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Joe B and Locker with TJ Oshie on Monumental now as he announced his retirement.

I'm cryin'.
 
any thoughts on the Caps free agency movement? Loss of players? I'm trying to keep up with the latest news.
 
turtle said:
any thoughts on the Caps free agency movement? Loss of players? I'm trying to keep up with the latest news.
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Next year will be the Ovie goodbye year, I think. They aren't being very specific but Ovie has been pretty clear on a personal level that he wants to play 1 final year in Russia and he's hinted at it pretty strongly in some interviews.

So, the team is structured around making the transition. A really tough transition, but they are structured reasonably well to do it if things fall nicely for them - basically, the prospects that they have, work out.

Protas had a really good year last year. His brother is in the system and has shown a lot of promise. The future looks bright. They have dudes like Cristall, Hutson... these are guys who have as much promise as almost any unproven guy on any team.
As for next year... it will be interesting to see what they put together, but as we saw last year, Carlson and Ovie just couldn't put it together in the postseason, and the team kind of folded around them. The team will need a lot more seasoning, maybe sprinkled with some better in-season coaching decisions tailored at winning the *postseason* rather than the regular season.

So I wouldn't say I am super confident in 2025-2026 postseason success (making the postseason? Yes, that is possible), but I think they are kind of set up for 2026 and/or 2027 to be really interesting. At some point the salary issues creep in and you have to keep rotating in/out players, but it's going to be a really interesting and exciting next few years in the meantime.

^^ my take, at least for now.

** Not many FA moves that I've seen. Mange is gone it looks like, they just extended Fehevary... I don't expect any huge shakeups for the above reasons. I don't call losing Mange a big shakeup.
 
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I pay for Monumental, but I can't get live games...
But the beatdown replay of the Flyers game in Hershey the other night was fuckin' awesome!!!

LET'S GO, CAPS!!!
 
Saw this at a bar on Friday...

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That was traveling around to all his games as he chased Gretzky. I got to see it in Carolina the game before he tied the record. It was slightly different then as he was still chasing and goat had a Gretzky jersey on.

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I have Monumental through DirecTV, but they're blocking live games...I can only see replays. :cuss:
 
3 losses in a row. We need to get back on track quick
 
turtle said:
What is going on? 4 losses now
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It is tough. I wish the Caps would make hard decisions with Ovie and Carlson in certain situations. It just looks like they are so slow.

I don’t watch tons of minuted anymore but when I have, I noticed the difference. It seems stark. There were also some recent quotes from Carbery talking about team speed as an issue. Pretty sure he was kind of referring to them. He said they can’t possess the puck as effectively as he would like as long as their speed was as low as it is due to a couple of guys. I am paraphrasing nut it was pretty close to that.

All that said, the stats seem to hint that this could be a temporary lull. I think they have some excellent young talent. This year could get really interesting. It depends on how creative our coach can be I think, too.
 
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