Well fellas another winner last night as the Sharks responded and dominated the Wild in the 3rd period last night en route to a 5-2 victory and a 14 unit uptick in our roll.
They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it right? We have been riding the scorching Capitals the past few weeks as they have been reaping havoc on any teams unfortunate enough to have to face them this month. Let's go back for more of the same as they play host to an average Tampa Bay team that stinks on the road.
The stats are overwhelmingly in our favor.
Home record for the caps: 20-3-3 on the season, 8-0 in the month of January with a goals for/ goals against ratio of 36-14. Just disgusting. Tampa Bay on the road? Tocchey Hockey's boys are home ice specialists as they are 2 games above .500 on the year at 22-20-11 with a home record of 14-6-6 but are bad when they don't have their home town food at 8-14-5. Kodus to Philly favorite Rick Tocchet on a nice job so far having this team winning more than half of their games on the season. Tough spot here though, you just gotta take your lumps sometimes as a coach.
As we dicussed previously the Caps can be shaky sometimes when playing on back to back nights, no worries about that here. As their last effort was a 4-1 domination of Florida on the 29th.
On special teams, the Caps have the well documented #1 Power Play unit in the NHL, lighting the lamp a league leading 26.2% of the time. Tampa is not very good at killing penalties, ranked 24th in the league at 79.6%. This could get ugly quick.
Tampa Bay has a decent powerplay at 19.4% good enough for 9th in the NHL, and Washington's PK unit succeeds 80.8% of the time good enough for 18th in the league. This looks pretty good for Tampa, but the gap between Washington's PP Unit and Tampa's is just huge.
This happens a lot when you have the league's best unit.
It's good to be diverse when making plays, having a good feel for all major sports and being able to find the best picks on any given night. At the same time, sometimes it just isn't rocket science. As I have discussed many times the talent pool among the elite teams in the NHL is at a much higher level than the average to below average teams. Therefore this is a good season to ride the goal lines in many of these matchups. This is a perfect example.
I had bumped my Capitals home ice plays to 15 units, but with Green out (suspended 3 games for an elbow) let's go with our standard 10.
As always best of luck today fellas, take it down.
They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it right? We have been riding the scorching Capitals the past few weeks as they have been reaping havoc on any teams unfortunate enough to have to face them this month. Let's go back for more of the same as they play host to an average Tampa Bay team that stinks on the road.
The stats are overwhelmingly in our favor.
Home record for the caps: 20-3-3 on the season, 8-0 in the month of January with a goals for/ goals against ratio of 36-14. Just disgusting. Tampa Bay on the road? Tocchey Hockey's boys are home ice specialists as they are 2 games above .500 on the year at 22-20-11 with a home record of 14-6-6 but are bad when they don't have their home town food at 8-14-5. Kodus to Philly favorite Rick Tocchet on a nice job so far having this team winning more than half of their games on the season. Tough spot here though, you just gotta take your lumps sometimes as a coach.
As we dicussed previously the Caps can be shaky sometimes when playing on back to back nights, no worries about that here. As their last effort was a 4-1 domination of Florida on the 29th.
On special teams, the Caps have the well documented #1 Power Play unit in the NHL, lighting the lamp a league leading 26.2% of the time. Tampa is not very good at killing penalties, ranked 24th in the league at 79.6%. This could get ugly quick.
Tampa Bay has a decent powerplay at 19.4% good enough for 9th in the NHL, and Washington's PK unit succeeds 80.8% of the time good enough for 18th in the league. This looks pretty good for Tampa, but the gap between Washington's PP Unit and Tampa's is just huge.
This happens a lot when you have the league's best unit.
It's good to be diverse when making plays, having a good feel for all major sports and being able to find the best picks on any given night. At the same time, sometimes it just isn't rocket science. As I have discussed many times the talent pool among the elite teams in the NHL is at a much higher level than the average to below average teams. Therefore this is a good season to ride the goal lines in many of these matchups. This is a perfect example.
I had bumped my Capitals home ice plays to 15 units, but with Green out (suspended 3 games for an elbow) let's go with our standard 10.
As always best of luck today fellas, take it down.
