Starting off in a less-than-glorious fashion, it looked to be a quick loss for the Caps last night: an early goal given up, young defensemen taking penalties, and an Atlanta team with something to play for. All that added up to what figured to be a tough loss.
So, of course, the Caps pull it together, their superstar pots a couple and is the best player on the ice, and the Boyd Gordon Experience continues it’s world tour.
It’s kinda hard not to wonder where this was in December.
- Bryan Muir had another tough game.
- The Caps’ season-long trend of having trouble locating the puck again reared it’s head last night. It’s frustrating to watch, though it should also be noted that it’s easy to say when there aren’t five guys on the ice trying to take your head off.
- The Caps were very, very lucky to get out of the first only down one. Pipes, Brent Johnson’s heroics, and some lucky Caps bounces kept things from really getting out of hand.
- The Thrashers tried to put a physical stamp on the game — they hit early and often.
- We’ve alluded to it at certain times, but Boyd Gordon deserves his own point — rock-solid defensively, good speed, good hockey sense, coachable, and now developing a bit of scoring touch. Gordon’s emergence this season has been a true bright spot, and it’s safe to say the checking line center spot is in good hands.
- Always fun to see Ovechkin flying around like that. He seemed to have a lot of jump in his stride, and the accuracy of his shot has been evident.
- Power play woes continue, from not utiliizing some good offensive zone possession, to giving up a shortie. That pretty much runs the gamut of what can go wrong, there.
- Brooks Laich again takes a tough penalty at a bad time.
- The last two words I have written in my game notes: improbable win.
A young team mans-up and secures a win most wouldn’t predict. While there’s much talk of how this affects the Caps’ drafting position, with no clear number one in the draft, the win works for me. May as well see if the Caps can leave a bad taste in the Sabres’ mouth.
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“[T]he Boyd Gordon Experience continues…” Roger that, OFB! Ever wonder how the unnamed DC sports media voice reacted after his tree-stump-stupid view of Gordo inspired Vogel’s vivid vivisection? Might that unnamed MSM dodo be so angry and petty as to retaliate by blowing some incident WAAAAAAAY out of proportion, thus changing the subject quickly and burying his own public shredding? Cynical Cap lifer wonders…. Go Gordo!
The MSM blowhard woodshedded by Vogel has ‘fessed up. Surprise, surprise! The second piece of my prior speculation above now arises. Did he or didn’t he hype the TB post-game incident in a petulant pique — or to throw up a smokescreen “crisis?” Cynical Caps lifer deduces darkly.
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