GDT: Club/Mammoth/Outlaws @ Ovechkins Fibula 12:30 EST

[Calicaps]

There are no line changes and no goalie change.

Deployment time looks on par thus far. Seems like ho hum to me.

That doesn’t mean he’s not doing anything.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

Kinda a LOL. You can make changes without pulling the goalie or changing the lines.

I feel a third line goal coming up..

If you don’t change the lines, you don’t change the goalie, the lines are being deployed their normal ice time and zone starts….they can make slight adjustments to the neutral zone but IMO strategy isn’t the issue right now. It’s level of effort which I think requires parking some people on the bench and shifting lines but we shall see

 

[DWGie26]

Lots of line changes now. 1st line Frank and OG fourth line.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

That doesn’t mean he’s not doing anything.

To each their own.

 

[Cappy76]

Team is 7-1-2 in the L10 but let's shake everything up because of a sleepy start against a hungry team that just got blown out the day before a day before an extended break.

 

[BallardEra]

This Vegemite sandwich guy got shelled yesterday and today he's like a brick wall.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

Lots of line changes now. 1st line Frank and OG fourth line.

There is a pulse.

 

[Calicaps]

Personally, I'm ready for the Frank experiment to end. He's got speed and not much else at this level. Four points in 13 games, and nothing in at least five games. Would've been nice if he was the answer at wing, but it seems he's not.

 

[DWGie26]

Personally, I'm ready for the Frank experiment to end. He's got speed and not much else at this level. Four points in 13 games, and nothing in at least five games. Would've been nice if he was the answer at wing, but it seems he's not.

I mean I would take him over Vrana. But it does confirm we can use a Top 6 upgrade. Frank may have more value to another team as a piece of a trade.

 

[Calicaps]

I mean I would take him over Vrana. But it does confirm we can use a Top 6 upgrade. Frank may have more value to another team as a piece of a trade.

Well yeah, but better than V isn't much of an endorsement, unfortunately.

 

[troyerlaw]

Personally, I'm ready for the Frank experiment to end. He's got speed and not much else at this level. Four points in 13 games, and nothing in at least five games. Would've been nice if he was the answer at wing, but it seems he's not.

He has also drawn some key penalties Ali g the way which we then scored on, not to mention canceling a bunch of icings. I think his advanced stats are good

 

[Calicaps]

He has also drawn some key penalties Ali g the way which we then scored on, not to mention canceling a bunch of icings. I think his advanced stats are good

fair point. he just looks very "AHL superstar" to me, but I'd be glad to be wrong.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

He has also drawn some key penalties Ali g the way which we then scored on, not to mention canceling a bunch of icings. I think his advanced stats are good

I’m a believer in Frank. He has been given limited ice time and isn’t exactly playing with players that match his tempo.

 

[HTFN]

fair point. he just looks very "AHL superstar" to me, but I'd be glad to be wrong.

I don't disagree overall but he is providing something (that Vrana can too, to be fair, but I think slightly better) which is just that he's so damn fast. Or rather, they're probably equally fast but Frank is just a bit better off-puck in ways that aren't purely offensive which helps.

It's probably not going to tip advanced stat scales but there's some merit to a team that plays as slow and methodically as the Caps do having a few guys who surprise the other team by just being fast, in that it stops compression of their formations, forces them to play deeper, and opens some space in the middle.

It's the same as when Fever gets on his horse, it's not significantly likely to pay off but a guy blasting through neutral doing 25 makes you pay some attention. If this were the NFL they need at least one or two deep threats just to keep people honest and in some short sequences Frank is giving them that.

 

[StrikingDistance]

With more shots than the Utes, I don't have a good feeling about this.

We also seem to be allowing 4Gs too often lately.

Doom

 

[Empty Goal Net]

Utah players not very subtly interfering and clutching. Hustle by the Caps should draw a penalty or two.

Stromer! Right place, right time.

 

[DWGie26]

There is Strome on the doorstep where he is best.

 

[g00n]

We are going to win this f***ing game.

It might be in regulation. It might be in OT. It might be in the shootout.

But we're going to win.

Book it.

 

[StrikingDistance]

With more shots than the Utes, I don't have a good feeling about this.

We also seem to be allowing 4Gs too often lately.

Doom

Less doom.

And the Utes has someone named Kesselring? Can we call their offensive rush the Blitzkrieg?

The Utah Luftwaffe?

fyi: Albert Kesselring - Wikipedia

 

[DWGie26]

Frank looked great on that last shift.

 

[Calicaps]

Oh shit.

 

[Empty Goal Net]

Oof. Stromer. Maybe now they have to deal for a C.

 

[HTFN]

Not great looking but hopefully just one big ol' fat f***er of a bruise

 

[aonb]

be ok backstrome, pretty please

 

[g00n]

Strome got clipped trying to get around chchch and landed with his right knee folding underneath him.

Does not look good. Hope it's just a tweak

Ah the angle from behind the other goal shoes the puck hitting him above the knee and the folding of the leg wasn't as bad. Thank goodness.