Post-Game Talk: Caps/Sabres, 12/5/16, 7pm ET, Phone Booth

[Hivemind]

Put that mite on the first line in the 3rd period.

 

[troyerlaw]

I think they're past that. Holtby didn't just speak out from a happy, cohesive locker room. There's probably something brewing and ready to boil over.

This does not look like a team that's all on the same page, or even reading from the same script.

Him saying the other day that the team needs to get in 'better shape' definitely caught my attention

A. It's probably true, but also B. a goalie, who is largely spared the rigors of a bag skate, saying that the team needs to be bagskated suggests either there is already discord in the locker room or there soon will be.

 

[troyerlaw]

C'mon, Alzy. Can't go offsides there

 

[Hivemind]

Offsides after another slow journey through the neutral zone.

 

[peterthegreat12]

There are so many players playing like crap, it's hard to know where to start.

 

[g00n]

There are so many players playing like crap, it's hard to know where to start.

Everyone hit something. Don't think, just start hitting.

 

[troyerlaw]

Beagle line and Vrana line, please. (i.e. lines which appear to give a ****)

 

[g00n]

unreal that we're only down 1 goal and still in this game.

 

[twabby]

Niskanen is having a really bad game

 

[SpinningEdge]

Remember last time we were freaking out about maybe not making playoffs so our gm made a forsberg for erat type trade?

Something tells me something like that could happen again. We move Burro for someone who just doesn't fit here and Burro scores 25 next year and solidifies himself as a legit top 6 weapon... or something like that.

We suck right now - but let's overreact on message boards, have team vent and get mad in locker room, have Trotz bench players, etc.... cannot overreact like a forsberg/erat type thing again.... please no.

 

[Devil Dancer]

Ovie is a possession black hole right now, but he has hit a couple if,iposts in the past few games.

 

[Langway]

Every GDT for the foreseeable future should be Washington Capitals vs. Washington Capitals.

 

[Hivemind]

Higher quality chances on the PK than on the PP once again.

 

[troyerlaw]

Beagle is only guy with prayer of scoring right now, it seems. Getting better chances SH than rest of team at ES. That was a great delay and set-up by Winnik, btw. Very nice play

 

[Capsman]

Lol anyone can see this team has no viable offensive system. Once they cross the middle it's hodge podge. Unless someone dekes 3 guys, it's futile.

 

[troyerlaw]

Trying to figure out which is more likely right now -- JDub finishing the game -3; ovie taking one more minor; or Caps failing to convert on a late PP

 

[Hivemind]

Trying to figure out which is more likely right now -- JDub finishing the game -3; ovie taking one more minor; or Caps failing to convert on a late PP

I'll take all 3. Quite possibly all at once. Buffalo scores shorthanded with Williams on the ice, and Ovechkin is penalized for something stupid after the whistle.

 

[Coldplay619]

I'll take all 3.

 

[Hivemind]

Niskanen is brutal tonight.

 

[Hivemind]

A+ quality chance airmailed wide! Drink!

 

[peterthegreat12]

Vrana has been one of the better players tonight and he is hardly getting any ice time.

P.S.: Burra < Vrana right now.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

We gonna win this

 

[g00n]

last 10 minutes of the game. time to stop slacking

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Now they're playing and we can't buy a break.

 

[troyerlaw]

last 10 minutes of the game. time to stop slacking

Maybe THAT is the Team Identity. 'Will and Skill, for 10 Minutes'