Will Washington have an advantage the rest of the season?

[WarriorofTime]

The team leading the President's Trophy race had zero players participate in the 4 Nations Faceoff. The games were intense, physical and emotionally charged. Will the extra rest for the Washington players give them an advantage the rest of the way?

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[crazy8888]

Yea maybe a little bit this Saturday if Crosby is too banged up. But not the rest of the way.

 

[MessierII]

They are already having everything go right for them this year so why not? Won’t mean anything in the playoffs though.

 

[piqued]

There's essentially nothing stopping Protas from lifting the Cup at this stage

 

[ViD]

It depends on how much vodka Ovie had during this break

 

[wetcoast]

The team leading the President's Trophy race had zero players participate in the 4 Nations Faceoff. The games were intense, physical and emotionally charged. Will the extra rest for the Washington players give them an advantage the rest of the way?

In a word no.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

People are gonna poo-poo it, but it’ll be interesting to see how these dudes do in the regular season now. Everyone else got a week+ to rest and recover. Glad my team doesn’t have too many good players.

 

[Demandedace]

Probably not, though it definitely benefit the team that Ovi had this bonus time to recondition

 

[hangman005]

I wish we had zero players play.

 

[Three On Zero]

Extended rest isn’t always beneficial for a team.

 

[Zirakzigil]

Extended rest isn’t always beneficial for a team.

This. Could very easily be sloppy hockey coming back. Canadian players might also come back pumped up from winning.

 

[bringbacktheskate604]

I think any team that had injuries or were generally banged up got an advantage from the break

Vancouver a team with all the new additions and Demko and Hughes being banged up could see a big benefit. Hughes likely would have missed any games but looks like he's good to go on Saturday and all the new guys and a few rookies on the bubble got valuable practice time.

 

[DrunkTurtle]

The 4 nations was 4 or 3 games depending on the team. That shouldn't really make much of a competitive advantage.

 

[wolfgaze]

There's essentially nothing stopping Protas from lifting the Cup at this stage

I love this player photo/headshot on the NHL app when I'm checking box scores. For some reason it reminds me of the type of overly large and jacked 'bad guys' you'd see in action movies.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

The team leading the President's Trophy race had zero players participate in the 4 Nations Faceoff. The games were intense, physical and emotionally charged. Will the extra rest for the Washington players give them an advantage the rest of the way?

The rest of the season? no there is to much time left.

But the next 2-3 weeks? You'd think so.

I'm interested to see if we go back to the caliber of hockey that we see at the beginning of the season where the games are sloppy for a couple weeks.

Teams like Washington don't have to worry about that because their players had 2 weeks off to rest.

But teams like Toronto, Carolina, Florida, Colorado Ottawa and especially Boston with what happened to Charlie Mac and don't forget Vegas a lot of their key guys didn't get that rest so I'm expecting some sloppy games over the next couple weeks.

I'm interested to see what's up with Matthew Tkachuk because he didn't finish the game Saturday against Canada and didn't play last night in the 3rd period or OT does he miss some time?

 

[trick9]

They have advantage over teams like Panthers and Vegas whose star players picked up injuries in the tournament, sure. Other than that? I don't see it. Capitals can afford to rest their guys in the later stages anyway if they need to since they have nearly clinched their Playoff spot already.

 

[A1LeafNation]

20 min x 3-4 games =60-80 minutes over 2 weeks.

Lol, they will be fine.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

No, the league will still allow Tampa and Las Vegas to cheat.

 

[Ratsreign]

Extended rest isn’t always beneficial for a team.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

an advantage maybe slightly for a game or 2 due to the odd player feeling fatigued... BUT alot of the non 4 nation guys were laying on beaches in mexico and everywhere so there could be an arguement those players will be in rough shape too

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

Did any Blackhawks players participate?
No? Hand them the cup!

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

Extended rest isn’t always beneficial for a team.

Mehh in the playoffs maybe. All-star breaks have always been a thing, its not like this time off was a new concept.

 

[FrozenJagrt]

It depends on how much vodka Ovie had during this break

Yeah if he's properly fueled up the league is in trouble

 

[SEALBound]

For maybe a week.

 

[wetcoast]

The 4 nations was 4 or 3 games depending on the team. That shouldn't really make much of a competitive advantage.

Exactly as most NHL teams would ahve played in more games in the time period.

As for the rest, sometimes teams are too well rested and either way the Capitals are a lock for the playoffs and any effects from the World cup will ahve passed by the time playoff hockey starts.