The Caps accomplished the mission of the visiting team, to go in and win one of the first two games. Now it's a 5 game series and they have home ice advantage.
Highlights:
A timely power play goal
A Marian Gaborik sighting on a nice play to assist Richards goal
Lowlights:
Bickel and Lundqvist gift the Caps two goals
Kreider and Rupp don't score on partial breakaways
Its only one game guys and we were clearly the better team, in 2 days we get back on the ice and continue to dominate and hopefully without stupid mistakes from Lundqvist and Bickel. We got this.
****ing joke that that decided an NHL playoff game.
Mistakes were costly. PLayed real well otherwise.
**** that.
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"Here we can see the agression of american people. They love fighting and guns. when they wont win they try to kill us all." -HalfOfFame
I always say I can deal with a loss if the Rangers played well. Now you know how Senators fans felt all last series.
That was far and away our best game of hockey in about a month. A bad pass by Bickel, a brainfart by Lundqvist and a bad call by the officials lost us the game. I'm proud of how they played, and if they keep that up nobody will stop them.
PoTG: Del Zottos best game in awhile.
Good: Nearly everyone.
Bad: Gaborik was better but still not where he needs to be. Obviously Bickel. Lundqvist wasn't stellar but he wasn't bad, that play on the 2nd goal was pathetic though.
Redden: I am so sick of Prust. The guy is flat out awful if he's not fighting and taking someone else off the ice.
I'll be the first to say move on, it sucks, but they played good.
As bad as that call on Richards was, we lost this game ourselves. The two brainfarts in the first period and failing on two clear cut breakaways isn't going to get the job done.
Outside of one good passing play, Gaborik continues to SUCK. Not happy with the kind of production this guy is giving us during the post season. In a 1 goal game he HAS to be a difference maker. He HAS to score a goal. And he can't. The guy is our highest paid player to be a difference maker, and he has been a complete bust in the post season.
Outside of one good passing play, Gaborik continues to SUCK. Not happy with the kind of production this guy is giving us during the post season. In a 1 goal game he HAS to be a difference maker. He HAS to score a goal. And he can't. The guy is our highest paid player to be a difference maker, and he has been a complete bust in the post season.
Gaborik looks lost 95% of the time right now. Callahan should run him.
It takes an awfully large load of arrogance and ignorance to blame an entire loss on the referees, if Richards scored coming out of the box on a breakaway would the refs be the reason Rangers won?
One thing that I was happy about was that we actually got pressure when the goalie was pulled. For ONCE. No, we didn't score. But we had some really nice chances and a post. I haven't seen us play so well with Hank pulled in a long time. May just be because we match up well with the Caps, but I loved that pressure. I was pretty surprised we didn't score, really.
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"Of course giving Sather cap space is like giving teenagers whiskey and car keys." - SBOB "Watching Sather build a team is like watching a blind man with no fingers trying to put together an elaborate puzzle." - Shadowtron
Sestito still on the make a wish tour. - rholt168
No its not. If Bickel and Lundqvist don't make those ridiculous plays then it probably ends up a 2-0 or 2-1 Ranger win.
the whole game is not on the refs...but the end is...there is no reason to call a penalty liek that when they let a lot of other junk that is worse go by...
richards seems pissed, he is going to be elevating his game on wednesday big time
also-- what's with this terrible hagelin/richards/kreider line? either use kreider/richards/gaborik or kreider/stepan/gaborik. stacking our speed guys makes other lines dumb
