Post-Game Talk: Caps vs Pens 7pm Dec 10

[txpd]

With no Trouba discipline on the Khaira hit, I don’t expect any discipline this time. Seems like excuses are being made for head shots, unless you’re Tom Wilson.

Do we have video to post?

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

I've said from day 1 he reminds me of bad Brett Connolly. When he'd go invisible and get scratched for a couple games to light a fire under his ass. Sprong is ALWAYS that. I'd 10/10 have almost every Hershey guy who has been up this year in his spot once fully healthy.

All the Hershey call ups have been better. Even guys that are not expected to contribute much like Malenstyn and Leason have done more.

 

[Varan]

Blame this on us not giving 2 f***s for the first 2 periods, while also giving credit to PIT in completely suffocating the ice.

 

[SherVaughn30]

Blame this on us not giving 2 f***s for the first 2 periods, while also giving credit to PIT in completely suffocating the ice.

Caps didn't want to pay the price to go hard to the net, while the Pens did so. Caps were outworked most of the game and deserved to lose. The team really let down Sammy tonight, who was their best player.

If I remember from the 6-1 win earlier in the season against the Pens, it was the Pens who looked lackluster throughout that game just like the Caps did in this game.

Both teams had the same amount of days off. Caps should have expected the Pens to play better than last time around. The Caps just didn't match the work ethic, energy and speed the Pens were playing with.

 

[tenken00]

Do we have video to post?

 

[txpd]

2min left Hags on the ice

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Excuse me but didnt the Caps have their entire available top 6 on the ice for the 6 on 5 goal except Wilson who was not available? Laviolette wants to get control of the puck to get the goalie out and get his offensive 6 on 5 unit out on the ice again. He had Hagelin, Sprong, and 3 rookies to choose from. Somebody had to play.

 

[txpd]

I totally missed that. When in the game was this? What did the tv crew say? That is all head. I know its the Pens and all but geez

 

[Dibbs31]

Absolute cheap heat shot on Fehervary. Doubt anything happens tho

 

[txpd]

Absolute cheap heat shot on Fehervary. Doubt anything happens tho

Nothing except Fehervary is going to miss games. That was brutal.

 

[SherVaughn30]

Nothing except Fehervary is going to miss games. That was brutal.

Replay showed the Pens player lifted his elbow up into Fever's head. The league is suppose to be on top these head shots and they are not. That could have been a 5 minute major. How can the refs not pick up on that incident when Fever was the player who briefly had the puck for a moment?

 

[txpd]

Found it. It was right after the 2nd goal and i went to the kitchen in disgust. Of course there were excuses for the no call.

 

[txpd]

Replay showed the Pens player lifted his elbow up into Fever's head. The league is suppose to be on top these head shots and they are not. That could have been a 5 minute major. How can the refs not pick up on that incident when Fever was the player who briefly had the puck for a moment?

I can imagine hockey referees not seeing things. That they missed the hit doesnt surprise me. What will bother me is that DoPS will just blow it off

 

[tenken00]

Replay showed the Pens player lifted his elbow up into Fever's head. The league is suppose to be on top these head shots and they are not. That could have been a 5 minute major. How can the refs not pick up on that incident when Fever was the player who briefly had the puck for a moment?

Found it. It was right after the 2nd goal and i went to the kitchen in disgust. Of course there were excuses for the no call.

Yeah.. I'm a little inebriated. Probably better to check again in the morning. But thats what others are saying.

Honestly I don't even care about the penalty. I just hope Fever is okay.

 

[txpd]

Yea, the Crosby thing was ridiculous

 

[SherVaughn30]

Yeah.. I'm a little inebriated. Probably better to check again in the morning. But thats what others are saying.

Honestly I don't even care about the penalty. I just hope Fever is okay.

Just the league covering up for the Pens again. Nothing new here. Both incidents regarding Fever being a victim, should have been easy calls for the refs.

 

[txpd]

Will be interested to see if Laviolette has anything to say in his presser

 

[hb12xchamps]

The ESPN crew was atrocious all game long. Really need to work on their craft there. I can’t remember which announcer it was but when talking about Dowd and Hathaway being on the COVID list, they referred to Dowd as Jim Dowd and said they were in concussion protocol.

Also way less graphics please. I don’t need a shift tracker for Ovi and Sid. I want to watch the game.

They also called the Fever hit an “unfortunate result” and blamed the no call on the fact that they ref wasn’t in position to see a head shot.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Yeah.. I'm a little inebriated. Probably better to check again in the morning. But thats what others are saying.

Honestly I don't even care about the penalty. I just hope Fever is okay.

But you have to admit the Crosby play was hilarious

 

[HTFN]

But you have to admit the Crosby play was hilarious

Him losing his temper, sure. Whipping another guy nameplate-first into the boards is a lot less funny.

 

[troyerlaw]

Absolute cheap heat shot on Fehervary. Doubt anything happens tho

Did anyone from Caps step up to fight McGinn? (I wasn’t able to watch the game.) Seems like a fight was warranted in view of hit being dirty, it going unpenalized, and us losing the player for (at least) the rest of the game.

I’m guessing Hathaway would’ve challenged McGinn, but he was out. And maybe the team is asking Wilson to do less fighting, esp. since we don’t need to lose him for 5 minutes of gametime when our roster is so depleted already. What about Malenstyn or Leason? Do either of those guys fight?
Did our physical play increase at all after the headshot on Fever?

 

[troyerlaw]

But you have to admit the Crosby play was hilarious

Not really, no. Yet again, it’s a play that would get a lesser known player in trouble, but Crosby gets a pass. Same as him severing Methot’s finger with a slash or any of his various nut-crackers v. opponents who get under his skin.

 

[trick9]

Thoroughly embarrassed by this team and that's a rarity for me in the early-to-mid regular season as the games don't mean much. Spineless performance against their rivals highlighted by absolute no response for headshot on your rookie top-pairing D and the Wilson -incident.

Penguins made them look like a joke both on the scoreboard and physically.

 

[HTFN]

Did anyone from Caps step up to fight McGinn? (I wasn’t able to watch the game.) Seems like a fight was warranted in view of hit being dirty, it going unpenalized, and us losing the player for (at least) the rest of the game.

I’m guessing Hathaway would’ve challenged McGinn, but he was out. And maybe the team is asking Wilson to do less fighting, esp. since we don’t need to lose him for 5 minutes of gametime when our roster is so depleted already. What about Malenstyn or Leason? Do either of those guys fight?
Did our physical play increase at all after the headshot on Fever?

No, they looked rattled and then got scored on pretty immediately afterwards, making it 3-0 and that was that. Limped out of the period and tried to find their game down men.

 

[traparatus]

That was awful.

Credit to Pittsburgh as they played an excellent defensive game, while Caps brought zero effort. This should have been 3-0 half way through the first. Samsonov was the only guy who showed up to play and the team let him down.

I hated this game. Don't know which one of the Hagelin-Eller-Sheary or Spring-McMichael-Oshie lines is worse. They are both horrible. Watching Carlson skate is like watching a baby moose try to walk across a frozen lake. Fehervary is concussed with a blatant head shot and it's not even a penalty.

Also, this broadcast absolutely sucked ass. That's it. Good night.

 

[ovikovy817]

NBC, ESPN doesn't matter. The same pro-Pens announcers.

Hope Fever won't miss too much games.