Daily Archives: January 18, 2009

Change We Can Believe In

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That tilt was played at the intensity level of a playoff game with tight forechecking and no mistakes. There was great goaltending; strong D and good special teams play.

And the stars were shining with a Mike Green power play goal and an Alex Semin rocket of a shot goal after a series of dipsy doodle moves.

I was sitting with Peter Bondra last night when Alex Semin scored his goal. He gave me a high five as he very much appreciated that move and that slap shot.

An amazing observation: The Boston Bruins have played Southeast Division opponents more than we have. We have been mostly playing Western based teams and Northeast based teams. It is just a quirk in the scheduling. We get into the teeth of the division schedule after the All-Star break. We have played quite well against the Bruins, Rangers and the Pens and we have split our two games against the Flyers to date although they have gained three of the four available points against us as we beat them in a shootout. We seem to get up against teams that we believe are very talented and are teams we could see in the playoffs.

We have played 46 games to date and only eight against our division foes. The Bruins have played 12 games against the SE Division and we are the only team to have beaten them to date from the Southeast.

We must keep our focus and play well against whoever the opponent is. Two points is two points but a big win in front of another sold-out crowd sure feels good. Go Caps!

If It Wasn’t Sad It Would be Funny

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For those of us locally who watched the Georgetown vs. Duke game yesterday, we were all shocked and infuriated over a technical foul called on freshman phenom Greg Monroe. The call, with Monroe on the bench, was his fourth foul and whenever Greg was on the floor playing, the team played well. Whenever he sat, Duke took advantage. Greg didn’t say a thing and he didn’t deserve a technical foul. We were the better team when Greg was on the floor.

Here is Mike Wise’s column and wouldn’t you know it? The true culprit for the technical foul call was someone wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers cap. :-)  The call was for “salty language” and there you go. Too funny.

Georgetown has the toughest schedule in the nation. Look it up if you don’t believe me. We played well against Duke but it is just hard to beat seven players when you have five on the floor. Duke had five players, a ref and a Steelers fan playing against us. Hoya Saxa.