GDT: Capitals|vs|Rangers|Game 6|4:30pm|msg|5.12.2013

[RandyHolt]

The rangers head bobs in this series would make a _____ proud

I would love to see a ragheadsnap.gif compilation.

The bend and snap works every time.

 

[Roughing]

It's everything. It's not just having to play shorthanded for 10 minutes, which wears on the PKers. It's not just denying the #1 PP a few opportunities in close, low scoring games. It changes the game completely. At least part of their passive play is because they know everything will get called. Meanwhile the Rags keep diving because they know it works and they keep up the thuggery because they are allowed to. I thought OV was hurt last game until I realized he was just being mugged all game. When OT started, and the Rags feared a penalty, Alex started dominating. It's complete bull****. Totally illegitimate. It looked like Wash wanted to play a physical game today and then, boom, a 5-on-3 and they played soft the rest of the way. That not only hurts in this game but it has hurt the last four games and will have an impact in game 7. The refs have castrated the Caps playoff hockey style.

 

[BiPolar Caps]

it doesnt get talked about. the referees get scouting reports on the teams and they get direction from the referees directors. it appears to me that the nhl office wants the caps to stop doing something and the referees are looking for it and popping them everytime they approach that line. see a rangers head move and its a penalty.
meanwhile they know the rangers didnt take a lot of penalties and they are not looking with the same prep and the same eye.

how they can let dorsett run around is beyond me, though. he has to have a rep. one referee was right there in that corner and should have seen that slew foot.

between periods the refs conference on the phone or in person with their supervisor.
they are watching tv. they know tsn showed callahan elbowing hillen. still no caps pp? callahan just made the referees look bad and they werent looking for a reason to call a penalty on the rangers.

you would have to think the league liked the way the game was called

Agree. Remember watching a Red Wings game and Todd Bertuzzi got called on a very weak penalty and the announcer noted that referees give Bertuzzi no slack due to his reputation. Always felt that Alex Semin had a similar problem with referees for some reason.

 

[RandyHolt]

If the Rags had gotten an extra minor at 20:00 I wonder if we would have been officially credited with a PP. Insult to injury.

I used to think those old Pens playoffs games where they would 10+ PPs after Lemieux would cry and complain, were bad.

We got shutout, twice tonight. Not sure I have ever seen that in a playoff game if ever.

 

[txpd]

my view is that the caps can give the refs what they are looking for or show some discipline. green shouldnt have been retaliating. no power play for a slew foot is bad. giving 2 of the 6 remaining minutes back to the rangers and rewarding them for taking liberties is worse.

 

[BiPolar Caps]

Stephen Whyno ‏@SWhyno 1h
#Caps' Braden Holtby accuses #NYR Derek Dorsett of "dirty slew foot" on Mike Green. Full comments here: http://wtim.es/13RVWTL

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

At least we have the ref excuse built in if they crap the bed tomorrow night. #Capsaccountability

 

[coyote]

stars

If I am a ranger fan I would be totally embarrassed with the picking of the game stars. In three games there washington did not have one star in the games. Talk about homers and don't try and tell me we didn't have at least one player who deserved a star.

 

[troyerlaw]

If I am a ranger fan I would be totally embarrassed with the picking of the game stars. In three games there washington did not have one star in the games. Talk about homers and don't try and tell me we didn't have at least one player who deserved a star.

Not high on my list of worries

 

[BrooklynCapsFan]

Inability to score at even strength is a much bigger problem than the referees. The Rangers aren't a great team. This high priced offense has to muster a goal or two.

 

[brs03]

Inability to score at even strength is a much bigger problem than the referees. The Rangers aren't a great team. This high priced offense has to muster a goal or two.

Rags were a better ES team than the Caps for most of the season, though. Was always a potential issue here...

 

[troyerlaw]

Personally i'm glad 52 bashed dorsett's teeth in. There i said it. Bad time to do it, yes, but i've been waiting a few seasons for someone to give dorsett what he had coming, AND i've been rooting for the Caps since 1974 and historically, we've had the other problem, we turn the other cheek and are pushed around. Further, for all the drivel about Caps needing to be more disciplined, let me play the devil's advocate for a second and ask, 'Why?' Rags have not made us pay AT ALL for taking liberties. Their PP % is around 8%.

Yes, all the PK time may tire out our killers and reduce TOI for our supposed snipers, but our snipers haven't been productive anyway, even at ES and in games where we're controlling the flow and pushing the pace.

