Post-Game Talk: Caps @ Rangers: 05/03/21

[duhmetreE]

enjoy this gif... this is how you deal with it... Messier style

 

[bleedblue94]

I f***ing love Vally

 

[Chaels Arms]

Valiquette doesn't stop with the Colton Orr stuff. I get it but I don't need him reading tough guy texts from a guy who is never going to touch the ice again. Focus on the team we have.

 

[Captain Monglobster]

He took liberties with our skill guys. You go take liberties with theirs. Its not rocket science, no one is expecting Adam Fox to square up with Wilson.

 

[Unpredictable1]

What an embarrassment of a game. Wow.

 

[bl02]

He even had his stick wrapped around Buch's neck and punching him at same time.

 

[Ola]

I f***ing love Vally

What did he say?

 

[will1066]

A deterrent is not someone who will drop the gloves against the perpetrator. It's someone who the other team fears will take a run at their top player, either clean or not, in an eye for an eye. This team lacks any sense of crazy or unpredictability by what one of its players might do in response. Plain vanilla personality.

 

[RGY]

Please trade for Reeves

 

[SnowblindNYR]

By the way this is exactly why they should have kept a guy like Lemieux

Lemieux would have done nothing. He's not some amazing heavyweight.

 

[Richard Banger]

Missed this one. Think I’ll miss the rest of the season lol

 

[mike14]

I for one am shocked that professional players didn't want to face large fines and/or suspensions to 'even the score'. Truly, truly shocked

 

[Machinehead]

This incident is going to lead to reading nonsense for YEARS.

Thanks, Tom.

 

[RGY]

Valiquette doesn't stop with the Colton Orr stuff. I get it but I don't need him reading tough guy texts from a guy who is never going to touch the ice again. Focus on the team we have.

He is making a point...

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

I used to think the Sather method of always having a goon anchor on the 4th line was stupid but I've change my mind. Having an enforcer is necessary, keeps the star players feeling safe and holds goons like Wilson accountable for their actions.

 

[bl02]

He took liberties with our skill guys. You go take liberties with theirs. Its not rocket science, no one is expecting Adam Fox to square up with Wilson.

But who? The team this year got rid of anyone who would have the balls to go do such a thing. Well maybe Lindgren but he's hurt.

 

[Irishguy42]

By the way this is exactly why they should have kept a guy like Lemieux

Pretty hilarious considering Lemieux deterred literally nothing and everyone laughed him off.

You can pretty much book it that Wilson would have Wilson'd just the same if Lemieux was in the lineup. You can literally count on no hands the amount of times that Lemieux has been effective in preventing shitty players from doing shitty things while he was in the lineup.

 

[Tob]

"Our country has been invaded by lizard like aliens from Jupiter and they want to enslave us but right after this, we've got plenty more to come that you won't want to miss" - John Gioannone

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

Star of the Game: High Pitch Mike

Stern fan?

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Stern fan?

Old school. The stuff after Artie left is garbage.

Did you see that commercial?

 

[Embryo]

Honestly that amazing Kakko goal from that amazing pass from Laffy made up for any negatives in this game, in my opinion. That is what I'll take from this game. A positive.

 

[Fvital92]

What did he say?

Among other things, he literally called Wilson an idiot on TV.

 

[bl02]

He is making a point...

and I am glad he read that text because that is the reality of it when you play against scum bags like Wilson. Imagine if this was a 7 game series?! Wilson would just keep doing more of the same.

 

[Captain Monglobster]

But who? The team this year got rid of anyone who would have the balls to go do such a thing. Well maybe Lindgren but he's hurt.

Anyone with balls.

 

[haveandare]

Gorton and JD have to get some guys on this team who can play with grit and can drop the gloves if need be.

I was disgusted earlier in the season when Jeremy Lauzon punched Kakko in the face and nobody did anything.

Then watching what happened tonight, it’s clear nobody fears this team on a physical level. There needs to be a price to pay when someone decides to put their hands on our players.

I very seriously doubt 99% of players in this league fear literally any other player on a physical level. Nobody is getting hurt in modern NHL fights except for cases of bad luck. We do need harder players just for morale and to build cohesion in the room

 

[RGY]

They need Ryan Reeves. He is competent enough to play the game. We have a young team. We need Reeves.

Khaira was available earlier in the year.

Not addressing this team’s toughness is negligent.