Caps were 2-2 this season against the Rangers I believe, including what looked to me like a totally dominant performance on the last day of the season in New York, and the Rangers still had an incentive to win because they could've won the Presidents' Trophy.
I dunno. That last game made it seem like the Caps had their number. I just can't get over the fact that the Rangers just generally look so good this year.
Maybe if Ovechkin's ice time can be reduced to just power plays, and if we can get a few more career minor leaguers on the ice, and definitely more Wideman and Schultz, Caps will do even better. As long as it works, I don't really care.
Last edited by Maruk moustache: 04-27-2012 at 10:08 AM.
Reason: Because I had mistakenly referred to the Rangers with the forbidden four-letter term.
They are not nearly as talented as Boston, come on.
They're faster and I think that's just as important as far as their forecheck goes overall. They're probably hungrier under the circumstances so I think there will be more juice to the series but that's to be expected.
I don't think they're a better team defensively than Boston. It's a series where 52/74/6 need to be effective in getting shots through and the big bodies need to go to work in the trenches. Do that and control the neutral zone for top six transition and I like their chances.
Im a little more confident about this series because
A: The Caps may have better results with pounding down the Rangers D
B: Really like how our bottom 6 is playing
but.............we`re still Caps fans.......we know what reality thinks of being overconfident
They're faster and I think that's just as important as far as their forecheck goes overall. They're probably hungrier under the circumstances so I think there will be more juice to the series but that's to be expected.
I don't think they're a better team defensively than Boston. It's a series where 52/74/6 need to be effective in getting shots through and the big bodies need to go to work in the trenches. Do that and control the neutral zone for top six transition and I like their chances.
I know this is going to sound a little bit crazy, but hear me out. I think that we should...forecheck. And defend the offensive blueline. We can break the Rangers D and Lundqvist. Ovechkin and Brouwer on McDonagh and Del Zotto? The Rangers will be at AHL callups by game 3.
I'm not saying play weak through the neutral zone and lazy on D. Just push a little bit. NYR can't handle it.
i said this **** before. gunna beat the bruins, done, gunna beat the rangers, then gunna beat the flyers, then gunna beat whoever ***** ass comes out of the west. done and settled
OV will probably break through that D corps for a few.
Better zone exits and using the offense generated from the point would serve the Caps really well here. If they end up handling Noo Yok, it might be on the back of strong performances from Carlson, Green, and Wideman.
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Originally Posted by mrwarden
Seems like the logic was Boston>NYR therefore Caps>NYR.
There's no transitive property in hockey and we didn't exactly handle Boston.
I like this post. So much.
Last edited by PuckBuddy: 04-26-2012 at 09:01 PM.
Reason: Forgot to use Oxford comma. Mah bad, yo.
Seems like the logic was Boston>NYR therefore Caps>NYR.
There's no transitive property in hockey and we didn't exactly handle Boston.
Yeah, I remember simliar reasoning last season. Everyone felt that the Rangers were some of the toughest competition in the playoffs, and that Tampa would be a cakewalk by comparison (especially since Lundqvist was seen as the biggest issue with the Rangers). I think we all know how that turned out.
