Every game has been a coin flip, just as this series was predicted to be.
Momentum can last from shift to shift and sometimes from period to period but it doesn’t exist game to game. I think the Caps will be hard pressed to win two in a row in CBus and even if they do they are almost have to win game five as well and winning three in a row seems impossible.
Losing those two home games really hurt their chances.
They can do three in a row. Like you say, momentum doesnt move from game to game. Just win one at a time.
Holts roared back to burn your village. It was very much needed. Also few pipes and Ellers bouncy-goal was needed, thats rare for us. This one was a high pressure game so maybe it helps the team to relax a bit and not worry so much. But please not too much.
In all these games we have been in control for most of the time, but we have to find a cure for the panic mode desperation. It starts from one mistake or a call that doesnt go our way etc and is followed by a 3-5 minutes of pure choke-art-work performance when everyone is just running chasing the puck in D-zone (leaving guys open at net and blueline) and/or just turtling to our net (giving 85% of the ice for the Jackets for free). Good thing there is 3 timeouts handed out by NHL for every period, that normally calms things down a bit.