Ovechkin Nets No. 50

He's got No. 51 in his stick tonight.

I don't do First!

definitely

... sorry bout that -- it was juvenile

doing "first" is definitely lame

LET'S GO CAPS!!!

get em laing.

i think fehr got it in.

quick whistle. booooo

Ovi's celebration was juvenile -- and worse, premeditated.

nope.

come on feds, that would be butter for you 15 years ago!

what position do you play rachel?? ;P

Posted by: ludeman95 | March 19, 2009 8:32 PM

I play goalie :0 hehe. jk.

Was it in, was it in?!

feds shoulda went forehand

Come on, it's a goal!!

I think it was in, unless I am blind.

I like having video reviewer in house and in Toronto is a good system. Much better than in the NFL, where the referee has to overturn his own call.

another stream popped up:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bsod

and the original one

http://skytalkertv.mine.nu/

phil, did you agree abt Poti or were you sarcastic?

puck did cross the line I though.

Get off your knees ref, your blowing the game!

Posted by: ludeman95 | March 19, 2009 8:10 PM

What about Poti?

How could the puck have not gone in?

being pushed vs pushing

Oh yeah, my comment was directed at yours, and dave's indirectly.

Poti should have been the one doing the pushing there.

thx mauree for the heads up :)

malone wants to beat the snot out of poti for some reason, he wants him bad

cs

he thought Poti was holding on the puck, but it was stuck on his glove.

laing looks so good. setup stecks monster.

that was a trip on Ovi, how can you call the push to Poti and not call that one.

And Laing does not like opposing teams taking shots at our guys, the first one to stick up for someone.

wow refs staring right at ovie and misses the blatant trip!

far as im concerned i'll take laing over gordon in the lineup, he makes the steckel line so much better becauase all 3 players on that line play the same way. Gordon is quick but he stinks along the boards, he doesn't like to forecheck the way the laing-steck-brads line does

Good to see some more agression on that last PK. Seemed to be missing earlier

Feds didn't realize he had more time. Unfortunate.

Laing's great -- true grit -- but cheez, it's hist first game of the season. a little early for verdict.

Dang! score

No reason for 4 guys to drop back in front of Varly there and all of them not have a clue when it comes to clearing it out.

varly is having rebound control issues.

you got to give it to St. Louis, he was a little ball of fire that shift.

you can blame that goal on Mike Green pussing out on engaging Ryan Malone, he let Malone just push him out of the way for the puck.

How did St Lois score?

finish, finish, finish.
and im not talking about the country.

@sony

he was up for close to 40 games last year, I love the way he plays, a ton of heart

can we have a PP?

bradley just dumped someone at the boards.

FYI - American has totally fallen apart if anyone cares.

I think its a trick question.

im going to say Ovechkin, without looking anything up.

Laing's great -- true grit -- but cheez, it's hist first game of the season. a little early for verdict.

Dang! score

Posted by: Sonyask | March 19, 2009 9:07 PM

not at all, this is the way he plays EVERY game and if he's going to play his first game this year the way he's played every previous nhl game i got no prblem cashing in the verdict

I hope Fed's misses in the 2nd don't come back to haunt us.

Without looking it up I'm thinking someone you wouldn't expect like Ridley or Hatcher

juice, push the guy WHILE he's screening Varly, not AFTER. Shees he was all alone till after the whistle.

We've feasted 4 on 4 let's get another one.

bradley just dumped someone at the boards.

Posted by: richmondphil | March 19, 2009 9:10 PM

his whole line plays with more energy when you have a Laing on it, even Steck is hitting like hell today

@WVPhil

I noticed that. It's gotten bad. I remember in 2002, USA was pretty good.

anyone got a link to the game?

#3 Goal scorer? Mike Ridley with 218, according to Wiki.

cheater.

@lude

agreed, he was great last year

That was a nice back-check by Green, stickless still managed to disturb LC

How can cherry make any comments, he dresses like a fool.... At least Ovie is making goals and having fun... let cherry go back to the circus.. DO IT MORE OVIE HAVE FUN GO CAPS

Goskins,
I was talking about the NCAA game... unless of course you were joking and i just missed the /sarcasm. :)

ah, so it is ridley then. but ovechkin is very, very close to passing that.

richmondphil, I wasn't even born when he started playing for the Caps & I was eight when he left. I get a free pass. At least I'm trying to expand my knowledge.

Vinny's stick must be flat. no curve at all.

how the hell does he get his backhands off like that?

Yep, and Ovi's 5 goals back.

please some one give me a link to the game.

scroll up shell.

Kings tied up the B's with 2 goals in the 3rd

Minute left

@jmu

sheesh, I feel old, haha

Semin claims not to know English, but he at least knows how to say, "Who, me?"

Ovie's preplanned stick on the ice shtick was comparable to those lame NFL TD celebrations. Ovie, that was beneath you. Go back to showing your normal celebrations.

Semin should pass Ridley next year too.

ah, nevermind. I read that as not including this season, but it does.

Semin should get that in two years.

