One year and one day ago, the Caps hosted a joint Draft Viewing/Uniform Unveiling event out at K-Plex. A good time was had by all, etc., but no one could have known then that the participants in the night's festivities were, in fact... doomed.Below is a snapshot of "The Unveiling Four," Ben Clymer, Brian Pothier, Chris Clark and Jeff Schultz, from left to right.
Each has faced his own unique set of circumstances since that night:
- Pothier's career is in jeopardy after being on the receiving end of a Milan Lucic hit back in early January. He played 38 games in 2007-08;
- Clark played in only 18 games in 2007-08 as he took an Alex Ovechkin slapper to the ear in October which cost him eight games and is still battling a nagging groin injury from late November that has cost him 56 games plus the playoffs;
- Schultz missed five of the Caps' seven playoff games with a back injury; and
- Clymer, who was placed on waivers today for the purpose of being bought out ($250,000 cap hit this coming year, $366,666.67 cap hit next season and a $366,666.67 savings to the team), spent the entire season in the AHL.
9 comments:
Two points:
1. I'm still waiting for Brashear to put a beat down on Lucic for that cheap hit on Pothier and
2. What do you mean Chris is "still battling" that groin injury? I thought I heard McPhee and Clark say that he's almost 99% healed. Know something we don't?
"but no one could have known then that the participants in the night's festivities were, in fact... doomed."
Hysterical. Well, not really, but still - hysterical.
And that Avery article was actually kind of interesting.
I feel shame for saying that.
Maybe I need to see it again, but I don't remember the Lucic hit being cheap. Wasn't it a straight shoulder check? Pothier was just leaning the wrong way...
It's at about the 1:00 mark of this clip, SG.
So it's not just the EA Sports curse!
Of course, given the success rate of the FCF during the playoffs, I guess we should have expected as much. (And what was the final won/loss ratio of the FCF anyway?)
I would to terrible, terrible things to get Lucic on this team. The guy's a stud.
Good question, TG.
The FCF finished this year's playoffs 11-for-15 (73.3%) and is now 35-for-45 (77.8%) all-time, including correctly predicting the last three Stanley Cup Champs.
Oh, I'd love to have Lucic too but he still has to pay for that hit. It wasn't Patrice Bergeron cheap, but he went right for Pothier's head with his elbow/shoulder as Bryan was trying to run down the puck. If he had checked Pothier shoulder to shoulder and then Brian hit his head on the glass, it's perfectly clean. Lucic played borderline dirty all season long, kind of like a former #32. It's great if he's on your team, but he going to piss more than a few other teams off during his career. That said, he can play for the Caps any day.
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