I should've known. Shutting up now.

Caps Postgame Thoughts: 4-1 Loss vs New York (decided to go last minute today for the final home game)

- This was classic Trotz hockey, back to his glory days in Nashville and Washington. A slow, boring game that sucks the life out of the opposing team and the arena. With Washington missing the emotional leader and captain of the team, there was no one to hype up the team when it needed energy the most.

- Almost everyone had a bad night. Kuzy, Sheary, Fehervary (maybe) and Samsonov were the only 4 that I felt put in a solid 60 minute effort (samsonov is more debateable but the 1st and 4th goals were on screens, 2 was another failure by defense, and the third was just as much on Orlov as he didn’t communicate at all with Samsonov). Sheary was the guy Joel Ward was in the 2010s, the only guys sometimes that you could look at and say he had a solid preformance.

- These refs were straight up incompetent tonight. While a couple missed calls come to mind, the two worst offenders were the hooking call on Pelech, which was completely legal and was simply a stick lift. The other was not blowing the whistle when Oshie went down. He was very clearly in a dangerous position, being down right in front of the net, yet play was somehow allowed to continue. Oshie was invisible after that play so even though he continued, I wouldn’t be surprised if he may have an actual injury.

- Players just didn’t step up. No energy from McMichael or Wilson when they normally have it.

- Ice was pure garbage tonight (so Cap One in April every year it seems). No one on either side could stay upright or settle a puck. Jensen and Schultz really struggled with this tonight.

- The Islanders simply outplayed Washington today. An inexcusable loss, made only slightly better by Pittsburgh losing. Thursday will become a must win game, even more than before. If they don’t come in with some energy to UBS, you can kiss the 3rd seed goodbye.

Thompson looks way less confident than Oettinger does right now

WHY IS FAKSA SHOOTING A PENALTY SHOT

shootouts in important games are silly, but this is one helluva shootout, both goalies are crazy locked in right now

why did faksa shoot lol

MARCHESSAULT POST WOW NO GOALS THROUGH 5 ROUNDS

Reminded me of the other night when the caps went with TVR in the shootout

this shootout sucks

MIROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

HEISKANEN IS SO GOOD

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!

AND OTTER SHUTS THE DOOR

I'VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY FOR THE STARS TO WIN A GAME IN MY LIFE

ROBERTSON, HEISKANEN and OTTER DO IT

OTTER IS ALSO SO GOOD

DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS DALLAS

Seriously, can we take a moment to feel for Logan Thompson?

He did everything he could.

But Oettinger was better.

That’s a W baby.

Did ypu guys catch eichel roll his eyes!
He knows! He really is the playoffs curse!

Vegas should trade for Kerfoot hes great at shootouts

Because of this ret*rd

Let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooo

It pains me to see justaboss happy though.
Bummer.

Still not a clinch though.

We gotta lose the two games we have left in regulation and Knights have to win theirs.

So it's looking good.

VEGAS GOLDEN CHOKERS

The fact Vegas can still make the playoffs is pretty funny

As there one saving grace rn is Nashville's remaining games

Logan Thompson - GVegas Golden Knights$766k x 3 year extensionConfirmed Breakdown:2022-23: $750k / $ $125k ($250k guaranteed)2023-24: $775k2024-25: $775khttps://t.co/fLBSsVSfEL

— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) January 31, 2022

Contract is going to be a steal