Tonight's Lineup

Well, I'm not sure taking Semin off is better...but what a hell, who's THE COACH, eh?...

LET'S GO CAPS!

Go CAPS!!!

Web stream for tonight's game:

http://atdhe.net/ice2.php?i=61

LETS
GO
CAPS!!!

*honk honk honk*

semin will hattrick tonight.

the hockey gods have talked to me.

wow what a pressure there :) LETS GO!!

@richmondphil

Looking at the first 5 min, you may be right...

nyls laich semin look great.

I like what I see so far, just wish I could be there live. There were some... let's just call them issues at the office... that's about the most diplomatic way I can put it... :P

Blah, looks like the HD has reverted to widescreen. Hopefully it's a temporary technical difficulty; the HD looks much better...

Kozzie!

KOZZY!

varlamov is on top of his game again.

That was a pretty fast 1st period.

mauree...thanks for the link...where do you get that? i could use that every game!!!

deadskin,

atdhe.net is pretty good, you can find most games there most of the times. Justintv is also good.

Pretty good period, Varly keeps impressing me. Some saves were simple, some difficult... the point is, he made them all.

Thank you all for the comments. You all are my only link to this game.

Dumb question: That web stream isn't legal, is it? The NHL has a paid subscription service for watching online streaming of its games.

Jen, stuck on dialup? No TV? :\

Jen.....google federal news radio and hit the listen on line....should be streamed anywhere

Well that sucks. At least we get a PP coming out of the TV timeout.

Greg, I'm not sure a powerplay is a good thing tonight. They can't get anything set up.

tess, true that... :\

Put it on net, boys! I want to hear a few more sirens before the game is through.

Found it on radio. Thanks!

Jen, all the games are on 1500AM and 820AM, for your future reference. And also on TV on Comcast Sportsnet (sometimes Versus or NBC) if you have cable/satellite/FiOS. Of course for NBC you don't need those, but you'll only get two or three of those, I think.

we are not looking good on the powerplay and we are giving the blues too many scoring chances on varlamov....LETS GO CAPS!! We need a strong finish to the 2nd and a strong 3rd

KOZZY AGAIN!

thats what we needed! KOZLOV!!

Kozlov! On fire!

OK, Kozzy again...maybe this goal would energize them a bit...

Well, that figures. I go to the kitchen to take a cake out of the oven and they score while I'm away. Does this mean I have to spend the rest of the game in the kitchen if we want a win?

FLASH!!!!

Alright Flash!!

How in the hell did Varlamov see that one?! What a save!

Greg, I said the same thing. He had a player completely in his face and just snatched that puck out of the air!

What happened to Green?

Bryan Helmer named captain of the Canadian AHL All-Star Team

http://www.hersheypa.com/events/hershey_bears/detail.php?id=2650

semin better start chasing the puck when he loses it. Jose who? oh, three-or-more. cut him

Man I got a pager and lost the 2 goals...

OVI!!!!!!!!!!

OVIE! WITH #20!

The boy is freakin' amazing. Go Ovi!

So the three stars... no particular order... Kozlov, Varlamov, and..? Flash? Ovechkin?

Son of a biscuit, he better be okay.

Brash, go get 'em. Now.

(Apparently if you use a bad word, the post gets held for moderation. Oops. :( My bad...)

Man I hope he's ok... that cross check didn't look bad or intentional though to tell you the truth - did I interpret it correctly?

damn

mauree, I didn't see anything terribly malicious. Looks like his skate just got caught kinda funny on the ice. Man oh man I hope he is okay!

Semin's already missed a whole month because of an "upper body injury"--I hate to think he may miss more with this hit...

Well Varly couldn't stop THAT one lol

I agree Greg, I don't think it was intentional. He just fell kind of funny. Could be a twisted knee, or maybe a groin pull the way he kinda did a split on the way down. Hope he's ok.

As for the three stars, Kozlov and Varlamov, yes. I'd give the third to Ovechkin, or maybe Alzner. I think he's had a pretty solid game. Haven't been paying enough attention to the Blues to see if any of them are having a exceptional game. Poti, by the way, is terrible tonight in my opinion.

I love when Brash gets that look on his face when he is hunting his prey. Go get em!!

I hope Semin is ok.

Can we retire the trapezoid yet? :P

Varly got a penalty for that in a Hershey game earlier this year. Guess he forgot...

So Joe B. and Locker said Green has not played much, in the third, nor have i seen him play much. Anyone know what happened to him?

I hope Green is ok too :(

I only noticed Green one shift early in the period, but he looked like he was skating ok.

Err. They just came back! I hope it's nothing serious and that they'll be back by Saturday.

Two more points for the good guys. See you Saturday afternoon, everyone!

well done tonight. Varlamov was excellent. Have to play better against Philly though.

I got to say this about Varly (now that the game is over hehe):

wow.

I usually don't like goalie excuses, but the first one was a wicked deflection, the second... a goal by Ovi lol... Other than that he's been great. And I don't care about the trapezoid minor, he'll learn that soon enough.

As reported by the guy who has my tickets for tonight's game...

3rd star: Ovechkin
2nd star: Varlamov
1st star: Kozlov

(Thanks, Jerome!)

Nice game by Varley. Wonderful to know his game against Montreal was no where near a fluke.

Kozlov was flying today. Kind of quiet down near the end, but either way, he had a good night.

So much for the OBS line breaking up. as much as at times they can be too cute, I want that line to stay together. They make the other team's defense scramble.

I thought Fehr had a good game. Nice to see him back.

Ok that little clip of Semin leaning against the benches, before he was about to go through the doors, in what looked like excruciating pain, was not very pleasant to see.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but during the post-game show they had a shot of Semin falling into the hallway off of the ramp. He seemed to be stuck in the doorway. Didn't look good at all.

*In where he looked like he was in excruciating pain.

One phrase that Joe B should ever use again "Semin cleaning up that mess"....I took a double take on that one.

Just walked in the door from the VC. Did comcast really just do ONE minute on the caps so they could go right to the Redskins??

Two guys go down injured and we get more shucks and golly-gee from Zorn??

I'm simply stunned

tkachuks a coward. per the code, he should have answered the bell; one of the blues had to man up. take away the instigator rule. the refs missed that? 4 refs weren't watching the play with the puck? tkachuk, you loser.

All in all? Thought it was a well played game. Hard to get into a flow once the refs started goofing around in the 3rd. Missing Greene and then Semin though also made a huge difference. I'm hoping Greene is OK. He took 2 shifts in the 3rd and then that was it. Do we have an update?

One big concern though? They are going to have to really step up the physical play and the defense against Philly. Every game lately it seems like there are 2-5 shifts where the guys dont play tight, goof around in the defensive zone or cant clear the puck. Philly will pounce on that and make you pay.

Hey....Hard Hat?? Anyone know on that?

"Just walked in the door from the VC. Did comcast really just do ONE minute on the caps so they could go right to the Redskins"

You have bad information. They had at least a fifteen minute post-game show including the coach's press conference.