GDT: Game 15: Columbus at Washington | 11/11 7PM EST

[Samkow]

7:00 PM EST
Verizon Center
Washington, D.C.

Lines
Hartnell-Jenner-Atkinson
Gibbons-Johansen-Foligno
Tropp-Wennberg-Skille
Tyrell-Chaput-Boll

Tyutin-Savard
Erixon-Wisniewski
St-Denis-Prout

McElhinney
Forsberg

Inactive
Cracknell, Johnson

Injured
Anisimov, Bobrovsky, Calvert, Dubinsky, Goloubef, Horton, Letestu, Murray

Lines
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Beagle
Johansson-Burakovsky-Brouwer
Chimera-Fehr-Ward
O'Brien-Kuznetsov-Latta

Orpik-Carlsson
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Green

Holtby
Peters

Inactive
Hillen

Injured
Erskine, Laich, Orlov, Volpatti, Wilson​

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[EspenK]

Top 2 lines don't look bad to me. Hopefully they play well and 3rd and 4th plus D plus McB also play well. Seeing will be believing.

 

[WannabeFinn]

bigger points up for grabs than usual tonight

 

[Samkow]

Top 2 lines don't look bad to me. Hopefully they play well and 3rd and 4th plus D plus McB also play well. Seeing will be believing.

Pretty good piece by Portzline on how Boll and co are a surprisingly big part of the problem.

http://bluejacketsxtra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2014/11/11/1111-blue-jackets-main.html

 

[DarkandStormy]

Pretty good piece by Portzline on how Boll and co are a surprisingly big part of the problem.

http://bluejacketsxtra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2014/11/11/1111-blue-jackets-main.html

Why is that a surprise? Guys are forced to play up in the lineup, there's some guys who should be in Springfield getting ice time. Not too shocking, imo.

Tyutin and Skille participated in the morning skate. Looks like they'll be in tonight.

 

[WannabeFinn]

Pretty good piece by Portzline on how Boll and co are a surprisingly big part of the problem.

http://bluejacketsxtra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2014/11/11/1111-blue-jackets-main.html

Shocking to say the least. Great job by Portzline to point this one out for us!

 

[Samkow]

You guys should actually read the article.

 

[DarkandStormy]

You guys should actually read the article.

I did. Still don't get what's surprising.

The 4th line when healthy should be Skille - Letestu - and I guess Boll, maybe Tropp.

The 3rd line when healthy should be something like Calvert - Anisimov - Jenner.

There's been no consistency game to game because there's been so many injuries. Michael Chaput is not a bottom line guy - at least he hasn't played that role his whole career.

Dano and Wennberg don't project to be bottom 6 forwards. Projected 3rd and 4th liners are playing up in the lineup. Guys who aren't slotted to play in the bottom 6 are suddenly filling in those positions. The entire 3rd line tonight should either be in Springfield or on the 4th line.

I don't get the surprise. Outside of Boll, guys are playing new positions, new minutes, new roles. Richards has a vision of the 4th line in particular being an "energy" line, checking hard, etc. Well the replacements aren't all Blake Comeau's and DMac's in waiting.

I think DBJ did a much better job of detailing WHY/HOW it's been different this year, with some love for Mackenzie. http://darkbluejacket.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-cbj-misses-derek-mackenzie.html

 

[Dednimnepo]

After that bit of public call out I think the 3rd and 4th line will step up. I hope they do it with energy - Good hockey vs. goonery.

I think we also need to get Johansen motivated. maybe he's been tired and maybe he's been keyed on but his play has been less attack and too much conserve. We need him engaged and aggressive.



I predict 4 - 2 Jackets. Johansen with 2 points, and the scoring spread across lines.

 

[jackets4life]

Tonight is the night.

