Buffalo Sabres vs. Washington Capitals [Game Thread]
by David Oleksy on Nov 1, 2008 6:30 PM EDT
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PrintWashington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres, Nov 1, 2008 7:00 PM EDT
Game #11
Buffalo Sabres (6-2-2, 14PTS) vs. Washington Capitals (5-3-1, 11PTS)
7:00 PM EST, HSBC Arena
TV: MSG-B (Buffalo)
Radio: WGR 550 (Buffalo), XM-206 (National)
Players to Watch
Buffalo Sabres: Thomas Vanek (9G-3A-12P, 4PPG, 2SHG), Clarke MacArthur (5G-2A-7P, 3PPG), Ales Kotalik (4G-3A-7P, 2PPG), Tim Connolly (making his season debut returning from two cracked vertabrae), Paul Gaustad (second game back after struggling in his first game back from thumb injury), Derek Roy (criticized by many, including myself for a lack of effort against Tampa Bay), Ryan Miller (was the leading goalie in the league until a terrible performance against Tampa)
Washington Capitals: Alexander Semin (8G-8A-16P, 1PPG), Mike Green (4G-4A-8P, 4PPG), Sergei Federov (The Ageless wonder has scored three goals and has five assists...he can play offense/defense or anywhere he asked to play)
Notes
Buffalo Sabres: Major changes are expected to the line combinations with Tim Connolly being inserted into the lineup...Mike Weber was sent back to Portland and Nathan Paetsch may be in the lineup...Still have the number eight power play in the league and the number three penalty kill despite a couple of bad games...won three out of four against the Caps last season.
Washington Capitals: Caps will still be without the services of Alexander Ovechkin who is in Russia with his ill grandfather...The Capitals special teams have not been very good, they are 16th on the power play and 20th on the penalty kill...won the last meeting against Buffalo on March 5, 2008 it was a 3-1 Caps victory with Olaf Kolzig in net for the Caps.
I also need to point you to a quote from the official game preview on Sabres.com. It seems as though Ryan Miller is back to spewing the same garbage as last year. Anyone else find it fitting that he had his worst game of the season and still finds time to criticize the team.
"We're not making plays that are connecting," said Ryan Miller, who entered Thursday's game with a 5-0-1 record and a 1.60 GAA before allowing five goals on 40 shots. "It's not the kind of hockey we want to play."
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You guys caught a couple breaks in this game
No Ovechkin, you guys get back Connolly
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
so
did Lindy beat them all with the hockey stick before this game or did they all just get their head out of their asses!?
Let's be fair
The Sabres are a pretty good team that is coming off of two really horrible performances at home. There was no way the Sabres were going to look bad in this game tonight. I wasn’t and I’m still not sure they will win but they were going to put together a better effort either way.
In short…the Caps aren’t a bad team…the Sabres are inspired.
Not a Bad Team
… but definitely should be playing better than this. They’ve been bullied by the forecheck all season, and Theodore’s a sieve. Too bad they can’t pull him in deference to Johnson; he’s rumored to be injured. I could be wrong about that; we’ll see in the 2nd, I guess.
You would certainly know
better than I would regarding the Caps…I just knew that the Sabres would come out flying tonight.
SPG
Do you want me to update the Sabre’s results for the first? Or do you normally handle everything? Some teams don’t get URLs plugged in… but I can’t remember if that includes Buffalo.
All You
I couldn’t remember. That you normally do it makes me very happy. I feel bad when I have to go back & plug in URLs the following day for other teams. Thanks for hooking it up.
Also, new stats up there. You Buffalo fans seem to be the best at predicting SPG when it comes to actual players (versus the WNH copout).
i kind of like
that little quote one you should remember do
Joan
12 1
i didn’t realize it was that bad why is the 2nd so tuff for us
Joan
unbeiveable we need 6 periods nor 3 they need to be half as long it seems we can’t handle 20 min. of play
Joan
we get
to sloppy at the end of the period but not there way to go vanek
Joan
No Ovechkin
The only thing about Ovi being in Russia is that you’re seeing a lot fewer offside calls against the Caps. Bigger loss for us is that Morrisonn hasn’t been on D since the first period.
Still demoralized.
nice save
keep it up ryan your making it look easy
Joan
what is enjoyment?
watching this game compared to the last two
Joan
i hope
the bills are in the same mind set tomorrow
Joan
oh good
i thought you weren’t going to be on 2 weeks in a row
Joan
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