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How To Fix The Washington Capitals, GO:
most selfish player ever and worst captain ever as well.
You’re not wrong
Tom Wilson has stated he's willing to take a pay cut to stay in DC
It'll look good on the NHL if you're right. Big business is not made for the consumer, but to profut shareholders. Few things are bigger than professional sports.
The NHL is a growth league in a growth sport. I believe the NHL is going to continue favoring new, start-up teams in the South for years because as soon as teams mature with their fan loyalty, box office returns, merchandising revenues and young enthusiasts,the League will cook things to establish newer markets and buoy up depressed markets where they can find them. It started with the Leafs, after the 1967 expansion, and is working its way southward. It will take years before there is enough parity in the NHL,to make many Cups in healthy, established franchises, a realistic expectation for those markets.
Oshie is 36😳😐
Nothing makes me happier than seeing the Caps fail. Hate the team and hate the Putin supporter most of all.
Who cares as long as Ovi breaks the record? They owe it to him, the NHL and the fans.
Tank till OV breaks the record , then rebuild
Eh. I'm not worried. When you're good for so long, you're bound to stink for a bit.
Ovechkin to Edmonton. He qould do Wonders with mcdavid
2:02 The Wings did the same for their playoff streak, still trying to dig out.
Ovi can do it all. What a legend! The Caps definetly need to get younger though.
Whenever I see the Caps are on the schedule I always say, “Oh Ovi is playing tonight”
What about all Russian players loyalist, not play in the NHL
Trade Carlson and 4 1st Round draft picks for the next 4 years and 3 second round picks for the next 3 years for the first round pick from Chicago.
Caps are one of the biggest douchebag teams in the league.
Regular season records are a joke. As a Blues fan, I'm so glad our GM gave the big money to the younger talent. Being stuck with an aging roster is hell. Especially if they only brought you one cup, this isn't the Pens or Hawks.
Almost got traded to habs and panthers before winning his first cup after so many years he was a forth liner, around 2016 season. he only cares about the record now 😅
The Capitals whole identity is Alex Ovechkin. Once he's gone thats it. Capitals will be a basement team once again.
The coaching since winning the Cup has been terrible. Same with goalkeeping. And no, Dumper is not a good goalie.
I'm a leafs fan but I've been a massive Ovi fan his whole career. This team owes it to Ovi to get home the record. He was the only bright light in so many of there seasons where he'd win the rocket and the team would miss the playoffs.
This dude has given his whole career to the Caps organization when he could of went elsewhere, the Caps owe him the Gretzky record
Such a terrible take. Washington has gotten significantly younger since the trade deadline. Hagelin, Irwin and Eller are gone. Three of the oldest players. Johansson is gone. They just signed 26yr old Strome to a 5 year extension and he had a career year. When that top line of Ovechkin -Strome-Wilson was healthy it was Washington's best. Ovechkin is the oldest player but still their best. Age doesn't matter when you're talking about him. Wilson isn't going anywhere. He said at the end of the season that he's going to be a Cap until he retires and the GM said the same thing. They're going to get a long term deal done before the season starts. Washington now has 4 of their top 7 D under 24 years old. NAK and Milano are 27. McMichael and Protas are full time in Washington next year both 22. Miroshnichenko is 19 and just came over. Backstrom and Oshie are going to have to move down to the 3rd line. That's just reality. With Kuznetsov and Mantha moving out, they need a whole new 2nd line but the GM said his primary focus is the top 6 this offseason. They have 8th overall and will either grab a very good prospect or flip it for a young guy in his prime. Mac has made it clear that they plan to be competitive for the next 3 seasons. That's why Jensen and TVR just got 3 year contracts. They just hired the youngest coach in the NHL and fired their cockroach of a PP coach who had been there more than a decade. Not sure what more you expect. Goaltending was great all year. The Defense is set. The top line is set. Most of the bottom 6 is set. They just need to rebuild the 2nd line and they're going to be back in the playoffs. This team had incredible injuries all year including missing Backstrom and Wilson for 4 months and missing Carlson for 3 months – and they sold a lot at the deadline only to miss the playoffs by just a few points! Now the old guys get a long summer to finally be healthy and ready for camp with the new coach.
Why would any Canadian hockey fan want to see The Great One have his record broken by Ovechkin? Seriously? The guy is not shy about his adoration of Vladimir Putin while Gretzky is a Canadian icon.
Come to Anaheim
Ovi ain't going to get it…. Keep Dreamin'
As a lifetime Caps fan, fuck off with this tbh
The Caps are an old on the decline team for the first time in how long? they haven’t finished below 1st or 2nd in 13 out of the last Ovi will retire as a Capital, and i really believe he’d take a “hometown discount” and Washington are going to want to keep him around to fill the seats with fans just to watch him pass Gretzky especially if the team is going to be on the decline for a the next couple years
Yessir
Nah, not gonna happen/ The Caps are done. And not to be depressing but Ovie at this point is kinda just the guy that shoots the puck from the left circle. If the Caps are gonna be winning and become a contender again it's not going to be because of him. They need to build around one or several other players and that's basically a rebuild so even if they did it would take too long for Ovie to have a shot at the cup. Honestly at this point I say just try and support him with decent talent, let him break the record, have a feel good moment and then rebuild.
At this point I think Ovi’s career is gonna be just chasing the goal record and then retiring, he got his cup and now all he has left to do is break the record
The Caps are going to be more competitive next season. Laviolette wasn't playing the young guys enough and the team lost a lot of man games due to injuries.
Spencer Carberry will definitely get more of the skilled players and revamped the Caps powerplay.
Plus the Caps can always resign the players with expiring contracts they traded, like Orlov, Gustafson and Hathaway, if they wanted.
He should play in the KHL where he can fully and openly support Putin
One cup in how many years? This is not a team, it is a supporting cast for an individual, nothing. Individually accomplishment without team success is failure.
One cup in how many years? This is not a team, it is a supporting cast for an individual, nothing. Individually accomplishment without team success is failure.
I stopped this video at 2:09 because as a (long time) Caps fan (since the Langway days) its just too painful to watch. This team is going to suck for years to come, much longer than any rebuild should take.
The current Caps team IS built for just one thing, getting Ovi that record and nothing else. And because of that, they're not going to be making the playoffs and it's also quite possible Ovi will not catch Gretzky in the next two years either.
Not that I have any say in it but, if I did I would've shipped all of the vets out for draft picks. And I would have done the kindest thing possible to Ovechkin, send him to a contender. He says he doesn't care about the record (maybe) all he cares about is winning one more cup. I'd give him that chance because it's not gonna happen in DC.
Unless he's here until he's in his 50s
I don’t think so (hope I’m wrong); we have an aggressive GM who’s not going to wait around to be good. He recognized where we were early and started the retool. Also, Wilson is going NOWHERE! McLellan said after the season that he sees him as a lifer. He’s only said that about 2 other players and we know who they are. He’ll be the C after Ovi retires.
Big caps fan, along with a lot of people watching this… I hope nothing bad happens and ovi gets another cup
Been a caps fan my whole life (31 years) we won the cup and I can die happy. But now it’s about Ovi breaking the record and having his buddy’s be there with him (Backy, Carlson, Kuzy & Oshie)
lets me real here. It's just been a bad year because caps had the most injuries out of any team.