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Kucherov coming back to Tampa for the playoffs? Pshhhhhh we are getting Psycho back for the playoffs.
He also took a shoulder to the head from TJ (and yes I see the irony there)
Kucherov coming back to Tampa for the playoffs? Pshhhhhh we are getting Psycho back for the playoffs.
I liked Kempny pre-injury a lot. One of the better left defenders I've seen in the Caps uniform after the 05 lockout. I was talking about Samsonov. His main excuses for poor play up to this point were covid and adaptation to North America. Now it's an upper body injury. All the best to the kid but since that back injury he sustained due his own foolishness last summer his career is looking like a one big circus.This could work for either Samsonov or Kempny. Battling with Dillon to be whipping boy now Vrana and Panik are gone?
I don't think anybody on the coaching staff really thinks it's a good idea to let Anderson play at this point of the season.If Sammy is out for a while, why not give Anderson the net vs Buffalo. Safest way to find out if he's any closer to a ballpark NHL goalie than he failed to display in his last stretch of games
I liked Kempny pre-injury a lot. One of the better left defenders I've seen in the Caps uniform after the 05 lockout. I was talking about Samsonov. His main excuses for poor play up to this point were covid and adaptation to North America. Now it's an upper body injury. All the best to the kid but since that back injury he sustained due his own foolishness last summer his career is looking like a one big curcus.
GMBM hasnt been great with the goalies. We should have 100% kept Grubby over Holtby and he was the better cheaper and younger goalie when we traded him.I was a Kempny fan too. But like Kempny, I think that injury to Samsonov has impacted him – not just the injury itself, but how long it kept him out of competitive play for. He looked a little rusty in the brief preseason scrimmages, I thought – certainly not playing better than Vanecek or Copley – and I don't think he's had great performances 2 or 3 times in a row this season.
That said, he's still relatively young in his career (and age). One of my biggest complaints about how GMBM and co handled the goaltending is they turned to Samsonov this season out of necessity, not because he'd earned it. He really should have been brought over a year earlier so he wasn't playing his first NHL game in Holtby's contract year. Oh well.
In hindsight you’re correct. In the moment though I’d say GMBM made the decision everyone thought was correct. Grubauer shit the bed for his two playoff games, Holtby comes in and helps win the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. Plus he has a huge defining moment with “The Save” during the finals. The backlash from the fan base would have been intense if he moves Holtby instead of GrubauerGMBM hasnt been great with the goalies. We should have 100% kept Grubby over Holtby and he was the better cheaper and younger goalie when we traded him.
GMBM hasnt been great with the goalies. We should have 100% kept Grubby over Holtby and he was the better cheaper and younger goalie when we traded him.
Lundy was bad luck and now we gotta roll with our 2 Kids and now will lose one to Seattle bc some wacky ED rules.
I mean, you can't really fault him for not shipping out his cup-winning goalie right after said cup win. Holtby could easily have been considered a Conn Smythe candidate for that run.GMBM hasnt been great with the goalies. We should have 100% kept Grubby over Holtby and he was the better cheaper and younger goalie when we traded him.
Lundy was bad luck and now we gotta roll with our 2 Kids and now will lose one to Seattle bc some wacky ED rules.
I mean, you can't really fault him for not shipping out his cup-winning goalie right after said cup win. Holtby could easily have been considered a Conn Smythe candidate for that run.
I don't think anybody on the coaching staff really thinks it's a good idea to let Anderson play at this point of the season.
In hindsight you’re correct. In the moment though I’d say GMBM made the decision everyone thought was correct. Grubauer shit the bed for his two playoff games, Holtby comes in and helps win the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. Plus he has a huge defining moment with “The Save” during the finals. The backlash from the fan base would have been intense if he moves Holtby instead of Grubauer
There's a very big chance all their goalies outside of Vanecek and Samsonov are terrible anyways. I mean we'd all seen them in the past. Copley is an AHLer skill wise If I've ever seen one. Anderson's corpse really aint an answer either. I'm not even talking about Fucale and all these half amateurs. They gonna live or die with Vanecek and Samsonov. And even with them there's a solid chance it'll end up as a total disaster because they're both too inconsistent even through 60 minutes of a single game, let alone on the season's distance.Yeah - I agree. But if he's still a disaster, it's better to find out now than to learn it a week or two from now when Sammy might still be out and something happens to Vanny. We need a safe way of ascertaining whether Anderson is a non-catastrophe. Based on his earlier work this year, the answer seems to be no.
Or maybe we find out what another goalie in the system can do. Cuz there aren't really any outside the system choices anymore
A Caps win and an Ovie goal, please.
I wouldn’t take the Sabres lightly, they’ve been playing decent since they beat the Flyers. That said 8-2 Caps let’s go
8 goals in the last 13 would be...I’m not greedy.
I mean, you can't really fault him for not shipping out his cup-winning goalie right after said cup win. Holtby could easily have been considered a Conn Smythe candidate for that run.
Grubauer had an .852 and an .818 save in Games 1 and 2 respectively and was pulled after the second period in Game 2 after allowing four goals on 22 shots. What would you call that kind of performance?Not sure I agree that Grubauer shit the bed. We lost those two games but I wouldn't say it was because Grubauer cost us.