Series Discussion: M1: New York Rangers, a subsidiary of Tom Wilson Real Estate, Inc vs WC2: Perpetrators of Horrifying Acts of Violence

[Neil Racki]

I like Carbery, seems like most eveyrone bought in .. did a good job of playing neutral zone D, D men didnt seem pinch or rush as much and if they did, a forward always seemed to know and be on same page

Charlie probably made the "lets win 2-1" approach work more than it should have. that f***ing PP .. for the love of god change it up

We had our moments this season.

Ovi showing he is only half dead

Carlson played his heart out last 10 games or so. He had that awesome backhand wrap around goal.

martin w 2 playoff goals

AA making huge visible improvements over the year, thats huge

Strome having some real nice stretches

 

[Neil Racki]

Their fanbase are assholes. I added them to my list a couple of seasons ago.

Pens
Boston
Rangers
Isles (tier 2 assholes - these ones ^^^ are top tier)

I know it was only like 4 of them out of a large rangers bunch .. but the 4 of them would just post the same bathroom wall crap over and over and over again

made the general threads for the series a cesspool of just repetitive internet fake tough guy schtick

zero actual fan to fan discussion to be had

 

[Hivemind]

Plus we didn’t fire Lavi, just let his contract expire.

This is Distinction Without a Difference territory. Laviolette ceased to be employed as an NHL head coach by the Washington Capitals, whether it came via firing or contract expiration doesn't really change the optics of him sweeping his old team in the very next season.

The comment was mostly an off-hand opportunity to blow off steam after my favorite team got swept in the playoffs.

I’m not surprised. Lavi is a good coach. Didn’t work here. But i love Carberry. I think he will bring in 1 or 2 of his guys. I think Love and mueller could go.

Mostly agreed. Lavi is a heck of an NHL coach, and teams that he coaches almost always get a short term bump in their competitive level for the first 1-2 seasons he's there (sadly Washington was the exception). From a tactical perspective, his X-Os are relatively well suited to the modern NHL. He's just a guy that doesn't have much shelf life, and a guy who has a very rocky history with developing young talent. No coach is perfect, and Lavi's flaws outweighed his benefits by the end of his tenure in Washington (and I'd argue he lasted a season longer than he should have in DC). Just because he wasn't the right coach for the job at that time doesn't mean he was a bad coach or that he would fail elsewhere.

That being said, this is the Rangers' Lavi bump. It will likely carry into next year, but it's rare that he maintains for more than a couple seasons.

 

[YippieKaey]

Well a loss was expected. I do feel like we saw thr future core of the Caps show up today. Fever, Lapierre, Malenstyn & Protas were all great today and especially Lappy i can see with an A on his sweater. Sick goal and played physical. Fever is turning into a pretty clutch guy, Malenstyn hustled ass and Protas is very hard to control/avoid.

Too bad the oldies didn't show up but i guess you can't blame them.

Also a bit disappointed the Rags leave town without bruises or Rempe getting a beatdown. At least Feverbaby dummied him.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Confirmed….Ovi “tired”…



“So he comes in post-February … and so our season is hanging in the balance. … Point I’m getting at is, if he doesn’t go on that scoring run … we’re not even sitting up here, right? He was scoring consistently every single night. So what I’m getting at is that was a lot: the second half of the year and especially the last, call it, two weeks, where every game felt like life or death for our team. And again, he could answer that more accurately, but I feel like that took a lot out of him physically and mentally.”

Why Alex Ovechkin's playing time was so limited in Capitals' playoff exit — The Athletic

Ovechkin logged the sixth-lowest ice time of his 151-game playoff career. His coach said the playoff race "took a lot out of him."

apple.news

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Can’t really comment on the series since I watched a period and a half of G1 and then missed everything else for work but when you’re trying to pull an upset, getting demolished on special teams isn’t going to help. I wasn’t sure if they were going to enter the series guns blazing since they’ve been playing playoff hockey for a month or if they’d be emotionally and physically spent from the last two months and it appears it was certainly the latter.

 

[Calicaps]

Breaking News: Caps' Old Guys Very Old, Young Guys Very Young

They are who we thought they were. Onward.

