RE: Green matador on Oshie goal
Alan May specifically didn't blame Green on that as it was Mrazek who was wildly off his angle. That was just a bad goal to give up to a RH shot coming down the RW.
RE: Broken hand
They mentioned if that was the case it would be 4-6 weeks that he'd be out.
No reference made to Green matador on Oshie goal, rather it was about his reaction to Carlson's slapshot gwg where you see Green actually watch the puck pass by him and he archs his back to move out of the puck's path rather than try to block the shot. On the Oshie goal I felt Green didn't hustle enough/give full effort to get over to Oshie. https://www.nhl.com/video/carlsons-blistering-one-timer/t-283340418/c-49261303
Mike Green last night.
First his "defense" on Oshie's goal then his matador like behavior on Carlson's slap shot goal where you can even see him actually arch his back away from the puck as he watches it just pass him as it flies towards the eventual GWG.
Sad thing is that Green is by far their best defenseman....
I would think Kronwall (currently injured) is their best dman.
As far as Ovie goes, you know what, I don't care.
He was a beast on Tues against the Canes. He shows up for every game, plays through every injury, goes to the All star game every year, and does all the promo stuff the Caps ask him to do, plus charity work to boot. Honestly if he wants to take game 55 off then so be it.
Pretty sure Kronwall is washed up. He's nowhere near the player he was a few years ago
Well then if Green is your number one dman you are in trouble indeed.
I saw those quotes and was a bit perplexed to be honest.
Didn't they goto OT vs Cbus and got shafted by a non call?
We never seemed not in control of that game and for long stretches it seemed like a shooting gallery for us.
They got a couple breakaways out of nowhere and were generally one and done all night.
Didn't we dismantle them Corsi wise too?
Seems like sour grapes to me
I look at it as the Capitals have the talent level to shift styles of play. They admitted to try play in a way to attempt to 'lure' the capitals into a more open style of play. Cbus just plays one way (from what I have seen). Thats not necessarily a bad thing but not a negative to have a team that can be a bit more flexible in its structure and talent level.
Uh…? That was not one of the Caps better games and Caps absolutely dominated the majority of the game. Wings looked good at the start of the second but otherwise Caps were dismantling them.Zetterberg wasn't too impressed with us, apparently. Said Columbus is better. At least that's what I got from his quotes.
“They are really skilled, and when they can live on transitions or turnovers that they did today, they are a good team,†Zetterberg said. “Columbus, last game we played, I thought, was a tougher team to play against – they are a lot harder and they play different.
“Don't get me wrong, this is a really, really good team, but it’s a different team than Columbus.â€
Also don't think our style is "wide open", but if teams want to strategize againsts us with that impression - fine with me.
“We didn’t play as good as previous game against Columbus,†Justin Abdelkader said. “We tried to make it a wide-open game like these guys like to play."