Post-Game Talk: Is it possible to end a game before OT?

[BinCookin]

I'm done with Sheahan. I'm done with the PP. I'm done with guys getting pushed off the puck left and right.

I thought DeKeyser had a really good, if subtle, game.

He Did actually:

My Scores:

Green +1 -3
Kronwall +2 -2 (Top pairing did not have their normal strong game)
DK +4 (good game of DK)
E +1 -1
M +4
S +4 -1 (Great game for the bottom pairing)

 

[DanZ]

4/6 points against Washington this season. Not terrible.

 

[Ulysses31]

Could have used pulkkinen on that four on three...or tatar or nyquist

 

[NumberFive]

Enh. Thanks to Buttman's brilliant ingenuity, any given team could technically lose all but 18 games in the entire season and still make the playoffs. But whatever. I'll take the OTLs.

 

[NumberFive]

The shootout was also horrible as usual but honestly who cares. You shouldn't even get there.

This.

Though SOs are a joke to start with, but that's another topic...

 

[Actual Thought*]

Trotz teams play so well. I wish we had picked him up when he was available. Washington was so much more disciplined. Their structure was so much better. I think we should be happy to get the point even though we got soundly out played.

 

[Pavels Dog]

I'm done with Sheahan. I'm done with the PP. I'm done with guys getting pushed off the puck left and right.

I thought DeKeyser had a really good, if subtle, game.

Sheahan's been pretty good lately. PP is the worst part of this team's play currently. Just abysmal.

 

[NumberFive]

I think we should be happy to get the point even though we got soundly out played.

Absolutely. But I don't feel we played that badly. If we had, we'd have been sent packing without a point.

And before anyone plays their 'lucky-to-have-gotten-that-point' card, we have a point in 11 straight games. That doesn't happen by luck. They're getting the job done. And I've already mentioned the mathematics behind how few you actually need to outright win in order to make the playoffs, so 'good enough' is, really, good enough.

Could they be doing better? Sure. They could be 28-0-0 (and some folks here won't be happy unless that's the case). But I'll take 15-8-5, sure.

 

[PelagicJoe]

Howard was fine during regulation. It is fair and accurate to say he is total dog **** in shootouts.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Trotz teams play so well. I wish we had picked him up when he was available. Washington was so much more disciplined. Their structure was so much better. I think we should be happy to get the point even though we got soundly out played.

So you wish we dumped Babcock for him?

 

[mindfly]

I'm surprised it took so long for goalies to figure out Nyquist's one and only SO move...

Also a huge coaching mistake.. kind of ignorant, by blashill, not to switch to Mrazek for the SO... It's the same BS babcock went with.. "Howard took us this far in the game, let him have a chance in the SO even though his SO stats are ****"

BS

 

[Zetterberg4Captain]

howie is simply not good in the SO and thus should be replaced when he starts and the game goes to one

let him practice them all day long until he cant let a goal in and then and only then put him back in during game action

 

[Actual Thought*]

So you wish we dumped Babcock for him?

In hindsight? Of course.

 

[TheOtherOne]

Enh. Thanks to Buttman's brilliant ingenuity, any given team could technically lose all but 18 games in the entire season and still make the playoffs. But whatever. I'll take the OTLs.

If you ask me a team that goes an entire season without ever being behind at the end of a 60 min regulation game is a pretty damn impressive team, and deserves their 100 points if not more.

 

[NumberFive]

Also a huge coaching mistake.. kind of ignorant, by blashill, not to switch to Mrazek for the SO... It's the same BS babcock went with.. "Howard took us this far in the game, let him have a chance in the SO even though his SO stats are ****"

I thought we already covered this...? Bringing in a cold goalie without warm-ups, to take on a series of penalty shots (arguably the most difficult task a goalie has to tackle), just to win one point instead of two, all the while risking an injury to the subbing goalie, is short-sighted and has little ROI, given the risk to bear.

Not to mention the fact that the game should have been won in regulation (or even in OT), and you're asking a cold goaltender to put his health at risk because the rest of the team couldn't get it done in 65 minutes??

No.

 

[NumberFive]

If you ask me a team that goes an entire season without ever being behind at the end of a 60 min regulation game is a pretty damn impressive team, and deserves their 100 points if not more.

I quite agree. But instead of the lame descriptor "overtime loss", let's call it what it should be called and should be regarded as: A TIE.

Yeah, I'm a purist. Sorry.

 

[DeYarmond Edison]

I can agree that playing Richards and Helm with Datsyuk is bringing him down. That line is absurd.

 

[HadVokounOnFortSt]

Officiating was one sided and kept the Capitals in the game.

 

[mindfly]

I thought we already covered this...? Bringing in a cold goalie without warm-ups, to take on a series of penalty shots (arguably the most difficult task a goalie has to tackle), just to win one point instead of two, all the while risking an injury to the subbing goalie, is short-sighted and has little ROI, given the risk to bear.

Not to mention the fact that the game should have been won in regulation (or even in OT), and you're asking a cold goaltender to put his health at risk because the rest of the team couldn't get it done in 65 minutes??

No.

Solution: When the game goes to OT let the goalie (Mrazek) warm up best way possible with goalie equipment in case the game goes to SO.. injury risk is less now.

 

[DeYarmond Edison]

Officiating was one sided and kept the Capitals in the game.

Are you sure it didn't have something to do with the fact that we got out shot 40-23?

 

[DanZ]

Solution: When the game goes to OT let the goalie (Mrazek) warm up best way possible with goalie equipment in case the game goes to SO.. injury risk is less now.

How is letting a goalie warm up in a 3-on-3 OT any better? So we just get scored on in OT instead of losing the shootout? Great plan...

 

[DanZ]

Are you sure it didn't have something to do with the fact that we got out shot 40-23?

The lopsided PPs had something to do with that, yes.

 

[NumberFive]

Solution: When the game goes to OT let the goalie (Mrazek) warm up best way possible with goalie equipment in case the game goes to SO.. injury risk is less now.

So now what you're proposing is that Howard should be yanked prior to the start of OT and put Mrazek in. Great. So now if Mrazek lets a goal in, we not only do not get the extra point, we lose the one we got and walk away empty-handed. All because you just HAD to have Mrazek in, in case of a shootout situation.

Again, no.

 

[DeYarmond Edison]

The lopsided PPs had something to do with that, yes.

We had a really hard time sustaining any pressure in the offensive zone. Can't win like that, at least not usually.

I had fair share of whiskeys last night but I did not think officiating was bad. Yeah they missed a high sticking call but for the most part Washington did a good job at keeping them to the outside and didn't do much holding.

 

[TheOtherOne]

I agree, putting Mrazek in the net is the best way to get Nyquist and Datsyuk to score.