FTP: Capitals @ Blues 01/07/2022

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First FTP in 2022. They are not happy with their goalie and the PP :lol:

The original thread link is here:
https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/ ... t.2863551/

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Go OV!

Feels like eternity since last game-

It's honestly a miracle if we win this game lol. Atleast the D is healthy now

St. Louis has a lot of players missing as well

Perfect opportunity to give McMichael top 6 minutes and finally more than 6 mins a game and they have Hathaway on top line and Sgarbossa in the lineup. Absolute stupidity. This team sucks at developing prospects into NHL guys.
Happy to see some hockey again tonight though. This has been the weirdest season in ages.

Truly the weirdest season since the last season.

Wait, 19 is back on IR???

Flurona, hold the rona.

McMichael could very well be in the lineup tomorrow night in MN. maybe...

My parents didn't drink when we were growing up and I honestly have no idea how they did it. Parenting sober sounds impossible.

It's simple they just ignored us and told us to leave them alone.

Guess OV has another new goalie he can score on

f*** me he had a wide open net

This game is insane already

This game I hope Ovy scores more than Caps win.

Should be 2-1 right now

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Spronnggg goal

Play Sprong more.

Sprong!

Sprong! an insane start

What a shot.

Trade him now, stock is high

Should be 3-1 now .

Just shows how a quick release is often more important than power

SPRONG SPRONG SPRONG

Need a full game of hockey tonight against the Blues although it should be every night.

Wow. What did Lavi say to them before the game.

Orlov looking smooth.

Blues look tired to me. They've been dealing with Covid cases lately

Orlov looking like a forward out there

My god you guys are overrating McMichael.

Have to score on these chances

Sounds like 8/97/21 is doing well

Caps look good. Keep it up!

Damn. The Caps are buzzing.
If any game can show how the Caps offense and overall play is predicated on their defense, it's this game with the full normal defense coming back.
And soon as I say that, Krug scores lol

And there it is

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Too soon

This is a 25 mile marathon so far - everything but the finish.

Freaking hell.

Oof 1-1. Should have been up by a bunch

Annoying. Caps should be up by two or three.

Unreal. This should be a 4-1 game for us

Miss four empty nets and yeah, that'll eventually come to bite you

Dominate and are tied. Rough.

Dammit, I should have said "This is like the Caps' prospect system - no Finnish."
Opportunity missed.

Pretty bad form by Sammy on that one... stayed deep and small, didn't challenge.

They didn't deserve a point against NJ. It's the circle of life, everything is fine.

Lots of chances and tied. FFS.

Sprong with a great pass to Protas, who fumbles it

All Swedish No Finnish

It looked like he was expecting a lateral pass because he did sit back in his net. I wouldn't say he played small but he could have challenged the shooter.

We're passing up too many shots for passes

I've felt that way for a few games now

Oh shut up with the nuggets already.

That SSP line don't want CMM to play tomorrow

Dumb play by Jensen to draw the minor.

They can't. It's a sponsor lol

The passes have been connecting, they're just failing to put it into a wide open net.

They skept 2 mcnuggets seconds.

Someone here recently suggested that the Caps are the worst passing team in the league, so I guess that's fixed, at least.

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looks pretty damn small to me.

Your point? We agreed that he sat back in his net. He didn't challenge the shooter at all.

Better question is why he was so open in the first place.

Yes he does look small there. Sat back in his net. Went down early.

51% probability to win this game. Not bad

Where did the 1 come from?

Over 50%!

Expected. I'll do it for you.

1% for handsomeness.

Sprong is on a mission today

Who? Sprong?

Caps Powerplay plan...let's force the puck to Ovi every damn time.

What Locker? Hagelin hit him with the stick in between the hands up in his face lol

Lol"..Locker"..that's no cheapie"..

Blues have the best PP in the game.

drops to 1% once we get to OT

he literally nearly choked on the slow mo replay and still managed to get out a feigned annoyed comment ..love his homerism skills lol.

Where did the 1% come from?

JUST SHOOT!

Is that which Caps player with the most major penalties in career or as a Cap?

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ok I guess that answers that

This game started off on fire by both teams and has been pretty boring since. This already reeks of OT

Ewww the Buch

blame me for the goal

Chasing the puck all over the place. Need better support down low.

