[AP Preview - WashingtonCaps.com Preview]Focus? Focyou!
Why lead this morning's post with a juvenile play on words that doesn't even make any sense? Because focus is precisely what the Caps need right now - sixty minutes of mental acuity from 19 individuals reading from the same sheet of music.
In each of the Caps seven games so far, with the exception of the Vancouver win, there have been notable spans in which the team gave up multiple goals in short order or otherwise evidenced of a lack of sharpness that was more than just a series of physical lapses. A recap:
- Atlanta: Three goals allowed in 5:28 of the first period, three goals allowed in 2:10 in the third
- Chicago: Goal allowed 0:26 into the game
- Pittsburgh: Two goals allowed in a 2:34 span that included the first intermission, thanks to a Too Many Men penalty and a John Erskine Delay of Game (natch).
- New Jersey: Two goals allowed in 1:08 of the third period
- Calgary: Two goals allowed in 1:42 of the second period
- Phoenix: Two goals allowed in 4:03 of the third period
As the cliche goes, the most important shifts of a game are the first ones after a goal, and while the Caps may not be getting burned on those exact shifts, they're not necessarily responding to opponents' tallies as they should be. The Caps simply need to do a better job of collecting themselves in these post-goal minutes, and that, at least in part, is on Bruce Boudreau.
Stars tonight. Go Caps!
H/t to EDCEagle on the Caps Message Board for the inspiration
Elsewhere 'Round the Rinks:
Darryl Reaugh is giddy about AO coming to town. Too giddy? You be the judge:
"The guy who looks as though he was chiseled out of a glacier, had a little 'manscaping' done and then was taught to speak broken English will bring his bag of testosterone to AAC on Saturday and it will be delicious."Yummy?... Joel Broda had a pair of goals against Calgary.
6 comments:
1 vote for Too Giddy.
And is that guy for real???
He called the Vancouver game with Joe B., didn't he? He called Ovechkin a "physical specimen" and other flowery words of phrase. He lurves him.
I thought it was Andy Brickley that called the 'Nucks game, but I could be wrong. Either way, big time man-crush.
Erskine gets the game winner tonight - lock it up!
And yes, that's gets, not gives.
'Manscaping', eh? And 'chiseled out of a glacier', too. Hmmmm. Is this implying that Ovie was originally somewhat cold and a bit girly? I'm confused.
Someone needs to tell this guy that testosterone is literally made in a man's "bag."
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