Comments on: Refs beat Caps 2-1, Dallas Stars Also Played

By: The Friar

The Friar — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:32:42 +0000

Not many people can power their way right past Ovechkin to enable a goal. It’s unfair to Skrastins for that achievement to be taken away from him for incidental contact with the goaltender. Even if if was his own goaltender.

By: The Machinist: December 03, 2010

The Machinist: December 03, 2010 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:35:31 +0000

[...] Stars 2, Capitals 1 — The Stars are like the Foot Clan of hockey teams: damn near anonymous and operating on herd mentality. [...]

By: Goat

Goat — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:39:20 +0000

“Catch you on Saturday, back in friendly, D.C., where the Capitals will face their arch rivals, the NHL officiating crew.”

I laughed.

The Caps had their share of troubles getting out of the zone and generating anything looking like sustained offense. That makes things like the waved off goal even more painful, since it was one of the few bounces of the night that happened to go their way. It also really does intensify the crankiness towards the guys in stripes.

By: In which Kris must get a Dallas Stars tattoo… « The Sports007

In which Kris must get a Dallas Stars tattoo… « The Sports007 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:59:24 +0000

[...] was disallowed because the player was in the crease. According to Russian Machine Never Breaks, the infraction was caused by Stephane Robidas skating into Raycroft. TPP says it was Karlis Skrastins. Others that were at the game said they [...]

By: Peter Hassett

Peter Hassett — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:26:45 +0000

@Jon,

You’re right; the ice was a mess. At least Ovi’s spaz-out-and-collapse on that PP was fun to watch. And then there’s RIchards whiffing on two consecutive far-side chances during one of those Stars PPs.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:24:51 +0000

I think the ice was just as bad as the officials. Ovi had two clear cut no doubt goal opportunities ruined by him slipping on the bad ice or the puck fluttering.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:17:07 +0000

The officiating tonight was simply terrible. At least 3 missed penalties on Dallas, and the huge blown call at the end. Once, just once, could bad officiating that decides a game go the Caps’ way?

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:42:41 +0000

On a positive note, boy was Alan May good in the booth tonight. He was a great foil to Joe B. and Locker and I really enjoyed his playfulness during the telecast. For his sake, I hope CSN let’s him do it more!

By: Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:12:31 +0000

…Gonna try and make the best out of a ‘meh’ game (I guess…):

Losing stinks. It always stinks. Especially when you feel cheated out of at least one point. But it happens, and as long as it doesn’t happen in huge waves, that’s okay. Losses and bad officiating like this are what make us, and the Caps, angry. Not the bad “14 game losing-streak” angry, but the “stay angry” tough, work-harder kind of angry the Caps should have. And that’s a good kind of angry. We’ll come home to DC Sat. night, wanting to get back in the win column, and we’ll show those Thrashers who’s boss!

TL;DR We rest up, fix the bad, keep the good and everything’s gonna be ok, ok? :]

By: BobbyG

BobbyG — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:09:26 +0000

You can’t win them all. All good things come to an end. So much for the standard cliches.

I suppose that since other teams have been unable to beat the Caps lately, the officials have taken it upon themselves to establish their own version of parity and decide the outcome with bad calls. I don’t expect any apologies or redress of grievances from Toronto for tonight’s game.

This was a sucky game overall, not just because of how it ended. For the first time in a while, Ovie was unable to spring loose a teammate for a goal while he was double and triple teamed. Have I ranted lately about how much I despise the trap defense and teams that play that style?

This was the second of back-to-back games so there likely was a fatigue factor for the Caps. Still, they deserved a much better fate, if only to keep Caps fans in the fragile mental state described in the recap from resorting to even more bizarre behavior than usual.

Tomorrow is another day, as Scarlett O’Hara said. OK, that’s one more cliche for the books. Saturday night I expect the Caps to bounce back and take out their frustration by thrashing Atlanta.