Montreal Canadiens players seen here heading for the rink.Before you send in your angry calls or post your raving forum posts, understand this: The Washington Capitals, during 14-game win streak, have outscored opponent 30-6 in the 3rd period. We saw it Sunday when they came back and destroyed the Penguins, taking it to OT and then burying them in OT on a crap powerplay call.
The Washington Capitals are the best team in the League. They have scored the most goals in the League. If they ever find themselves an awesome goaltender... Hell, they're scary WITH their weak goaltending.
The Washington Capitals have everything going for them, and the louder Boudreau screams at a young ref, the more penalties they receive for all their diving and the less they get called against them.
And after sitting on the bench since January 27th in a 3-0 loss to Tampa Bay, Carey Price gets to come in behind a depleted team patched together with various Bulldogs to face this offensive juggernaut, to face 38 crazy shots, to face Ovechkin, Semin, Laich, Fleischmann, Fehr, Knubble who lives in the crease, Backstrom, and watches his best friend nearly get decapitated by a Mike Green rocket. Five goals against this team? Most people were betting the score would end 112-2 Caps. Most people figured Ovechkin alone would get 50 shots on net.
Top it off, the Habs are running out of defencemen.
All day long, starting with the annoying PJ Stock who somehow found his way onto CHOM in the morning, I heard it. "Just forget about tonight's game, go to see the Caps." People questioned why Price was starting, forgetting that Jaro's tendency to drop his rebounds in front would just invite more trouble with the Caps. People were thinking if he gets shelled, people can just brush it off as a cold goalie behind an injury-ravaged team, c'est bien normal. The excuses were starting early. Even my producer told me we're so screwed. I just shrugged. Only Mitch Melnick said "you never know with this team." I think Mise au Jeux had some rediculous bet going on.
To quote Randy Tieman, "It's why they play the game." Actually, if you call in or post angry, you should just shut up. When you play the Capitals, you play shinny hockey: last goal wins.
Sergei Kostitsyn got the first star thanks to his amazing skill. He keeps showing us why Bob made sure he remained with this team. The Plekannon with the game winner off a Belarusian Sausage, a simple tap in, very simple compared to his sweet wrister earlier that night. Lapierre, alive and kicking. Metro finally kicked the puck into the OTHER net. While fans were setting themselves up for a good beating, Gomez buried the puck 30 seconds into the game and laughed about it. And Pyatt Earp! Fresh off his Bulldogs hattrick, scores a goal and assisted on Gomez's goal.
And Bobby Fucking Clarke can fuck off back to Flin-Flon before he starts talking about things he doesn't know concerning the Habs. He can stop talking about goaltending too.
I gotta say, regardless of blowing the 5-2 lead, this victory considering the pylonic defence, kid callups, and cold goaltender, this OT victory was probably the most satisfying if not most stressful one all year. My only concern is when you're up by a goal with 20 seconds left, that puck has no business being in your zone near your net considering the Caps have this supernatural ability to just will the puck in the net. The Bell Center was dead silent even before the Caps started scoring at will, because everyone knows it ain't over until the clock hits 0. And they almost won in regulation too, which is even more impressive. If the penalty were called, if someone could have hit the empty netter, if they could have just stood up at the blue line and run the clock down... I had my computer closed. I was buried under blankets. I think I held my breath until I saw Sergei waltz up to the net with Pleks for the winner.
I think I might have a few more grey hairs.
Actually, seeing Price in the room after the game, looks like he's got a few grey hairs. Or it's the lighting.
I hope Gorges is ok...
3 comments:
LOL at your Bobby Clarke comment. True Dat: he knows jack s*** about goaltending, else he might have actually had a successful team, from time to time.
I'm still a little confused by the "Thunder Goal" being disallowed.
But it's true, you never know with this team, especially when they're up against Theo.
WV: "lamicat":. As in, what you buy your kitty when she gets funky nails.
the reason the goal was disallowed was because ovechkin interferred with price. nhl network actually explained it really well compared to rds who said the goal should of been allowed.
nhl said that because ovechkin did not go for the puck but that he went straight for gill (and with the intention to knock him onto price) that the goal didn't count. the reason why he didn't get a penalty is because gill had the puck between his legs so technically he checked a player with the puck, which is allowed.
surprising thing about the call is the refs never went to a replay.
but i've lost respect for ovechkin for theplay, not that i had much for him to begin with anyway.
and price played a fantastic game, he seemed a little shaky through the whole ordeal but it's nice to see him show some emotion on the ice (when the last goal went in he looked like he was going to break his stick)
any word on georges?
was a scary moment, especially with all the players on the ice around him. i think that's when you can tell it's bad.
Gorges? Gorges is fucking iron man. He's planning to play tomorrow unless they tie him to a chair.
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