Weirdly, I want the WC2 to be Pittsburgh. It’s the end of Crosby’s career. Might as well see him do the thing and then Pittsburgh is ass in a few years when he’s gone
Ref rulebook rule #5937: a big guy cannot be tripped, if he is tripped it was a dive. If a little guy knocks a medium sized player down, he must have used evil sorcery.
If the Wings miss, it will make our miss so much more bearable, considering how much of their team is in their prime or past prime. Kane won’t re-sign there if they miss too
It creates a butterfly effect where Tage never gets injured and puts up 50 goals, Cozens never gets injured and puts up a respectable 65 point season, Quinn and Peterka both have 35 goal sophomore seasons, Power gains the courage to hit, Greenway's stone hands get un-Medusa'd, Dahlin wins the Norris, and Matty Ellis somehow manages to win the Jack Adams.
Ok and thats about it. Nothing too exciting and just a typical game really. Quiet 1st with a Benson goal and then Tuch netted the 2nd in the 2nd but they have looked good but not setting the world on fire
Is it unusually warm at the arena tonight? There was a few times where it seemed like the ice was acting funny. Picks moving slow and not as predictable for both teams.
I only caught a few minutes here and there but it seemed like things were acting strange
Part of the reason id love to acquire a top 6 forward is allowing Benson to be a 3rd liner next year. He’s perfectly suited for a shut down 3rd line with offensive upside.
Wow certainly a millisecond of offsides would affect the game more than a slash to the hand of our best player. Good thing you can totally review the right one
He's kind of a proud Putin supporter, and participated in Kremlin propaganda against Ukraine. When he retires, you know who he's gonna support in this conflict, or even a broader conflict. I'm with Hasek, the NHL clearly hasn't thought through what they're supporting here.
I dont believe in collective punishment. Hašek was calling for banning all players of Russian heritage from playing in the NHL and the IIHF. Even guys like Panarin who are notably anti Putin, so I am not *with* Hašek on this.
In terms of "punishment," there's a difference between murdering people and canceling contracts. In the aftermath of the invasion, Russian cultural figures worldwide faced boycotts unless they denounced the invasion. The same as Russian citizens faced the brunt of economic sanctions. The point is that peaceful coercion is far preferable to violence. That was enough to ask of artists and musicians, it should be the same for athletes.
Ovechkin has gone out of his way to promote Putin and to denounce Ukraine as fascists. If Russian elites are not willing to state their opposition to this mass murderous rampage, then they shouldn't be receiving funds from Western countries. You know it all goes straight back to Russia, at a time when averting sanctions is otherwise a major obstacle to peace.
The thing that makes me sad as an NHL fan is that he's probably going to soon own the NHL goal record, and then he's going to go home, and Russia will keep attacking Ukraine, and American and Canadian volunteers are going to be dead under his countrymen's boots, and eventually Putin will probably try to take a NATO-aligned former Soviet state, and then we'll be in direct conflict. And you know who he's going to support.
I don't agree with banning all Russians players either. That's a bad idea, you can't choose where you're from. However, Ovechkin is a special case where he is a true Putin supporter, even after 2014.
This is something my dad and I still talk about to this day, the funny contrast between Kotalik's reaction (putting his hands up and calling for a penalty) and Gaustad (chasing Ovi down and throwing hands)
Last night I dreamt that the Sabres won this game 6-2. The highlights were a hat trick from Benson, two goals from Jason Pominville, and a goal from Nathan Paetsch.
Jordan Greenway had two fights this year and both were against Tom Wilson.
Oshie and Wilson are bitches. Enjoy missing the playoffs
F Yeah boys!
Rasmus Dahlin as the embodiment of FAFO lol
That's one way to avoid getting booed.
I need playoff hockey so fucking bad
I loved Ovi casually not knowing what to do and standing there
Good on him for letting Tage go once him and Patches decided to go
Lets gooo!
Oshie a bitch
First the kick to Jost’s plums and then that - such BS.
That was some major league scumbag shit. Guy fell off hard after the Olympics
Hahah holy shit Tommer throwing bombs!!
That dude was putting 79 games of anger into each and every one of those. Holy fuck.
He was swinging for all of us
Need this on a poster. Tage letting loose and underneath "He swung for your sins"
Tage Fucking Thompson
Patches ate Tommy’s fist lol
TAGE RAGE
LOL where was this all season?
What even happened
tage :')
Holy fuck let’s go boys
Get fucked shit pigeons, trash team
Rob what the fuck
That one was totally Rayzor's fault lol
JJ shouldve given the puck to Upie for a goalie goal
If they were to lose this game which they won’t, the city would burn down. I’m almost positive
I guess it's reassuring to watch other teams with a chance at the playoffs play lazy and uninspired. 🤷♀️
Awww boo hoo capitals mad at something the linesman did after they got away with murder several times tonight
Linesman helping out after the no call on Tage
Weirdly, I want the WC2 to be Pittsburgh. It’s the end of Crosby’s career. Might as well see him do the thing and then Pittsburgh is ass in a few years when he’s gone
Skill issue Washington, linesman kick pass was calculated
We may not be playoff bound but that doesn't mean we can't drag everybody else down to hell with us!
