Post-Game Talk: Caps/Bruins, 12/7/16, 8:00pm ET, Phone Booth

[4thTierSport]

So have the Caps been the better team most of the game in spite of the score?

About 50/50. Bruins started ramping up with the Refs' leniency. Moore got away with blatant interference off a face off to prevent coverage. Pastrnack should have been called for Hooking prior to his goal since he did damn near the exact same thing that Eller got called for earlier in the game.

 

[hockeyfan88]

Yeah, Nicky!

I'm glad we got the win here. ****** 2nd and 3rd periods though.

 

[Calicaps]

Nicky!!!

 

[Blitzkrieg365]

That was not a deserved win, nothing to be happy about tonight.

 

[SpinningEdge]

We are the best worst team in the NHL right now.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Mojo with a siiiiilly play to start that.

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

Now we can all step back from the ledge.

Thanks Nicky. I wish you shot the puck more.

 

[Hivemind]

Not sure why Rask opened up his legs there, but I'll sure take it.

 

[g00n]

Man I hate the ****ing NBC crew. Olczyk's breakdown of the final play is all about Boston. Sounds like his dog just died. No credit given to Backstrom.

Shut up, donkey.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Two undeserved wins in a row. Nothing is going to change.

I don't get this attitude. Win or lose...you earn the wins.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Well this Caps fan will happily take the win instead of complaining about not deserving to win and instead wanting the team to lose. As if that's some teaching moment.

 

[4thTierSport]

Man I hate the ****ing NBC crew. Olczyk's breakdown of the final play is all about Boston. Sounds like his dog just died. No credit given to Backstrom.

Shut up, donkey.

It is always that way from that idiot. Then Jones piles on. The refs helped out the Bruins so much in that game.

 

[SpinningEdge]

I don't get this attitude. Win or lose...you earn the wins.

Sometimes you get lucky in hockey actually.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

2pts, still got loads to work on thats for sure.

 

[Capsman]

I didn't know the playoffs started in December this year, must have missed that, did they slip it into the CBA?

You said it yourself, the regular season Caps are not the playoff Caps. Why not wait until you claim this team is "actively worse" for the playoffs?

Also were all 3 of those coaches coming off of a Presidents trophy and actively well above .500 when they were fired?

The Chicken Littles on this board are contradicting themselves with the rhetoric of "This team is not going to do well in the playoffs, just look at how we usually rock the regular season and flame out in the post season!"

You are playing the "if they did great in the regular season and poorly in the playoffs, maybe the opposite will be the case" game. Problem is that the exact issues that plagued them in the playoffs continue to plague them this season. Namely poor puck movement, players confused on offense, nothing but dump ins and one and one on one play, etc. Catching lightning in a bottle is a rare phenomenon and rarely wins Stanley Cups.

 

[Hivemind]

I can argue with any opinion you post. I know what I know. Do I need to provide you with links about famous people insuring their hands, legs, etc?

The only thing you countered me with is boredom honestly. I'm moving on unless you can somehow prove Alzner can't get a giant insurance policy.

Do you not know how personal disability insurance works? He can get a policy, but it insures based on his current earnings, not raises he may or may not get in the future (aka his next contract). In other words, he can insure against the $2.85M he's getting now, rather than the $5M+ he'd be getting next year. Even more to the point, personal disability insurance doesn't pay 100% of your salary, and NHL contracts are guaranteed. So as soon as he signs on the dotted line, it would be worth more than his insurance policy.

Also, apparently you don't consider providing a source to McPhee saying he overpaid for Ward countering your argument that McPhee never overpaid. Got it.

 

[hockeyfan88]

At least there was some entertainment in the 1st period. They played great offensive hockey there.

Then Turtlemaster Trotz, the Predator, attacked again.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Sometimes you get lucky in hockey actually.

I know right, 19 with the lucky shot?

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Do you not know how personal disability insurance works? He can get a policy, but it insures based on his current earnings, not raises he may or may not get in the future (aka his next contract). In other words, he can insure against the $2.85M he's getting now, rather than the $5M+ he'd be getting next year. Even more to the point, personal disability insurance doesn't pay 100% of your salary, and NHL contracts are guaranteed. So as soon as he signs on the dotted line, it would be worth more than his insurance policy.

Also, apparently you don't consider providing a source to McPhee saying he overpaid for Ward countering your argument that McPhee never overpaid. Got it.

Move along kid....you're rambling.

 

[Hivemind]

Move along kid....you're rambling.

How cute, you have no actual response.

Show me an insurance policy worth 100% of a future raise in earnings. Because that's what it would take to match the value of signing on the dotted line in the present.

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

Jamie Lee Curtis insured her legs for 1 mil back in the day when she had a panty hoes deal...

 

[hockeyfan88]

Just went to the Bruins board and they are extremely salty. LOL
It made this win feel a little better.

 

[Ovie's Neighbor]

It's odd. For a team that has one of the best GA in the league I have no confidence in our team with the lead. I don't think we are a good defensive team and we consistently blow leads. To me that is more worrisome than our lack of scoring.

 

[Hivemind]

Jamie Lee Curtis insured her legs for 1 mil back in the day when she had a panty hoes deal...

Absolutely. But she insured it against her current panty hoes deal, not against a future, more lucrative deal.

Alzner can insure against losses of his future wages at their current $2.85M value. He cannot insure his next ($5M+) contract until he signs that contract.

 

[Calicaps]

People... it's panty hose...

hoes are what you use in the garden, among other things...