GDT: Mambo Sauce vs. Chowder

[Coldplay619]

Shepard bad.

 

[RedRocking]

Shep is not a NHL goalie

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

I’ve taken one thing from this game…Roy is good.

 

[Calicaps]

Finally

 

[DWGie26]

Another hot take is the Wilson pictures seem real. Looks ready to throw his body around.

 

[Ridley Simon]

Did we score?

 

[DWGie26]

Did we score?

We got 1. Down 3-1.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Please no more Shep….

 

[DWGie26]

Please no more Shep….

I mean that was the right time to pull home right? Let’s see Gibson!

 

[Cush]

Cristall with another

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Nice Andrew…

 

[ArmadilloThumb]

It was all a grand plan to get Shep down to Hershey without losing him to waivers...

 

[ArmadilloThumb]

Pleased with Cristall, Miroshnichenko (loved how he kept after the puck after the fall/giveaway), Wilson, CMM (he finished, albeit on a easy one, and I see a lot of drive and quiet determination drive there) and love little Pro (poise out there, and that shot!!). Roy will be a rock.

Like how Carbs kept Bear and Shep in there... coaches want to see certain things and gave them a long leash. Both seemed to settle and improve. Bear did a nice job QBing the PP in the 3rd.

I don't have much for HHA.

 

[qc14]

Would like to see next game:
Ovi-Strome-Mangiapane
Vrana-McMichael-Cristall
Suzdalev-Rybynski-Dube
Duhaime-Dowd-Trineyev

Chychrun-Carlson
AA-McIlrath
Massie/Lievermann-Iorio

With Stevenson and Gibson splitting. I want to see: McMichael to get a run at center, Vrana and Cristall in higher level minutes, Trineyev with a call-up audition on the 4th line, reward Rybynski and Dube for good play so far, where do McIlrath/AA/Iorio stand

My next round of cuts, probably on Wednesday after NJD:
F - Frank, Limoges, Parascak, I. Protas, Suzdalev, Smallman, Sutter, Philp, Funk, Trineyev
D - Massie, Lievermann, Priskie, Day, McDonald
G - Gibson

 

[Calicaps]

How'd Jimi look tonight? Better than game 1 I hope.

 

[Langway]

How'd Jimi look tonight? Better than game 1 I hope.

Not really from what I saw. One nice cross-ice feed to Miro on the PP but otherwise not a whole lot happening it didn't seem like.

 

[Misery74]

How'd Jimi look tonight? Better than game 1 I hope.

Not great. But better. He looks locked at 3c.

Cristall and Miro both look like they want to stay. Pretty exciting.

 

[wickedwitch]

How'd Jimi look tonight? Better than game 1 I hope.

Fewer defensive breakdowns, so that's good. And his line also had one really great shift which they didn't have last game. But he's still not where he should be.

He's rightfully earned leeway because of his play last season. I would like if he didn't need that leeway to make the team.

 

[DWGie26]

How'd Jimi look tonight? Better than game 1 I hope.

I thought he looked better than others. I thought his compete and back check was much better today. He still needs to be better before the season starts.

 

[SherVaughn30]

Don't like Shep being the 3rd string goalie. I think the Caps need to go another direction in that regard. Shep is gonna steal starts from Stevenson in Hershey, which I personally think is not a good thing for Stevenson's development.

 

[SherVaughn30]

Just to follow up on Shep. I watched highlights. Shep is going down early on some shots and giving bad rebounds. The 1st goal gloving it up in air and putting it in his own net was just poor technique. The puck was a bit wobbling in the air, you catch it in your webbing first while closing your glove on it and then turn your glove(catching surface face) towards you. What Shep did was put his glove forward and trap it downward.

Overall, I felt 3 of the 4 goals on him were stoppable shots if he played his angles better. Shep got away with some stuff at the AHL level, that NHL shooters will just embarrass you on. I'm beginning to wonder if Todd Nelson's system in Hershey sheltered some of Shep's weaknesses? At times he plays small, and he's not a big goalie to take up space. Frankly, I see him having a setback being the 3rd goalie option.

Martin Jones is a FA right now and only age 34. I would trust him more as a 3rd option than Shep. I figure Hershey is probably gonna try to win a 3rd straight Calder Cup, which means Shep will be sticking around. I think a good deal of teams would have already cut ties with Shep with what he's showing in preseason.

 

[um]

Just to follow up on Shep. I watched highlights. Shep is going down early on some shots and giving bad rebounds. The 1st goal gloving it up in air and putting it in his own net was just poor technique. The puck was a bit wobbling in the air, you catch it in your webbing first while closing your glove on it and then turn your glove(catching surface face) towards you. What Shep did was put his glove forward and trap it downward.

Overall, I felt 3 of the 4 goals on him were stoppable shots if he played his angles better. Shep got away with some stuff at the AHL level, that NHL shooters will just embarrass you on. I'm beginning to wonder if Todd Nelson's system in Hershey sheltered some of Shep's weaknesses? At times he plays small, and he's not a big goalie to take up space. Frankly, I see him having a setback being the 3rd goalie option.

Martin Jones is a FA right now and only age 34. I would trust him more as a 3rd option than Shep. I figure Hershey is probably gonna try to win a 3rd straight Calder Cup, which means Shep will be sticking around. I think a good deal of teams would have already cut ties with Shep with what he's showing in preseason.

You want to cut our star AHL goalie because of 1 1/2 NHL preseason games? Have you lost your mind?

 

[Brian23]

You want to cut our star AHL goalie because of 1 1/2 NHL preseason games? Have you lost your mind?

I mean, that star AHL goalie is holding up the goalie pipeline. Many would tell you Stephenson has a much higher ceiling then Sheppard who's also put up bonker stats in his limited time.

He's not gonna get cut, and I see no world where they trade him really, but this was the year he needed to make the jump. Them going out and getting Logan Thompson says all that needed to be said about how the view Sheppard as an NHL level prospect. Now all he's really doing, again, is holding up the pipeline.

 

[Kazer]

Coming into the offseason, I thought the Caps would trade Kuemper, promote Shepard to backup (a true backup, not a 1A/1B situation) with Lindgren starting, and then allow Clay to be the true starter in Hershey (playing 50+ games instead of the 36 he played last year [also no playoff starts]). This would also allow Gibson to move up to the AHL after playing 42 games in the ECHL last year (not great numbers but best on the team by a good margin).

It's silly to panic over 1.5 preseason games, but there's a legitimate case to be made that the Caps should move on from Shepard with Thompson, Stevenson, and Gibson in the mix.

As an aside, the Caps have lost their mojo drafting goalies. It's been bleak since they moved on from Sammy and Vanecek.

 

[Hivemind]

Re; Shepard in the AHL

AHL goalies always split starts thanks to the nature of the AHL scheduling loading up games on Friday/Saturday/Sunday. Having a Martin Jones or whoever else in the AHL would still lead to Stevenson splitting starts. There's maybe 1 goalie per season in the AHL who hits 50 starts.