Eller has been the worst player on the ice tonight.

Gross.

Right after they say they haven't given up a shot on goal this period, they score.

His revenge on Wilson didn't take long...

Sammy looks small in net tonight.

I would say Dale Hunter for both questions.

BTW, I renew my lol at the Isles for the Buchnevich trade.

Our goalies need to start making some waves.

Hagelin really doesn't have the same set of wheels that he used to. Without speed he serves no real purpose.

Rangers?

Watching him with the puck gives me ulcers.

Going to need more than an .818 night out to win this

I was thinking if just as an overall career that played for Caps might be Scott Stevens if not Dale.

I feel like Sammy waved at that last goal pretty well.

Shit. NY whoevers

I wish they would bring Axel back and leave Hags near the arc somewhere.

Well if that wasn't the perfect typo.

At this rate, our goalies will need to start score goals too.

Hes on 1st line in Hershey maybe thats a good thing and not being forced into a Hags role.

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I wouldn't mind that but Lavi won't play him any minutes and it would be totally pointless.

No no no.

Hes fine. And it was Ovies stick

Refs have been pretty consistent that they aren't calling much this game

Is that Trevor Lawrence thinking he's Carl Hagelin with the hair in a Subway commercial? Lol

Their backup goaltender would be our starter.

This game is squarely on Sammy

Effffff

Fucale please

Hmmm

This game is stupid

Alright. Regroup at the intermission guys

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Sammy has stunk. They've been the better team but an .800 save percentage is tough to overcome.

Started out great.

Joe and Craig not thrilled with that rebound control

Gorgeous rebound really setup the Blues player nicely.

Hardly. He hasn't been good, but the skaters have missed multiple open nets.

My stream is 1 minute late. Just as well.

STL 3 different lines scored. It's something that Caps don't have.

Ewww.

Agreed...just one of a few bad performances so far...

Alright back to video games lol

‘Control’ there's a word that's lost it's meaning

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Whatcha playing? Lol

4 goals on 16 shots…it's on him

Use that Mantha space and acquire a goalie por favore.

Give up 2 goals in the final 3 minutes of the period ----> GIVE UP!

Neither are we and Blues just got themselves a nugget.

Goaltending is the difference tonight.

Haha that's too bad

I didn't see the replay. Which Caps player just fell down before that goal?

Fucale should start in the 3rd

OK time to pull a Kings and dominate the third down 3

Put in Fucale....no show in net.

RE4 on Oculus, it's f***ing wild. It's actually really fun

I'll give you guys the 3rd goal, but rest of them were great shots. Hardly on Sammy when caps forwards have nothing to show off.

A goalie switch should at least wake them up a little.

Got to think he will come out for the third

glad I couldn't watch this game.

Frustrating because they've played a decent game (especially considering they're missing their whole 2nd line) but the Blues have scored on pretty much every scoring chance they've had that's been on net. Samsonov needs to be better, end of story.

It should have been obvious when they had so many great chances and came away with just that one goal, that this wasn't gonna be their night.
Basically no real effort since the first 10 mins and Sammy has stunk.

Sure but he needs to make some hard saves. The Blues goalie has made many.

Ah.. Schultz..

I'm done with the Sammy experiment. The Caps have a great record in spite of him.

Wilson pretty bad there caught chasing in the back check. He just sticks to his man we are still 3-1

That 4th was soft too. and the 1st was poor form as already shown.

Caps can do it, just can't play Hagelin line most of the period.

Nah he gets a fresh start tomorrow. Im excited to see what he has

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Schultz tripped over the face off dot. Quality stuff.

I didn't like the Krug goal either. Poor technique coming across dropping immediately in the butterfly and not closing off the angle.
The players in front of him have been defending poorly as well, but 4 goals on 16 shots is not enough.

Yeah no, nobody is catching the 4th one. Perfect shot.

I mean the goaltending is shit and probably the weakest link on the team but Blues are doing a good job taking advantage of our breakdowns.
We also seem to be aimlessly passing at no one in particular. Sometimes the passing game looks good and sometimes woeful. Just so inconsistent.

Guys i agree that Sammy hasn't been on fire, but it's not like Caps have been great outside of the 5min in the start. Just blaming everything on one guy seems like a easy way out.