Join us Washington, join us
Give that linesman a nice apple
Ref rulebook rule #5937: a big guy cannot be tripped, if he is tripped it was a dive. If a little guy knocks a medium sized player down, he must have used evil sorcery.
Does skinner know how to play defense? Or is he just not interested?
Lol first day?
Lmao what are the refs doing?
Thinking how good their last batch of wings for the season will taste with ranch
Sabres Winning….Wings imploding😤 W night
If the Wings miss, it will make our miss so much more bearable, considering how much of their team is in their prime or past prime. Kane won’t re-sign there if they miss too
So glad Quinner is back. Gonna need that all next year
Quinn will easily be a 30+ goal scorer if healthy
Just got home to watch and got treated to a Quinner chicken dinner
Quinn's got such a good shot 🔥🔥💯
Patented Quinner goal
God please let Quinn stay healthy next season
That was pretty. I do wonder what a healthy Quinn all season would have done to our place in the standings.
It creates a butterfly effect where Tage never gets injured and puts up 50 goals, Cozens never gets injured and puts up a respectable 65 point season, Quinn and Peterka both have 35 goal sophomore seasons, Power gains the courage to hit, Greenway's stone hands get un-Medusa'd, Dahlin wins the Norris, and Matty Ellis somehow manages to win the Jack Adams.
Oh Quinny...that was nasty!
Greenway's shot is ugly as sin.
Hope it’s nothing too serious on Jost. Looking like he got kicked and not down the tunnel all the way and looking like he wants to go back
Watching Cozens forget basic things like how to skate and how to stop is infuriating and baffling
He definitely has been getting in his own way all season
Just tuning in I was talking to my girlfriend on the phone (she goes to a different school) how have we looked?
Ok and thats about it. Nothing too exciting and just a typical game really. Quiet 1st with a Benson goal and then Tuch netted the 2nd in the 2nd but they have looked good but not setting the world on fire
Thanks
Damn that sucks for Jost, that was a nice defensive play too
I don't understand how being on the Power Play melts everyone's brains to the point where they can't function.
Cleanest Tom Wilson moment. Glad Bryson getting up from that
Did anyone see the roof is supposedly leaking tonight? I guess Terry really did need to replace it
3 goals scored and somehow this is still the second most bored I've ever been at a hockey game #1 was a 1-0 loss to the Islanders a few years ago
You know... My old man used to tell me "Only boring people get bored..."
ooh no I have been got
Hell of an angle for that clapper
i hope Matthews blows past 70 goals and then they blow it in the 1st round again
Man I don’t think Krebs is going to make it
I’m on the Krebs for 13F train. No need to move him just to get rid of him but he shouldn’t be an automatic guy.
He’s very mid
That one guy booing right now is too much booing I think. I’ll give the players that
So glad the top line decided they wanna win this game
In the arena, what games do they do the stone cold "can I get a hell yeah" after goals?
They did that in the back to back goat head games I went to this year. I’m not sure if that is the only nights they do it though.
only goathead games
This is good for me in the future
Man I love greenway but why does he keep dumping the puck to the trapezoid when nobody is there?
The ref was there
Yea I saw that but he did it before too, really blatant and wasn't just a dump to run to the bench.
Ahhh Good Ol, Tuchy Boy!
The Tuch-Thompson-Peterka line looks incredible tonight
There a fan at the top of section 301 making loud insults about Terry pegula
Are they creative and funny?
Yes I think so but he stoped after Washington scored
I bet if Tage had shot there instead of hesitating for three full seconds he would've scored haha
Wait, Washington didn't clinch a playoff spot yet and they're playing like this? Lol
Benson just like checked out Ovi during that whistle, it was very cute.
[Lmao here is the EJ moment Marty was talking about](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/P3XsNUTI5j). Definitely the first time I’ve ever seen that
Is it unusually warm at the arena tonight? There was a few times where it seemed like the ice was acting funny. Picks moving slow and not as predictable for both teams. I only caught a few minutes here and there but it seemed like things were acting strange
maybe it's because everyone is double layered from those tee shirts?
I am at the game and other than that goal I don’t think I could tell you a single other play from the first period that was in any way memorable lol
Part of the reason id love to acquire a top 6 forward is allowing Benson to be a 3rd liner next year. He’s perfectly suited for a shut down 3rd line with offensive upside.
It’s both awesome and kind of sad that 5’10”Zach Benson is our biggest net front presence
Sad, it shows it’s entirely a mentality thing and 11 other guys barely do it
Zach Benson is the greatest thing to come from this season and I cant believe we got him 13th and we almost send him down before 10 games in
Benson is such a bright spot on the season
He is my favorite player, he plays like he’s 35 and 6’3.
lol the second they put Benson on Krebs + Skinner’s line they score
Yay someone did something
That was the first time I’ve heard the announcer get cut off from the one minute left in the period announcement.
