing up.

 

[caps4cup]

I think it doesn’t mean anything in one game but in a whole season I think it says a lot.

I agree but the stats show that throughout the season, the Capitals get less shots on goal but more xG’s. Again, I don’t think they’ve played great lately but overall I think they’re in an ok spot.

 

[Rayquaza64]

not good bob

 

[troyerlaw]

Trending down against the playoffs opponents + Rags, make me nervous come to the playoffs. At least we know who they are. Hopefully they'll surprise us.

Not even nervous myself. Just extremely low expectations

 

[troyerlaw]

Probably not a big difference maker either way, but i really don’t understand plugging Carr in for Sprong tonight

 

[Capsman]

I agree but the stats show that throughout the season, the Capitals get less shots on goal but more xG’s. Again, I don’t think they’ve played great lately but overall I think they’re in an ok spot.

I think they were finishing at a very high rate for a stretch, not necessarily getting better opportunities. At least to my naked eye watching them. As expected that has evened out and there’s not a lot left except for teams to skate circles around them. I don’t think I remember a Caps team (and I’ve been watching since about 1979) get beaten one on one quite as much. We’re making a lot of opponents look like Mario.