If there was an option to pull the forwards and D, it would be very useful right now.

several people literally acknowledged that he was one of several poor performances. Why the need to defend a crap effort when it's clear?

Our team defense sucks starting with our forwards. Their coverage is terrible and they seemed confused much of the time. And there are times it is lack of effort. Our veterans are as much at fault as the young guys are.

I mean I don't disagree but how many breakdowns have the Caps not capitalized on? Kuznetsov had a mini breakaway. Leason and Hathaway had a wide open net and shot the puck back into Husso and Ovechkin had a wide open net and whiffed. Husso has been a lot better than Samsonov and the Caps finishing has been unusually poor.

Ok lets see if they got the message...

3-goal leads have been hard for us to protect. I'm guessing Blues will be better at it

They blew a lead vs. Pitt the other night. So who knows?

I can't watch this PP anymore. Waste of 2 min, complete dog shit

PP so bad

Why have they made 0 adjustments to a PP that is clearly so broken

Can we leave Forsythe in St Louis?

They had like 3 days to practice the powerplay, looks great boys!

That save by Fucale is what we need from Sammy. Big saves.

They practice it?

Interesting. A breakaway where Caps goalie makes the stop. I like the concept

Honestly I don't know if Forsythe is really responsible, but whoever is coaching the PP just doesn't have the answers.

Not loving our effort so far. Especially on the PP

Same shit every time they have a power play.

They don't even know what to do on the PP just kinda reacting. No idea how to read each other at all. Not sure what happened

Jensen not having a good period.

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Down to rooting for an Ovie goal, i guess

The media really need to hold the coaches more accountable for the PP. I get the team has a good record and has played well this year. But you can't just keep ignoring something so blatantly broken.

He's trying to do it all in desperation.

Husso can get his W but he has to pay the tax

At this point Lavy needs to step in and fix it himself if he hasn't already. They could not be worse even if they tried right now.

Wow, Fucale! Two more big stops

Weird observation but the Caps PP xGF/60 hasn't been this bad since the Cup season. And in the playoffs they've been consistently really good in that category.

only thing worth watching"¦..

All perimeter. So easy to defend

Connor McMichael is having a good game at least.

Really didnt even make a push to get back in this thing

Really glad they decided to play Sgarabossa instead of CMM

Oh yay. Another PP

Wouldn't have made a difference CMM only gets 6 min anyway. Hard to do anything with 6 min. Remember the game where his line scored on their first shift and still only got 6 TOI? Good times

You mean let Scott Murray get a chance at him

Time for Fucale to make his mark and take the starting role. Get this stuff fixed before March please.

Fist your eyes. Caps are going on the power play.

Why? He's playing a good game.

St. Louis fans serenading TJ Oshie with his John Denver goal song. Guess they miss him after all

They'll probably score this time by accident and so nothing gets changed.

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Way to lose a puck battle up 2 men

Gross game, I don't even know what to say about PP. Goodbye.

Well that's the game. Teams have their ups and downs, but man did that Kings game hurt the Caps.

Blown off the ice…

Start Fucale next.

One guy I'm especially disappointed in lately is 43. Only time i notice him is when he takes a penalty

I noticed him quite a bit tonight, but there's no finishing.

My eyes say they're more passive and one-trick than ever. Maybe that's just because they don't know what else to do, but Forsythe or whomever had them clicking at like 27% a few years ago. So I'm not sure what's happened.

First 5 minutes gave us hope, the rest gave us a rash.

Would be crazy if Fucale pulled a Holtby over Varly and Neuvy

It's a trend lately.

They absolutely are more one trick than before, they are not using the guy in the slot hardly at all. Maybe it's because Oshie has been missing so much or who knows maybe they have been instructed not to.


Haven't been the same since collapse against FLA.

I'm gonna set the bar at 7th or 8th finish in the Conference so that I'm not disappointed.

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Correct, I had said Kings, but forgot about that Florida game. They shouldn't have lost either of those.

That's the main issue, I agree. Good teams increase their leads using the PP, or they come back in games with the PP.
Tonight I knew we had no chance of coming back, even though the refs gave us 3 opportunities on the PP.

i stepped out to get some car parts and bam...4-1

that first pp in the third might have unironically been the first power play i have ever seen

Lucky you. Didn't subject yourself to the entirety of this performance.

More like "performance."