I love when people make these comments...not everything is cause and effect...my nephew comes to stay with me and the next day I lose my job...it doesn’t mean my nephew was the cause of me losing my job...lol....
Post-mortem on the season
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I love when people make these comments...not everything is cause and effect...my nephew comes to stay with me and the next day I lose my job...it doesn’t mean my nephew was the cause of me losing my job...lol....
It's not that we lost, it's how we lost. We handed them two games that we had in the bag completely. That is what sucks, not losing.
Lack of finish. Murray not playing as well as he had in the previous two runs. Injuries. Lackluster performances from too many guys. The defensive play--both from forwards as well as defense--was a shitshow all year. Letang pulled a MAF-esque meltdown at the wrong time.
I don't care that we aren't gonna win another Cup. Back to back is something we'll likely never see again in our lives, it was insanely special. We'd have gotten crushed by Tampa anyway because we're an extremely flawed team carried at times by elite, clutch play from big names. But we lost this series as much or more so than the Caps won it. Call me bitter, call me a homer, but we blew two games that we absolutely should've won and that was enough to advance despite all of our shortcomings.
Ah well. Rest up, heal up. Get ready, JR, you've got some work to do.
Lack of finish. Murray not playing as well as he had in the previous two runs. Injuries. Lackluster performances from too many guys. The defensive play--both from forwards as well as defense--was a shitshow all year. Letang pulled a MAF-esque meltdown at the wrong time.
I don't care that we aren't gonna win another Cup. Back to back is something we'll likely never see again in our lives, it was insanely special. We'd have gotten crushed by Tampa anyway because we're an extremely flawed team carried at times by elite, clutch play from big names. But we lost this series as much or more so than the Caps won it. Call me bitter, call me a homer, but we blew two games that we absolutely should've won and that was enough to advance despite all of our shortcomings.
Ah well. Rest up, heal up. Get ready, JR, you've got some work to do.
I'd trade lack of finish for ability to preserve 3rd period lead.
Agree finish was a huge problem and puck luck was hilariously against us.
But even with all that, HOLD a lead (as we did automatically all year), and we're resting now after 5 games and prepping for TB.
Agree finish was a huge problem and puck luck was hilariously against us.
But even with all that, HOLD a lead (as we did automatically all year), and we're resting now after 5 games and prepping for TB.
BeatenLikeRentedMule
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Murray should spend the summer taking shots to his wrist hand. The book is out on how to be him.
Letang was even a moron in the Philly series, taking a penalty in the last few minutes of a game. He needs to go screw some other team over. Get rid of Letang.
Letang was even a moron in the Philly series, taking a penalty in the last few minutes of a game. He needs to go screw some other team over. Get rid of Letang.
USMC607
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An open letter to the Pittsburgh Penguins and their fans
This really was their cup wasnt it?
A letter rubbing our nose in it, disguised as a congrats on a great run letter.
They truly are trying to convince themselves that they ripped our hearts out of our chest stopping the 3 peat, and that we are just hiding the unbearable pain deep down.
I guess they need to get this out. All these years of losing. The gotta strut around like a peacock as much as they can. Before Tampa Bay rips them back to reality.
This really was their cup wasnt it?
A letter rubbing our nose in it, disguised as a congrats on a great run letter.
They truly are trying to convince themselves that they ripped our hearts out of our chest stopping the 3 peat, and that we are just hiding the unbearable pain deep down.
I guess they need to get this out. All these years of losing. The gotta strut around like a peacock as much as they can. Before Tampa Bay rips them back to reality.
RizzleMcRib
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"No more of this “Alex Ovechkin can’t win” nonsense. "
They do realize they need to win 8 more games, right?
Whoever wrote that must be an awful cook. Added way too much salt.
USMC607
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The fact that they are using ovechkin finally beating us and getting to the ECFs as the "See hes not a loser" statement just makes it worse for them.
