Are the Caps this year's biggest frauds?

[Midnight Judges]

PDO is junk science.

There is no force wherein a team with a good save percentage would be caused to have a lower shooting percentage, or vice versa.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

Preseason plenty of people said the Caps weren't going to make the playoffs. The talk was that the Caps main goal was to putter along while Ovi chipped away at the goals record.

Today they are at the top the East. The off-season moves are planning out. Their main goalie is a Vezina candidate. The coach's system is working. Ovi is scoring like a man possessed.

Weird terminology to call them frauds when there are multiple teams in each conference that enter each season as favorites to go to the SCF then fizzle out. With the parity in this league it's tough to call a team doing what the Caps are doing a fraud.

 

[Hale The Villain]

They are a good team but they won't keep finishing as well as they have and won't get Vezina quality goaltending from Thompson over a full season.

Definitely a playoff team but I don't expect they'll be a contender.

 

[GRob83]

They picked up their 16th win of the season last night when allowing the 1st goal of the game (16-6-4). That's a .692 Points% when spotting 1 goal leads to their opponents. For the season, only 1 other team even has a total Points% above .692 and that's Winnipeg who the Capitals are tied with for the NHL lead (Caps have a game in hand). They're better down 1-0 than 31 other teams are when tied 0-0.

 

[abax44]

Frauds of the East - Washington
Frauds of the West - Winnipeg

Here's hoping for an all frauds Cup Final!

 

[pezpunk]

They are on a pretty tasty PDO stretch. I don't expect them to make it out of the 2nd round.

54-game luck streak.

 

[GRob83]

54-game luck streak.

16 of them without their 39 year old leading goal scorer and team Captain.

 

[EroCaps]

Is PDO like astrology for hockey hosers?

Washington is waning in Aries fam

 

[Mez]

54-game luck streak.

Thats what Canuck fans said last season. Im not saying they will fall of a cliff...I just think they are over achieving. Happy to be wrong though, I like the Caps.

 

[ShootIt]

I don't think so.

They made some moves this past offseason that is paying off very well right now.

Capitals have been a playoff team for some time now, but this time they got an upgrade at center and goalie. No surprise they are doing better.

 

[Calicaps]

The Caps and Jets are the picture of today's NHL. No prime-age superstar forward power. (Don't come at me about Ovie. He's the GOAT and playing amazing, but he's 39.) Instead, they get it done with balance, depth, discipline, grit, great coaching, and stellar tending. I'd argue that FLA is in this same vein. They may have more superstar-ish guys than Washington and Winnipeg, but they don't have anyone on the McD/MacK tier (taking nothing away from Barkov and Tkachuk because they're both awesome).

In the age of parity, this is the way.