Green Has MRI

im crossing my fingers

whoa, GMGM admitted that a player had a medical procedure? did he actually say it was on his shoulder? i'm frankly surprised he confirmed that mike green plays for the Caps. a new era of openness...

If it's a rotator cuff injury the shoulder is never quite the same. Fairly common, but not career/performance threatening.

Here's hoping nothing too serious, although it could still be a long time healing.

Let us know, Tarik.

let's just hope its a bad bruise.

austinsteve,

Yikes, don't say rotator cuff stuff bro. Remember Calle Jo was taken off the line for some time and I don't think he really was the same after that hit in Boston.

I'm hopin' Green is just abit sore and nothing less. We are winning now but if Semin, Feds, and Green were to be out in Feb-March, that would be well, substantial.

Needless to say, I'd rather have them all back and us be whinning about unfair scratches and such ya know?

anyone have a line on justin.tv? who's going to carry the game?

http://www.justin.tv/rags2richessportschannel

found it.

comcast sports net has it on verizon fios.

Well...maybe not...

Game is up in HD on CSN-HD, as expected. Enjoy the game everyone... and try to let me know if there's a new thread this time so I don't sit there wondering where everyone went. :P

Yup. They have it on now.

Also here apparently:
http://atdhe.net/live-tv-676.html

Alright... glad to see GT punk miami. Sets VT up nicely.

Now lets make this a great night:

LETS GO CAPS

@Bernie

It's one of those "say it so it isn't true" things
:)

austinsteve,
Hope so bro.

At least we got that first shot-goal monkey off our back tonight. Geez...

goskinsgo:
Did you see my reply about the article?

Jeez, guys! Come on!

Kings are swarming tonight... it's going to be a long one.

Except Johnnie's sharp...might steal one

Really, no kidding. Hope we don't get a few on us to wake us up. This is where the coaches and the captains need to step in and make some noise.

definitely a lack of effort tonight. Glad to see BJ bringing his 'A' game.

Going to be a really, really long night.

what in the hell is going on?

I'm watching the NHL.com gamecenter thing (which mostly blows, btw).

How are we getting dominated like this?

I'm sure Ovie feels like $#!+ so hopefully he redeems himself with a few, or more.

Yeah, we do look tired.

That's one Humpty Dumpty reference.

dump and chase on PP. Are you serious?

we just got dominated. kings have a good PK unit.. hopefully we can step it up in the 2nd..

large23220,
My point exactly. We look really tired.

I'm watching on a feed from justing.tv. it's an LA feed. They love to talk about OV.

@sec 117--- that 'All the kings men' comment was an instant classic.

Almost as good as the 'produce' comment from yesterday

3 shots none even strength lol

David Lee deserves a double minor for his outfit, and the tie gets a game misconduct.

The kings are looking sharp tonight. Their Defense is very disruptive to the Caps attack. Additional note - the ice there in LA looks terrible. Lots of players slipping/losing an edge - even the linesman lost his edge. Puck is moving very slow on the ice and passes look terrible. This could be a slow & painful game.

Seems like our boys resting a bit after yesterday's great game. Plus they might be not as motivated.

"right in the produce section"

Did Beninati make that up? I've never heard that before. He should be doing stand up.

that caps XMAS commercial was PERFECT

that commercial was great !

lol that Xmas commercial reminded me of when i got a Mike Modano Green North Stars Jersey when I was a little kid. Ahhh... memories... :P

goskinsgo,
Yeah, made me laugh too, lol...

Has Joe B been drinking?

That Melrose mullet?????

@Sec. 117 - Muwahhaahaa - totally agree - Gawdawful outfit and tie -- same last night with the large paned check jacket.

The sexy lumberjack is playing well.

Ah! Wendel's here! Caps must be losing.

Alright, let's go 5 on 3

They have no jump in their step at all.

refs helped us a few times this game already. That trip shouldn't have been called.

BACKSTROM!

slam dunk

Backs!!

No juice in that goal celebration though, that's not enough to get them going.

WHOOOOO!!!

second (and similar) awesome pass Kozlov > Backstrom

Hey, we will take that!

Let 'em cry.

Nice BJ...

Hey hey, this is a family blog.

JOHHHHHHNAAAY!

Brooks Laich == Chuck Norris

Someone's channeling Quentin Laing...

WOW Brooksy, talk about giving up the body

117,

lol....sorry, my bad...

Laich should be the captain -- what a pk!

