GDT: Caps and Sabres 7:00 PM

[CapitalsCupReality]

I have a basic amazon fire tv in my bedroom, no cable but you can stream everything and one of the apps is the local NBCSW where I can watch Caps games in my bedroom. I normally will watch the second half or last period up there.

Last night it wanted me to create a NBC account for "three free credits" ... did NBCSW app change? Are they going "for pay" even though I have NBCSW through my cable provider?

Anyway .. wife was like "you can go downstairs and watch" bc i was constantly checking in on the game on my phone. IM like "nahh .. im good, were gonna lose, its cool"

f*** me .. wake up this morning to a Tommy Wilson late goal and an OT winner.

I use the app sometime…..just checked….I was able to link my tv provider (directv) and I skipped the account creation part and it let me in the app. And yes….looks like they have consolidated their streaming…. Curious to see next game….

 

[Neil Racki]

I use the app sometime…..just checked….I was able to link my tv provider (directv) and I skipped the account creation part and it let me in the app. And yes….looks like they have consolidated their streaming…. Curious to see next game….

Alright thanks for the reply.
Im used to the "link to your cable provider" thing NBCSW has you do every 6 months or so but this one was diffirent, didnt give me an option to link ... then Hulu had the Caps game blocked due ot local blah blah blah

So NBCSW is now just NBCS

thanks man

 

[kicksavedave]

Winning is more fun than losing, but that said, here is a live look it at the Caps on again off again attempt at tanking:

I wish they would make up their mind which direction they want to go and commit!

 

[kicksavedave]

Caps Currently in 13 draft spot. Chance at Bedard went from 3% to 0%. If the the team in the 11 spot wins the lottery, I'm going to cry.

I think there's no chance they leapfrog FLA and Isles to make the playoffs.

 

[Silky mitts]

Caps Currently in 13 draft spot. Chance at Bedard went from 3% to 0%. If the the team in the 11 spot wins the lottery, I'm going to cry.

I think there's no chance they leapfrog FLA and Isles to make the playoffs.

I like their odds to pass NYI and Fla more than dropping below Ott and Det, Sens have the toughest remaining schedule in the league and Red Wings have the least talent of the teams in the mix

 

[um]

Caps Currently in 13 draft spot. Chance at Bedard went from 3% to 0%. If the the team in the 11 spot wins the lottery, I'm going to cry.

I think there's no chance they leapfrog FLA and Isles to make the playoffs.

The way the other teams are playing it may just happen.

It really is a battle of the mediocre teams.

 

[Corby78]

I can’t believe people are still talking playoffs

 

[zappa4ever]

I can’t believe people are still talking playoffs

Why wouldn't they?
Caps go on any kind of a decent run and win both games v NYI and they can be in
From there, anything can happen (lest we forget MTL a cpl years ago)
Am I holding my breath for that to happen? not a chance

Am I going to watch game by game and adjust my expectations accordingly? ding ding ding

If Caps lose next 3, then sure let's go tanking, there's still plenty of time to drop a few spots,
but impossible to be lower than 10th worst,
so why not see what happens the next few games

edit:
why aren't all the bottom dwellers bottoming? curious

only 3 teams in the bottom 10 are 'properly' tanking:
L10's: DET 2-7-1 PHI 2-7-1 and SJS 1-7-2
4 of the bottom 10 are doing it all wrong:
L10's: VAN 7-2-1 ARI 5-3-2 ANA 5-2-3 and CBJ 3-4-3

 

[Gurglesons]

Just saw you guys won last night lol I thought you had lost.

Hope you make the playoffs over the Isles and Cats. Wouldn’t feel right.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Just saw you guys won last night lol I thought you had lost.

Hope you make the playoffs over the Isles and Cats. Wouldn’t feel right.

