Shattenkirk with them, us or St Louis, we'll still go farther than Washington.
Tomorrow
The Capitals are hilariousWashington has been to the Conference Finals twice in 44 years.
We've been there three times since McDonagh is on the team.
It's never not funny.
Trotz likes throwing out his little barbs. I remember that one about the Rangers disappearing in the rear-view mirror. No doubt, he thought it was safe.
Orpik, at that that particular stage of his career, being your primary partner? Did Trotz really think nobody was going to look a bit harder at his statement?
Similar to Boudreau, just keep Trotz for as long as possible, Washington, and the Rangers will continue to benefit from that.
Arrogance always pisses me off.
I liken him to the Brad Marchand. Did anyone here HONESTLY ever think Marchand would ever be ANYTHING but a Sean Avery type player? C'mon be honest. Well I didn't. Had no idea he had that much talent. I'll even go as far as to admit that I thought the 21 he got in 2010 was a fluke and wouldn't ever get near that again. Boy was I wrong. The kind of guy you hate, but would LOVE on your team.Wilson doesn't goon it up anymore. He's the next Gretzky now.
Keep up with the times, friendo
Trotz comments on Shatty:
Kind of like Trotz as a coach. Thought of as top tier, but really isn't. Never been past the 2nd round in his entire coaching career.
Plus, I just remember his comments about the Rangers on 24/7 in the 2015 season "This team will be in our rearview mirror soon, they're not on your level" to his own team. Then we came back from down 3-1 to beat them in the playoffs. God damn that was sweet.
It's SO infuriating. It feels like he's scored 50 goals against us in that fashion. I'd gladly live with committing 2 defenders to him and giving up PP goals to any other Cap.Let's try not to take stupid penalties and then have Ovi score on us from the left circle, ok?
Definitely an insult from Trotz to Shatty, but is he wrong? I don't disagree with him.
He is wrong.
I think he's a very good 3. Is he one of the 62 best in the NHL? Probably, but if you can't defend top players, I don't think you can be top pair.
It's SO infuriating. It feels like he's scored 50 goals against us in that fashion. I'd gladly live with committing 2 defenders to him and giving up PP goals to any other Cap.
Definitely an insult from Trotz to Shatty, but is he wrong? I don't disagree with him.
He's a good #2 imo.
EK cant defend against top players.
And if he was putting up Shattenkirk level numbers, he wouldn't be a great top-pairing option either.
The point I'm making is on PB's "if you can't defend top players you aren't 1st pairing" comment.
Right, but I think there's an obvious caveat to that. If you're going to put up points the way Karlsson does, then your defense needs only to be adequate.