2016 NHL Thread

rushfan4 wrote: With the Red Wings not making the playoffs this year for the first time in 26 years, we don't know what to do with ourselves here in "Hockeytown".  Me personally; I have moved on to baseball.

f**king Captcha.. and on a Mountain one to add salt to the gunshot wound...

try this again.. as I didn't save it haha

Yeah Scott... I've been obviously deeply immersed in the Caps but one one eyes cast to the European clay court season and the other cast to my beloved O's.  Figures about the time they get decent starting pitching the offense would sink.  Oh well... 

3 shots from Subban... 3 goals and Nashville takes the first game with a lucky bounce. Love ya PK.

Larkstongue41 wrote: And have you guys seen Fiala's fall? The dude broke his damn femur, nasty.

nope..

30+  years later I still look away when they replay Theismann's sack... uhh uh. 


Party night here.. whoo hooo. Go Caps!!!!


Edited by micky - April 27 2017 at 16:42

also, quite a fun game last night in Anaheim.

and that is why Caps fans are drunks...and those are the bandwagon fans.. the long time ones are full blown alcoholics

outplayed them for the most part....yet gave up a 2 on 1 and a breakaway.. and both ended up in the back of the net.  Fabulous defensive season... Holtby top 2 or 3 goalie in the league.. elite goalies bail out their defense and make those stops... yet come playoff team... poof...  disappear.

that said.. if game 1 is a hint..  will be a hell of a series.. win or lose.

What problems they have ...such as why they lost last night are not because of effort (they outplayed and outworked the Pens for large stretches of the game).. nor lack of leadership whatever that mystical quality entails...

when your defense makes only two mistakes... and both end up in back of the net. Has nothing to do with leadership. It is all upon the goaltender there.  Fleury outplayed Holtby and if that continues it is series over man.. series over hahha

 Holtby needs to step it up to what he did for near the entire regular season or the Caps won't win.. he and the improved defense which were tops in the NHL...which was no fluke over the course of the entire season...were supposed to be the Caps great advantage and why (in spite of their underachieving history) many did pick them to win it all... and why this year they could.. and by talent alone.. should win it all.

up two with 4 minutes to go and score two short handed goals and still lose.....

also, f**k the lottery system and f**k the devils.

well that was ugly..

I do get the sense that unlike previous years... a blow up might be coming ... the fans are NOT happy and while the hard core fans will always be there the bandwagon/casual fans are already flooding social media with disgust and giving up on the team.   Sure they are pussies.. but they also fill seats.. ownership may have to blow the team up for after this sh*t show and if it doesn't change competely and they come back and win this series.. no one will ever take this team seriously again.. not the league.. but more importantly.. the fanbase.

Not every team wins... I think everyone gets that.. what drives people nuts are the vast disapargency between teams that dominate for 82 games...   not in a isolated fluke year.. but over a period of years... and yet completely flounder...  not merely losing in the playoffs... but looking completely inept while doing it.

Go Caps!!  It will take Holtby and his blue liners reverting back to form...  no margin or error anyone.  They can do it... but they have probably dug themselves too deep for the Pens are too good to get run 4 of 5 no matter who well Holtby now plays.