@rw-c: wrote: Semin claims not to know English, but he at least knows how to say, "Who, me?

I think Semin also said something (with 4 letters) before the "who me!"

LAK just tied in BOS, going to OT.

Funny how everything was all laid back but a few...interesting...calls and this is a 2-2 game up for grabs. I hope BB reminds them whatever the score maybe should be, it's not and they need to play a good 3rd here to lock up 2 points.

ludeman95, Sorry!!!
richmondphil, huh? That would require Semin scoring 115 goals. Think he can do that in two seasons?

Come on kings!

C'mon Kings!

yes I do.

Kings win in OT what a comeback

naw, but he should be a 40+/40 guy.

so 3 seasons?

Semin has 103 goals total no?

The kings win!

Sweet

yes, 103.

so 3 seasons. :)

i love Varlamov.

Yeah, three seasons sounds good. So, 2011-12 barring a major run. Although, I guess you could add several since he'll pot a bunch in the playoffs we'll be making! Maybe 2010-11 will be right.

Green!!

Nicccceeeeee!

Green to his favorite spot. Nice play by Kozzy

yes

green poppin open.

Go for the trick Green!

Green is good

Greenie's got it back

I love all the Caps fans at St. Petes!

MIKE MONEY!!!

All right boys, don't relax, score one more if possible to bring it home.

green is good but the forwards made that one real easy for him, they drew all the defenders to them and gave him a great pass while screening the goalie

i love Varlamov.

Posted by: richmondphil

Same. He's gonna be an AWESOME goalie for us. He's having a great game, just gotta work on the rebound control a little and otherwise his game is great, I love how he comes out so far to challenge. :) Go Varly! Yay Boston gets 1 point only, thanks LA!

ferocious fore check.

Kozlov going to the net finally someone there to pick up the rebounds from Ovie's heavy shots. Great pass from behind the goal too.

nylander should watch fedorov play sometime

nice save Varly

Varlamov is so good.

I somehow read America, not American. My bad! They did collapse, but that was like a home game foe 'Nova. Wachovia center ldoesn't even get that loud for the FLyers

Why do we refuse to shoot high on breakaways? It would be a lock.

finish, finish, finish.

Is it me or did Varly switch masks during intermission?

Laing draws a penalty. The guy just plays with so much heart

we heart Laing

and thats what a good forecheck will do, draw a penalty!
if brash was playing that entire 4th line would be on the bench right now in a 1 goal game in the 3rd, Bruce has a lot of faith in Laing to put him out there in this situation and it paid off with a PP

It's Ovi's turn

I will admit the more I see of "no Brash" I have to say our 4th line can be so much more effective without him most of the time.

Kozlov once again making a great pass. Wow Nylander went to the net and took a shot look what he found?

Nyl goal good job boys

Who woulda thunkit?

Nyls

Nyls bags one...good for him!

christ why did it have to be nylander, he just bought himself more time in the lineup

Nylander!

NYLANDERRR! ;]

I'm still waiting for the Steckel goal.

koz and nyls huh?

3 points for Ovie...let's pour it on I want him to equal Malkin's 5. Wish he had stashed that breakaway...

i have yet to see the caps play with this much vigor after taking a 2 goal lead in any game and its the Laing line leading the way, they're forechecking like the caps are down by 2

Kozlov has been playing well since he came back from that injury. Really is a guy we miss when he's out...great play-making tonight.

Locker's laugh! ;)

Yeah Nylander!

I thought the D missed the block on the pass but on replay looked like he raised his stick on purpose cause he was afraid he'd tip it in.

christ why did it have to be nylander, he just bought himself more time in the lineup

Posted by: cstanton1 | March 19, 2009 9:43 PM

i think we might have something here in koz and nyls though.

time will tell.

wouldve been a goal without the hook.

Semin had a tap in if not for the penalty. We aren't giving them an inch. Let's cash this in for Sasha!

Good job Sasha

Nylander would probably score even more goals by SHOOTING THE PUCK!

My fantasy tesm need a goal from Backs or another for Green!

That ice looks pretty bad it's been skipping on everyone both ways.

Lol we'll take it

This line deserves that goal. Great game by them.

ShaMo?

Brads?

BRADS!! :]

Matt Bradley!!!!

perfect ugly goal- the verdict is in ! Quintin Laing has made our 4th line look dominating!

nice!!!...wow laing has to fix that grill!!! does he have any teeth on his top row? : )

theres that gap toothed grin we all missed so much

Lord knows we need to hear from more scorers.

Good development

bradley ;)

Well deserved by that line.

I gotta give our D credit tonight...for some reason they've made some great poke checks on St. Louis and Vinny that most nights seems like the opposing forwards would just blow by them for odd man breaks. Workmanlike 3rd period by us (coincidence the shot blocking machine is one of the catalysts?) nice to see after having some bad breaks for it to be 2-2 after 2 periods.

the ideal lineup would have brash and gordo on the bench with laing and a healthy chris clark back in. That would make us much stronger in the playoffs. Too bad about CC's wrist injury.

