GDT: Caps @ Blackhawks - 9/28/13 @ 8pm

[brs03]

Green and Carlson both out for a offensive zone draw?

Yeah, that was weird. A Dman hurt/benched or just a set play?

 

[Calicaps]

Very bouncy pucks tonight. Bad ice there in Chicago.

 

[brs03]

No regulation losses. Meaningless, but kinda cool.

 

[SimplySensational]

Shoulda taken it to the backhand.

 

[Calicaps]

Oh well.

 

[SimplySensational]

All alone, same stupid problem year after year.

 

[foundhockey]

Ah bummer. But it is really neat the Caps have had no regulation losses. It bodes well!

 

[Brian23]

Is Erat still being tried at Center? Maybe that's a reason he's struggling again? He's basically a fresh face at this point considering how hard Oates is on his centers.

 

[Langway]

That's that.

Kind of hoping Volpatti & Beagle don't make the cut...they're too one-dimensional/unskilled. I know there's the whole righty center/PK issue potentially but they need to minimize the number of unskilled players given how shoddy their puck possesion game tends to be generally. Anyone that bogs them down should be considered a hindrance.

On a positive note, Cajkovsky seems contract-worthy.

 

[Sam Spade]

Green looked like garbage. Erat, Grabo, Brouwer, MarJo looked good. Holtby got them to OT.

No one got hurt.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Have we ever fought this much before? Don't remember seeing it in previous preseasons.

 

[Hivemind]

Absolutely fine with Byers over Volpatti, though I would like to keep Beagle around given the lack of other faceoff options. I haven't been overwhelmed with Latta, either (even though he does do an awfully good job of irritating the other team).

 

[Liberati0n*]

I didn't see this game (in which he apparently made a really nice pass), but I guess Byers has more offense than I thought. (I may have overlooked his contributions in some of the preseason games.) He has a couple of ~25-goal seasons in the AHL. He's also significantly bigger, or at least taller. I wouldn't like it if both he and Volpatti were kept, although I guess that's not likely.

 

[Kegger]

Ribeiro who?