Comments on: Saturday Night Letdown: Flyers beat Caps 5-4 (SO)

By: CapsFan1975

CapsFan1975 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:21:58 +0000

Could Ovi’s so-so play have something to do with the fact that the Alex Ovetjkin blog that focused on him for several years is now currently on hiatus. A sad note about that blog! I’ll miss it.

By: Ovi’s Breakout Game is Coming | Spare Change

Ovi’s Breakout Game is Coming | Spare Change — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:53:06 +0000

[...] Russian Machine Never Breaks after last night 5-4 OT loss to the Flyers: [...]

By: MattTheBeerGuy

MattTheBeerGuy — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:25:14 +0000

If the Flyers could stay outta the box, they would have won the last meeting also.

By: BobbyG

BobbyG — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:17:29 +0000

The Caps are fortunate to come away with one point from this game. If not for the Flyers lack of discipline, taking bad penalities to give the Caps gift-wrapped power plays, the Caps would have lost in regulation.

Adding insult to injury was seeing that punk Briere score the winning goal in the shootout. My blood pressure definitely went up after that one.

More notes and observations:

I didn’t like seeing Semin’s evil twin return, back to his old habits of taking bad stick penalties. Has Alex Major’s awful play rubbed off on Alex Minor? It’s a bad omen if both Alexes drown in a flood of mediocrity.

Speaking of Alex Major: Ovie has become an embarrassment. He’s no longer any fun to watch, and it saddens me to have to say this. I look at the YouTube tributes to him, and wonder where has that player gone. Ovie is not the Great8 anymore; that player has disappeared and he’s become just an ordinary mediocre shell of his former self. Something is rotten in the state of Alex, and he’s going to have to decide if he’s satisfied with the status quo, or if he’s got the balls to do something to start playing the way he’s capable of playing.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:39:03 +0000

I blame Flash.

By: CapsFan1975

CapsFan1975 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:33:06 +0000

On missed officiating calls — Semin was tripped at least twice by Flyers players and there was no call on either. Frankly, I think those missed trips were more blatant penalties than the stuff he was called for.

By: Praise for John Carlson | Capitals Outsider

Praise for John Carlson | Capitals Outsider — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:59:47 +0000

[...] praise from Coach Bruce Boudreau on the one year anniversary of his NHL debut in Saturday’s 5-4 overtime loss to Philadelphia. “He was playing to win. He was up the ice and he played hard. John Carlson is a great competitor [...]

By: Hale

Hale — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:26:35 +0000

A number of the penalties were weak, even for both teams. I find it funny that the refs get criticized for weak penalties,yet the players also get criicized for taking them. You can’t have it both ways.. If it was a weak penalty, just criticize the ref, not the player, too!

Semin tried to set up Ovie. Semin did have an assist on the Fehr goal.

By: TheHornGuy

TheHornGuy — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:14:36 +0000

I am disappointed that Boyd Gordon’s unbeaten streak has ended, but that pales in comparison to the lackluster effort of our skilled players. Who does Backstrom have to bribe to win a faceoff? Where is Ovechkin? So many questions and no satisfactory answers. Time for sleep.