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Pathetic performance in game 7
Pathetic performance in game 7
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I expected Pittsburgh to win the game but definitely not in blow out fashion. Disappointing it wasn't closer.Comment -
Ovechkin probably partied too much last night. Crosby is more serious.Comment -
One of my olde hockey coaches always said goals in the first 2 minutes and last 2 minutes of the period build or kill momentum. The Caps played a crappy 1st period, but their start to the 2nd period is what did them in. If Caps came out and got the first goal of the 2nd it would have been a different game.Comment -
The pitt boys are just better , #8 needs more help , and wash d is weak... Face it the rangers should have beat um in game 7 long ago but they couldnt put it in the ocean... And varlachoke is a back-up for a reason... Look boys yah get it back tomorrow w/ detroit... Fuk the juice take the better team @ home and bank w/ meComment -
How about you shouldn't be starting a rookie goalie in the playoffs out of desperation. They thought Varmalov was the savior because he wiped the Rangers out - the Rangers with no offense. Caps defense isn't great, but you get a solid goalie back there and they probably win this series.Comment -
Where was Green all series, he gave the Caps nothing.Comment -
He was better than they could have hoped for out of Theodore.Originally posted by EaglesPhan36Comment -
He obviously was burning out, he started off great then progressively got worse, by game 7 he was out of gas.Originally posted by element1286
Boston/Pitt will be interesting, I'd prefer that to Pitt/Carolina.Comment -
Thank you Craps for doin ur best Mets impression!!Comment -
The Pens would have an easier time with Carolina, but for money making purposes, I would like to see Pittsburgh/Boston.Originally posted by betplomComment -
I like Boston if they play their game, hard hitting, tough, relentless.Originally posted by element1286
When they played Carolinas game they were outgunned.
Pens have a speed advantage on the B's but speed is neutralized with hitting.Comment -
JJ u idiot
Ovechkin is the ONLY reason the caps made it so far this season!
The whole team fell asleep as soon as the playoffs started..Just like the pathetic Flyers...Ovie played good in my book, he just has no help around him..And for him to explain what happened in the Gonchar incident back in game 5, is VERY good spirit. He will be the captain next season.
I hope he is not one of those amazing players who never see a Stanley Cup...
and as for crosby scoring on his breakaway and ovechkin not scoring. THEODORE should have poked checked Crosby, insteas of sitting there and watching him make a move...Fvcken idiotComment -
The caps have 2 thingsOriginally posted by EaglesPhan36
Varlamov
Ovechkin
that does not qualify for a solid team to make it in the playoffs...Comment -
Huh?Originally posted by Slim
he played good alllllllllllllll season and playoffs, he has no team to back him up..Where crosby has a team to back him up
if anything Malkin chocked in this game, but why not, they won 6-2 lolComment -
You never going to win Ovechkin , he is not a winning player.
He is too much of a side show and into himself.Comment -
Ovechkin needs to learn to get teammates involved. He's a great player but he needs to learn he will never get a cup by himself.
This team was killed by what killed them all year in the end, defense and goaltending. You find a team that had such poor goaltending all year long and was able to turn it on in the playoffs to win a cup....that team doesn't exist.Comment -
Detroit and Chris Osgood might be the team to do so.Originally posted by AMBlai01Comment -
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Originally Posted by AMBlai01
Ovechkin needs to learn to get teammates involved. He's a great player but he needs to learn he will never get a cup by himself.
This team was killed by what killed them all year in the end, defense and goaltending. You find a team that had such poor goaltending all year long and was able to turn it on in the playoffs to win a cup....that team doesn't exist.
