Quotes from Capitals Head Coach Bruce Boudreau:
On today’s game ending in a shootout?¢‚Ǩ¬¶
“I still don’t like the shootout. It’s a hard way to end the game when you’ve got two warriors battling like that. Like I always said, coaches hate the shootout when you lose and it’s okay when you win.”
On the game today being played more towards Boston’s style?¢‚Ǩ¬¶
“They sit five guys back and wait for you to come at them. Whatever works for you. Obviously, it’s worked for them because they’re five points ahead of us at this stage. We’d like to think that we play a brand of hockey that’s more exciting most nights.”
On the Capitals playing a bit nervous with so much on the line ?¢‚Ǩ¬¶
“I don’t know if we were tired. I thought at the end of the game we were pensive. Sometimes you’ve got a young team and they know so much is on the line and when you get out there you’re afraid to make a mistake. And it looked like we were afraid to make a mistake rather than just say ‘let’s go get ‘em’ and play the way we can. That’s the difference between teams that aren’t in it, that play real loose and they’re beating the other teams because they’re loose.”
On the big road trip coming up?¢‚Ǩ¬¶
“We think of it as two three-game road trips. And again, we think of it as day-to-day. Our record is pretty good on the road and we just have to play one game at a time. Nashville is fighting for their life in the Western Conference. So, it’s going to be a really tough game (Tuesday night in Nashville). But we can’t look beyond that. Six games on the road seems like a real daunting task. But we’ll take it one game at a time and after the third game, we’ll come home for a couple of days. So then it’s two different trips.”
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I never thought I’d be rooting for Pittsburgh, but I guess today it was the lesser of two evils.
I thought the B’s outplayed our boyz tonight. With the injuries to the B’s it’s a wonder they’re playing the way they are. Julien ought to get Coach of the Year if BB doesn’t.
Very frustrating to watch the Bruins put four across the neutral zone in the first period. Having two men forechecking in the second gave the Caps a lot of trouble. The whole game was a single Cap trying repeatedly to carry the puck alone on the rush. The only passing by the Caps came in the defensive zone before the breakout. Just bitchin’…
Making the whole game more frustrating was Comcast’s lack of replays:
1. AO just levels Lucic when Lucic tries to hit him.
2. Laich getting tripped in the neutral zone (they showed a very poor replay.
3. Puck over the glass that JB and CL both believed hit the glass.
4. Huet got knocked out of the net and I didn’t see if the B was pushed in or not.
I think that with the terrible officiating they experienced in Boston and again last night, the Caps became very tentative in the third period, afraid to get close to a Boston player and have yet another awful penalty called against them. It was probably borne out by the ridiculous diving call against Ovie.
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