Off Wing Opinion

If we just went through "Super Tuesday", what does that make tonight? Philly is off, but Boston goes up against Toronto in the back half of a home-and-home, while the Caps are down in Tampa Bay. Florida and Buffalo also play, but if anyone on the Caps is worrying about them they should be reminded who they're chasing, not who's behind them.

According to JP, the Bolts are doing everything they can to tank the rest of the season without making it look obvious. And it's not like the Bolts are playing that well to begin with. The Peerless breaks down their shortcomings, which seem to be in nearly every statistical category. These won't exactly be an easy 2 points, but they are well within reach for the Caps. With every game an elimination game for them, they have to come out hard and play to win. You can't lose when you give 100% every shift. According to Tarik, Huet will get the start, and Cooke will add some forechecking power to the 2nd line. So now that we're set, let's go Caps.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 1:47 pm by Joe Dumas and is filed under 2007-08 Washington Capitals. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The game is still going on as I type this, but for all intents and purposes the game is over.

There's no sense sorting things out tonight because as Craig Laughlin said in the second intermission; this is the type of game where you just burn the tape and forget about it.

Caps Nut put it perfectly. Stop by The Peerless, View from the Cheap Seats, or even Japers' Rink, and the consensus is the game was over not long after it started.

Basically the Caps can't afford to drop more than one more game. And it cannot be to Carolina. With a packed Southeast schedule to end the season, the Caps need to tear through the bad teams like Atlanta, Florida, and Tampa Bay. They haven't been able to do that so far this season, so hopefully their 5-0 stomping at the hands of Chicago will give them the drive to close out the season in style. They will still be in the hunt up until the final games, and hopefully they can snag a playoff spot. Here's hoping.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm by Joe Dumas and is filed under 2007-08 Washington Capitals. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The Caps continued their winning ways against the Flames as Ovie scored a pair, including the game winner with under 2 minutes to go. Last night was also the debut of the "Ovechkam". With his 2 goals it certainly didn't seem like the OvechKam affected him at all. Or if it did it was certainly in a good way. On Frozen Blog has a few screenshots of what it looked like. I for one would have liked to see the game on the bigger picture and Ovie on the smaller. But I guess the whole point of the OvechKam is to see Ovie himself. I wasn't able to watch the game with OvechKam, so I can't say how it was overall. But I can't imagine it is something that will happen often. As Leonsis said earlier, it's a team game, so cover the team.

Looking ahead, The Peerless gives an idea of what the stretch run will be like for the Caps.

The Caps caught a break tonight, as both teams in front of them

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am by Joe Dumas and is filed under 2007-08 Washington Capitals. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.