Take a walk and cool off brother. You will feel better, I promise.
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SecretaryofDefense5
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I did and I feel better. Pretty darn good season and a lot of reasons to be positive moving forward.
This is part of it… agreed.
But also, wonky ride to be so far ahead and chasing 895. Lot of emotions and then Fell off game and didn’t get it back.
And, Protas (not fully healthy) and Fever out are big holes to fill. Thought Protas had his best game of the playoffs tonight. He was everywhere. Fully healthy from start impacts things a lot.
Hockey is cruel. Do things well all year and then just can’t click. Run into a hot goaltender. Opportunity conversion.
Sativa also helps.
Is it safe in here yet?
We lost to a better team that was able to impose its play style (which is a bad matchup for us). It happens. We also had a lot of guys who had never been in that position before. The players and Carbs will hopefully learn from it.
The Caps had an amazing 50th Anniversary Season. Ovi reached the mountain top. The team almost won the PT - something most us wouldn’t have considered possible after last season. It was a fun journey, and as always - I enjoyed watching the games with the fellow crazies in this thread. Peace!
We lost to a better team that was able to impose its play style (which is a bad matchup for us). It happens. We also had a lot of guys who had never been in that position before. The players and Carbs will hopefully learn from it.
The Caps had an amazing 50th Anniversary Season. Ovi reached the mountain top. The team almost won the PT - something most us wouldn’t have considered possible after last season. It was a fun journey, and as always - I enjoyed watching the games with the fellow crazies in this thread. Peace!
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It's sports. When it looks bleak look at other franchises. Some haven't even made it to the finals. The Patrick was a tough division and so is the current metro. In the Southleast they had to deal with Tampa and post cup Carolina. I mean we could be the old Winnipeg/Arizona franchise. Just enjoy the summer off and be ready for camp. I can assure you the players will move on. I can deal with losing in the second round than make it to the ECF for straight seasons and losing. I have to give it to Edmonton. They are on a mission to want the cup or else despite weaknesses which is what every franchise should focus on over President Trophies, banners, and regular season success.
Is it safe in here yet?
We lost to a better team that was able to impose its play style (which is a bad matchup for us). It happens. We also had a lot of guys who had never been in that position before. The players and Carbs will hopefully learn from it.
The Caps had an amazing 50th Anniversary Season. Ovi reached the mountain top. The team almost won the PT - something most us wouldn’t have considered possible after last season. It was a fun journey, and as always - I enjoyed watching the games with the fellow crazies in this thread. Peace!
This is one of the safest places on this site lol.
SecretaryofDefense5
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Agreed. It was an epic year. Looking forward to watching the youth movement continue to grow next yearIs it safe in here yet?
We lost to a better team that was able to impose its play style (which is a bad matchup for us). It happens. We also had a lot of guys who had never been in that position before. The players and Carbs will hopefully learn from it.
The Caps had an amazing 50th Anniversary Season. Ovi reached the mountain top. The team almost won the PT - something most us wouldn’t have considered possible after last season. It was a fun journey, and as always - I enjoyed watching the games with the fellow crazies in this thread. Peace!
SherVaughn30
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You don't put an $8.5 million per year Center as your 3C! PLD set a career high in points(66) and his +-(+27) was career high as well(in fact his +27 far exceeded his total +4 over his previous 8 seasons!) in a season. Personally, I think he will be even better next season! The Caps need to have more speed/shoot first players added to their lineup. Strome/PLD will be fine as your 1/2 or 2/1 C's in your top 6. Strome has made adjustments, but I think him continued to center OV handcuffs him a bit. PLD with Protas/Wilson showed a lot of success, so I would try to roll those 3 together next season.
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Actually I won't. It a lot better for me to have discussions here about the Caps, then to leave them pent up inside me!
SherVaughn30
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Oilers have good team speed and an explosive offense, including their PP. All they have to do is find a way to collectively play good enough team defense and get timely goaltending.
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Corby78
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While he wasn’t bad I wouldn’t call him hot. I honestly think our lack of high danger scoring chances made his job easier. I don’t feel like we got Halaked.
Corby78
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Who cares what his cap hit is, that should have no baring on building the lineup. We won a cup with 19/92 playing like top line centers. We don’t have that right now on the team. Both strome and PLD have been pleasant suprise reclamation projects. Glad to have them on the team and they aren’t horrible players. But if we want to move on from a second round and out level team we need better down the middle.
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Ultimately if you're only scoring 1 goal, you ain't winning.
Pitching a shutout for 49 minutes (gms 1+2) doesn't mean shit if you aren't getting at least 2 goals
We played great for good chunks tonight but couldn't break thru with Goals and with zero margin for error
Pitching a shutout for 49 minutes (gms 1+2) doesn't mean shit if you aren't getting at least 2 goals
We played great for good chunks tonight but couldn't break thru with Goals and with zero margin for error
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Solid effort, propably deserved more than 1 win here but why prolong it? They couldn’t solve Andersen or bury their chances so they were never even close to moving on here. Same old, same old.
