Post-Game Talk: Hockey game

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

Passing is too forced, boys just need to get a break their way to loosen their grips. They’re trying to go from 0 to Stanley Cup juggernaut in one period, just relax boys and take it as it comes.


This isn’t a “bad” team by any standards, they’re looking for their identity and playing very good teams.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Can we make this thread live

 

[maacoshark]

I mean I get it Mcmichael is not like a second coming of Mcdavid and all but how in the f*** some guy named Maillet is ahead of him on a depth chart? I mean tell me if I'm wrong but that guy isn't a star even at an AHL level. At what point this team will start trusting it's own draft choices and lets them show what they're made of...

McMichael isn't close to being ready for the NHL.

 

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

Kovy just absolutely brutal hands since season gotten here, wouldn’t have toothy that’s be an issue you with him

 

[kicksavedave]

You don't think it's important for a team to head into the playoffs playing well?

Thats never really had much correlation to actual playoff success.

 

[Calicaps]

Can we make this thread live

Been requested

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Kuzy already looking engaged. Such a smart move to go for the wraparound instead of shooting, unlucky result

And then he smashes himself with a whiffed hit lol...

 

[Brian23]

McMichael isn't close to being ready for the NHL.

How...how do you know? You've not seen him play yet, unless you're secretly a coach and have something to explain to us.

 

[kicksavedave]

How...how do you know? You've not seen him play yet, unless you're secretly a coach and have something to explain to us.

He's never even played in the AHL, let alone the NHL playoffs. Players just don't go from Juniors to the NHL playoffs very often and have success.

 

[Calicaps]

1 shot through 12 minutes and like zero zone time. Caps have no offensive game.

 

[Brian23]

That's not good, Jim.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Tough watch.

 

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

Am I losing it or did one of our guys literally just dump it back into our end rather than clearing the d-zone? Like a completely unpressured pass to no one across ice and near the back corner boards

 

[Brian23]

He's never even played in the AHL, let alone the NHL playoffs. Players just don't go from Juniors to the NHL playoffs very often and have success.

You're making an assumption, I'd be willing to bet he'd be able to give you a more solid 6 to 10 minutes then some random AHLer.

 

[trick9]

Orlov got walked.

 

[Skrudland2Lomakin]

That's not good, Jim.

Kind of misleading. Kuzy had a scoring chance at like a minute in but it wouldn’t count as a shot

 

[Ovie's Neighbor]

This team has been slow starters pretty much all year. They aren’t going to all of a sudden change.

 

[tenken00]

Why do we hate 1st periods

 

[Coldplay619]

We're just out there for a skate.

 

[HeyMattyB]

Tuning in late. Looks like another limp/sad performance from the Caps. No offensive zone time, plenty of time hemmed in the defense zone--where they eventually chop the puck out (immediately turning it over neutral zone), or make one pass to the neutral zone where it gets turned over, rinse and repeat. That the case?

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Refs hate caps

 

[GoCaps2004]

that was such a weak call

 

[BMOK33]

that was such a weak call

Agree. I actually thought it was a solid play by Orlov he was basically hammering the body. He may have briefly pulled the hand off his stick but it wasn’t enough to call. Lee whistled it down I think once he saw it was going to lead to an odd man rush the other way

 

[kicksavedave]

You're making an assumption, I'd be willing to bet he'd be able to give you a more solid 6 to 10 minutes then some random AHLer.

No, you're making the assumption that normal history doesn't apply here. I am going with decades of history which says this is not something that works out.

Why would you offer to bet on something you've literally never seen before?

 

[Melkor]

He's never even played in the AHL, let alone the NHL playoffs. Players just don't go from Juniors to the NHL playoffs very often and have success.

You know what? I'm gonna say this. Literally every single player never played in the AHL or NHL playoffs until they did. How about that?