GDT: Game#3|Talking Heads; Up the Creek and Olli down Liver|Caps@ Pens|5-2 8:00/8:20|CEC

[Smoke]

Have to get that kind of thing out of the game.

All kidding aside, I have no doubt Backstrom meant to do that. There's just no way to prove it. Backstrom is a pretty honest player so he can fly under the radar like that. He definetley intended on getting Letang in the head though.

I didn't think it was intentional at all. It is still a dumb and dangerous way to avoid players lying on the ice.

 

[TheSniper26]

Hard not to be pleased with a 3-0 lead considering the night Sid/Geno are having(giving them the odd shift together wouldn't be the worst thing in the world imo). Still, 3-0 leads can disappear pretty quickly. Have to start being smarter with the puck and get the legs moving in the offensive zone a bit.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

You know... the excessive stuff Washington is doing might save Letang his suspension. If Tangers gets suspended, let's look at the knees to the head. It's dangerous, right? Let's look at the late crosscheck to hags.

Letang will get at least one, book it. The league will want to save face and fake consistency.

 

[66-30-33]

I dislike Backstrom as much as anyone here but he's too gutless to have done that on purpose.

Probably, but i'm pissed that it happened to him when that whole team is taking runs at him.

 

[KIRK]

Because he is the only weak link in the forward group (Fehr is a borderline member of this group as well).

Let Malkin center Cullen and Fehr this period, and the Kunitz apologists will see why some people question his impact on the game.

 

[Son Goku]

Murray is just an absolute animal. Could you imagine if we still had Zatkoff in there?

 

[UnderratedBrooks44]

Assuming we win this the series must be stressing me out because I feel like it should be 3-1 by now. Hard to imagine a Caps win Wednesday would even it up.

 

[Hophog]

Have to get that kind of thing out of the game.

All kidding aside, I have no doubt Backstrom meant to do that. There's just no way to prove it. Backstrom is a pretty honest player so he can fly under the radar like that. He definetley intended on getting Letang in the head though.

I agree. Not a dirty player intent on kicking him in the head but not interested in avoiding him with his hip.

 

[billybudd]

I feel like I'm watching a Penguins Boston game from 2013, except with Pittsburgh playing the part of Boston.

Caps have the puck a lot and all they get is **** chances from the outside when don't get jammed up on the way to the offensive zone. Our counterattacks are of a much higher quality.

 

[Jacob]

I have a hard time believing the NHL's resident lesbian would try to knee someone in the head.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

Am at the game, was Letang's hit really that bad? Interference, sure. But contact point looked to be chest here. And Johansson cane back.

 

[Ugene Magic]

When Ovechkin is hitting they are losing. A....Oh....

 

[KIRK]

Murray is just an absolute animal. Could you imagine if we still had Zatkoff in there?

I just spent a couple grand of psychiatrists last series to learn how not to think about that, and here you go and mess that all up.

 

[MrBurghundy]

2 big points guys! Millbury is an idiot, and Tappen just repeats him.

 

[ColePens]

Milbury with a good point on what Hags did. Hit from behind after the goal... didn't even look back.

 

[Marns]

Hopefully their stars remain more concerned with trying to take letang out. We're in their heads. This is not the game they should be playing if they want to win.

 

[Sideline]

Am at the game, was Letang's hit really that bad? Interference, sure. But contact point looked to be chest here. And Johansson cane back.

The media is just stirring ****. It should be a fine and a stern talking to.

 

[td_ice]

Letang will get at least one, book it. The league will want to save face and fake consistency.

Yep, as someone else said earlier, he will get one game on simply the series optics.

 

[KIRK]

Letang is angry, too, though. He needs to embrace it and just be a heel.

Payback time for the Montreal screw job.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Am at the game, was Letang's hit really that bad? Interference, sure. But contact point looked to be chest here. And Johansson cane back.

After I had looked at replays I'm sold on a fine at most.

 

[66-30-33]

Murray is just an absolute animal. Could you imagine if we still had Zatkoff in there?

Kessel line has 6 goals this series, Caps have 5 goals total. Murray is a god!

 

[Jacob]

Am at the game, was Letang's hit really that bad? Interference, sure. But contact point looked to be chest here. And Johansson cane back.

Not half as bad as Orpik's but suspendible? Maybe.

 

[Pancakes]

I'd be shocked if Letang didn't get a game. I don't think he'll get more than that, though.

I suppose a fine isn't out of the question since Mojo came back to the game. Caps will cry huge foul if that's the case though so I'm guessing a game for the optics of it.

 

[Shockmaster]

Letang will get at least one, book it. The league will want to save face and fake consistency.

The only thing that might save Letang is the fact that Johansson is back in the game. Probably will get 1 game though.

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

Am at the game, was Letang's hit really that bad? Interference, sure. But contact point looked to be chest here. And Johansson cane back.

It was an "enormous" headshot.