Wow carkner is bad. First line getting the forecheck going. Still time here

Getting killed by our D and goaltending again. Time for Capuano to get nabby the fack out of there. His reaction time and glove hand are horrible.
- Cptmjl

What's worse is you can see a lack of confidence in Nabby by his defense. Fundamental defense tells you to never leave your feet, stay in the middle and cancel the pass while allowing the goalie to handle the shooter. Our dman are constantly choosing to cancel the shot by diving and leave the pass... Bad sign.

Clutterbuck's penalty was dumb. And that line in general has been borderline useless for a long time. None of the three can really play their game. Clutterbuck would be most useful with the other crashers on the fourth line. Grabner's most useful when there's someone who can actually get him the puck, and Regin is most useful observing the game from the press box.

Nabby sucks
Can we fire cappy

And someone really needs to ask Cappy why Carkner is killing a penalty against Ovechkin and Washington's first power play unit.

He just doesn't look very fundamentally sound. To me that's a red flag. Regardless of being rusty or whatever, that's still something that can be worked on without games. I can see a lot of rebounds or missing a shot with the glove hand from lack of work, but not being out of position and lying on his back every flurry. He gives himself no chance to make a lot of saves, regardless if they are his fault or not.
- Isles316

Yet that seems to describe Nabby too. Goalies tend to look fundamentally flawed and desperate when their defenses suck.

What's worse is you can see a lack of confidence in Nabby by his defense. Fundamental defense tells you to never leave your feet, stay in the middle and cancel the pass while allowing the goalie to handle the shooter. Our dman are constantly choosing to cancel the shot by diving and leave the pass... Bad sign.
- keaner17

If I were part of the defense I'd have zero confidence in nabby and if I were nabby I'd have zero confidence in the defense.

Getting killed by our D and goaltending again. Time for Capuano to get nabby the fack out of there. His reaction time and glove hand are horrible.
- Cptmjl

PP for Isles would be nice..... I said this before, if you need a first NHL goal or to break a slump, play the Isles...

I think it is time to bench nabakov and give poulin a shot

Expecting this by second period?

- keaner17

Cappy's aware this is a legal move in the regular season as well, right?

And someone really needs to ask Cappy why Carkner is killing a penalty against Ovechkin and Washington's first power play unit.
- UIF

Have to love gorings description of amacs stupid play that lead to an icing. "It was a good try"

Cappy's aware this is a legal move in the regular season as well, right?
- UIF

We'll see. I think Ovechkin poses a big problem in Nabby struggles with players that shoot high glove and Ovie has a damn fine snapshot. I'm guaran-damn-teeing at least one for #8 tonight.
Hopefully JT and Vanek are ready to make some noise.
- keaner17

So who's gonna sport the Amac avatar?

If I were part of the defense I'd have zero confidence in nabby and if I were nabby I'd have zero confidence in the defense.
- Cptmjl

Paradox

Paradox
- keaner17

What'd you call me?

Have to love gorings description of amacs stupid play that lead to an icing. "It was a good try"
- Cptmjl

Say what you want about any of the other defensemen, but Carkner is clearly the worst of the six. Putting him on the first PK unit is...I can't even come up with anything that might be kind of an acceptable reason.

This is getting bad

What's worse is you can see a lack of confidence in Nabby by his defense. Fundamental defense tells you to never leave your feet, stay in the middle and cancel the pass while allowing the goalie to handle the shooter. Our dman are constantly choosing to cancel the shot by diving and leave the pass... Bad sign.
- keaner17

that first pp goal against was a fairly harmless wrist shot from the point, Nabby whiffs on it and the whole team sags. Bouchard, Nielson, Bailey not generating much of anything, all pressure is coming from the top line and the defense are standing in front of our goaltender trying to block the shot at the top of the crease rather than let Nabby see it, because he sucks. Should have been pulled already but Capuano would rather allow the game to get further out of hand than give the team a boost by putting in the kid.

Carkner's been horrible, Nabby's been awful. Where's the team that played against Boston? And how the hell do we allow a partial breakaway on the PK? Amac got caught flatfooted at the line and then everyone else gets caught trying to compensate for him being out of position.

Overall, pretty disgusting. Top line is the only thing giving me any hope at all tonight but they're not going to score 3 goals in the third to force overtime

Cappy's aware this is a legal move in the regular season as well, right?
- UIF

Cappy feels Nabby is a guy who knows how to baddel haad. He knows he can 'get da jawb don'

Nabby sucks balls!!!

What'd you call me?
- Cptmjl

Say what you want about any of the other defensemen, but Carkner is clearly the worst of the six. Putting him on the first PK unit is...I can't even come up with anything that might be kind of an acceptable reason.
- UIF

The guy was logging twenty minutes a few times last year. Capuano is out of his mind.

Pachanga.

that first pp goal against was a fairly harmless wrist shot from the point, Nabby whiffs on it and the whole team sags. Bouchard, Nielson, Bailey not generating much of anything, all pressure is coming from the top line and the defense are standing in front of our goaltender trying to block the shot at the top of the crease rather than let Nabby see it, because he sucks. Should have been pulled already but Capuano would rather allow the game to get further out of hand than give the team a boost by putting in the kid.

Carkner's been horrible, Nabby's been awful. Where's the team that played against Boston? And how the hell do we allow a partial breakaway on the PK? Amac got caught flatfooted at the line and then everyone else gets caught trying to compensate for him being out of position.

Overall, pretty disgusting. Top line is the only thing giving me any hope at all tonight but they're not going to score 3 goals in the third to force overtime
- Isles_since_6

I'd also bet that Nabakov is good for a couple more goals after Capuano puts him out to start the third.

Pachanga.
- Blackstrom2

Enjoy while we suffer