GDT: Maybe? Caps @ isles 12:30pm edit: yes!!! All due respect to The Great One, but The Great 8 stands alone atop the mountain

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Is she starting right away with hockey skates or figure skates?
Right now she's just on the rental figure skates--which are free with the class (as is the open skate after class, and parking!), and which they recommend because of the flatter blade, etc. Also, this is a true novice/beginner's class for five year olds: Half of the kids have never skated before, and the rest (including my daugher) have only been to a few public skates (where they held onto parents' hands and/or traffic cones for dear life). So really, they're just teaching the kids some basic balance stuff, how to step forward, and, most importantly, how to get up once you fall down.

Of course, I've also spent waaay too much time perusing Sideline Swap for youth hockey skates (and full sets of youth starter hockey gear) because it warms my heart to daydream about her enjoying the game I love enough to stick with it. (She says she wants to, but five year olds are five year olds, you know? And I'm still trying to find that balance between encouraging my kid's interests while not pushing my own interests on her.) But yeah, there's also a really good kids' hockey program up here in Philly--the Snider Hockey League (boo! hiss! I know)--for kids with little-to-no hockey (or even skating!) experience, that provides free equipment and ice time and coaching and all of that. So I'm hoping to get her into that in the fall. Then she can work on those swivels and hockey stops!

Anyway, sorry for the threadjack, y'all.
 
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I was watching the post game stuff with team interviews and my take is “yeah, these guys didn’t care at all that they lost this game”. I’m sure as soon as that puck went in any last interest in competing that day went out the window. This race has taken over for a while now while they had nothing else really to play for and that pressure valve got released and I’m sure all they wanted to do was to go celebrate. They earned it.

Now we hope they can take these few days off to enjoy it, refocus, and be ready to come back and get the winning gears going.
 
I was watching the post game stuff with team interviews and my take is “yeah, these guys didn’t care at all that they lost this game”. I’m sure as soon as that puck went in any last interest in competing that day went out the window. This race has taken over for a while now while they had nothing else really to play for and that pressure valve got released and I’m sure all they wanted to do was to go celebrate. They earned it.

Now we hope they can take these few days off to enjoy it, refocus, and be ready to come back and get the winning gears going.
Yea, Strome straight up said “some things are bigger than winning or losing a hockey game.”

BTW Strome looks like he’s aged 5 years this season, with the broken teeth and cuts on his face. Hope that means he’s ready to elevate and get nasty in the playoffs, lol.

I think they’ll come out focused against the Canes. They played well against the Jets - widely seen as a measuring stick game for both teams. I think (hope?) they can lock in when they want to.
 
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These matinee games are terrabad for my timezone, but I don't care ... just finished the game and thought i'd add it anyway

bought a tear to the eye

now we need to reset fast
 
I was holed up playing video games...I missed a lot this weekend...OV with his record and two
great college basketball games...ah well, grats to OV...and hey with 5 games left and 42 goals,
he still has an outside shot at the most 50 goals seasons...given the guy's insane determination
this year I wouldn't put it past him.
 
Disagree. This record chase has been a MASSIVE, UNPRECEDENTED distraction.

You can't just throw away lines and pairings based on the last handful of games. Give them a few more games to re-establish their focus and work ethic first.
I’m not sure what the fancies say but I’ve never been big on our pairings. I prefer the puck movers and d first guys to play together, rather than stacking Fever-Roy and Sandin-Carlson.
 
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I could be wrong. But I don't think Ovie played at Piney.

I think we moved to Ketler before Ovie got in the league.

I use to attend a bunch of Caps practices at Piney when I played youth. Those Piney practices and the players being sool cool made me a life long Caps fan.
You might be right… good call.

Playing at Piney was the reason I became a Caps fan. We moved to the area in the late 90s and I’d been a diehard Whalers fan growing up. When the Whalers left I was left without a team, but my travel team played at Piney and we saw the Caps all the time. They were awesome dudes and it was really cool seeing them before our practices. When they made the run in ‘98 Piney was packed, and I remember playing a game in a full arena because the Caps practiced before our game then had a fan appreciation event. Pretty much the coolest thing that could happen to a pre/early teen hockey player.

Who’d you play for in youth hockey, if you don’t mind me asking?
 
I can’t find a slowmo of the shot itself anywhere.

Conspiracy theory: Chychrun grazed the puck and they don't want to do re-do everything.
Chick gets his stick up out of the way pretty darn quick if trying for a deflection, but i too failed to find a slow mo. Kinda like when Knuble lowered his head and skated into Tim Toolman as Joel Ward scored... they were not overturning that celly.

It was a bit odd after Ovi thanked his fellow countryman for letting the goal in :sarcasm:


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Yesterday was absolute peak hockey day for me, won my 12 man fantasy league and Ovi ripped the record goal. My opponent had Quinn Hughes that got him -2.5 points which pretty much sealed it for me

I lost the playoff round in our HF league after finishing 1st in the reg season because McDavid decided to be out all week, and FLA decided to rest Reinhart yesterday.

The O's also lost 4-1 to the annoying as hell Royals.

But 895 made it all better. With some Yogi Castle for me and the kid.
 
I lost the playoff round in our HF league after finishing 1st in the reg season because McDavid decided to be out all week, and FLA decided to rest Reinhart yesterday.

The O's also lost 4-1 to the annoying as hell Royals.

But 895 made it all better. With some Yogi Castle for me and the kid.
Ha! I made a move to 2 to get lucky as heck and come from way back to beat Marlowe’s team.

All the glory—-

GLORY!!!

😂😂😂
 
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You might be right… good call.

Playing at Piney was the reason I became a Caps fan. We moved to the area in the late 90s and I’d been a diehard Whalers fan growing up. When the Whalers left I was left without a team, but my travel team played at Piney and we saw the Caps all the time. They were awesome dudes and it was really cool seeing them before our practices. When they made the run in ‘98 Piney was packed, and I remember playing a game in a full arena because the Caps practiced before our game then had a fan appreciation event. Pretty much the coolest thing that could happen to a pre/early teen hockey player.

Who’d you play for in youth hockey, if you don’t mind me asking?
I was a Howard Huskie. We would play and practice all over the area. Mostly home games in Columbia and the Gardens ice house.
 
Pens board back to accusing Ovie of steroids while Sid is eating corn flakes and granola bars.
Pens haterade never fails to disappoint, their tears could flood the Ohio river.

Props to the one guy on their board who called all of them out for that nonsense
 
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Pens haterade never fails to disappoint, their tears could flood the Ohio river.

Props to the one guy on their board who called all of them out for that nonsense
So true.

You have Sid and Malkin congratulating Ovie and these tools continue to hate.

I mean we are 20 years in here! I have a respect and admiration for Sid, Malkin, Letang and Fleury by now.

Watching Ovie around these 4 you can see the respect is mutual amongst them.

Maybe it's because I've mellowed with age and realized that there are other more important things in life that supersede hockey? 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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I lost the playoff round in our HF league after finishing 1st in the reg season because McDavid decided to be out all week, and FLA decided to rest Reinhart yesterday.

The O's also lost 4-1 to the annoying as hell Royals.

But 895 made it all better. With some Yogi Castle for me and the kid.
Sorry not sorry :sarcasm:
 
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