Sunday isn’t a day game.Eh, I'm just happy it didn't take too long one way or the other, all those OT games took a bite out of the Caps last season in round two.
Not that I think the Caps are getting to round two.
Sucks we have to wait until Sunday for game two and it's a day game to boot, that never goes well for the Capitals.
Oh yeah and now we have to listen to an extra day of, "the Jackets did what they needed to do, at least a split on the road". There is no sport on this planet where home ice/field means less than the NHL in the playoffs.
This doesn't work in that situation. You wanted Grubby you got him for the playoffs, but now you can't use the Holtby excuse.Gruby did fine. With Holtby in net, caps would've been down in the 1st.
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Cons
- I completely was wrong about DSP, he plays amazing tonight. Even in OT I saw a guy bust his ass from glass to glass to stick check a pass and I was like "Who is moving that quick?" and it was DSP
- Vrana is the key. Christ, if I said it once I said it a bajllion times, we will not beat CBJ by playing their game. We need to embrace the speed. At the times we fed our speed we looked dangerous. Drop Chiasson, add Gersich, keep Stephenson, and lets play with some damn legs!
- Bura apparently save it all season for the first period. I was blown away by his performance first period, I felt like he was a man on fire, he faded in the second though.
- We probably played 1/6th of this game on the PP and we did very little with that.
- Ovechkin was absent all game.
- Carlson is still thinking this is regular season hockey.
- We are at best a push in 5 v 5 hockey. If we play like we did tonight for the rest of the series I give it to CBJ in 6.
I also noticed a few times late in the 3rd where Vrana was being benched in favor of Connolly. Does this guy ever learn?
You can literally see the brisk passing stop, the serious forechecking stop with a lead. No goals unless there is a great individual play.
Trotz has ridden individual play all season. Anyone who is not his freaking relative can see that. He makes the game so easy for opponents.
Isn’t BB a coach? Why would you think he beats any responsibility?When have they not ridden individual play? BB made a career out of it here.
I haven’t been a proponent of breaking the core up, but should they lose this series I think it may be time.
Sunday isn’t a day game.
Cut down the angle and challenge the shooter. If he was better technically that puck would have hit him. It shouldn't have been a tough save from that angle.Bruh, you serious? High stick side? What are you supposed to do on that?
Nothing to do with playing hard and everything to do with strategy. If you think they made a conscious decision to take it easy you’re kidding yourself. Even May is saying they went into a prevent. Teams eventually reflect their coach.Are you new to the team? They have always been this way.
Maybe another new coach can get them to play hard for 60min?
It's a shame the coach has to be a prick to his star players to motivate them..Trotz can only be a prick to the young guys..that is his major fault.They should've fired him months ago.
Instead he turtled all the way to a division title. The story of his life.
He turned Orlov inside out and it was a good shot but Grubauer did not play it well. I didn't think the played Vaneks pp goal very well either. Thought he should have blocked the pass. I need to take another look at it.Maybe. But give credit where credit is due, he was flying on a off angle and put it in a area the size of the puck
its funny that after last year i still dont really care when we lose