Post-Game Talk: Stanley Cup Champions VS President Trophy Champions Part I

[SpinningEdge]

Cons:

Back to back for Caps and it’s not even a home/home back to back.

Tampa Bay has best record in NHL this season and have had a night of rest.

Tampa is really, really good regardless.

Pros:

I am 5-0 when making GDT’s and am once again putting it up for tonight.

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[chilimac]

I like your moxey.
vegas likes tampa...

hmmm....something has to give...

 

[Raikkonen]

Ovi 2 goals
3-7 loss

 

[Portable Mink]

Tampa aren’t as good as their record indicates. Really aren’t that impressive.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

I don't see Tampa being hungry for this game. I'll be interested to see the roster Cooper puts out tonight.
If the Caps win any of the 3 vs Tampa it's this one.

 

[Blades of Steel]

soften them up regardless boys

 

[RandyHolt]

soften them up regardless boys

We need to make a statement just to impose the seed of doubt farther into their fans and players heads. Their false sense of relief from the last game, is temporary and they know it.

Seeing Joe Cirella Jr trying to play tough with Willy last game was worth a laugh. All 6'0 180 of him. He could use some softening to help find his place.

 

[Melkor]

I wouldn't mind if Caps play this game with an edge. Especially against those first two lines. Run over a couple of their big guys and call it a day. Wouldn't care much about the score in that case. Otherwise, yeah, a good looking score is preferable.

 

[Raikkonen]

Plz more hits and scrums

I mean, this game is fine as long as no cap is injured

 

[Bananas]

Show them nothing except Ovie in his office. You don’t want them to know they have to get better between now and the ECF.

 

[John Price]

Crazy day today

- Can meet Olie Kolzig, Jeremy Roenick, and some other guy who played for the Caps at 4:30 - 6:30 at Rocket Bar

- Capitals Radio will be doing a live broadcast at Bar Louie across the street starting at 4:30

Gonna try to see both

 

[RandyHolt]

Orpik in. Twitter comments are kind of funny... its like they are a year old though

 

[tenken00]

I doubt we'll see the same intensity that the Bolts brought last game. That was at their house, and their first chance at revenge, and now they already locked up the President's Trophy.

But we ourselves haven't locked up jack doodoo yet. We got to take it to them and take it to them hard. Now is the time for us to get playoff ready. Now its playoff time. Show them what it means to be the Champ.

 

[RandyHolt]

I wish we could call up Lewington and O'Brien and serve notice. Our boy Willy is all grown up being a 20 goal guy and all. As I read it, they want to play us tough. If tough they want, tough they can have. But it just shouldn't be all Willy.

We can start with a hungry Orpik grounding the first bolt to try to cross our blue....

 

[tenken00]

It seems like in actual raw numbers, other (competing) teams try to outhit the Caps each game because they are trying to show that they aren't afraid of the Caps, but in doing so, show how afraid they are of the Caps.

 

[kicksavedave]

I think its a huge mistake to read anything into this game or our response to it, or our response to the last meeting. It all means nothing. Let TB think they can out muscle us, out hit us. Its fine. It might work for one game at home in TB. It might work for one game on the road in DC. It might even work for all three regular season meetings we have.

But we already know how it will work in the 3rd playoff series deep in May over 7 games. TB wilted like a plucked flower in the heat. Didn't score a goal in the last two games, didn't even show up. Thats what matters. Not this game, not last game. In fact I'm not 100% sure they even get past Boston this time. Boston knows how to bring a heavy game for a playoff series. They saw the blueprint the Caps wrote last year. No one is beating TB matching skill for skill, not even us. But I have serious doubts that TB can withstand the pounding for a whole two months of the playoffs. I know we can. Thats all that matters.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Tampa aren’t as good as their record indicates. Really aren’t that impressive.

Tampa is a historically good hockey team. They may be the best regular season team assembled in the salary cap era. Their offense is prolific and is four lines deep, their defense is terrific, and their goaltender may be the best in the league. Does this mean they win the Cup? Of course not as in hockey the best team on paper doesn't always win and regular season success doesn't always translate to playoff success but to say they're not impressive or not very good... I just can't agree.

 

[Devil Dancer]

If the Caps and Bolts meet again in the ECF, I want DSP to play every game. The current 4th line is way too soft to instill physical fear, and I don't want the top 6 guys to have to do it all themselves.

 

[trick9]

I don't see Tampa being hungry for this game. I'll be interested to see the roster Cooper puts out tonight.
If the Caps win any of the 3 vs Tampa it's this one.

I disagree, these 3 games against the Capitals are likely the only ones that have mattered to them for months now. This is their SCF after being humiliated year ago in the Playoffs.

 

[killa3312]

Tampa aren’t as good as their record indicates. Really aren’t that impressive.

Lulz. Without a late season fade last year they’d have the President’s Trophy two seasons in a row. Second straight year leading the league in goal differential too, but yeah, not impressive.

 

[BiPolar Caps]

Random theme

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Lightning fans, you are free to stop by and give your thoughts if they're within the rules but trolling and flaming posts won't be tolerated. Just because you don't agree with the opinions of certain Washington Capitals fans doesn't give you the right to start an argument on the Washington Capitals board.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

It’s just human nature to take the foot off the gas after clinching the number one overall seed this early

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Well look at all our dusty president cup trophies... Playoff hockey is a grind at Orpik speed.

 

[RandyHolt]

Lulz. Without a late season fade last year they’d have the President’s Trophy two seasons in a row. Second straight year leading the league in goal differential too, but yeah, not impressive.

Yeah, they fizzled late last year and will likely fizzle again this year. Its a result of trying too hard in the meaningless regular season. Two minute Timmy Tampa lacks endurance.

Does Burakovsky still haunt Tampanians fans dreams?