Post-Game Talk: Caps vs Islanders 7:00

[AlexBrovechkin8]

what?

This streak we've been on. We were starting to hit our stride, but it won't matter if Orpik is done for the year. Season is toast.

 

[Blades of Steel]

This streak we've been on. We were starting to hit our stride, but it won't matter if Orpik is done for the year. Season is toast.

Nope

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

They've played 9 of 12 on the road and are 8-1-3 in that span.

So, no. All wrong.

If they continue this rate of play they'll push for home ice in the playoffs.

I would agree completely... if 44 wasn't out for the year. Can't believe I just typed that. Who woulda ever thought our season hinged on Orpik's health.

 

[Suds]

maybe you guys are right...maybe I was a little harsh


But the Islanders forced "thier" game on the Caps most of the night. Possession was **** for the Caps. Passing was ****.PP was ****

Effort at the end was good.

 

[Islesfan22]

Mentally weak team that has problems holding 3 goal leads. Fourth time this month they have blown a 3 goal lead unheard of really.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

maybe you guys are right...maybe I was a little harsh


But the Islanders forced "thier" game on the Caps most of the night. Possession was **** for the Caps. Passing was ****.PP was ****

Effort at the end was good.

The Isles suck. They're what, 10-1, in OT and 6-0 in the shootout? And people said we were a "get to OT" team. We've seen how teams like that do in the long run. They will crash and burn.

 

[RandyHolt]

I am really pissed they scored with 5 seconds left on the lame duck double minor.

I would wager there was no blood, but there was a great sales job.

 

[g00n]

maybe you guys are right...maybe I was a little harsh


But the Islanders forced "thier" game on the Caps most of the night. Possession was **** for the Caps. Passing was ****.PP was ****

Effort at the end was good.

NY had 7 power plays, including a double minor at the end. Hard to get anything going when you're in the box for almost 1/3 of the game.

 

[txpd]

no excuses..........no "learning the system"

bad play, bad coaching,bad effort

The holes in the Caps game are deep,wide and smell like ****

caps have lost how many in regulation this month? had they thrown a full on clunker, it would be normal.

the last game? bad bad bad and smelly too?

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Mentally weak team that has problems holding 3 goal leads. Fourth time this month they have blown a 3 goal lead unheard of really.

Good luck the rest of the way.

 

[Langway]

Yeah lets bench Kuz so he dwells on it instead of giving him the opportunity to get one back.

Given how Burakovsky has been handled--including the ridiculous standard of needing to shut down Tavares in order to play in the top six--it shouldn't be surprising.

I don't really see how the whole 65/92 as centers thing pans out under Trotz. Neither bring the strength, determination and defensive instincts that Trotz values so it's going to be a constant work in progress without utilizing a large portion of the player's offensive skill due to style of play. Both players try but in the short-term not much is happening. It's a waste but there's also the separate question of whether Trotz could get the most out of their skill on the wing regardless.

They're competing and it's respectable enough but I still don't really see what their prime window might look like.

 

[KevinM]

Mentally weak team that has problems holding 3 goal leads. Fourth time this month they have blown a 3 goal lead unheard of really.

One of these things is not like the others

 

[OviTaughtMe]

Hopefully that was an MCL....

 

[Suds]

Okay Okay.........I admitted I was harsh.

 

[Halpysback*]

perhaps Orpik being out will force GM Hammockarse to get off his hammockarse and get an experienced 2 way LD for once.

 

[Capitlols]

perhaps Orpik being out will force GM Hammockarse to get off his hammockarse and get an experienced 2 way LD for once.

Really think a #2C is more important.

 

[artilector]

Given how Burakovsky has been handled--including the ridiculous standard of needing to shut down Tavares in order to play in the top six--it shouldn't be surprising.

I don't really see how the whole 65/92 as centers thing pans out under Trotz. Neither bring the strength, determination and defensive instincts that Trotz values so it's going to be a constant work in progress without utilizing a large portion of the player's offensive skill due to style of play. Both players try but in the short-term not much is happening. It's a waste but there's also the separate question of whether Trotz could get the most out of their skill on the wing regardless.

They're competing and it's respectable enough but I still don't really see what their prime window might look like.

In a way, lack of 2C kind of forces Trotz to play at least one of them, because the other options are just too crappy. If the Caps get the proverbial Vermette, yeah.. I can see both 65/92 sitting.

Pretty depressing.

Although.. I think 65 is gonna find a way back in regardless. I mean.. there's no way he won't eventually outcompete MJ. Kuz is more of a question. Either he has to figure out how to play more grindy, or somehow Caps need to put him with more skilled linemates (for starters).

F'in put Bura and Kuz on the same line already. Call it 3rd line, give it limited minutes, they just might thrive. At least try something before they're all benched for not following the heavy game catechism.

 

[Halpysback*]

Really think a #2C is more important.

Not if Orpik is out.

And they seem to be fixated on Kuznetsov becoming a 2C even though his center potential is like Derek Roy lite. Though in real life they do need a 2C and badly.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

I would love to see what this team could do if they had an actual second line.

 

[Blades of Steel]

@alex_prewitt: Trotz said Orpik's injury "not as bad as it looked, so that's a good thing."

 

[Capsman]

Trotz saying it isn't as bad as it looks.

 

[Suds]

NY had 7 power plays, including a double minor at the end. Hard to get anything going when you're in the box for almost 1/3 of the game.

True but don't forget that Caps had PP's also. After the 1st PP disaster I would have like to see some correction on the 2nd PP.

2nd PP- same problem as 1st.

Caps players are the same. Caps skills are the same as always. No correction.

I say coaching.

 

[Blades of Steel]

@VogsCaps: Potentially good news on the Orpik front. Both Laich and Trotz believe it's not as bad as it looked. #Caps

Looks like Glue knows best here, pulled out the old Elmers

 

[troyerlaw]

Jack Hillen: Happiest man in the building

LOL. Yeah, him or Bura.

In fact, in a separate thread, when I commented that I wish Bura were playing, someone said, in effect, "That's not how it works. You have to play yourself into a promotion."

The more I think about that statement, the less I believe it. Sometimes it seems the key to getting a sweater back, under Trotz, is for someone else to screw up noticeably.

For instance, when Chimera got a shot at first line tonight, it wasn't that he had been setting the world on fire, it was that 43 had not been.

Anyway, for the next game, demotion, thy name is Kuz.

Hillen wasn't going to face repercussions anyway, since it looks like Orpik will be out.

I'm scared to find out what the Orpik injury is.

Anyway, I can't believe we scratched out a point in that game. Islanders must be setting new league records for blown 3-goal leads. Isn't that their fourth or fifth one in the last month or so?

Waking up early tomorrow to get on a plane w/ my son. Winter Classic, here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Carlzner]

@VogsCaps: Potentially good news on the Orpik front. Both Laich and Trotz believe it's not as bad as it looked. #Caps

Looks like Glue knows best here, pulled out the old Elmers

Well if there's one player who knows a little something about injuries...