Why does anyone here actually watch the games? This fanbase sounds like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats. Enjoy what you have while you have it. Maybe they'll make it over the hump, maybe they won't, but it doesn't seem like any of you take any enjoyment in watching this team play. Ovie will be gone soon enough. The team will be bottom feeders again soon enough. There will be no hope for the future in due time. Seems like most of you can't wait until we get there.
Why does anyone here actually watch the games? This fanbase sounds like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats. Enjoy what you have while you have it. Maybe they'll make it over the hump, maybe they won't, but it doesn't seem like any of you take any enjoyment in watching this team play. Ovie will be gone soon enough. The team will be bottom feeders again soon enough. There will be no hope for the future in due time. Seems like most of you can't wait until we get there.
Why does anyone here actually watch the games? This fanbase sounds like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats. Enjoy what you have while you have it. Maybe they'll make it over the hump, maybe they won't, but it doesn't seem like any of you take any enjoyment in watching this team play. Ovie will be gone soon enough. The team will be bottom feeders again soon enough. There will be no hope for the future in due time. Seems like most of you can't wait until we get there.
Enjoy the regular season and the indvidual player accomplishments, as they are likely to be the only joy we have as Caps fans.
Who knows though, CLE, Cubs, DC NEXT!!!
Probably true. I get that the consistent shortcomings in the playoffs are a drag, but ****, man. This team has missed the playoffs just once since 2007-08. We're watching arguably the greatest goal scorer of all time play out his career in DC. Our goalie won the Vezina last year. The team won the President's Trophy. They're another legitimate contender for the Cup. I know it's not perfect and I want a Cup as much as the next guy but I would think we could all appreciate the journey a little more.
'tis better to travel well than arrive poorly.
Save your breath. It wont matter.
Team is on a 123 pt pace. Even with everyone's concerns about complacency.
They aren't 10-0
They haven't beaten teams 5-0 each game
Kuznetsov sucks
Trotz is a loser
McLellan is just a McPhee lackey.
Can't roll 3 scoring "first lines" in the forward ranks
Can't roll 3 top 2 defenseman pairs (holes in the line-up Everywhere!!)
Team sucks as bad as they did last year.
No urgency, haven't seen 600 intense minutes like other team in league have shown.
Passing sucks. Not efficient
Team is a bunch of Fancy stat patsies
No cap room to get "a Kessel type difference maker"
Team held on to Green and Semin and Brouwer too long"
Won't win without Chimera and Ward
On and on and on.
Last night's game was truly a tale of three periods. Flat but okay in the first, dominant in the second, and total **** in the third. Pretty much a pick-your-poison of who this team is/could be.
That said, it's the first week of November, so my only real concern is Kuzy. Whatever's going on in his head needs to get right quick.
I think Kuznetsov is fine actually, at least 5v5. When PP starts clicking he will get close to point-per-game just as last season.
What do you want from 74? He's playing like a $4 mil a year defenseman!
I'm more worried about Carlson than I am Kuzy. Maybe you can argue that it's his lack of chemistry with Orlov that's making him overthink things and be slow to react, but he's playing awfully. Carlson is making poor reads one-on-one, is getting beat wide, is turning over the puck, and generally looks slow out there.
He gets so much crap here...lol Carlson does a fine job as a #1. Again back to the over reactive spoiled brat fan theory lol.
I think it's time we acknowledge that Niskanen is the #1 on this team, not Carlson.