Comments on: Hot-heads and High Sticks: Isles beat Caps 5-2

By: Rhino40

Rhino40 — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:07:00 +0000

I’ll take a skinny vente hazlenut frap…

Oh crap…

“It’s a trap!!!“

By: JenniferH

JenniferH — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:40:00 +0000

Exactly what happened to me. I work overnight shifts, so I generally skip the matinee games when I have to watch the feed. But after the blow-out/Ovi hat trick, I made sure to get up for this. I wish I’d kept on sleeping.

By: jennrubenstein

jennrubenstein — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:44:00 +0000

i’ve been liking ribeiro more and more all season. i’ve joked about guido goals, he’s gotten the fist pumping treatment on the big screen, he seemed great on CRL… but today he pissed me off, and being reminded of his prior unsportsmanlike tantrums… when he’s a point machine, i love the guy, but after a game like today, i’m not as angered by the trade bait suggestions.

don’t forget to spring forward tonight, tomorrow’s game might be scheduled for noon thirty, but it will feel like 11:30. i’ll be watching from glory days where i’ll be enjoying wings thanks to thursday’s gloriousness. more of that, please.

By: Annie Lockyer

Annie Lockyer — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:29:00 +0000

Last time the Caps played a Saturday matinee, I accidentally slept through it, and I awoke sometime later to happy tidings: a blowout win and a hat trick for Ovi. Today, I was awake for the thing, and… not so much. So this one’s on me, guys.

By: brian!

brian! — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:33:00 +0000

I thought the people calling for a Ribeiro trade prior to the deadline were crazy, but geez he almost seems like a liability with the hot-headedness.

By: Peter Hassett

Peter Hassett — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:10:00 +0000

Dump him before the trade deadline or else he turns into a pumpkin. Like Wideman and Semin did. The team can’t keeping letting players go without any return on the investment. Well, they can, but then they’ll end up a bad team.

By: Peter Hassett

Peter Hassett — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:08:00 +0000

I thought Ovi was really solid too– aside from the turnover and the complaining over a missed whistle. You’re absolutely right about that goal-saving block.

By: Peter Hassett

Peter Hassett — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:07:00 +0000

“The Islanders really do have some talent on their team.”

“The Islanders were surprisingly feisty in neutral and on the forecheck”

Yeah I freaking ripped the hell out of those guys

By: rp

rp — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:03:00 +0000

Man, preview and game story, ripping Isles. Caps stink.

By: Ash

Ash — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:58:00 +0000

I personally thought Ovechkin was fairly good in the first period– he had at least two very sound defensive moves that made me sit up and take notice, one of which I think saved a goal and covered Carlson (who had what I thought was a pretty awful game). Unfortunately, the bad turnovers from Ovechkin in the other two periods cost us. I thought Grubauer had both some good saves and some soft goals; I don’t think Holtby lets in that second one, but Holtby needed rest, so no point weeping over that.

There are some things the Caps couldn’t control and worked against them: weird puck bounces from bad ice, Erskine getting injured and having to roll only five d, missed calls that they genuinely should have had, the extra killing time from the Tavares goal mishap. (I bet Perreault is hearing that bar ping in his head, though he and his line had some great shifts.)

There are other things that were much more in their grasp that they could have controlled and didn’t: energetic skating, making better decisions while being forechecked heavily, yapping back at the refs for legit calls, clamping down behavior when it was clear the refs were going to call unpredictably.

This was winnable, but they didn’t rise to the occasion. That sucks. Hopefully, Oates is giving them a firm speech about it. But if they can shake it off, squeeze a point or two out of the Rangers tomorrow at home, and win both the Carolina home and home games, we can keep hoping.