So we are trying a new post style, coined in better places as FJM style, I will now, quite poorly mind you, dissect a recent publishing on our great squad:
"Capitals may need to make a move before the NHL trade deadline" - John Fiensteineneeeniinenenstinnen
!Cool Article!
The Washington Capitals celebrated the career of Dino Ciccarelli on Tuesday night at Verizon Center. The evening was a Dino-fest, complete with video highlights of his career, audio messages from former teammates, and the tough little winger dropping a ceremonial puck. Ciccarelli was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame this past November.
TOUGH LITTLE WINGERS! TOUGH LITTLE WINGERS! HES THE DAVID ECKSTIEN OF HOCKEY!
He played a little more than three of his 19 NHL seasons in Washington. He scored 112 of his 608 career goals as a Capital after nine seasons in Minnesota. In the first four seasons after he left the Capitals, he scored 107 goals for the Detroit Red Wings. He was a four-time all-star: three times in Minnesota and once with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
And yet Verizon Center on Tuesday felt like Gordie Howe Night in Detroit or Bobby Orr Night in Boston. It was sweet and nice - but it was also a stretch. In their 37 seasons, the Capitals can call two Hall of Famers their own: Rod Langway and Mike Gartner, though Langway's only Stanley Cup came in Montreal.
That's why the Capitals are always searching for legacy players and legacy moments: There just aren't a lot of either.
What a bunch of back-handed, loaded bullshit to spew in the direction of a franchise you clearly view as a joke.
The Caps' power play hasn't been quite as bad recently as, say, the Wizards on the road, but it has definitely been MIA: nine goals in 88 chances over their past 27 games entering Tuesday. Like a lot of Pepco customers last week, Caps fans have been asking, "When will we get our power back?"
Love how he jumps in here with a quick dig at the Wizards. 'What's that oh great sports editor, you want a f--kin' hockey article?!?! Shit, who watches that crappp!?!?'
"We didn't let down," Coach Bruce Boudreau said. "We just made a couple of mistakes."
Call it what you want. It didn't soothe the crowd, some of whom resorted to boos at the end of the second period. Even among the Caps, there appeared to be confusion as to what had gone wrong after the encouraging start.
All he talks about is the crowd noise, that's his entire measurement of a hockey organization.
Several players and Boudreau said the exact same thing initially when asked what had changed: "I don't honestly know."
Just gripping commentary here, and I wonder why NHL is a distant fourth in the national sports scale...
And then there was the suddenly mercurial superstar, Alex Ovechkin, whose postgame voice seems to get softer and softer as his scoring struggles stretch from December to January and now into February. Through Tuesday night, he was 10th in the league in points, hardly awful but hardly worthy of the Great Eight. He has scored 13 goals fewer than Sidney Crosby - even though Crosby has played 11 fewer games - and it is tough to put them in the same sentence at this point in this season.
Ovechkin! Finally, ok back to Feinnsienntineens mind: 'Hmmmm.... need something here about ovechkin, ok.... MUST MENTION CROSBY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
Ovechkin's playing as hard as ever.
Wait I thought you just said...
Ovechkin's playing as hard as ever. For a moment Tuesday, it looked like he might have turned the momentum around when he cleanly flipped Montreal rookie P.K. Subban to the ice, causing the embarrassed Subban to take a retaliation penalty. That power play lasted 22 seconds before Brooks Laich went off for tripping while trying to stay onside coming into the zone.
Sigh.
"We know the answers have to come from this room," Hendricks said. "They're in here."
Sigh. Mother F--in' sigh. F-- you John, F--- YOU. Take that fu--in sigh and go f--- yourself with your fu--in typewriter.
Every once in a while, a team needs to pay attention to history when it's trying to write some of its own.
Thanks John, and now I will promptly blow my head off at the thought of yet another caps playoff collapse.
