East - Round Two
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Guess he figured the refs had put the whistles away since they didn't call the 3 on the caps in the last minute or so
The two reasons I think they 3rd one was the right call is that Pierre immediately thought it was a penalty and he's sitting right there, and Penguins didn't put up much of a protest.
Sheary stays where he was instead of starting to celebrate the puck might have come straight to him
seriously even the Sharks have made 3 conference finals. has any consistently great regular season team consistently come up as short in the playoffs as this Capitals team?
The last Capitals team. And the one before that. They've been doing this since Ovi was in diapers.
As much as I enjoy knocking the Capitals out of the playoffs seemingly every season, the Blues have made the playoffs all but eight seasons since they came into the league in 67-68 w/o reaching the Finals again since the expansion teams were all one conference and got to play the Original Six winner in the Finals, so I'll say they're slightly worse since they've been around longer.
They have the longest run of futility of all the teams, 49 years and counting without a SC Championship.
And that was an awful system back in the stone age, hockey is the greatest sport yet they continue to fuck up a simple thing like a playoff system.
You have a really weird definition of "seemingly every season". This is the 2nd time it's happened since the 2005 lockout (10+ seasons).
I do enjoy the Bruins knocking the Canadiens out of the playoffs seemingly every season as well, though.
1988 to 1994 was crazy. Six out of seven seasons the Bruins and Canadiens met in the playoffs and the Bruins won five of those times. And that was against Roy each time.
Pens are something like 8-1 vs the Caps all time in the playoffs now. It's a defensible statement when you look at it that way.
I was being a bit facetious, but this is the eighth time the Penguins have sent the Capitals home in the last 25 years, so it does happen fairly frequently.
There's definitely something wrong with having the two best teams in the league meet in Round Two. [/bittercapsfan]
Yeah, except you likely have to go through Pittsburgh at some point to get to the finals given how they played in the second half, and the Caps seem entirely unable to adjust their game to consistently beat the Pens, which is beyond frustrating.
Really tiresome to hear Ovechkin constantly referred to as the "Great Eight" around here - don't you actually have to win something to be in the pantheon of "great", you know, like that Gretzky guy?
Really tiresome to hear Ovechkin constantly referred to as the "Great Eight" around here - don't you actually have to win something to be in the pantheon of "great", you know, like that Gretzky guy?
In that series:
Ovechkin- 2-5=7
Crosby- 0-2=2
Malkin- 1-1=2
All Ovi's fault! Not the Great 8!
Kuznetsov was a no-show all playoffs and the Penguins depth was way better the Capitals depth. Those were the problems for the Caps not Ovechkin.
Ovechkin- 2-5=7
Crosby- 0-2=2
Malkin- 1-1=2
All Ovi's fault! Not the Great 8!
Kuznetsov was a no-show all playoffs and the Penguins depth was way better the Capitals depth. Those were the problems for the Caps not Ovechkin.
Murray has been a revelation. Agreed. MAF is too unreliable. Murray looks like a superstar. Still, it's wonderful to see Ovi go out in the 2nd round after the regular season the Caps just had. I don't care that he lit it up a bit. He loses.
I'm not going to take anything away from Murray b/c he's been absolutely great, but since Mike Bales became the goalie coach three years ago Fleury has been a different guy.
If it wasn't for the fact Fleury has missed so much time after his concussion and would likely be very rusty, I would feel absolutely comfortable with him playing.
I don't know if Murray was a revelation so much as just continuing to destroy the professional hockey ranks. Had a 1.58 GAA with a 0.941 sv% last year in the AHL and a 2.10 and 0.930 this year. Not to mention his NHL stats from this year are more or less the same/better than his AHL stats from this year. Kid looks to just be damn good.
Kelly Sutherland Mic'd up
From game 4 of the Islander-Lightning Series.
I would watch the shit out of a channel that had the on ice ref mics instead of commentators. More here
From game 4 of the Islander-Lightning Series.
I would watch the shit out of a channel that had the on ice ref mics instead of commentators. More here