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USMC607
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I doubt or at least I hope it isn't from The Capitals Organization.
I think it said NBCS Washington.
So probably just a journalist who is also a Caps fan who has a platform to beat their chest, and did it.
Raise your hand if you were laughing by the third time the writer insisted we must be devastated. God I hope whoever wrote that checks his backlinks. lol
Ogrezilla
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I cannot even grasp thinking that the brassard trade made us a worse team. Do people forget that Kessel got hurt the game or two before the trade, and geno fell off right then? Do people also forget that brassard was playing very well prior to his injury?
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That's what made it funny to me.
They kept forcing the point that we had to be devastated that they ruined our 3peat and that is just sting and burn us to the very core. Something that we will lose sleep over.
I cant tell if he was trying to convince us to be upset, or if they were trying to convince themselves that they finally burned us good.
USMC607
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They acted like we hadn't won a cup in 100 yrs and they just ended our best chance at one and we are all lined up to plunge off the fort pitt bridge.
BladeRunner66
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Heh heh c'mon man it's the equivalent of winning the Stanley Cup for them, they have to vent it out until they're out of wind, just like their team will be, sooner than later, old habits...
BigEezyE22
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Did you forget that Ian Cole won 2 games against the Caps, which is exactly the number of games we needed to move on. That trade truly cost this series.
I'd be a bit worried about the Caps having a major let-down against the Bolts. I mean, holy shit that's a lot of emotional investment in defeating us.
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did your nephew, at least, offer to kick in some money for rent and food and such...?
I feel less 'devastated' about who they lost to (bound to happen eventually) and more 'irritated' that the Pens didn't play their best game...gaffes, complacency, injuries, whatever. that is was DC that they lost to, while it exacerbated the irritation last night, barely registers this afternoon...
if I knew the fixes I'd be getting payed a lot more than I am, so I will withhold my half-baked attempts at 'fixing' the Pens...
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Reminds me a bit of Philly after they beat the Pens in 2012. They were so pumped to prove they were the best team in the state, everyone was anointing Giroux the Conn Smythe favorite because of his series, only for them to lose to the Devils quite decisively the next round.
Washington's got to reset and forget Pittsburgh even exists, and beating them was nothing more than beating any other team to get to the next round.
we'll never know for sure. but murray looked like he was rounding back into form and then Maatta rang one off his noggin and when he came back was back at his earlier in the season form. If that concussion doesn't happen do we get a better version of Murray?
We had some flaws last go around, but goal tending hides a multitude of sins, this time goal tending didn't bail us out. I know it's not popular here, but our #1 issue was goal tending.
Followed closely by defensive breakdowns, and all of our secondary scoring disappearing. Still with all those flaws, we should have won this series.
But glaringly you can't give away 2 games like we did and expect to advance.
We had some flaws last go around, but goal tending hides a multitude of sins, this time goal tending didn't bail us out. I know it's not popular here, but our #1 issue was goal tending.
Followed closely by defensive breakdowns, and all of our secondary scoring disappearing. Still with all those flaws, we should have won this series.
But glaringly you can't give away 2 games like we did and expect to advance.
ncm7772
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Whoever wrote that is a sad, angry person. I actually chuckled a few times because, well, it's just kind of dumb.
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I just saw a team that seemed to have little to nothing left in the tank at this point both physically and mentally. Injuries to key players and lack of depth in defense only compounded those issues further. The Caps also looked like they had really prepared for us too and always had more energy throughout the series. I'm still disappointed it ended the way it did but it wasn't as aggravating to me as the way our seasons ended in 2011, 2012 and 2013. I have no doubt if we had managed to pull this series off that we wouldn't last more than 5 games probably against the Bolts.
Disappointment aside, I still hope to see the Caps get torched by Tampa.
Disappointment aside, I still hope to see the Caps get torched by Tampa.
Lol...no but I didn’t really lose my job, poetic license and such...I’m self employed, which means I love to work at nothing all day....
