Running Stanley Cup Playoff Thread

Because it keeps fucking happening. How many passes does he get?

 

Why is it automatically on the coach? I've never understood that. Either you think he's a good coach or you don't, but you don't place the entirety of the team's results on him.

Figure out why it's happening and change it. If you think it's him, then do it. If you think it's some players, change them.

 

I agree with that to a point - but by the same token, there is just something missing with this team. The last two goals they gave up in this game were not on the goaltender - the last one was an idiotic interference penalty, a failure to clear the puck and a failure to get a guy out of the front of the net so the goaltender could see.

They just don't seem to play enough winning hockey at critical points in these games

 

Because you can't fire the players and because this is three years in a row now and thus something needs to change.

 

Zagoshe is correct. In a salary cap-based league, it's much more difficult to overhaul a roster.

 

Easier isn't better. It's just easier.

 

You're also assuming something not said. It's not AUTOMATICALLY on the coach. But after four years and only two series victories, maybe he IS the problem.

 

Exactly. This isn't a one-year sample - this is a four-year sample.

And just because a coach is a good coach, he may not be THE RIGHT coach.

 

Of course it might be him. I just haven't heard anything besides "it happened" put up to suggest that it is him.

 

Zag, you're right about this not being a one-year sample. In fact, it's more than a four-year sample.

It's the Caps' whole friggin history - more than three decades' worth. Other than their lone Stanley Cup Finals run in '98, they only know how to disappoint in the playoffs. The players have changed. So have the coaches and even the GMs. Yet the results haven't.

Maybe the problem is ownership, just like it is with so many other franchises that can never get over the hump.

 

Alex Ovechkin is rapidly becoming the A-Fraud of hockey.

Say what you want about Sidney Crosby and his propensity to whine, the guy is a winner. Ovechkin only knows putting up gaudy regular season stats and losing when it matters most.

 

What more would you like from this owner?