Tonight's lineup: Caps at Thrashers

LET'S GO CAPS!!!

HOCKEY TIME!!!!!!!!!

@RACH

WTF?

FEHR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSS!

HI WTF. Long time, no talk!!!!!!!!

I am shocked that you asked that question in the last thread.

FIRST GOAL GOES TO......WTF!!!!

C-A-P-S CAPS CAPS CAPS!!!

Oh yeah... that question wasn't for you, we know what you would say. Let's see if you're right. ;)

I think it's gonna be...

Sasha.

@rach...28 is my 2nd choice.

HI WOCO!

ALL DA LADIES N DA HOUSE!

I say someone unusual like Brads will get the first goal... and bleed right afterwards.

My CSN audio is JACKED UP!

audio is... strange.

wtf:
ARE you EXCITED or WHAT!!

more high quality production from CSN. What is wrong with these guys?

I think it will be Nicky B!

Hi, WTF and Rachel (and everyone else here)!

I am SO excited about tonight. DROP THE PUCK ALREADY!!!!

Hey woco! ;)

Capt Kirk: don't you know, WTF always types in CAPS.

I'm gonna go with OV.

pregame studio show sounded fine - only when they went to the game did it start sounding like a tin can

capt

u know me, cool as a cucumba....

ITS ALLLLLL CAPS BABY!!!

I pick Capt America for the first.

Hubby's away tonight--probably a good thing since I don't exactly watch these games in silence. :D

What the heck--American Hero gets the first goal.

LET'S GO CAPS!!!

Last May, after 35 years of watching the Caps, I said "That's it, I'm done. I have had it. No more."

And yet here I am in front of the TV. Anyone remember that definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Yeah, that was it.

Come-on guys we all know it going to be the Great8 who gets the first!

they won the faceoff - the cup is there for the taking!!!

omg

da puck

dey dropped it...

sniffle

Actually, I don't care who scores first as long as we leave tonight with 2 points. :)

Alan May has been reading CStanton's posts.

mj just delivered an awesome pass to chimmer

wtf (not you wtf) - just wtf??

OMG oh no.. what's wrong with him..

wtf happened to dere goalie?

It scares me that he hasn't moved on his own at all. Oh God, I hope he's going to be OK.

OMG! This is scary.

Scary...

This is f'n scary. Real scary.

:( oh dear. this is not good.

Prayers to Pavelec. I hope he's going to be okay.

just rewound - i didn't see anybody touch him on the last caps rush

holy crap

yo

somethin just shutdown on that dude

not good

The reply looks like he just passed out. So scary and worse that he appears to not have moved.

There are really no words. This is terrible.

anybody have a good streaming game link?

unless he has narcolepsy - its never good to just collapse

Scary to see him just collapse and even more scary to see him not move since. Thank God Atlanta has topnotch medical facilities.

just rewound - i didn't see anybody touch him on the last caps rush

Posted by: Capt_Kirk_in_AZ

nothing. He just collapsed.

did he raise an arm or anything when they carted him off?

Pure speculation but looks like some vagal shock to me... I would assume he will be ok... no first advanced life support was given/necessary...

Maybe that they didn't perform CPR is good? Could he just fainted (no real problem...dehydration?) and then hit his head on the ice?

@atybat

Vagal Shock?

Looks like he was trying to signal the bench before slumping to the ice. Don't think he hit his head going down or anything else.

Hope we get some good news on him during the course of the game.

Shout out to ATL EMS. Hopefully he'll be OK. I didn't see the AED attached or anything. No CPR or intubation to maintain airway either. Those are great signs.

Nicety, ER nurse

@ j762 I didn't see any movement at all

Hope the goalie will be ok. That's scary!!!

Medically trained fans!

awwwwwesome

thanks!

I said laich...i did

flash sees the whole ice - 2c baby

Uhh, that was pretty. They start with some Caps hockey. Damm.

(Who had Laich in the pool?)

WTF = liar!

Is Pavelec OK?

Good to see Caps again.

lol laich scored the first goal of the season last year as well

Great pass by the much maligned Flash. As long as he takes care of some D responsibilities too and we might be ok.

lol

rach, u have to go back a couple of threads

...im tellin u

Nicely - Thanks for the info. Sounds like good news.

FLASH IS TO BLAME FOR THAT GOAL!!!

Phooey.

Who was that that give the puck up

Oh great, bad defense again.

flash giveth, flash taketh away
just before that laich took off down the ice before the puck was cleared

effing flash!!!!

@WTF
YUP. Flash is responsible for both goals.

Kane is prolly gonna end up as their leading scorer

Thrashers passing is getting better, they started off way sloppy.

THE WORLDS BEST PP!

PP

Couple really good minutes there. Good response to what most of us would describe as "more of the same" in the Caps d-zone.

Even though that goal was on Flash...just for kicks, did anyone seen what d pair was on?

I don't think I've ever seen Erskine this PO'd. Good for him!

cstanton should be a little pleased with erskine and chimmychunga

How did Chimmer get that shiner?

I'm telling you, Erskine is not half bad. He's been set up to fail in our system (and I like our system). He will fare much better with a stay-at-home counterpart.

griz0615:
he took a puck to the face while on the bench during a preseason game

Puck to the face during one of the pre-season games, right? Bunch of stitches.

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Go Caps!
Best wishes to Pavelec.....................x 1000

Erskine had a good reason to be PO'd... the whole play was his fault because he pinched in too deep.

thinks he's Bobby Orr just because he wears the same number.

My bad...blame the alcohol.

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I'm telling you, Erskine is not half bad. He's been set up to fail in our system (and I like our system). He will fare much better with a stay-at-home counterpart.
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is that a joke? he should be the stay-at-home d-guy, this team doesn't need another Mike Green joining the rush.

By "not a stay-at-home D" I don't mean he should be joining the rush. He doesn't have the footspeed to be a stay at home D. He'd have to play at the center dot. What he should be doing is mauling people in our end. Let Alzner stay home. Erskine can go Hulk Smash people.

Hope the Caps lose some of the fancy and turn a bit of gritty team play for this period. That first was not exactly good team play.

Erskine is no Scott Stevens and even Stevens got into trouble when he was looking to knock out people...

he's at best a #6 d-man who's not even gonna play every game which means you're just happy if he's not scored upon... if you expect too much from a guy like that, that means you're desperate in D

Come on Caps, this looks very weak so far; way to go Nuevy!

Hand pass in the crease isn't kosher? I thought you had to actually cover the puck to get that called.

Well it's not like we haven't been here before... Here's to hoping we can fix this over intermission like we did so many times last year :-/