SherVaughn30
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Not with this stupid stubborn coach!The legs look heavy. Need to inject the team with youth for the thousandth time.
Not with this stupid stubborn coach!The legs look heavy. Need to inject the team with youth for the thousandth time.
To be fair management doesn’t seem to be prioritizing it either.Not with this stupid stubborn coach!
I like BB, but that ship has sailed. Ride out Lavy for the rest of the season and then pursue Jeff Halpern or Spencer Carberry in the off season.I don’t know how everyone else feels, but I’m ready for a BB redux.
Our ceiling is first round loser under Laviolette. What’s the point anyway?
I'm all for Carberry. Halpern would be okay, but there's a few others I prefer over him.I like BB, but that ship has sailed. Ride out Lavy for the rest of the season and then pursue Jeff Halpern or Spencer Carberry in the off season.
I just wish NAK would stop taking bad penalties.NAK playing with more determination than Kuzy/Mantha combined. $14 million dollars just going through the motions on the ice.
I got a little love for Oates for reviving Ovie.Nobody beats Oates. NOBODY!
Hershey Bears coach Todd Nelson should be an option as well.I like BB, but that ship has sailed. Ride out Lavy for the rest of the season and then pursue Jeff Halpern or Spencer Carberry in the off season.
I don’t even think we make the playoffsI don’t know how everyone else feels, but I’m ready for a BB redux.
Our ceiling is first round loser under Laviolette. What’s the point anyway?
That's because the Caps have a marketing owner. Ted cares about the dollar and not winning Cups(he wins a Cup, but screws up keeping the Cup winning coach). He's short-sighted to the fact that teams who address and fix issues put themselves in better position for long term success. Paying a coach $5 million per season(top coaches money in the NHL) to have injury riddled/ups n downs/1st round playoff failures/heavily favoring vets type seasons, is not putting the team in the best position possible. Deep down OV's success in chasing Gretzky's all-time goals record is enough for him.To be fair management doesn’t seem to be prioritizing it either.
Both us and the Pens could miss. Sabres are surging hard, Isles are a live again and the Panthers could push too as they are underachieving compared to last season.I don’t even think we make the playoffs
The coach talk is fun and a nice distraction, but they really don't look like they have the horses to compete in the East this year. They needed an MVP performance from Ovie to run up their December record, and he's not going to do that consistently at 37. Factor in the Carlson injury and it looks pretty bleak.
And this is with the Gustafson home run and the Milano double.
I'm feel pretty down on the team again, in case it wasn't clear.
Three of the guys you mentioned have been in the lineup. Alexeyev has done very little in his sparse usage - I’m not sure why you think he can be a major driver for this team. Protas, while very good and probably deserving of a lineup spot, has had 4th line minutes most of the games he’s played and not factored into the offence too much, which is one of the main areas of misery for the Caps right now.We do have the horses to compete.... the problem is we took those horses out and replaced them with donkeys about 3 weeks ago. Protas/Alexeyev/NAK/Milano/Strome - send Backstrom/Oshie to the press box and shoot Irwin into the sun.
I am not the biggest Lavi fan but he is not mediocre in terms of his career.Lavi to me in the NHL Ron Rivera. Mediocre as all hell.
Lavi has taken three teams in two different conferences to the Cup. He’s won a Cup. He’s the winningest American coach of all time and one of only 10 coaches ever to win 700 games.Lavi to me in the NHL Ron Rivera. Mediocre as all hell.
As I said before its been a dream of mine for a while now. Though I do not see it happening as the team had a chance to get BB a few years back but passed on it.I don’t know how everyone else feels, but I’m ready for a BB redux.
Our ceiling is first round loser under Laviolette. What’s the point anyway?
Three of the guys you mentioned have been in the lineup. Alexeyev has done very little in his sparse usage - I’m not sure why you think he can be a major driver for this team. Protas, while very good and probably deserving of a lineup spot, has had 4th line minutes most of the games he’s played and not factored into the offence too much, which is one of the main areas of misery for the Caps right now.
It's a thing. Several posters have it in their heads that the team is "old and slow" and they have a few whipping boys they blame every loss for.
Imagine blaming Backstrom for last night given how well he's been playing, the fact that he won the SO vs PIT, and had the only goal vs TOR, because "old and slow veterans" is what's REALLY behind it all.
What is your explanation to the teams performance?
Some key players aren't pulling their weight, they missed Carlson on the PP, the goaltending hasn't been as good as it could be, they've had to shuffle lines a lot for various reasons including injuries, they pulled into a playoff spot which removed some of the pressure they felt in December after GMBM called them out publicly, and maybe most importantly Ovie is no longer close to a record (passing Howe at the end of Dec) so they don't have that extra bit of motivation.
"A couple of old and slow guys coming back" is just an extension of confirmation bias.