GDT: ECSF: Game 1 - Washington Capitals vs Carolina Hurricanes, 7pm ET, ESPN

[DarrylshutzSydor]

lol phantom call again......

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Jarvis is a useless waste if he won't shoot.

 

[Cloned]

Another year of the Canes dominating the Corsi battle but losing the actual games.

 

[wunderpanda]

cmon canes, i want my bo-berry biscuit

 

[reino]

horrilbe game. Washington zero effort and Carolina can't score like always. pathetic

 

[insomniaddict]

Nobody tries to cover Thompson's vision on that PP.

 

[BMOK33]

horrilbe game. Washington zero effort and Carolina can't score like always. pathetic

These game 1s when both teams have been off forever are usually not good. I would not be surprised if Dallas/Winnipeg since the two teams turned around fast is the best game 1

 

[Cloned]

Washington gonna get outshot like 35-13 and win 2-0.

 

[insomniaddict]

Washington gonna get outshot like 35-13 and win 2-0.

Typical Canes second round showing.

 

[Gnome17]

Bwahahaha 82-28 in shot attempts, what is this game man..It has such a weird feel to it.

 

[BMOK33]

Washington gonna get outshot like 35-13 and win 2-0.

Carolina has not had very many challenging shots though, its just a ton of far out junk and they've gotten unlucky somewhat with 5 posts

 

[Ratsreign]

My biggest takeaway so far. Ytf won’t the linesman just drop the damn puck

 

[LegendaryNumber5]

I will say this. I'm thankful to not be scrolling though 10 pages of ref complaining at this moment.

 

[MikeS24]

Carolina has not had very many challenging shots though, its just a ton of far out junk and they've gotten unlucky somewhat with 5 posts

CAR are always the Corsi cup champs lol

 

[syz]

My biggest takeaway so far. Ytf won’t the linesman just drop the damn puck

Gotta wave somebody out first to make the games longer.

 

[gtrower]

Another year of the Canes dominating the Corsi battle but losing the actual games.

Games not over and can flip quick. But Caps seem perfectly content to let them fling stuff to the net and pounce on opportunities. ESPN keeps throwing that “offensive zone time” counter onto the screen while the Caps just keep shredding them on the counter.

That only works as long as Thompson is steady though. Well that and the Caps starting to actually finish some more of these high danger chances they’ve been creating. Lack of finishing kept the Montreal series close too. Margin for error is a lot smaller against the Canes.

 

[Turin]

Carolina has not had very many challenging shots though, its just a ton of far out junk and they've gotten unlucky somewhat with 5 posts

Not many challenging shots, just FIVE posts in 25 minutes of play ???

 

[Gnome17]

The crowd is into it atleast, ready to go off at the slightest crumb of intensity from their team.

 

[BMOK33]

Has anyone wondered why the league never considered goalies giving fake icing signals to the inbound skaters is not an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty? It seems to me it can result in players getting hurt as you're more likely to chase hard in that circumstance

 

[bambamcam4ever]

Games not over and can flip quick. But Caps seem perfectly content to let them fling stuff to the net and pounce on opportunities. ESPN keeps throwing that “offensive zone time” counter onto the screen while the Caps just keep shredding them on the counter.

That only works as long as Thompson is steady though.

Shredding? Dude, the Caps have one goal and have no real chances in the last period.

 

[DarrylshutzSydor]

Who else is lining up to punch Ray Ferraro in the face? He was a P%557 player and isw worse as an announcer

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

I had a feeling the series would look like this. Two teams with totally opposite philosophies. Shoot all the time no matter what versus only shoot if it’s an A++ chance.

 

[Summer Rose]

My biggest takeaway so far. Ytf won’t the linesman just drop the damn puck

There's a faceoff violation of some kind on pretty much every faceoff (if not the center himself, then at least one of his four teammates commits some kind of encroachment). I wish they'd clean it up somehow, but one year they cracked down on double faceoff violations and it was hugely unpopular.

Until then... whatever I guess. I'll never blame a linesman for not "just dropping the puck" though.

 

[ZJuice]

Say what you want about ESPN but that was a sick bass line leading into the break

 

[gtrower]

Shredding? Dude, the Caps have one goal and have no real chances in the last period.

lol you just box score watching?