OV is losing faith in his goal scoring ability, so he's passing the puck off for other teammates to score. OV's game is scoring goals and not being a Backstrom. The rest of the team is use to OV shooting a lot, so they get surprised when he passes the puck off.
Are you trying to use reverse psychology on me?!!
Yeah that's bullshit, friend.
I think you may have misread his (admittedly ambiguous) post. I think he was saying the Hockey Gods want the Caps to forget about trying to play well and should instead focus on helping Ovie get the record.
Start of the season, there were plenty of instances of teammates trying to force feed OV the puck to score goals(it still does happen). The opponent was easily picking off those passes. This teams vets have terribly adjusted to Carbery's system. The younger players are looking like the vets, while the real vets look like rookies. The Caps offense and scoring goals is just a mess right now. The team are actually getting good shots on goal that for the NHL norm would be goals, but frustratingly they are hitting a good deal of posts.
I wouldn’t mind the loss if i’d seen more passion or effort. So many passengers tonight. So much cheat in our game, not stopping on pucks, not tying up sticks, not winning board battles. We can moan about puck luck all we want, but the Sharks — without Hertl, Couture, Barabanov — wanted it more. I expected more urgency after the debacle at home against EDM.
When the worst team in the league is averaging less than 2 goals per game but their PP is clicking at a 20% rate with less skilled players, while the Caps PP is operating at below 6% with higher skilled players, then something is terribly wrong with both the coaching and the players! If they are not clicking on the fancy plays, then you go back to the basics and work your @SS off to try to score PP goals. I don't think this roster is even doing that. I see very little net front presence(at least two players) on the PP's. I see it from a lot of other teams where they create pressure down low around the goalie taking advantage of being a man up or scoring on rebounds. The Caps don't do it. All they were programmed to do was OV blasting pucks from inside the circle for lots of goals, on occasion Carlson put a few in from the point or the bumper player tipping it in. Also Backy/Kuzy being parts of the pinball machine feeding the bumper nice passes to score from in between the dots. Those options have all been completely shut down by the opponents PK and I might add that just about every teams PK skates faster then when the Caps PP was in their prime many years ago.
They got the Kings next! Kings are the 2nd highest scoring team in the NHL! Shark got 2 tonight, then the Kings might get 5 or 6 on the Caps, Wednesday night!
Forget about helping OV and focus on playing as a team to score goals and win. If they do that, the goals will come for OV too.I think you may have misread his (admittedly ambiguous) post. I think he was saying the Hockey Gods want the Caps to forget about trying to play well and should instead focus on helping Ovie get the record.
But maybe i’m the one misreading it. That’s very possible
Think we must accept that the Caps suck too.
They have gone 5-1-1 in the last 7 home games. So they have started doing a little better at least. Not totally lost like they where in the start of the season.