Poti made a great stick lift on vinny as well.

game over

great game all around...especially knowing the score should be 6-1...glad to see we have our offense back!

my mistake...i meant 7-1 considering fehr's did cross the line!

Varlamov is so quick. he just needs to work on how to control that quickness.

Florida trying to work themselves back in the playoffs; Habs going the other way

We're finally getting secondary scoring! Laing is a good additional to the 4th line

Don't forget we've muffed a couple breakaways again tonight and Semin forced a penalty to negate yet another "I turned everyone including the goalie into a pylon" goals.

semin needs one point to continue his streak, though he should have 2 goals already.

@cstanton1

I think I'm on board with about everything you posted tonight!

Laing and Clark in the lineup sounds pretty great.

O#U*#$ Green hurt

Green's shoulder again

uh oh green.

What happened to Green? Is it bad?

ouch not the shoulder

Stamkos is a wrestler.

i think they are wrong...i think he hyperextended his elbow...i hope to god not!!!

Sigh didn't look too good. Don't let it be something serious.

Looks like a dislocation, which is better than a separation. But both are terrible

I'm flying to Tampa & killing Stamkos myself.

What happened to Green? Is it bad?

Posted by: WVPhil | March 19, 2009 10:03 PM

Stamkos pulled him down by his shoulder.

sumo slam.

Definitely "upper body?"

Solid win, kinda null and void if Green is hurt serious. Laing was a stud (just like last year) Varly 3-0 in 3 starts.

Yay win! Congrats to Varly and Ovie and everyone... please let Greenie be okay (stupid stamkos)

Magic number down to 7 points for Southeast crown.

Varlamov with 26 saves.

Looked really good. first goal was on a PP and the second was a st louis shot from the doorstep.

definite left arm/shoulder/elbow...i think elbow because he pulled his arm as he fell and when green rolled over, he grabbed his elbow right away...could be taking pressure off shoulder but only time will tell.....definitely looks like he will be out a few games....if just precautionary.

we only need to look at the ATL game to see how much green can influence our lineup. not good.

Sucks. While he doesn't help us too much on the defensive end, he does make up for it on the other end.

jmu_capsgirl: I'll come with you. How dare he do that to Green, that was so unnecessary, and playoffs start soon! AHHH! PLEASE let it be just a stinger.

I broke a wrist in a very similar fall where the guy landed on part of my arm. I hope it's not serious.

Green has been good defensively...don't let a few giveaways taking some risks cloud the overall picture of how he plays in our zone.

This game looked so much like the Detroit game in many ways. Similar juggling of lines.

Unfortunately, the F Street Bombers (and Semin) kept having bad luck.

That's it - I'm taking my bubble wrap down to Tampa and wrappin' the boys up. No more injuries!

Greenie, pleease be ok. We need you!

Laing was sick, as was Varly. Way to let OV look like a goof celebrating by himself, Greenie and Nickie. That was classic.

I hear that it was an elbow from some one downthere it looks like he might be out for carolina. but maybe not depending on how bad it is

Fudge

He should sit out either way, if not just for precautions. we dont want him going down before the playoffs.

Grr! Don't like Green being injured. Our defense is a disaster w/o him. I would have loved to have him against Carolina this Saturday. Green's injury has me worried.

Dave,
Not gonna argue with you, but lets just say that I disagree.

Green, please be okay. Cherry, s*ck it! Unless you've had 50 goal seasons yourself, shut it.

Hey Ovi! If fans were allowed to, we'd be celebrating just as mad crazy as you. Do what you do best - score goals!

Great game, Caps!

Oh, and great job, Nylander, for the goal!

Varlamov is ALWAYS so attentive in net. He has his glove up and he is just ready to pounce.

Love him.

Bad news from the lockeroom

at this point does anyone care what don cherry has to say about it?

varlamov/neuvy battles will be awesome in the next couple years. i really hope we can hold onto both of them...at least for a little while!

Jose should never, ever play again for the Caps. Ever.

You mean the Jose that pitched a shutout 2 nights ago. Yeah, okay.

For those who want Alzner back, you may get him now with Greener.

awwww c'mon give the guy some credit...
as a huuuuuuuge johnny fan, i was about as anti-jose as they come. until a month or so ago.
obviously he is not an elite goaltender anymore. but he is great, and he is better than neuvy and varly, who so clearly still need time to develop.

also, as to ovi's goal celebration-
my only thought as to why it was occurring was "i bet ovi's thinking 'take THAT, don cherry!'"

Jim Carey won his first 4 starts for the Caps. just saying GTY...

Jim Carey was the best goalie in the NHL, for one year. If Varly can replicate that this year, fantastic

Come on, tell me Ovie wasn't sticking it to Don Cherry with that celebration.

Ovie doesn't need to be the NHL's version of Chad Johnson...he's getting 100m, act like you've been there, or are going to be. F- Ovie's celebrations

How does anybody know "bad news from the locker room"? There is "no news from the locker room".