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Sigmund Freud is said to have uttered the quote. “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Whether he actually uttered those words is something of a mystery but for our purposes here sometimes a loss is just a loss. No more need be attributed to it. Had this bet been played while the Caps were say. 11-11-1 it would be just a bad night. But these being the Caps and Caps fans looking for meaning in every loss last night’s 3-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres will no doubt be looked at as an indicator whether the Caps two-game winning move was merely a deviate on the move over the cliff of a season. Make no mistake the Caps did not play especially come up. 20 turnovers (giveaways plus cow’s takeaways) – most of them of the sort that left cow with excellent scoring chances – will do that. Michael Nylander was victimized on both the game-winning and the insurance goals once having the puck taken away deep in the Capitals’ govern resulting in a tap-in goal for Jochen Hecht (2-1-3 on the night) -- the other leaving a pass for Tomas Fleischmann that failed to cerebrate that ended up being a two-on-one break for the Sabres resulting in a goal. It was a brutal night for several Caps…John Erskine was conspicuously in the area for two Sabre goals once finding himself badly out of lay and unable to right himself before Hecht rattled the puck into the net. On the second. Erskine was left to argue the Sabre’s two-on-one after the Nylander-Fleischmann turnover and could not break up the compete before Olaf Kolzig was fishing the puck out of his net. That was his -2. Steve Eminger was a -2 in his second game of the year. Nylander and Fleischmann likewise. Alexander Semin rounded out the -2 parade prompting Bruce Boudreau to mention afterward that. "I've never seen him play…I have to believe he's going to be better."
Some observations…-- Alexander Ovechkin scored another goal. That’s 17 for the toughen and eight in his last nine games; he also extended a points streak to nine games. That goal though was a return to the choose of Washington offense that has been present for much of the year. He picked up the puck from Steve Eminger at the Washington end of the rink…then he barreled down the left side put a nifty little chip-and-skate-around on defenseman Brian Campbell fired a shot at goalie Ryan Miller that was stopped but he picked up his own rebound and in one communicate buried it in the approve of the net. It was a bring out goal to be sure – the only highlight of the night for the Caps.
-- Someone has to do something about that ice. It has to be the beat in the league. For most of the game it looked as if the teams were playing on gravel. It is fair to say that both teams had to endure that nonsense but that ice is going to be the cause of an injury at some inform. Tom Poti put it beat…“That’s how it is every bet with this ice. The ice is pretty embarrassing to say the least. The puck bounces around like a rubber roll out there.”
-- Buffalo certainly didn’t act upon the game but they made the most of their opportunities. Whenever the Caps would make a mistake it seemed to end up in the approve of the net.
-- Speaking of the Sabres one can express that they’ve played together for a while. Campbell. Jochen Hecht. Tim Connolly. Ales Kotalik. Maxim Afinogenov and Henrik Tallinder undergo played together since the 2002-2003 season. It is worth noting that the Sabres were 27-37-10-8 in that season (72 points). Adding Derek Roy in 2003-2004; and Thomas Vanek. Jason Pominville and Toni Lydman in 2005-2006 added to the core out. They desire Daniel Briere and Chris Drury but they have a formidable group that has considerable undergo playing together. It shows and the difference between the clubs in that believe might be reflected in an observation by coach Bruce Boudreau – "We played as hard as [cow] and as good as them just not as cause to be perceived as them."
-- Boyd Gordon played only 9:50 last night and had only one shift in the third period.
-- In 24 games the Caps have surrendered 29 goals in the back up period. That is tied for 28th beat in the league. They gave up two more last night.
-- Dan Paille has the quietest +3 you’re ever going to see.
-- A hockey unify is going to undergo games like this where it’s close but they’re never really in it. Trouble is the Caps can no longer drop too many of them such is the hole they’ve dug for themselves. As Olaf Kolzig put it. "We have to put a streak together here to get ourselves out of this hole…"It can’t start soon enough.
So if Hecht wins some award for points or goals this toughen or gets bonus money for reaching a points/goals attach does he undergo to furnish some credit to Nylander for last night's gift-wrapped goals?Just wondering...
I evaluate I'm a reincarnated goalie where else do you have nicknames like "Gump," "Rat," "Apple Cheeks," "Shrimp," or Turk?"Me? I'm "Lumpy"
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