RichieNextel305

The goalies in the West have been just awful so far. Awful.

I don’t disagree. Keep whoever you want on the roster. But your lineup at game time must be cap compliant. I don’t get why that’s so difficult. I’m sure they can come up with some solution. I mean listen I get it. Injuries happen. Teams go on runs. Hockey players are hockey players and if they see their team on a run, and feel they can go, they want to go. They’re a different breed of athlete. I understand that and the whole concept of why the cap doesn’t come into play in the playoffs and all of the situation. I get it. But this is the same team. The same guy. Over and over and over again. I’m sorry, but at some point, this needs to be fixed because it is ridiculous.

Hurricanes didn’t escape this game unscathed. Brett Pesce, a huge part of their defense, went down with a lower-body injury in the 2nd and didn’t return. It was a non-contact injury. Brind’Amour touched on it during his post-game presser and said he would be evaluated tomorrow but that it doesn’t look good for him. That would be a huge loss.

I honestly hadn’t seen yet to be honest, haha. My cousin threw money on Stone for anytime goal and put it in the group chat and then I looked. See Hertl has one too. No one saw this coming!

And look who scores the 1st goal of the series? Captain Circumvention! And the wild celebration to boot! But be careful, he had a dangerous injury!

That was a gut punch, potential season-ending type of loss for them. I also don’t think they’ll recover. And now you need to win 4 of 5 against them. Just (hilarious) brutal to see. You hate (LOL) to see it. Wow. Have to also assume they go to Sorokin for Game 3 now, no? If not for anything else, maybe just a shakeup? Not sure it’s going to matter. They had 12 fucking shots.

Back to the Future.

I get it’s not breaking any current rules. And that’s all that ultimately matters. But this is a joke. I know players get hurt and then heal in time to play playoffs. I get it’s a slippery slope when coming up with a way eventually in the next CBA to combat this because so many scenarios exist and you can’t penalize them all under one blanket. But this has gotten to the point it’s just outrageous. Same player. Same team. Same shit for how many years now? This isn’t what should be discussed coming into the playoffs; an elite team bending the rules. It should be all about the playoffs. This really is unfair. I don’t know what the answer is, but it will be something that needs to be figured out at some point in the next CBA.

For some reason, reading this post I just envisioned Shooter McGavin running away from a herd of Happy Gilmore fans while putting on the Gold Jacket. Except it’s Rempe running away with the Cup from all of the Rangers. What an image.

A joke.

I would have loved to see the odds on DraftKings for him to score the first goal. I’m trying to look for Tuesday now just to get an idea but they don’t post props like that until the day of. All that’s up is an anytime goal at +800. There are 10 guys below him which is really kind of surprising to be honest.

He stinks. Ignore him. Keep swallowing offensive zone time. Score goals. They create as much off the rush as I do in the bedroom. Just keep it moving. Get your goals. Dust this team. They stink.

Come on fellas.

And they’re slow. Like, very slow. Get pucks in deep, beat them to it and create. The Rangers are going to have a lot of offensive zone time. Their speed is going to be a lot, maybe too much, for the Capitals to handle. Especially the transition game we have. It’s just a matter of us burying our chances, really. Lindgren has been hot. But he’s not Martin Brodeur. This is a guy who was an okay backup most of his career and is playing his first career playoff game. Have to overwhelm him all game and all series.