The 0-6-0 stretch after the ASG likely sunk them. They still have two games against the Isles and a game in hand so it’s not impossible but it’s going to take a hell of a run to get in. They’re at 73 points with 13 games so the most points they can earn is 99 and I assume it’ll take 94(ish) to get in. It requires them to either go on a tear like they did in December or both the Isles and Panthers to crap out pretty hard, all while hoping the teams in between like Ottawa and Buffalo don’t go on a run either. Probably too much to ask for this year.

At this point I’m just hoping they don’t finish high enough to pick 15th or 16th. Would be the worst possible outcome.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Looking at the next 6 games I think we could get 8/9 points The Wild are the only team playing well. They havent lost since getting Mojo lol who knew

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Why wouldn't they?
Caps go on any kind of a decent run and win both games v NYI and they can be in
From there, anything can happen (lest we forget MTL a cpl years ago)
Am I holding my breath for that to happen? not a chance

Am I going to watch game by game and adjust my expectations accordingly? ding ding ding

If Caps lose next 3, then sure let's go tanking, there's still plenty of time to drop a few spots,
but impossible to be lower than 10th worst,
so why not see what happens the next few games

edit:
why aren't all the bottom dwellers bottoming? curious

only 3 teams in the bottom 10 are 'properly' tanking:
L10's: DET 2-7-1 PHI 2-7-1 and SJS 1-7-2
4 of the bottom 10 are doing it all wrong:
L10's: VAN 7-2-1 ARI 5-3-2 ANA 5-2-3 and CBJ 3-4-3

Well F‘ing said. If they claw their way in, I will cheer my ass off like last night when they tied it up.

 

[Corby78]

Why wouldn't they?
Caps go on any kind of a decent run and win both games v NYI and they can be in
From there, anything can happen (lest we forget MTL a cpl years ago)
Am I holding my breath for that to happen? not a chance

Am I going to watch game by game and adjust my expectations accordingly? ding ding ding

If Caps lose next 3, then sure let's go tanking, there's still plenty of time to drop a few spots,
but impossible to be lower than 10th worst,
so why not see what happens the next few games

edit:
why aren't all the bottom dwellers bottoming? curious

only 3 teams in the bottom 10 are 'properly' tanking:
L10's: DET 2-7-1 PHI 2-7-1 and SJS 1-7-2
4 of the bottom 10 are doing it all wrong:
L10's: VAN 7-2-1 ARI 5-3-2 ANA 5-2-3 and CBJ 3-4-3

Because players don’t want to tank. And bad teams play each other too, see our next game.

This isn’t some up and coming team where you are improving and would be happy for the experience, or a middling franchise where it would be a win just to make it. This team is regressing and needs to make the most of this reset. This isn’t 1986 anymore, I’m no longer happy just to make the playoffs, I want a contender.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

 

[kicksavedave]

At this point I’m just hoping they don’t finish high enough to pick 15th or 16th. Would be the worst possible outcome.

Oh, I'm sorry, but that is exactly what is going to happen. I suck at predictions but this one seems like free money. They will miss the PO's by 1 spot, win the lottery and not move up enough to get Bedard, and 3/4 of this board will be screaming "I told you we should have tanked" for the next 8 years. Seriously, bet everything you have on this exact outcome.

 

[ClevelandCapsfan]

Joel gives me the Malcolm in the Middle vibe.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

Well F‘ing said. If they claw their way in, I will cheer my ass off like last night when they tied it up.

That would be bad for the franchise IMHO. They need an infusion of talent and a top 10 pick whether they take the player or use it as an asset is just the ticket. Making the playoffs just to get annihilated doesn’t help anything.

 

[racingmoose]

e


Mantha played last night? Didint notice him.

He was benched for almost the entire 3rd period and also in OT.

 

[crazy8888]

He was benched for almost the entire 3rd period and also in OT.

was being sarcastic. Bench was shortened in third. Not just Mantha. He is just normally mostly invisible. Thats $5.7m the coach does not trust when the game is on the line.

 

[zappa4ever]

Because players don’t want to tank. And bad teams play each other too, see our next game.

