November 16, 2007
Friday's Blogging Roundup
With last night's loss to Florida, and tonight's game against Tampa Bay, Caps bloggers have been pumping out postgames and pregames and other tidbits like there's no tomorrow.
We'll start off with the best news, at least for Caps fans, that I've seen so far today. Both Tarik and Corey are reporting that Semin is "close" to returning, according to Coach Hanlon. Semin has been skating on his own at Ballston and could play again as soon as Monday. All I can say is, it's about time. Hopefully he does start Monday, because his play has been missed.
Japers' Rink and The Peerless have their usual postgames up, with JP putting most of the blame for the loss on Tom Poti, and The Peerless wondering how Ovechkin is producing almost 30 percent of the team's goals, considering the offensive additions to the team this season. Maybe noticing he didn't include that in his postgame, JP threw up another post at Japers' Rink detailing the scoring weight that is currently on Ovie's shoulders. It really makes you think. How do you add Nylander, Kozlov, Backstrom, and Poti, and still have Ovie's scoring percentage up from 19.7% last season to 29.3% this one? The rest of the team, especially the names just mentioned, need to step up and play like they know how.
The Caps need to pick up their game in a big way. And The Peerless explains why.
Very difficult?...Here's how difficult. The Caps have 13 points in 18 games. If 92 points is enough to get in, they need 79 points in their remaining 64 games.
That is a 101-point pace over a whole season.
With back to back 70 point seasons the past 2 years, can they really get 79 points in 64 games? There's a lot of people that hope so, but not a lot of people that think so.
Tonight's game against Tampa is a big one for the Caps - although I guess all games now are big ones for them - as Tampa is 7-1-1 at home, and recently pasted the Caps 5-2 at the Phonebooth. The Peerless has his pregame roundup, and is calling for a win. I sure hope he's right.
Over at On Frozen Blog pucksandbooks takes a deep look into the management situation with the Caps. Are the fans overreacting in calling for heads to roll, or are the right in this instance?
New free agents aren’t performing poorly. The defense is much improved, the goaltending super solid and often even better. Alex is playing the best hockey of his career. But accorded the advantage of relaxed schedule and the self-imposed imperative of winning, the best this Caps club could do last night in Sunrise was play well enough to lose to a lousy club. Again.
This is as good as it gets.
With Ted Leonsis claiming that the rebuild was over at the beginning of the season, that should make this a time of winning. And since that's not happening, maybe the rebuild needs to start over; this time off the ice.
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