GDT: Game #33: New York Rangers vs Washington Capitals - 7pm ET, MSG2

[CasusBelli]

Loving Igor’s save percentage lol

 

[will1066]

Kuemper is the best "ue" placement since Matt Puempel

 

[Chytilmania]

Did Goodrow get a piece of his jaw back for Christmas?

 

[Machinehead]

Kuemper is the best "ue" placement since Matt Puempel

My German sensibilities are offended by nobody ever getting it right.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

lindgren doesn’t have an offense bone in his body

 

[Ail]

This is slightly less offensive than when Dave Shapiro basically tweeted one of my rants with no credit.

Hi, Dave. I know you read these threads and I know what you did.

I endorse Dave Shapiro slandering.

 

[Chytilmania]

Wish they would double shift Vesey in the 1st to secure the win earlier.

 

[Irishguy42]

lindgren doesn’t have an offense bone in his body

Does he have a bone, period, in his body at this point?

 

[Machinehead]

Wish they would double shift Vesey in the 1st to secure the win earlier.

This guy gets it.

 

[LOFIN]

I was having a discussion with my cousin over the holiday where he remarked that he's in favor of the hard cap because the league is competitive and in a good place.

I was just like "you care about the league? I barely care about the Rangers."

He's young yet. He'll be a curmudgeon one day.

The most brutal part of the cap is when you actually manage to construct a good team via drafting, trading and free agent signing, you practically immediately have to start tearing it apart because someone needs a new contract and it won't be as cheap as the previous one.

I wouldn't mind some type of modification where you can have few players exempt from cap hits, or lower cap hit % for your own drafted players or for players who have been with the team for X amount of years. Something new instead of this system.

 

[Machinehead]

Washington's coach looks like he's about 45 years younger than Ovechkin.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

The most brutal part of the cap is when you actually manage to construct a good team via drafting, trading and free agent signing, you practically immediately have to start tearing it apart because someone needs a new contract and it won't be as cheap as the previous one.

I wouldn't mind some type of modification where you can have few players exempt from cap hits, or lower cap hit % for your own drafted players or for players who have been with the team for X amount of years. Something new instead of this system.

NBA has this kind of system which is great.

 

[Ail]

Omfg what a snorefest this game is going to be, remember when Ovechkin would walk through the D and score one-handed on Henrik, those were the days.

 

[17futurecap]

https://twitter.com/nyp_brooksie/status/1740164217863631183?s=46&t=og2NoApN8dlOdJuf7RotQg

Good Miller interview for intermission reading.

 

[Machinehead]

NBA has this kind of system which is great.

Also the NBA has a super high floor forcing you to field NBA players at all times. Teams obviously still fail but there aren't absolute joke franchises like the Coyotes or the A's.

Even the 2-27 Pistons have talent on their roster. They're just all underperforming and it was constructed very poorly.

 

[will1066]

Can you do transatlantic passes in a metro division game?

 

[MysticLeviathan]

I was gonna be really mad but i’ll take the pp

 

[RangersFan1994]

Powerplay time

 

[Cmox]

Zib was at warp speed there

 

[ncdoc]

Wish he would have buried that!

 

[Machinehead]

That was a "hey you got a good chance" penalty which I f***ing hate, but we'll take it.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Blatant hook on a breakaway, what is that cue ball on Washington’s bench complaining about?

 

[will1066]

Spencer Carbery was the rich arrogant ex-fiance of Rose in Titanic

 

[MysticLeviathan]

Also the NBA has a super high floor forcing you to field NBA players at all times. Teams obviously still fail but there aren't absolute joke franchises like the Coyotes or the A's.

Even the 2-27 Pistons have talent on their roster. They're just all underperforming and it was constructed very poorly.

NBA’s roster is much smaller though

 

[LOFIN]

NBA has this kind of system which is great.

I don't follow the other NA sports that much (I do watch the occasional NFL game or Redzone on Sundays), and I'm not all that familiar with their systems. But because I like to listen to Canadian sports radio via podcasts, I get some exposure. And the amount of player movement in at least the NBA sure brings a much more exciting element to the sport, compared to NHL where fans have to have a notebook and a calculator to figure out if they can bring in some bottom-6 or bottom pairing defensman at the deadline (no, you can't because you are in LTIR and not accruing capspace!). Last free agency was dreadful because practically no good players were there.