GDT: Edmonton Oilers at the Washington Capitals 11/24/23 3:00 pm

[RedRocking]

With Oshie possibly out does this mean Miro gets a chance?

I doubt it. Lappy or Phillips could come in. Mantha can play RW in the case of the former.

 

[Roshi]

PP has collectively collapsed. Ovie, Carlson & Kuzy are all very bad at it currently, and they are really missing the Backy-vision to break down an aggressive PK pressure.

Kuzy is just suck, but especially Carlson makes himself completely irrelevant when he rejects to use his skillset (shot, vision and patience) and its frustfrating.

Since the PP guys clearly reject to adjust themselves, what they need if they want to make changes is to break up the personnel on the PP drastically. And Ovie doesnt earn to be 2 minutes in everytime, show accountabality. If its not working for 120 games in a row, you dont reward them by just giving it to them time after time after time..

 

[BallardEra]

Oilers were averaging 4.70 goals against per game on the road before today.

Pretty sad performance by the Caps.

 

[twabby]

Connor Brown isn't having his revenge game at least.

 

[RedRocking]

NJ lost to the Jackets at least.

 

[Calicaps]

NJ lost to the Jackets at least.

Let's go Sabres!

 

[IafrateOvie34]

Move on to the next. They get to play again in a few more games.

 

[Roshi]

Pinnacle of NHL reffing: Giving a team 4 min of PP when they should have received 5 minute major against them.

The Ekholm-Oshie bump? That looked bad but wasnt a penalty. Oshie just kind of skated himself straight into it, Ekholm did nothing but embrace the contact.

If anything id say Caps have even gained by the refs today.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

I want the young guys getting the big minutes from here on out. The old guys aren’t earning it.

 

[Calicaps]

The Ekholm-Oshie bump? That looked bad but wasnt a penalty. Oshie just kind of skated himself straight into it, Ekholm did nothing but embrace the contact.

If anything id say Caps have even gained by the refs today.

That's a stretch but agree on the Oshie injury. Just awful luck.

Mantha and Kuzy are both so terrible.

 

[marcel snapshot]

OV on that last PP had long stretches where he did not f***ing move at all. I get that’s been going on for awhile, but he seems to have achieved peak immobility.

They can either recover against the Sharks, get some feel-good from the power play - or this kind of stinker could snowball a bit

 

[bacchist]

Reverting to the mean.

 

[IafrateOvie34]

Congrats on getting shutout.

 

[Acallabeth]

I want the young guys getting the big minutes from here on out. The old guys aren’t earning it.

Do you think we have young guys who are really earning it?

 

[4thTierSport]

The Ekholm-Oshie bump? That looked bad but wasnt a penalty. Oshie just kind of skated himself straight into it, Ekholm did nothing but embrace the contact.

If anything id say Caps have even gained by the refs today.

Can’t change direction and absolutely blast someone skating in a straight line that doesn’t have the puck.

Gained? How dumb are you?

 

[um]

One obvious correction he needs to make, whether in bumper spot on PP or just now at center point, is to one-time the shot. There isn’t time for two touches

It’s a very hard shot to make. The decline of Oshie may have destroyed our power play.

We need a new strategy and set up.

 

[twabby]

My game puck goes to Dylan Strome. Because someone has to get it!

 

[Brian23]

Can’t change direction and absolutely blast someone skating in a straight line that doesn’t have the puck.

Gained? How dumb are you?

He didn't change direction, Oshie did. Ekholm has as much right to that ice as Oshie did.

You can be mad Oshie got hurt, but that doesn't suddenly make it a dirty play.

 

[Calicaps]

Well, that sucked. But also can't win 'em all. Between having won 5 in a row and 9 of 11, the matinee, the Oilers shitty play of late, and the impending road trip, this was almost inevitable. Just bounce back well and chalk it up to a clunker.

I also blame @Ridley Simon. The reverse jinx is no more.

 

[um]

OV on that last PP had long stretches where he did not f***ing move at all. I get that’s been going on for awhile, but he seems to have achieved peak immobility.

Yep. It’s not hard to stop Ovie when he’s standing still and we have no other threats.

 

[4thTierSport]

He didn't change direction, Oshie did. Ekholm has as much right to that ice as Oshie did.

You can be mad Oshie got hurt, but that doesn't suddenly make it a dirty play.

What reality are you trying to live in? Show me where I said it was dirty and where Oshie wasn’t skating in a straight line.

 

[twabby]

I think Ovechkin can mostly just stand still in a bumper area.

Big one-timers aren't really a thing in modern NHL power plays and making that option A is really hurting the Capitals. I've been mostly ok with Carbery so far but the lack of a different PP setup is concerning.

 

[Calicaps]

Go and watch the play for the first time.

You're the only person who thinks it was dirty. Even the Caps on the ice knew it was just terrible luck.

 

[Roshi]

Can’t change direction and absolutely blast someone skating in a straight line that doesn’t have the puck.

Gained? How dumb are you?

My wife thinks pretty dumb. She might be right.

However we got couple soft calls for and got away with one or two, which is pretty understandable in a 0-5 blowout. Most of our penalties were kind of obvious though.

 

[Brian23]

Go and watch the play for the first time.

You mean the play I saw live and then posted a video of again here?

Me thinks you need to rewatch the play without the homer glasses off.

I think Ovechkin can mostly just stand still in a bumper area.

Big one-timers aren't really a thing in modern NHL power plays and making that option A is really hurting the Capitals. I've been mostly ok with Carbery so far but the lack of a different PP setup is concerning.

I would be willing to bet their isn't a single person in this world that Ted would allow to take Ovi out of his office on the power play, let alone a first year HC in Carbery.

I think it's just like he said. The guys have a lot of bad habits ingrained, maybe some can't be worked out, but it's something they have to work through. Based on literally every other way this team plays, I cannot imagine this is how he envisions his power play functioning. Hell, it looks completely different even from the pre-season setups.