GDT: GM25: Sharks in DC @ 7:08pm EST

[StrikingDistance]

I had Pepperoni pizza for dinner tonight...

Traitor

 

[SherVaughn30]

Pens won. Dammit.

Panthers aint the same team like their 2 previous seasons!

Traitor

Huh?!

 

[SherVaughn30]

Good loss to take, as it keeps them humbled. We are not gonna be like the 3 previous Presidents Trophy winning Caps!

 

[TheSmokingMan]

Trap game if I ever saw one. Logan is the only reason we escaped with a point. On to Toronto.

 

[trick9]

Poor game. Sharks looked good so all credit to them though.

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

Watched from about six rows up and there were good stretches and bad stretches. Caps largely looked like a team who just won four straight over three good teams (and the Islanders) and didn’t play with the same structure and precision they’ve proven they’re capable of. The cross-ice passing was especially bad.

Wouldn’t feel too bad about this one. The Sharks were fun to watch and are 10-6-3 over their last 19 games, which is a top-10 record in the NHL over that span. They’re pacing right now to almost double their point total from last year.

 

[NoVaCapsFan]

I was there too. Celebrini is the real deal and well worth paying to watch in person. Will Smith was an absentee, or at least not noticed by me and I was looking for him

Caps played just OK but the Sharks were better than a bottom dwelling team,, so it’s not a scandal to have taken a point and not two. That said,Wilson end-of-game penalty is not what you expect from a leader.

 

[Kazer]

Watched from about six rows up and there were good stretches and bad stretches. Caps largely looked like a team who just won four straight over three good teams (and the Islanders) and didn’t play with the same structure and precision they’ve proven they’re capable of. The cross-ice passing was especially bad.

Wouldn’t feel too bad about this one. The Sharks were fun to watch and are 10-6-3 over their last 19 games, which is a top-10 record in the NHL over that span. They’re pacing right now to almost double their point total from last year.

Sharks are a different team with Celebrini in the lineup.

With: 7 - 5 - 4 (.563 points percentage; would be playoff WC2 in the west based on current standings)
Without: 3 - 8 - 1 (.292 points percentage; would be worst in the NHL by a wide margin)

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

I was there too. Celebrini is the real deal and well worth paying to watch in person. Will Smith was an absentee, or at least not noticed by me and I was looking for him

Caps played just OK but the Sharks were better than a bottom dwelling team,, so it’s not a scandal to have taken a point and not two. That said,Wilson end-of-game penalty is not what you expect from a leader.

I honestly didn’t even know that Will Smith was playing until he got rocked into the boards right in front of me late in the third. He was a ghost out there. Celebrini was a ton of fun to watch though, as you said. He’s like a magnet for the puck and was super impressive. I liked Eklund too.

 

[zappa4ever]

A letdown at some point after a bunch of tough comebacks and wins over top teams is inevitable

Sharks skated hard, congrats to them
Giving up 1 in reg also ain't too shabby
Take the point, leave the cannoli

light rest of the week, get some good practices in and get ready for @ TOR and @ MTL (w/Laine) Fri/Sat

 

[Block]

Not to give excuses, was the ice particularly shitty last night? There seemed to be a ton of pucks bouncing over sticks or randomly jumping off the puck carrier's stick in a way that had as much impact as anything the Sharks did defensively.

 

[Corby78]

Anyone know how Dowd got the penalty at the end of the game?