End of an era when it's elimination game and 8 and 74 are your worst players. In the 2nd period Carbery was so scared to put 8 and 17 against Staal line that he rather put the 3rd line against them on a D zone draw.
End of an era when it's elimination game and 8 and 74 are your worst players. In the 2nd period Carbery was so scared to put 8 and 17 against Staal line that he rather put the 3rd line against them on a D zone draw.
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Saying Ovi was one of our worst players is laughable. He struggled at times tonight, sure, he's 39 and probably playing through some kind of injury, but he was putting opportunities together. Carlson was atrocious all playoffs long though, I cannot wait for him to be gone.
Sandin had a particularly awful round as well, we really felt the loss of Marty. On the other hand, Roy was a really awesome development for us this season - between him, Chyc, and Marty we really have a solid three defensemen to build around. I honestly think that AA will get better, this series was just a terrible matchup for his size and style of play, and TVR is solid when not having to cover for gaffs
Acallabeth
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I wouldn't point fingers on any of our players at all.
Yeah, it sucks to lose an elimination game on a soft tie-breaker goal late in the 3rd, and you'd want highly paid players to produce more, but... From what I watched, there wasn't a single game component or position we had an advantage over Canes. Team-wide, we had neither a game plan as an answer to Carolina's, nor the
skill to simply outplay them, let alone the intensity to outhustle those deficiencies. They were better and sharper.
Yeah, it sucks to lose an elimination game on a soft tie-breaker goal late in the 3rd, and you'd want highly paid players to produce more, but... From what I watched, there wasn't a single game component or position we had an advantage over Canes. Team-wide, we had neither a game plan as an answer to Carolina's, nor the
skill to simply outplay them, let alone the intensity to outhustle those deficiencies. They were better and sharper.
SherVaughn30
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You know what is puzzling to me to this day, how the Caps keep reinventing ways to lose in the 2nd round! I forget the number of years we have made the playoffs since we started? ONLY 3 TIMES IN OUR PLAYOFF HISTORY HAVE WE BEEN ABLE TO ADVANCE PAST THE 2ND ROUND! I have lost track how many times we have lost a Game 7 in the 2nd round?!
SherVaughn30
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Well ownership, the GM and Carbs are not gonna listen to you! PLD is staying in our top 6! Besides CMM will be our 3C, just as the draft scouts projected him to be!
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Going back to R2G1, who do you look at(both players and coaches) that didn't have the team ready to play that night?
HecticGlow
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Given how things fell apart late the regular season, I don’t think anyone should be too surprised by this. Part of having success in the playoffs is about guys finding an extra gear at just the right time. Remember even during the Cup run, we weren’t a great team for a lot of that season, and strung together some really solid wins (under Grubauer) to end the RS which helped catapult guys in the playoffs.
For me, the biggest issues this time around were the complete absence of a functioning third line - Leonard will be a good player, but he reminds me of CMM under Laviolette. Has the tools, but still needs to figure out how to quite use them at the NHL level. Eller was hopeless, and we probably needed someone with a better scoring acumen and size than Mangiapane there. A third line that can do real damage, and a fourth line that can make life difficult for the other side, relieves a lot of pressure from the top 6. Strome and Dubois can be at least as good as Backstrom and Kuzy were in 2018, but to do that they need someone capable of challenging for 2C at 3C (as Eller was, just about, then).
I think we move on from Alexeyev. He reminds me of Bowey a little - on paper should bring the right attributes, but doesn’t do anything especially well while having some defensive woes. He’s not that young, or inexperienced, now either.
And the forwards need to get better at screening the goalie and going for deflections. Anderson had clear sight lines almost the entire series.
For me, the biggest issues this time around were the complete absence of a functioning third line - Leonard will be a good player, but he reminds me of CMM under Laviolette. Has the tools, but still needs to figure out how to quite use them at the NHL level. Eller was hopeless, and we probably needed someone with a better scoring acumen and size than Mangiapane there. A third line that can do real damage, and a fourth line that can make life difficult for the other side, relieves a lot of pressure from the top 6. Strome and Dubois can be at least as good as Backstrom and Kuzy were in 2018, but to do that they need someone capable of challenging for 2C at 3C (as Eller was, just about, then).
I think we move on from Alexeyev. He reminds me of Bowey a little - on paper should bring the right attributes, but doesn’t do anything especially well while having some defensive woes. He’s not that young, or inexperienced, now either.
And the forwards need to get better at screening the goalie and going for deflections. Anderson had clear sight lines almost the entire series.
ovikovy817
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Shame. I think there was room to do better.
We missed Marty too much
With the elimination at least we won't the see the so called "fans" I would even say "PO fans" or "PO winning fans" posting here.
Sh**ing on the players that a month ago and during the whole season were great and now are crap.
We missed Marty too much
With the elimination at least we won't the see the so called "fans" I would even say "PO fans" or "PO winning fans" posting here.
Sh**ing on the players that a month ago and during the whole season were great and now are crap.
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