GDT: Caps and Bruins 3:30 PM

[Ovie's Neighbor]

Yes they were

I’m digging Sgarbossa, it’s amazing what effort + speed can do.

I agree he feels more useful to this team than Phillips

 

[Midnight Judges]

Oh hey this is what it was like to watch a good hockey team. I remember now.

 

[Block]

Nevermind Wayne scored his goals in an era when goalies were half-drunk and wore beaver tails for shin pads.

He also had a shitload of hall of famers on his team, somehow that never comes up.

 

[McVechkin]

Would be interested in seeing an Ovie empty net opportunity statistics. What’s his +/- in those situations and how doesn’t that compare to the leagues as a whole?

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

I know today was Dad/Mentors trip for the caps. And was thinking about Ovie and missing his pops. Glad we played awesome today and he scored.

 

[Capitals40]

Yeah, to them I'm certain we're misunderstanding how difficult it was to score on those guys

It was hard to score..since the skaters played with wooden sticks, skates that felt like they had lead in their boots with inferior blades, big, stiff gloves..overall player equipment weighed 2 to 3 times more than now.

 

[ClevelandCapsfan]

Ovie’s ENG (always a welcome sight) seems to make many posters overlook how overmatched he appears on 5x5 and that his skating speed often seems non-existent.

 

[marcel snapshot]

Nah, it's more like a nice diversion from that reality. Nobody denies he can't keep up, especially when the play goes the other way. But he's got a lot of offensive smarts, and he's also a guy who has more jump when he's on a roll, and it'll be interesting to see what a mini-heater at 38 does for him. My expectations aren't high, but in both 2021-22 and 2022-23 the team rode hot streaks from him.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Ovie’s ENG (always a welcome sight) seems to make many posters overlook how overmatched he appears on 5x5 and that his skating speed often seems non-existent.

Nobody overlooks that lol. He had a great game and made a real nice saucer pass for Strome’s insurance goal at 5 vs 5.

 

[Midnight Judges]

Would be interested in seeing an Ovie empty net opportunity statistics. What’s his +/- in those situations and how doesn’t that compare to the leagues as a whole?

It compares quite well. His career goals for in that situation is like 86% IIRC.

 

[g00n]

It was hard to score..since the skaters played with wooden sticks, skates that felt like they had lead in their boots with inferior blades, big, stiff gloves..overall player equipment weighed 2 to 3 times more than now.

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Gretzky played mostly in a high-scoring era of "firewagon hockey" with avg goals per game in the high 3s or even 4.

Ovie played in the bulk of the "dead puck era" when the average was closer to 2.7.

This is why the NHL started shrinking goalie pads and made several other changes to the rules. They wanted the scoring restored.

Some people have tried to adjust Ovie's potential goal scoring for Wayne's era and iirc it was pretty ridiculous.

 

[trick9]

Bruins boo'd out of their building, lovely sight.

Caps exposed them badly. It was boys against men and the score was close because we can't score for shit and Swayman was really good.

Lindgren trade value rising shutout.