This isn’t some up and coming team where you are improving and would be happy for the experience, or a middling franchise where it would be a win just to make it. This team is regressing and needs to make the most of this reset. This isn’t 1986 anymore, I’m no longer happy just to make the playoffs, I want a contender.

In the Playoffs anything can happen, esp. in the 1st round
maybe the opp's goalie/top star gets injured, maybe we get hot, get the healthiest we've been all season, Kuemper gets hot, Kuzy starts caring and we start rolling? wilder things have happened

Who could've predicted Halak v WSH in 2010, the Kings run in '14?, the Habs run, CBJ sweep v TBL in 2019, etc...
Every year an underdog gets a good start, some depth scoring, some great goaltending

What's almost always a guarantee is President Trophy winner doesn't win The Cup (2x since 04-05, with 5 1st rd. exits)

Ain't predicting shit, but we'll know if there's no Playoff chance over the next 3-4 gms, if we're out, it's likely we're going to finish around 12th worst (it's actually tough for a decent team to actively tank), IMO not much different if we go for it and fail and end up 13th, lol

 

[racingmoose]

was being sarcastic. Bench was shortened in third. Not just Mantha. He is just normally mostly invisible. Thats $5.7m the coach does not trust when the game is on the line.

Actually he was the only player benched starting about 4 minutes into the 3rd. Everyone else was getting shifts.
He didn't deserve the ice time with his play and lack of effort.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

That would be bad for the franchise IMHO. They need an infusion of talent and a top 10 pick whether they take the player or use it as an asset is just the ticket. Making the playoffs just to get annihilated doesn’t help anything.

They can infuse if they’re beaten…

Because players don’t want to tank. And bad teams play each other too, see our next game.

This isn’t some up and coming team where you are improving and would be happy for the experience, or a middling franchise where it would be a win just to make it. This team is regressing and needs to make the most of this reset. This isn’t 1986 anymore, I’m no longer happy just to make the playoffs, I want a contender.

Hahahahahaha you got a loooooong wait for that….

 

[Calicaps]

Because players don’t want to tank. And bad teams play each other too, see our next game.

This isn’t some up and coming team where you are improving and would be happy for the experience, or a middling franchise where it would be a win just to make it. This team is regressing and needs to make the most of this reset. This isn’t 1986 anymore, I’m no longer happy just to make the playoffs, I want a contender.

I mean, what's the difference? Caps had (still have obviously) the greatest goal scorer of all time for a decade and teams that won Prez Trophies and could basically score at will--the very definition of a contender. But even still they ultimately just "made the playoffs" and lost in the first or second round and broke our hearts over and over, even worse for the fact that they were supposed to be The Real Thing.

 

[um]

That would be bad for the franchise IMHO. They need an infusion of talent and a top 10 pick whether they take the player or use it as an asset is just the ticket. Making the playoffs just to get annihilated doesn’t help anything.

picking 32nd overall>>>>>>>picking 1st.

They're both longshots, 32nd being the longer shot.

But seriously, I'm just glad the Caps decided to start retooling and made the moves they made. But I love the playoffs, and I love watching the Caps play in it. And since the Caps basically checked (double tap) to try and get in, I can root for it. The only real stakes are picking in the mid teens, that would suck.

Hell a playoff run like 2012 would leave me extremely satisfied. f*** the Bruins.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

picking 32nd overall>>>>>>>picking 1st.

They're both longshots, 32nd being the longer shot.

But seriously, I'm just glad the Caps decided to start retooling and made the moves they made. But I love the playoffs, and I love watching the Caps play in it. And since the Caps basically checked (double tap) to try and get in, I can root for it. The only real stakes are picking in the mid teens, that would suck.

Hell a playoff run like 2012 would leave me extremely satisfied. f*** the Bruins.

It’s pick 10 or 15 who really cares if like most think we are trading it for help anyways. Dreams on a 3.5 chance won’t help.