 

[Fro]

skille out tonight....cracknall in for him...laich out for Caps

 

[ca5150]

Pretty good piece by Portzline on how Boll and co are a surprisingly big part of the problem.

http://bluejacketsxtra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2014/11/11/1111-blue-jackets-main.html

I read it more as a bit of a dig at JK for letting DMac and Comeau go in favor of none physical types like Cracknell, Chaput, Gibbons, etc. But yes the 3rd and 4th lines have been garbage during this 8 game stretch, as has the rest of the team outside of Hartnell and Foligno.

 

[Fro]

yes they've been bad..mainly b/c our 3rd and 4th lines are playing on the 2nd and 3rd...missing nearly 2 full lines right now means we don't actually get to have a bottom six...some of you are really getting insufferable with this...we just need to stay close...thankfully the other teams in our division aren't pulling away...

 

[CAMSANITY]

Tonight is the night.

when two become one? (god I hate myself for knowing that lyric)

In all seriousness though, we are far from out of the race. We are only 7 points out of 3rd in the division. Now, in fairness, we do need to start getting some Ws on the board soon. The guys just really need to get a quick start out of the gate and rattle Holtby as he has been McBackupesque (of last year) for them so he is very beatable. I say Jackets 3 Capitals 2 in regulation.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...-add-daily-flight-to-from-washington-d-c.html

Missed it.

 

[DarkandStormy]

Going for that franchise (tying) winless record tonight.

 

[We Want Ten]

We win tonight.
Trust me.

 

[JKinCLE]

Back after my one game hiatus. I can't stay mad at them.

I as well predict a win tonight. I'm also expecting big things from the bottom 6. Earn that A on your sweater Boll. (not to mention your paycheck.)

 

[JoeCBJfan]

First a Question:
Has anybody seen something I Haven't...What did Dano do to get Scratched?

Also, In the Real World when people are Injured/Out of Work, usually people naturally step up to fill shoes... I can't help but notice a certain 4th liner can't even get bumped to the third...

 

[CAMSANITY]

First a Question:
Has anybody seen something I Haven't...What did Dano do to get Scratched?

Also, In the Real World when people are Injured/Out of Work, usually people naturally step up to fill shoes... I can't help but notice a certain 4th liner can't even get bumped to the third...

For some unknown reason Dano got reassigned to Springy for Dana Tyrell...no idea why considering Tyrell is garbage. The only thing I can think of is that they want to give Dano big minutes instead of fourth line scraps. I'd rather have Dano up here and I'm not even a huge fan of his, but what do I know?

 

[Matthew]

Maybe tonight is the night McBackup resembles the solid McBackup of last year.

 

[pete goegan]

I posted this quote from the Caps GDT in the Hartnell thread, but thought it also belongs here. This is from Barry Trotz:

Fourteen years ago tonight, Blue Jackets left wing Scott Hartnell scored his first NHL goal as an 18-year-old member of the Nashville Predators. Barry Trotz was behind the bench that night against the Boston Bruins.

“We were in an expansion era and he was 18 years old and we thought we could be patient with him but we didn’t have enough players that were good enough,” Trotz recalled.

“He was a real big body for us. We had a small team. What he continues to do is he always works hard. He goes to those hard areas. He always played with emotion on his sleeve. He was a good young player for us and he’s had a great career.

“If you’re going to find Scott Hartnell, there’s always a yard sale around him. There’s always debris, be it players or him or equipment. That’s from going to hard areas.

“On the ice he plays edgy and sort of raw and off the ice he’s as considerate and as nice a man you’re going to meet in the game.”

 

[CBJx614]

Hartnell with the harttrick, foligno with a goal, Joey with assist on each but we still lose.

4-2

 

[silver89]

Hartnell with the harttrick, foligno with a goal, Joey with assist on each but we still lose.

4-2

So Hartnell three, Foligno one, and we still lose 4-2? makes sense

 

[WannabeFinn]

Hartnell with the harttrick, foligno with a goal, Joey with assist on each but we still lose.

4-2

bout par for the course there eh bud