Post-Game Talk: Caps Rangers 7pm

[kicksavedave]

Samsonov might get traded to Colorado in the offseason if he continues to let the Van steal his job like that. Bite down on your mouthpiece, baby Sam, you really don't want that KHL travel back.

This will only happen if VV continues to have games where he cannot stop a beachball, like last night.

 

[kicksavedave]

Also Sammys GA since returning from Covid is 2.0. He's given up 2,1,1,3,4,1 on 152 SA.

 

[Melkor]

This will only happen if VV continues to have games where he cannot stop a beachball, like last night.

That was a good post tbh

Why? Last I checked Grubby is having a great season?

Avs really like them Caps players. Especially goalies.

 

[txpd]

Ov3 please

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

That was a good post tbh


Avs really like them Caps players. Especially goalies.

Damn Grubby is #1 in NHL in GAA at 1.82. Picking Holtby over him was a big miss.

 

[Melkor]

Damn Grubby is #1 in NHL in GAA at 1.82. Picking Holtby over him was a big miss.

Who knew? But hey I'm just glad that Holtby's gone and making bucks doing nothing. Ain't that a dream job at the end of the day?

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

Damn Grubby is #1 in NHL in GAA at 1.82. Picking Holtby over him was a big miss.

Last 4 seasons from Holtby were garbagish. He should not be in NHL right now. Lucky for him he found a goof to bring him a contract.

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

Damn Grubby is #1 in NHL in GAA at 1.82. Picking Holtby over him was a big miss.

Understandable. I mean, Holtby led the Caps to the Cup, after all.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

How quickly we forget “the save”...

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

How quickly we forget “the save”...

wrong...doesn’t mean you can’t be honest about a player who has been regressing for years. Doesn’t change the love for 70.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Damn Grubby is #1 in NHL in GAA at 1.82. Picking Holtby over him was a big miss.

I make that choice 100/100 times. Gruby doesn’t win us that Cup.

I myself was shocked a few days ago when I saw Gruby’s numbers. I still watch him play and am rarely all that wowed. He’s very solid.

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

Understandable. I mean, Holtby led the Caps to the Cup, after all.

I do not call it 'led'. I'd say: Holtby plugged the Caps to the Cup.

 

[g00n]

I do not call it 'led'. I'd say: Holtby plugged the Caps to the Cup.

Good lord you are a bad take machine.

.922 save%
2.16 GAA
2 shutouts
16-7 record
14 quality starts
3 bad starts

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

Good lord you are a bad take machine.

.922 save%
2.16 GAA
2 shutouts
16-7 record
14 quality starts
3 bad starts

In a lebesgue way a finite or continuum time bad take machine is a good take machine overall if it is good in it hockey sense.

Stanley Cup plug with 16 wins? No contradiction here for me. .922% is awful for winning team goalie. Normaly it is more around .940%

 

[crazy8888]

Good lord you are a bad take machine.

.922 save%
2.16 GAA
2 shutouts
16-7 record
14 quality starts
3 bad starts

Yea im the first one to tell you that Holtby is not a good goalie. But that 2018 playoff run was definitely his best one. For once he was not letting in bad back breaking goals at bad times of the game. So gotta give credit where its due. He was definitely solid and big reason why Caps won that year.

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

To make it simple:

 

[Hivemind]

They were never going to let Holtby walk immediately after he backstopped them to a Stanley Cup (especially when Grubauer was given the chance first and Holtby took the job from him), and when Holtby still had term on his contract. Picking Grubauer over Holtby was never a real option, and keeping both goalies at that point was pretty untenable from both a salary cap and asset management standpoint. Letting Grubby find his groove as the undisputed starter elsewhere while also clearing out Orpik's $5.5M contract and getting assets in return was a win-win move for the Capitals and Grubauer.

 

[g00n]

In a lebesgue way a finite or continuum time bad take machine is a good take machine overall if it is good in it hockey sense.

Stanley Cup plug with 16 wins? No contradiction here for me. .922% is awful for winning team goalie. Normaly it is more around .940%

Nah. Save % that high is the exception, not the rule.

Ranking All Stanley Cup Winning Goalies Since 2000

Nice graph, though. I like how 2013 and 2018 are basically the same data but one is "Vezina" and the other is "PLUG".

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

So how about this game tonight eh?

 

[ALLCAPSALLTHETIME]

So how about this game tonight eh?

Definitely a statement game. Don't want to lose to that team again.

 

[crab]

To make it simple:

lol this made me laugh

 

[francaisvolantsparis]

Completly forgot about it!

7-0-0 homerun w/o Tom Wilson is now reality

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Hoping that we obliterate them. The Rags are garbage.

 

[crab]

Hoping that we obliterate them. The Rags are garbage.

Bunch of human garbage cans

 

[Calicaps]

Nah. Save % that high is the exception, not the rule.

Ranking All Stanley Cup Winning Goalies Since 2000

Nice graph, though. I like how 2013 and 2018 are basically the same data but one is "Vezina" and the other is "PLUG".

It's clear that there are a lot of Caps fans now in the world who waited all of 5, 10, or may 15 years for a Cup. They will simply never understand so probably just best save your breath. (Side note: my Hawaii-raised, non-sports husband cried like a baby that night in Vegas. He'd been part of our family long enough that he knew... Especially because my dad didn't live to see it.)