We were humbled last year in the playoffs.
We have to be focused — hungry and humble this coming season.
We can’t and won’t talk about aspirations; we will only focus on playing one game at a time; nothing is promised to any team; there is no destiny- just hard work; and focus and some luck.
I hope we have learned a collective lesson last season; we should be highly motivated — we should be hungry — we haven’t accomplished anything; we should come into next season mad — humbled — and focused as a unit.
As they say around here — ” The future is now”; being humble and NOT believing any hype will be our mantra. Go Caps; read this one and then delete it!
Johnny:
Kaberle is exactly the type of defenseman we don’t need. Take a look at Kaberly’s review from a well-known Maple Leafs blog.
http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2010/6/15/1518479/2009-2010-tomas-kaberle
“Tomas Kaberle in his own end of the ice is terrifying. When he’s on the ice opponents score more per minute than anyone else on the team save for Garnet Exelby and Jeff Finger. This is why he only goes on the ice when the Leafs have a faceoff in the offensive zone.
In the corners and down low Tomas Kaberle looks terrified and he’s been that way ever since he was hit late by the New Jersey Devils’ Cam Janssens. Three years later his injuries have physically healed but I don’t know about mentally.
The idea that he’s some sort of miracle power play quarterback should be dispelled by pointing to the Leafs’ power play finished dead last in the league. Tomas Kaberle’s staunch refusal to shoot the puck despite winning the All Star Game’s accuracy competition in 2008 is obvious to everyone on TV and opposing teams know it.
Want to evaluate Tomas Kaberle’s season? His expectation should have been something like; 1st pairing defender, PP QB. He’s not a first pairing guy for the Leafs, and he’s not our PP QB anymore. There’s a changing of the guard and Tomas Kaberle isn’t part of the core of this team anymore.
The comments to this post are going to talk at great length about how Kaberle loves Toronto and has always been a Leaf, but Tomas Kaberle is past his best by date. His offense is declining and his defense is nonexistent. Let’s pray some GM gives us useful assets for Tomas Kaberle during the draft weekend.
Personally I hope Burke gets anything at all for him this summer and we can all move on.”
I’d rather have someone like Willie Mitchell.
Completely agree, Ted. Pls hang the 2009/2010 SE Div Champs banner some morning when none of us will notice.
The Caps will never win a Stanley Cup title unless they fix their defense and possibly goal tending (Varly has a history of choking under pressure situations).
I’m not sure what to make of the article. It’s just another piece of journalism and I wouldn’t put much stock in it either way. I don’t want to hear about the Cup – just play good hockey and try to position the team to peak in April and not January. Perhaps a bit more defense oriened hockey is in order this year — just a thought.
No matter, I’ll be there for every game, good bad or ugly.
We will be more thoughtful when running informal game sims @ the gm3r HQ. Seems to have negatively impacted the season
go caps!
In the playoffs Ovy and Semin and company did the same thing every shift, skate up the side and cut to the middle and shoot.. 7 straight games of the same attack over and over again.
Also we need another defenseman, Kaberle would be great but really any legit defenseman.