Washington Capitals 2009-2010 ongoing thread

Great win tonight. Fehr was huge for us in regulation. Varly with some key saves in the shootout, and Backstrom sealed it. I definitely didn't want to see yet another OT loss. Tonight's win put us in 1st place overall in the Eastern Conference.

We need to learn how to keep a friggin lead.

I still can't believe this team is still 3 or 4 years away from peaking. Ovechkin, Backstrom, Green, Semin, and Varly will all be seasoned vets in their mid 20's, and Alzner and Carlson will be full time pros. Even Fehr is starting to like a core guy. Then you have seemingly random young guys like Flash and Perreault contributing on any given night. Theres even the possiblity that Neuvirth will develop into a qualtiy NHL goalie in one or two years. Throw in great value free agents like Knubble and Morrison and you see what a well run franchise can do.

Even without Ovechkin this is a very good team and thats scary. Still I'm ticked that Sopcast started shorting out late in the third period would have loved to have seen them come back live. You have to give it up for Carey Price though, some of those saves would easily have been goals against other goalies.

Ovechkin is definitely going to be suspended now and probably fined.

Ovechkin is definitely going to be suspended now and probably fined.Not to mention the potential injury. What a stupid hit on his part, but I just hope he's okay.

hope ovie is ok. looked like he was in some serious pain. and addressing his possible suspension, i dont think he will be.

It has to be, this is back-to-back isn't it? Or at least one game break then another. NHL doesn't take that too well.

Hopefully he'll be okay.

hope ovie is ok. looked like he was in some serious pain. and addressing his possible suspension, i dont think he will be.He's had two game misconducts in less than a week. He was basically put on probation after the first one, so I absolutely think he's going to be suspended for at least a few games.

Someone give me an update. I wasn't watching. What happened with Ovie??

Someone give me an update. I wasn't watching. What happened with Ovie??

Knee-to-knee with Gleason. He got a five-minute major and a game misconduct. He's hurt pretty bad so it probably doesn't matter if he gets a suspension because he wont be back.

No word yet on what the injury is, but he couldn't put any pressure on it when coming off the ice.

Knee-to-knee with Gleason. He got a five-minute major and a game misconduct. He's hurt pretty bad so it probably doesn't matter if he gets a suspension because he wont be back.

No word yet on what the injury is, but he couldn't put any pressure on it when coming off the ice.

Oh well that's just effing wonderful. Crap.