EAST Playoffs '23-'24 Round 1: (WC2) Washington Capitals at (M1) New York Rangers (NYR Win 4-0)

[SaucyJack]

Four careless (maybe skill-less) Caps giveaways in just 1 minute of power play time.  NYR with a good short handed chance.  Fer crissakes.

[SaucyJack]

Mika Zibanejad wiiiiide open on the Rag power play for the 2-1 lead.

 

(Interesting that he actually hails from the country of Zibanejad, nestled amongst neighbors and once Soviet Union provinces Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.)

[SaucyJack]

Dylan Strome wakes up, rushes to the net on the PP, and tips the ol’ biscuit into the basket for 2-2.  Blimey.

[SaucyJack]

A Jack Roslovic super-snipe high short side on the pp put the RAGamuffins back up 3-2.  

[SaucyJack]

Lazy play from Ovechkin leads to an odd man short-handed rush and the 4-2 Ranger lead late in period two.  

[RBGordie]

I loved how the Ranger just took the puck from Ovechkin tonight and the Rangers scored a shorty. Ovechkin will never get another Cup, that's for sure. 

The Caps have too many bastards on the team. I hope they never win another game until they retire: Wilson, Oshi, Ovechkin. 

[SaucyJack]

4-3!  Tom Wilson seems to tip Hendrix Lapierre’s blue-line shot past Shesterkin.  

[SaucyJack]

Furious 6-on-5 at the end, but no score.  A respectable result but Caps lose both MSG tilts.  

[FD19372]

Very good hockey game. I still think this series goes 6 or 7. The Caps made a nice push at the end, to try and tie it.

[Math]

Didn't watch the replay on Panarin's check on Oshie. The refs went to the revision for a potential major penalty but he surprisingly didn't get anything while Oshie remained out in the concussion protocol 

[AndyInNH]

Oshie got what he deserved. Props to Panerin after taking a stick to the face and then a face wash from Oshie.  You want to dish out chippy, you gotta expect chippy in return

[Brewin Flames]

27 minutes ago, AndyInNH said:

Oshie got what he deserved. Props to Panerin after taking a stick to the face and then a face wash from Oshie.  You want to dish out chippy, you gotta expect chippy in return

 

 

[RBGordie]

4 hours ago, AndyInNH said:

Oshie got what he deserved. Props to Panerin after taking a stick to the face and then a face wash from Oshie.  You want to dish out chippy, you gotta expect chippy in return

I agree. Oshie is dirty and he got away with at least a couple in this game. 

Wilson is the dirtiest player in the NHL. I wish he would get creamed.

 

I still don't understand why I'm not getting email notifications when posts occur in topics I'm following. Anyone?! 

Edited April 24 by RBGordie

[Math]

There was an upward motion but Panarin's skates remained in the ice and the head wasn't the first point of contact. The right call was given IMO. It's funny because when I watched it live, former NHL referee Stéphane Auger explained that the review was to determine if Panarin should get a 5-min major or a game misconduct. Result: no penalty lol.

[AndyInNH]

The hit was clean. The overreaction to it is laughable.  All the other non-calls and phantom calls in the game were much worse.  This one the refs got right going to the review and Toronto  confirmed it

[Brewin Flames]

We have seen worse hits in pee-wee hockey.

 

I just hoping that Mcllrath and Rempe go at sone point.

[SaucyJack]

Shesterkin way too good here in game 3.  (Like the Geico commercial walrus on several point blank shots.)

[NHL HHOF]

This better be a sweep!

[SaucyJack]

Well darn, results in the past 32 hours allow for the Capitals to be the first squad eliminated, as well as the only one failing to win a game.

 

Good news?  D-Men Nick Jensen and Rasmus Sundin are back in the lineup.

 

Bad news:  Jensen performs a blooper-reel-worthy puck giveaway in the first minute to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead.

Edited April 29 by SaucyJack

[SaucyJack]

On 4/21/2024 at 4:31 PM, SaucyJack said:

Panarin is New York’s bread.  Who is their butter?

His name doesn’t really fit, but he is The Breadman’s linemate, and a very effective one at that, and has been one of the Cap Killers this series, so the answer is Vincent Trocheck.

 

But I hinted at this several days ago:

 

On 4/23/2024 at 7:28 PM, SaucyJack said:

Vincent Trochek’s tying goal, beautiful tip redirection, like buttah…

 

[SaucyJack]

Hendrix Lapierre is a keeper!

[Tomdog]

OMG does Ovie look like a statue on the power play. 

He really needs to get in shape for next year if he wants to catch Gretzky. 

[FD19372]

Why isn't Ovechkin out there the entire time the net is empty, or close to it? It'll be interesting to hear Carbury's answer, if he's asked.

[SaucyJack]

I hope the younger Capitals learned in this series that they must get a lot better to challenge in the playoffs.

 

 

[Math]

Ovechkin had his lowest TOI since 2012. I guess it's a good idea to let one of your best sniper on the bench when you trail 3-0 in the series and you have nothing to lose.

 

That Sandin penalty had a 7/10 on the Marchment retardation scale.