i really hope that the caps make it to the finals this year if not for any other reason than to prove people wrong. I\'m so tired of people suggesting that this team is easy to beat, or that they are over-rated, or that they are a good playoff matchup.
This is a team that lost 9 games at home all season. NINE. Out of 41. The Rangers are a team that won less than half of their games on the road (they won only 17 total road games).
I mean i can go blue in the face talking about everything that the caps have going for them, and everything that the rangers don\'t, and yet people still say that they think the caps will be upset.
There\'s a reason that the caps are SECOND in the eastern conference people. And as far as the goaltending arguement goes...
Osgood sucks. And fleury is average at best at controlling rebounds. Yet both were in the stanley cup finals last year, while Brodeur, Luongo, Nabby, Kiprusoff, Lundqvist, etc. were not. TEAMS win championships. NOT goalies.
I really hope the caps just mop the floor with the rangers... i\'d love to see it, but i\'d love it even more that all the rangers koolaid drinkers would get their shit handed to them.
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Oh and BTW. How\'s Huet doing this season anyways? Oh yeah... that\'s right... he\'s not even the starter and he\'s got almost as many losses as theodore despite starting 20 less games.
Yeah... that was a huge loss to the caps. That doomed them.
Anyone who thought that the caps\' season was lost without huet is absolutely ******ed.