GDT: Carolina @ Washington - Capital Punishment

[Carolinas Identity*]

Who:

Johansson//Backstrom//Ovechkin
Fehr//Grabovksi//Brouwer
Chimera//Grabovski//Ward
Erat//Latta//Wilson

Schmidt//Green
Alzner//Carlson
Orlov//Strachan

Vs.

GerbeE//Staal//Ruutu
Tlusty//J. Staal//Dwyer
Skinner//Lindholm//Dvorak
Bowman//Nash//Westgarth

Hainsey//Faulk
Harrison//Murphy
Bellemore//Komisarek


What:

Where:

When:

Why:

2 Points

Let's get a win Boys!!!
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[GoCanes2013]

Go Canes - 4-2 win

 

[What the Faulk]

^ They were mustacheless against Vancouver on Sunday.

Justin Peters gets the start tonight for some reason.

 

[GoCanes2013]

Canes pre-game warmup today, seeing as it's no longer Movember?>

 

[GoCanes2013]

Ah rats, Sunday was the 1st, wasn't it? I missed that game golfing. Thanks!

AND - is Westgarth REALLY going to be back in the lineup? Can we vote to extend his suspension?

 

[What the Faulk]

I hadn't seen anything about Malhotra being out, so I wouldn't count on it. Also Sekera is probable to play, and Murphy may sit.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

^ They were mustacheless against Vancouver on Sunday.

Justin Peters gets the start tonight for some reason.

Look within for your reason

 

[the halleJOKEL]

5 - 1 loss

 

[TheOllieC]

Gotta showcase Peters for trade bait.

 

[What the Faulk]

Yeah but I don't put too much stock into matchups like that. Too much turnover and too many other factors. I don't buy the showcase reason either. Why not start him against Nashville on Thursday with the back to back? Just seems like a strange decision. Then again, I think I've questioned a lot of the decisions Muller has made.

 

[Identity404]

Yeah but I don't put too much stock into matchups like that. Too much turnover and too many other factors. I don't buy the showcase reason either. Why not start him against Nashville on Thursday with the back to back? Just seems like a strange decision. Then again, I think I've questioned a lot of the decisions Muller has made.

I think starting Peters is a pretty solid move by Muller. Peters has confidence against the Caps.

1.915 GAA and 93% SP in 6 games, including 2 shutouts.

 

[cptjeff]

I buy myself a ticket and see what happens- Peters starts. Hopefully the D manages to keep themselves together for this one. After watching the Devils collapse in person while home over Thanksgiving, I'm not entirely optimistic. If the D is off its game again, we're gonna have problems.

 

[RodTheBawd]

You'd think we'd dress 7 defensemen to have the 5 man slot collapse Peters package go into full effect.

 

[bluedevil58*]

Is this even going to be worth watching? I am becoming demoralized here. Loss after loss. It is one thing if we are playing a hard working game and losing. But the fact of the matter is...Our team totally sucks in almost every aspect of the game.

 

[tomdundo]

I didn't know Grabovski was good enough to center both the second and third lines.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

Look within for your reason

So what you're saying is we should play Harrison and Corvo 20 minutes each and ice a Sanguinetti-McBain pairing? It worked last time! Yay for making lineup decisions based on randomness and luck occurring over small sample sizes. Did Peters even face ten combined scoring chances in his shutouts against the Caps?

 

[What the Faulk]

Is this even going to be worth watching? I am becoming demoralized here. Loss after loss. It is one thing if we are playing a hard working game and losing. But the fact of the matter is...Our team totally sucks in almost every aspect of the game.

Extra Skater ‏@ExtraSkater
Caps & Canes are very similar: 47%/46% FF% close, 92.6%/92.8% 5v5 Sv%. But Caps are 5 pts up in standings thanks to 7.9%/5.9% 5v5 Sh%

Huge difference in special teams probably doesn't hurt.

Even if Peters has confidence, I still think this game is important enough where you go with Cam. I have to think this almost certainly means the goalie surplus will be solved by Thursday.

 

[Wolfpuck]

For some bizarre reason, Peters is Hasek against the Capitals, so we might actually have a chance tonight.

 

[Unsustainable]

I'm optimistic about this one.

I want them to win it for my dog Buster, he had to move on to the doggy park in the sky today.

 

[Novacane]

Win it.

 

[ramp23]

I'm optimistic about this one.

I want them to win it for my dog Buster, he had to move on to the doggy park in the sky today.

So sorry for your loss.

 

[jstaal]

Sorry about Buster, lets win it for Buster!

 

[What the Faulk]

Sekera is in, Komisarek is, Murphy is out.

Clearly this decision was made with the powerplay in mind.

 

[TheOllieC]

For ****s sake why is Murphy out for Komisarek. Another loss incoming.

 

[cptjeff]

Sekera is in, Komisarek is, Murphy is out.

Clearly this decision was made with the powerplay in mind.

Komi over Murphy? What the Faulk*?




*Sorry for borrowing that.