Your Save of the Night...
No Ovie Highlight tonight. In 22:06 of Ice time, Ovie registers 4 shots on net and 2 missed shots. Sits 2 minutes for Cross-Checking. Need more inspiration from our Captain to motivate the team to get more pucks to the net.
Pucks to the net. A novel idea. SHOOT THE PUCK! Should be a new shirt Coach Hunter should pass around in the locker room. 17 Total Shots on goal for the Caps. That's about the same number of shots I face in any given period in my Adult League. Hats off to Japersrink.com for pointing out that so far in Coach Hunter's regime, the Caps have managed fewer than 20 shots on net 3 times. During the entire length of Coach Boudreau tenure, the Caps only did this 4 times. This is a very disturbing trend.
I will still stick to my prediction that Coach Hunter will ride Vokoun for all he is worth this month. I still think that Vokoun will help us win more games than not in this 12 game span (6 before and after the All-Star Break). BUT, this trend of not putting shots on goal has to stop. A night where Vokoun plays "decent," 25 of 28 saves for a save pct of .893, his teamates barely muster up the wood and hardly average 5 shots a period. A simple solution that Knuble raised in his post-practice interview yesterday was that the team needs to put more shots and pucks towards the net. Good things happen when more pucks go to the net. We let Nabokov walk out of our arena with a shutout after only facing 17 shots.
So after losing to a team tied for last in the Eastern Conference, we face a familiar feeling in the Dale Hunter Era. Three good wins followed by a uninspired stinker versus a team we had no business losing to. With a blown opportunity to get all four wins at home on the home-stand, we now must go on the road and get some points to stave off falling out of the 8th and final spot for the playoffs.
It'll happen, but hopefully the guys are learning from the lessons during this period and will use it to build some second-half success here in the season. At least we didn't sign Rick DiPietro to a 15 year deal. I would hate to be a part of their fan-base and be a goalie fan. I could at least take a shot to the noggin' by good ole Brent Johnson and not fracture my face. GO CAPS!
No Ovie Highlight tonight. In 22:06 of Ice time, Ovie registers 4 shots on net and 2 missed shots. Sits 2 minutes for Cross-Checking. Need more inspiration from our Captain to motivate the team to get more pucks to the net.
Pucks to the net. A novel idea. SHOOT THE PUCK! Should be a new shirt Coach Hunter should pass around in the locker room. 17 Total Shots on goal for the Caps. That's about the same number of shots I face in any given period in my Adult League. Hats off to Japersrink.com for pointing out that so far in Coach Hunter's regime, the Caps have managed fewer than 20 shots on net 3 times. During the entire length of Coach Boudreau tenure, the Caps only did this 4 times. This is a very disturbing trend.
I will still stick to my prediction that Coach Hunter will ride Vokoun for all he is worth this month. I still think that Vokoun will help us win more games than not in this 12 game span (6 before and after the All-Star Break). BUT, this trend of not putting shots on goal has to stop. A night where Vokoun plays "decent," 25 of 28 saves for a save pct of .893, his teamates barely muster up the wood and hardly average 5 shots a period. A simple solution that Knuble raised in his post-practice interview yesterday was that the team needs to put more shots and pucks towards the net. Good things happen when more pucks go to the net. We let Nabokov walk out of our arena with a shutout after only facing 17 shots.
So after losing to a team tied for last in the Eastern Conference, we face a familiar feeling in the Dale Hunter Era. Three good wins followed by a uninspired stinker versus a team we had no business losing to. With a blown opportunity to get all four wins at home on the home-stand, we now must go on the road and get some points to stave off falling out of the 8th and final spot for the playoffs.
It'll happen, but hopefully the guys are learning from the lessons during this period and will use it to build some second-half success here in the season. At least we didn't sign Rick DiPietro to a 15 year deal. I would hate to be a part of their fan-base and be a goalie fan. I could at least take a shot to the noggin' by good ole Brent Johnson and not fracture my face. GO CAPS!
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