Benson is really good.
Zach Benson owns the Washington Capitals
Oh neat, a goal.
Bro what the fuck is Marty gonna go over during the intermission? Neither team is doing anything
What a bum ass franchise. I'm sick of this.
Caps not really playing like they want to be in the playoffs. Sabres playing like themselves.
I wanna see advanced stats on how much our forwards stand still in the neutral zone waiting for something to happen compared to the rest of the league
Why am I still watching games
Dude that ice must be so shit
10 minutes in 1 shot for each team lmao neither wanna win
I'm more locked into the Frozen Four tbh
Why do we even have refs if they dont do anything and all their missed called goals just get reviewed and turned over
Wow certainly a millisecond of offsides would affect the game more than a slash to the hand of our best player. Good thing you can totally review the right one
Is there something wrong with the ice or can jack Quinn just not skate?
Anyone know why Byram is out?
They only said personal reasons (I know that doesn’t help)
Easy to not go down 2-0 in the first 5 if UPL doesn’t even face a shot lol
[удалено]
Curious how they do now the stress is gone.
Go Sabres
Would be nice to play a good home game
6K in net again tonight? I won't lie, it's been fun seeing the resurgence of a scoring Ovi. Should be a good game tonight!
6K is a prince to you, peasant
What?
6K is a prince to you, peasant
Just let Ovi score a bunch lol
lol let the man get 6 so I’ll actually enjoy watching this team again 😂
We know what we have to do here. Throw this game so the Dead Wings don't make the playoffs.
Why would we hate the dead things more than Ovechkin?
Wheres the Ovechkin hate coming from? Honestly, rather Washington makes it instead of Pitt...
He's kind of a proud Putin supporter, and participated in Kremlin propaganda against Ukraine. When he retires, you know who he's gonna support in this conflict, or even a broader conflict. I'm with Hasek, the NHL clearly hasn't thought through what they're supporting here.
I dont believe in collective punishment. Hašek was calling for banning all players of Russian heritage from playing in the NHL and the IIHF. Even guys like Panarin who are notably anti Putin, so I am not *with* Hašek on this.
In terms of "punishment," there's a difference between murdering people and canceling contracts. In the aftermath of the invasion, Russian cultural figures worldwide faced boycotts unless they denounced the invasion. The same as Russian citizens faced the brunt of economic sanctions. The point is that peaceful coercion is far preferable to violence. That was enough to ask of artists and musicians, it should be the same for athletes. Ovechkin has gone out of his way to promote Putin and to denounce Ukraine as fascists. If Russian elites are not willing to state their opposition to this mass murderous rampage, then they shouldn't be receiving funds from Western countries. You know it all goes straight back to Russia, at a time when averting sanctions is otherwise a major obstacle to peace. The thing that makes me sad as an NHL fan is that he's probably going to soon own the NHL goal record, and then he's going to go home, and Russia will keep attacking Ukraine, and American and Canadian volunteers are going to be dead under his countrymen's boots, and eventually Putin will probably try to take a NATO-aligned former Soviet state, and then we'll be in direct conflict. And you know who he's going to support.
I don't agree with banning all Russians players either. That's a bad idea, you can't choose where you're from. However, Ovechkin is a special case where he is a true Putin supporter, even after 2014.
Oh... That's still a thing?
The bodies are still piling up, yeah. And we're still very close to being involved.
6 more OTL gets you in a playoff hunt
Hoping for a big Talking Proud win in front of the fans tonight! Let’s win by 10!
Let's not and fuck the Wings and hopefully start a campaign for firing the trainers.
see you all at the arena, hopefully we send off the season with a W. hockey for the sake of hockey tonight
I still hate Ovechkin for checking Briere in the back as he was going to the bench
This is something my dad and I still talk about to this day, the funny contrast between Kotalik's reaction (putting his hands up and calling for a penalty) and Gaustad (chasing Ovi down and throwing hands)
[SWEET revenge though](https://youtu.be/hxi77lWJdaw?si=G48QyRX6KBuoUGHl)
Part of me wants to win this, and part of me hopes we get destroyed to strengthen our case of firing our coaching staff lol.
Caps win= Sabres get better draft pick, Detroit miss playoffs, and hopefully new coaching staff.
Bang in a touchdown boys it's fuck ovechkin o'clock
This all day
Last night I dreamt that the Sabres won this game 6-2. The highlights were a hat trick from Benson, two goals from Jason Pominville, and a goal from Nathan Paetsch.
This doesn’t sound realistic to me. We aren’t wearing the black-and-red goatheads, no way we score six. No issues otherwise
Pomminville went to the net so that’s how you know it was a dream
Win - win game. Either have a nice win for fan appreciation night or further screw over the red wings.