 

[RandyHolt]

Troy is right. we are screwed no matter what we do. We mind as well get our shots in since we will get penalized for it anyways.

Our top line guys out for ES aren't helping much anyways. They cant draw a PP either.

Maybe a shortie is in our future.

#PlayoffGrinders

 

[tycoonheart]

Top line can't draw a PP because they look like they have no fight in them. They don't get greasy. That 3rd line is playing well because they get dirty. They fight for the puck. They forecheck hard. Everything that is missing from the top line.

 

[troyerlaw]

Troy is right.

I love being accused of being right!! Thanks!

Go Caps.

 

[stanleycaps18]

My biggest issue is that games 1 and 2, the Caps were physical, and that physicality translated to a battered D and chances and wins. Evern since the penaltyfest, the physicality has waned significantly. The refs have neutered the team, and the "greasiness" simply isn't there. I have every confidence in game 7, but the whole tenor has evolved over the course of the series.

 

[Capsman]

The top line isn't scoring in large part because OV's shooting accuracy has been the pits. I don't care how hard he's playing, he's back to the fumbling OV who can't stick handle and who can't hit the broad side of a barn. Incidentally, did anyone watch this segment of NHL On The Fly? Freaking hilarious explaining how a 5-0 PP advantage is a curse.

 

[Brian23]

Top line can't draw a PP because they look like they have no fight in them. They don't get greasy. That 3rd line is playing well because they get dirty. They fight for the puck. They forecheck hard. Everything that is missing from the top line.

They don't have much fight in them because if they even breath in the wrong direction, they're headed to the box. Ovi has always been labled a bull in the china shot, he tried to do that tonight to early but the minute the refs decide they're going to call EVERYTHING on the team you've gotta tone it back.

They aren't just cheating us in Power Plays, they're killing any momentum we develop with these ********* calls.

 

[EroCaps]

The top line isn't scoring in large part because OV's shooting accuracy has been the pits. I don't care how hard he's playing, he's back to the fumbling OV who can't stick handle and who can't hit the broad side of a barn. Incidentally, did anyone watch this segment of NHL On The Fly? Freaking hilarious explaining how a 5-0 PP advantage is a curse.

The number of professional apologists is gross. Watching scared men do bogus math to justify their
bosses is sad.

I'm watching the NHL become the WWE.

 

[Brian23]

The number of professional apologists is gross. Watching scared men do bogus math to justify their
bosses is sad.

I'm watching the NHL become the WWE.

I don't understand how someone can be so full of **** and try and sound sincere. I just don't get it.

 

[hb12xchamps]

Johansson did not have a good game. At least Ovechkin was buzzing around and creating chances. Caps are playing too cute. Shoot the puck on net and get in the dirty areas for the rebound and your gonna score on Henrik.

 

[Brian23]

I feel like the top line sucking is forcing Ovechkin into bad habits.

Mojo and Nicky can't carry the puck so Ovi keeps trying to go 1 on 2/3 and losing the puck without generating a shot.

 

[Calicaps]

I feel like the top line sucking is forcing Ovechkin into bad habits.

Mojo and Nicky can't carry the puck so Ovi keeps trying to go 1 on 2/3 and losing the puck without generating a shot.

This.

Ovie's new game is predicated on utilizing his linemates. But they're sucking. He needs Ribs or MP and maybe Fehr for a few shifts.

 

[FloridaCap]

The number of professional apologists is gross. Watching scared men do bogus math to justify their
bosses is sad.

I'm watching the NHL become the WWE.

Literally said those exact words as I got up and disgustingly walked away from my TV as the buzzer sounded.

WWE, NBA on Ice, whatever you want to call it.

 

[AllIsFehrNLoveAndWar]

Top line can't draw a PP because they look like they have no fight in them. They don't get greasy. That 3rd line is playing well because they get dirty. They fight for the puck. They forecheck hard. Everything that is missing from the top line.

Backstrom literally makes no effort to get in a shooting position. Everyone on the ice knows he is going to skate with the puck as long as he is allowed before he tries to force it to Ovechkin. He has been doing it consistently since Game 2.

It's like those misses are haunting him and he is trying to not put himself in those positions again. I've never seen him play like this honestly and it's certainly killing Ovie. He is pretty much regressed back to come in, cut to the middle and shoot style Ovie again and that leaves the first line at 1 and done, which as we know, barely works in beating Lundqvist.