 

[NoVaCapsFan]

Re. Rempe, it is true that “living rent free” means obsession long after the stimulus is removed. Ranger fans are still going on about Wilson’s “horrifying act of violence” years after the event. It’s time for us to move on from Rempe.


PS: I’d have posted this on the thread where the chatter is still going on, but I am in the penalty box over there.

 

[g00n]

Re. Rempe, it is true that “living rent free” means obsession long after the stimulus is removed. Ranger fans are still going on about Wilson’s “horrifying act of violence” years after the event. It’s time for us to move on from Rempe.


PS: I’d have posted this on the thread where the chatter is still going on, but I am in the penalty box over there.

I care far less about Rempe than the refs and Toronto FO that enabled the shitty calls and dirty hits.

 

[Neil Racki]

Yeah rempe is a nothing imo .. he should have fought when tom asked him to after the TVR hit

Hes a slow lurch out there .. a negative on the ice

95% of the ppl mentioning or talking about rempe are rangers fans

 

[usiel]

PP is generally not as a much of a factor in the regular season and the caps had a decent regular season PK. Didn't think the Rangers would score so much on the PP (granted two starter Ds out) is sort of a hindsight surprise.

 

[RandyHolt]

Playoffs didn't used to be all about power plays, but now it is. In the transition in the modern era we would see penalties start to be called in playoff game 7 OTs... philly 2008 FML. Now its one penalty after another as it seems the priority is to avoid long running 5 hour games or neuter playoff hitting. A lame duck non egregious penalty ended our comeback hopes and our season and killed any of the potential best drama in the entire game if not series. Bury the f***ing whistles some times.

Something to note for the loffs next year. Our PK was too passive PKers too slow whatever it is we will need to get it ironed out before we can expect to win a series. No one would have predicted we'd never win a playoff series after our cup yet here we are amid a struggle likely to take a decade before we win another.

 

[Kazer]

Playoffs didn't used to be all about power plays, but now it is. In the transition in the modern era we would see penalties start to be called in playoff game 7 OTs... philly 2008 FML. Now its one penalty after another as it seems the priority is to avoid long running 5 hour games or neuter playoff hitting. A lame duck non egregious penalty ended our comeback hopes and our season and killed any of the potential best drama in the entire game if not series. Bury the f***ing whistles some times.

Something to note for the loffs next year. Our PK was too passive PKers too slow whatever it is we will need to get it ironed out before we can expect to win a series. No one would have predicted we'd never win a playoff series after our cup yet here we are amid a struggle likely to take a decade before we win another.

Regarding the PK, I believe the revolving door on defense had a major impact on the unit's ineffectiveness. Caps used 10 defensemen over a 4 game series against a very talented unit (that also had some insane seeing eye type shots go in on top of just being good in general). Even a slight moment of hesitation can be deadly on the PK.

 

[tycoonheart]

Playoffs didn't used to be all about power plays, but now it is. In the transition in the modern era we would see penalties start to be called in playoff game 7 OTs... philly 2008 FML. Now its one penalty after another as it seems the priority is to avoid long running 5 hour games or neuter playoff hitting. A lame duck non egregious penalty ended our comeback hopes and our season and killed any of the potential best drama in the entire game if not series. Bury the f***ing whistles some times.

Something to note for the loffs next year. Our PK was too passive PKers too slow whatever it is we will need to get it ironed out before we can expect to win a series. No one would have predicted we'd never win a playoff series after our cup yet here we are amid a struggle likely to take a decade before we win another.

I still can't get over management thinking Todd friggin Reirden was the genius behind the cup win and making him the HC. No doubt in my mind we would have competed for a cup in 2019 had we kept Trotz.

 

[Neil Racki]

I still can't get over management thinking Todd friggin Reirden was the genius behind the cup win and making him the HC. No doubt in my mind we would have competed for a cup in 2019 had we kept Trotz.

yup .. then GMBM killed the next year going w an unproven rookie goaltending tandem. That move was completely self inflicted.

And that was how the Caps window of contending ended.