GDT: Game 1: Caps vs. Blue Jackets

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

Appears Greenberg in the WaPo is going with Columbus

Good. That confirms it. Caps will win.

Anyway, for Game 1, 4-2 Caps.

 

[HunterSThompson]

Trevor Hanson and Marc Joannette for those interested in ref matchup

 

[ovikovy817]

I'd like to welcome all the caps fans for the start of the playoffs. Those who were here almost everyday and even those who comeback here for the first time since May

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

2:13 until departure for game!

 

[HunterSThompson]

I took almost two years off of HF. Needed some good ol' doom and gloom to boost my spirits.

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

LET’S GO CAPS!!!

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

C

 

[Blades of Steel]

I'd like to welcome all the caps fans for the start of the playoffs. Those who were here almost everyday and even those who comeback here for the first time since May

yep.. couldn't do a full invested season this year. needed a mini vacation from being full blown obsessed with hockey, I had a good time lurking.

 

[IafrateOvie34]

No fear here. It's time to finish this or rebuild. Wilson has a monster game and I expect this series will get bloody by the end. This team won the division despite losing players, so just maybe it's our time.

Go Caps!

 

[Blades of Steel]

Maybe this should've been our theme for avatars

"ending the curse"

The Caps and the Stanley Can

I'm still convinced by my superstitions this is why we experience the dOOm

 

[Jacoby4HOF66]

Hoping for the best but always expecting this:

Or this:

 

[peterthegreat12]

LETS GO CAPS!!!!

 

[bur and 666 others]

I'm starting to think our pick isn't panning out, let's hope i'm wrong.

oh come on, it's too early to judge, s/he is still a rookie. give him/her some time - no need to rush a poor fellow into depression too early, it'l bee too saad

 

[Blades of Steel]

Or this:

!!!

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

f*** it, let's go.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

**** it, let's go.

Now that’s an avatar...

 

[bur and 666 others]

haha, the mods didn't put our GDT on the main board. Why not to honor home team's tradition and for once to have our GDT on the mains? after all we are hockey fans and superstitions are real here

 

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

I’m kinda jealous.

True, I feel like as much as I joke about each loss taking a part of my soul in reality with each loss I find myself in deeper. I feel the strain of it and it's harder to just be like "Welp, it's a dumb kids game" because it's now this thing I begin to feel like will never give me relief. I've allowed myself to consider the possibility of Cubs like droughts and a lifetime of this whole rollercoaster

I'm deeply emotionally invested at this point in my life and it's dumb and bothersome but it does eat at me for at least a week or so after we lose.


All of that craziness above just piles into my delusion of how great it will feel if/when we win. Each loss is another notch in the "it will just feel that much better". I'm at the point where I actually wonder if my ability to walk away comes after we win. Like I could see my interest just waning after the chase ends.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

haha, the mods didn't put our GDT on the main board. Why not to honor home team's tradition and for once to have our GDT on the mains? after all we are hockey fans and superstitions are real here

It says in the rules that if your GDT doesn't contain enough information that they will go with the road team's GDT by default.

 

[Bananas]

Our tale of woe seems to involve quite the viscous cycle. The team’s annual failures feed into our collective anxiety about how they’ll perform - an anxiety which, in turn, seems to adversely effect the team’s performance. It’s rather perverse if you think about it.

 

[Revelation]

Are we ever gonna make a real GDT like the teams that go past the 2nd round in the playoffs? Asking for a friend on the team who gets super down when he checks hfboards in between periods and sees the away team GDT on the main boards because the home team fans are too lazy but pretend like its ironic

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

I'm starting to think our pick isn't panning out, let's hope i'm wrong.

1st round pick, swing and a miss.

I picked the Sasha Pokulok of the draft it seems.

 

[Calicaps]

1st round pick, swing in a miss.

I picked the Sasha Pokulok of the draft it seems.

swing and a miss... just sayin'

 

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

Pens played harder last night than the Caps have played since Barry's 1st year. Even if we make it thru the 1st round we are done.

Harder? No. They just executed their game plan and because they are who they are after 2 goals in the first period the Flyers figured it was a lost cause. The Pens own mental real estate on every team in the league, a 2 goal lead for them basically makes a team feel ruined.

The Flyers were already the shakiest team heading in, and their flawes were on grand display last night. I actually didn't see the Pens play hard at all, that hardly broke a sweat nor needed to.

I think their games against Philly are not indicative of their actual level.

 

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

It says in the rules that if your GDT doesn't contain enough information that they will go with the road team's GDT by default.

Reverse jinxing the main board. GENIUS!