Comments on: Perreault Stars, Semin Tricks! Caps beat Thrashers 4-3 (OT).

By: Armchair GM: Fiddling with the Roster

Armchair GM: Fiddling with the Roster — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:20:39 +0000

[...] awful, awful, very bad, no good week came to an unexpectedly pleasant finish on Saturday night. Alex Semin’s hat trick and Tomas Fleischmann’s OTGWGFTW capped off a miserable stint for the team. Two deflating losses to the Bruins provide an [...]

By: 28ISGREAT

28ISGREAT — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:26:10 +0000

Hooray for Sasha Minor! And while the hat trick was indeed spectacular (could have also easily been a 4-spot but for Laich getting the open net pass) – Greenie’s diving play in the PP is what stands out. It’ll be great to have him back fulltime. The PP looked markedly better with him on the ice to point it up.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:36:15 +0000

you guys have great in-game photos

By: Caps Scoring Chances thru Oct 24, 2010

Caps Scoring Chances thru Oct 24, 2010 — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:15:09 +0000

[...] the Caps roster looks like a scene from M*A*S*H and even the owner called the team average. Then Atlanta got InSEMINated so my fervor for logging the chances of each and every game has been [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:27:46 +0000

No problem, Ian. I heard that the Caps’ website said that as well – there was a bit of debate about it on Japers. Regardless, it was a great game by Semin. If only he could bring that kind of fire every night.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:57:15 +0000

Re everyone commenting on the natural hat trick: I heard that from the CSN telecast and just assumed the guys were right. My apologies for not picking that up during the game or fact checking at the end.

By: JoeS

JoeS — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:29:50 +0000

It wasn’t a natural hat trick, according to Wikipedia and About.com’s definitions. The game was tied by Semin 1-1 at the beginning of the second before the Thrashers regained the lead afterwards in the same period.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:12:25 +0000

@Michelle, I noticed that too. I have absolutely no insight as to why Knuble was doing it, but that’s usually Ovi’s job as Captain.

By: CapsFan1975

CapsFan1975 — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:44:58 +0000

I did notice that the Caps were doing better during preseason with MP as second center than they have been, as of late. No coincidence here!

Everyone wondered what Perreault would do if he had skilled line mates. Now we’re seeing!

Bravo for the Hat trick, Semin!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:42:01 +0000

Semin and MP85 were on fire last night! I would be happy with either MP or MoJo being Sasha’s permanent Center.

On another note… does anyone know why it seemed that Knuble was doing most of the conversing with the Refs on ice and not AO8? Just seemed odd to me… though maybe I don’t usually pay attention to it as much….