And Johnnie should be the #1 goalie -- he's given the Caps a chance to steal one

wow... Johnson has made some amazing saves tonight, keep it up!

k fell asleep during the intermission for 17 glorious minutes.
laich was awesome; no more injuries!
kings look good but so does Johnson. too bad for that deflection.

just got home from the Eagles at VC, good tosee weareat least holding our own

All that PKill'n and they score off a 1v1. Thats a killer

oh juice, eh tu?

stop jinxing Brent guys -.-

They still play "I love L.A.?" sheesh.

nuts!

Way off topic, but if we get Sloan and Morrisonn as a D-pairing, can we call officially call them "Slo-Mo"?

got em right where we want em.

Very lucky it is still just 2-1. C'mon boys, we can win the 3rd.

Tarik -- what's up with this?

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/hockey/blackhawks/1291644,byfuglien-chicago-blackhawks-112008.article

Brett Favre

Did anybody else get a good chuckle out of that Melrose NHL commercial?

jmu- the commercial made me chuckle. how long do you think they'll air it?

Poor Barry; the guy never had a chance with no defense

Lucky Luc

poor Tampa. tortarella was a good coach. ifthe trade was happening with the caps, nylander would be out of the lineup, no?

Where's the top line? Seems just like the 3rd and 4th lines so far

oo7, the nice part of me says "Not too much longer, I hope. Poor guy." However, the semi-malicious part of me that hates Melrose says "All season, please!"

Please not that trade. Not that my vote counts, but I vote no. Not a fan of Byfuglien or Sopel.

I keep reading all these Nylander-for-Byfuglien trade rumors [and it's pronounced Buflin, in case you didn't know]and I don't know what I think of it. I saw Byfuglien play two seasons when Norfolk was Chicago's farm team. He was one of those guys you hated to play against but would probably love to have on your team. He doesn't score a ton of goals, but you kind of held your breath when you saw him hanging out near the crease. He plays very physical and is kind of an agitator. I'm not sure where he'd fit in our lineup, which line I'd put him on.

Nice try Flash

dunno, guys. looked to me like brent let in a classic backup goaltender's goal...

melrose is an idiot. now he's lost his gig at espn too I know nothing about byfuglin, but those two players don't solve our cap issue, unless it's multi team deal in the works.

by the way, back to backs from east teams heading west is just stupid. what a dumb idea.

007,
I thought the same thing last night. Two games in two nights finishing up at 1 am bio time is rough to say the least.

Ovie got the skate on his ear... why is that a penalty?

Goodnight

Ovid giveth and Ovid taketh away...

aww darn it you can't let a rush on a PP

stupid spell correct. Ovid. what's he got to do with anything.

and so we have a visit from the famous irish sports commentator, sy o'nara...

It's not looking good. Think the boys have anything left in the tank for some late-game heroics?

BROOKS = CHUCK!

and back in it... thank you again brooks

LETS GOOOOOO!!!

Come on boys you can do it

apparently they do!

wtf Clark...sheesh

come on Clarkie what the heck

Every time somebody passes Brooks as my 2nd favorite Cap, he has a game like this just to get back in my good graces.

That famous Irish sports commentator Plenty O'Time. C'mon boys.

Geez Clarkie...

Sloan had no idea it was an ion net

ugh

aww

ion net. WTF?
brooks taketh and brooks taketh away...

Don't think it needs to be said, but nights like this, we miss Semin.

My PC...
The guys on XM earlier today predicted Ovie would have a suspension before the year is out. I seriously doubt it, but whatever that was in front of their goal...he wasn't being smart no matter what that was

Johnny getting the loss is a bummer. He did play well. Anyway, rest up and just win on Sat boys.

Night all!

and that's how you jump a tired team. I like the kings. and murray.
so where did nylander go? he kind of, in, disappeared.

We lost to a very good team.

I don't worry about Ovie doing something stupid and getting suspended. I worry about him getting seriously hurt with the way he throws his body around sometimes very recklessly.

the kings beat us fair and square tonight BUT i'm 100% tired of Clark. Nothing needs to be said, I think most of us see it. Our actual captain blocked two shots with his hands and scored with 4 mins left to give us ALL the mo...until Clark took his latest braindead backbreaking penalty. His utility on this team has oficially sunsetted.

Thank the lord Nylander is gone after tonight. Enjoy the Windy City

As much as losing Nylanders contract might improve our cap situation, I don't think the Chicago players are the solution. 4.875 million for 5.3 million doesn't seem like that much of a deal to me, no matter how awful Nyls appears to be playing. Maybe there's another team involved? If it does happen, I pray that there's another team involved.