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Pretty sure both of our PP's were like 0-4 tonight...including a 5 minute one for the Pens. Plus we gave up a shortie.

Also, if you liked watching efficient and dangerous PP's...tonight's Caps/Pens game was not the one you should have been watching.

It was nice we left him the entire ice. Good lord our #3 D pairing (Schmidt, Orlov) was horrific tonight. Nice to comeback I guess, but OT seemed to follow a trend for us in 3 on 3 lately, generate some chances that we do nothing with, give up one big chance and it ends up in the back of the net.

It affects it, certainly. Haven't done the math on how much Holtby is helped out by it. If we gave him as many starts as last year, he'd probably be right around the number without the extra help from current OT/shootout rules.

As a Rags fan, I find it weird you would be rooting against Holtby breaking Marty's record. Guy kind of deserves it, especially when you look at the Games Played for Marty and everyone else on the top 5 wins in a season list. Everyone else is north of 70 games, Holtby likely to top out at 66.

Sounds like Backstrom might be back in for us tonight.

Oh Grimm, I was merely pointing out that I'm selling hard on a model that has the Flyers as the 4th best chance to win the Cup and Chicago and us not even in the top 10 among the 16 playoff teams. Wheels came off for Holtby last night, that's for sure. With Backstrom out, Marcus Johannson...

Holtby manages to blow his chance to tie Marty with 48th win by giving up a couple of softies. Girardi hurt late in Rags win over Tampa.

Hedman and Callahan out tonight for Tampa. Holy shit their injuries.

Fuck.

Oh no it's a real thing. It's not just the Caps getting pushed down either, includes Chicago. I don't follow a lot of the advanced stats guys enough to know who's who, but one recent one released % chances for all teams currently in the playoff spot to Win the Cup. Philly was 4th at ~8%...

I kind of love all these models coming out only weighing team's play over the last 25 games as a predictor of the playoffs. Caps have been in full coast mode for awhile now, and everyone is picking the Pens or LA to win the Cup now. Caps not even making top 10 most likely to win it in some of...

I think Tampa can still beat Detroit in Round 1 (assuming the Wings edge out Boston for the #3 seed in the Atlantic and Tampa ends up the #2 seed)

Nothing to do with the Isles? That team is dysfunctional as shit right now. Coach just called out a couple of guys, Halak is still hurt (and one of their other goalies just got hurt they had to do an emergency call up I believe)...If the Isles end up playing anyone in the Metro in Round 1 I...

I don't. Only way we ever win a Cup I'm convinced includes exorcising the demon that is the Penguins. Fully expect any deep run by us to include facing the Pens in Round 2. Gotta earn it.

Straight up, Kaepernick is better than Peyton's corpse that played most of last year. If he can find his game again, everyone knows his ceiling could still be pretty high. They wouldn't need an all world D if their offense did more. I'm not expecting them to contend for another 5 years...

As much as it's fun (and right) to troll Romo, the only reason "turnover" hasn't been renamed to "Hoyer" is because of what Carson Palmer did in the NFC Championship Game.

Speaking of, Houston re-signed Weeden to back up Osweiler.

Not going to lie, rooting for him to somehow be the starter against you guys and beat you next year.

We never were disputing that overall scoring is way down (almost getting to the point where it was in the Dead Puck Era), I just pointed out that a lot of guys had hot starts, and if any could maintain, we could easily still see a 100 point scorer. Even now, before today's games there were 7...

I feel like if they really felt like they needed to pay Kaeperbro because he played great, they'd find a way to clear cap space. Not like he'd be hurting even taking "only" 6 or 7 million this year. Long term he only makes more money if he can rebuild his career, I don't see that happening in...

Ah Grimm, remember that discussion about no 100 point scorers anymore? Kane hit the mark today for the year. Although it should be noted he's 12 points ahead of anyone else.

Just need the Eagles and/or Rams to help drive up the price!

Stay in that shitshow in SF for an extra couple million...or have the chance to rebuild your career with a contender with a top defense. Guess it depends on the guy, but I'd go to Denver.

Stamkos down, Fleury missed the Pens' game with his 2nd concussion of the season (missed 8 games in December after the first)...guys dropping like flies in the East.

Wilson absolutely killed a guy tonight, legally...still surprised he wasn't ejected, because Wilson.

This is honestly hard to judge between. I think the Browns ability to continually fuck up is pretty impressive though. The Niners just had a coach that feuded with management, which caused a rift in a great team. Coupled with all the retirements, I still have to give the Browns the edge...

Skins were a playoff team last year, and not that dysfunctional anymore either with GMSM at the helm. Speaking of, Skins sign Vernon Davis to 1 year deal.

Not sure what's been more amusing this last page...someone claiming the Cowboys are as dysfunctional as the Browns, or Cowboys fans using arguments like "we've been in a lot of highly rated games and our franchise is worth $3.2 billion" instead of just laughing at the idiot and pointing out...

It would make very slight sense if it was at 155. At least then it would have some relevance to a division both guys will likely be competing within down the road. Still, at least Aldo and Frankie get to do an Interim fight with a guarantee that Conor is going back down to face the winner...

How many times do you see a guy get all pumped up to bring one out last year only to get wrecked by the 15? Smart returners will take the guaranteed 25 yard starting point if the ball lands in the end zone, but I agree you're going to see more kickers try to leave kicks in the air to force a...

Keith will just get suspended for the final 5 games of the regular season and it won't even matter for the playoffs. Sad as that is. He should miss the 1st round for shit like that.

There is some correlation between score adjusted Corsi (a little more accurate than just the flat Corsi number) and who wins the Cup, but there have been winners as low down in the ranking for that as like 14th in the league I think. But on the whole, it's a good thing regarding making a deep...

Dallas can tie us with ROW if they win out and we lose out in regulation, and they won the season series (all 2 games of it) so they can technically still win it. But yeah, any 1 point we gain or 1 point they lose and we win the President's Trophy. In other news, Stralman out for the...

Also the irony of RG3 to make his path to starting for the Browns easier is probably hoping that the Rams give up a ton of picks to trade up into the #2 spot to pick a QB.

I think the Raiders could be a playoff team this year Genj, although maybe I misread that as you saying you think they still need another good draft or two. Also that's crazy have a link to Mayock saying Wentz/Goff are going to be better than Winston/Mariota? Hadn't heard that at all and as...

I still don't think the Browns trade down unless someone offers them an absolute haul to move up into their spot. But who knows, maybe they're willing to roll with RG3 as starter for a couple of years if they don't like any of the QB's at #2 spot.

So RG3 to the Browns is a real thing.

Deangelo Hall would be my dark horse pick. Could see him doing something (or two somethings in this case) stupid and getting tossed.

The merry go round continues. Jerry Jones says it's "absurd" to link CTE with football Goodell claims CTE connection to football is consistent with the league's position over the years