Comments on: Capitals Almost Back To Normal

By: breaklance

breaklance — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:27:19 +0000

I’ve always been Team Varly but not completely biased-ly so. Right now Varly’s stat line is stellar even including that disaster of a game he played during “the streak” However, however, he’s only played 11 games so far. Not a big enough sample and most of it has been him playing hot. I want to see him get more games to test his consistency and endurance. I’d be happy to see a 40-40 split for both goalies because both are young and haven’t had even that workload in the NHL yet.

I’ve always thought, and still do, that Varly in his prime is a superior goalie to Neuvy in his prime. But realistically, Neuvy’s playstyle is more fit for starting 40-50 games a season and being very consistent. A deep playoff run, I’m unsure how this plays out. Ideally? I’d use Neuvy as the “regular” and Varly as the ace in the hole.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:59:41 +0000

I’d be curious what would happen to the percentages if BB balanced the time the times of the fours lines a bit more and even the defensive time on ice. Would the top two lines and top d pairing benefit from fresher legs. I don’t care how much Ovie and Green deny it, they look plain drained at times towards the end of games.

By: DarkStranger44

DarkStranger44 — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:43:48 +0000

Stats you quoted are reassuring in many ways. It points out how well Beagle and Perreault have done, as of late, as well as Fehr. It’s reassuring that Semin and Ovi have been generating chances, even if not scoring. I still won’t relax until their scoring resumes more “normal” rates. Andrew Gordon wasn’t bad but Beagle had done even better than him, hence Beagle stayed.

Even if Knuble was low in the scoring chances department, he’s at least scored, as of late. Nicky B. certainly looks low in the scoring chance department. (BTW, were there changes in the amount of scoring changes Ovi and Semin had gotten in Dec as opposed to other months?)

By: Hale

Hale — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:57:30 +0000

This is very interesting, especially in light of the other recent analysis about whether Ovi was the problem on the PP (percentages may indicate that, but the sheer volume is hard to ignore). What I have trouble reconciling is how Al Koken can say on Chad Dukes that Semin is the problem on the PP when not only does he have the most PPG for the team thus far (6), but of the regular PP1 players (only sometimes lately), Semin has the best %PPindiv. Regarding Fehr, I think it is fascinating how much he does with the time he does get. I hope we get the chance to see how he does with considerably more ice time at some point — see if it holds up.