Amen to thatOriginally posted by element1286Comment -
Like I have preached in the past, Ovechkin can score and take dirty runs at people while Crosby makes other around him better.Originally posted by jjgold
Crosby showed the hockey world last night that he is a TRUE LEADER. The guy is the best in the world. He does it all.Comment -
Washington D is not much weaker than Pitts D.Originally posted by playinragzComment -
Slow down Bro. JJ isn't that much of an idiot.Originally posted by Flyers09
Ovechkin has LOTS of talented players around him. Semin, Backstrom, Federov to name a few. Ovechkin will never make a great leader because he doesn't make other around him better.
Leave JJ alone. He seems like a decent fella. Strange, but decent.Comment -
Semin, Ovie,Green, Backstrom, Poti, would be a solid line.Comment -
Umm..yeh so...how can he get his team involved when they alll SUCK. I mean the only one who he can pass to really, is fedorov, and the dudes at least 46 years old..Originally posted by AMBlai01
Trust me when i say it, he has no one to help him out..He needs to be placed on a team with solid defense offense and goaltending. Him and Varlamov need to be sent to......pens?Comment -
Originally posted by PuckOff
JJ is ok...But as for semin,backstrom? they were sleeping all Playoff Run....you must have been sleeping as well NOT to see that palComment -
How can he make others around him better WHEN THEY ALL SUCK!!!??Comment -
Caps need to get Brendan Witt back, he would have made a difference in this series.Comment -
I've noticed it. shit happens in the playoffs especially to non Canadian hockey players.Originally posted by Flyers09Comment -
Eh, they don't suck. They were just outplayed. Although Green and Semin weren't very good.Originally posted by Flyers09
But Ovechkin could play more of a team game. Instead of parking himself at the blueline waiting for an outlet he could help out defensively. Instead of taking wild shots from crazy angles he could possess the puck in the offensive zone with his teammates. Ovechkin was tremendous this series, but the whole Caps philosophy needs to be reigned in.Comment -
It is amazing that when teams have a forecheck and a cycle going they win. The Buins were terrible in games 2-4 with their forecheck, but once they started to forecheck more agressive and cycle the puck they played better in games 5 and 6. Ovechkin is talent, but he enjoys the flair of the game, not the little things like puck possesion that will win games in the playoffs.Originally posted by element1286Comment -
idk man, media got to ovie as well...they got to his head with a lot as well....He expained the whole gonchar sitatuion to gonchar at the hand shake though, that shows very good spirit, i liked that..
Also announcers were saying caps palyers could have been injured, semin, green etc...who knows, if they were they should have never played, they were just taking up space on the bench....unreal...
I cant believe im going to say this BUT
The penguins deserve the cup this year, if the wings get pumped tonight....
Thats right ELEMENT i said itComment -
Still, not impressed with the quality of play in the playoffs. Not enough puck control. The only team I see trying to play a good team passing game is getting physically manhandled. Unfortunately, it's a lot easier to hit and hold somebody than it is to make a good pass while somebody's hitting and holding you.bird bird da bird's da wordComment -
Ovechkin will be a team cancer, it is all about him. He is more interested in going into a telephone pole with a car going 150 miles an hr
He can care less if he wins or losesComment -
Caps palyers did not step up, only ones who did was a 21 year old russian varlamov who played, what 6 games in the regular season? The pens cracked his code, eveytime some one shoots on him, he drops to the butterfly. All pens did were shoot up high. The other who steped up, who actually never steps down, Ovechkin. He hit all playoffs, simply cause no one on his team would help out physically. He scored, cause no one else helped out. The man can only do so much, he is human, not a robot.....
I can honestly say the ONLY reason they went to far this year in the playoffs is because of them 2. But no 2 ppl can carry a team to the cup. NO ONE, its a team sport......
They did the samething the flyers did, same EXACT thing. Flyers had 3 ppl who steped up, Caps had 2Comment -
JJ, I don know if that is true. Ovechkin reminds me of Forsberg both played a physical style, hopefully Ovechkin body can hold up with his style of play.Originally posted by jjgold
JJ, send the Caps the video of you playing goalie, maybe you can get a gig as a goaltending coach for training camp.Comment
