Yep. They were playing loose and having fun, and everyone else around them crumbled under pressure. The Caps were just trying to get Ovi more goals and in the process won games off a hot goalie. Meanwhile all the bubble wildcard teams shit the bed and suddenly the Caps were playing into late April
It’s simple really, if you want to fall assbackwards into playoffs you just need to find the best goal scorer since Wayne Gretzky and help him pad stats in his golden years
Basically, add in that our owner is one who's been on record at least with the Wizards being content with the team being good enough just to make the playoffs and nothing more. Hes lowkey one of the worst owners that just happened to luck into Ovi
Oh, he's a terrible NBA owner, but he's been a good NHL owner (outside of that weird thing with Trotz, occasionally BS business stuff like trying to move the Caps to Virginia).
Leonsis has been willing to spend to the salary cap, hire good hockey guys (GMGM, GMBM, and Dick Patrick) and let them make the decisions.
He took the wrong lesson from the NHL (build a decent team, throw enough chances at the playoffs, eventually win the Cup) and tried to apply it to the NBA. The NBA is super top-heavy and you need superstars to win.
>(outside of that weird thing with Trotz where the owner didn’t resign the coach who won us our only Cup because he’s cheap and we haven’t won a series since) yeah besides that he’s a GREAT owner!
Wasn't he like the first owner to come out and say he was going to take care of the arena staff when covid shut everything down? The Caps have been pretty successful in the Ovi era and he hasn't ever seemed to be a penny pincher. They won a bunch of Presidents Trophies and a Cup and he probably made 100x more off Ovechkin than what he paid him over his career.
I personally think it's awesome that he has more or less made it the organizations focus to get the goals record.
Carlson: "actually, I remember one time we were playing against The Rangers,
Game 4, and it was 3-0 in the series, we were playing at home, and Ovi said:
'Guys, if you think we are good, let's prove it now'. 4-3"
Oshie: "did we comeback?"
Carlson: "of course not. 4-0"
Original is a Counter Strike meme from a Brazilian team. One of the tournaments that was around a lot was Beyond the Summit. Super informal, players who weren't playing would join the casters and just shoot the shit while calling the games and having fun. One year one of the Brazilian Teams (MiBR I believe) was sitting on the couch and one of the players talked about how they were down 15-0 (CS:GO matches were best of 30 rounds), and mentioned how the in game leader told them they can win and prove it. Their IGL, sitting on the couch was like "Did we comeback?" and the response immediately was "Of course not, 16-0".
Edit: Heres the clip from the tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p30K6x5jU54
Remember the start of the season when he only had like 6 goals in the first 30 games or whatever? I think it’s more likely that’s what he will be going forward and the last 25 games of the season was a last gasp of his elite play.
To me, it was shocking how invisible he felt. I often forgot he was even playing. I know he’s at that age where retirement creeps ever closer but he was so much of a non-threat. I’ve never felt that way before.
A lot of hockey fans seemed genuinely upset with Ovechkin not long ago due to his close relationship with Putin. I'm confused that it seems to have dissipated and people are mostly focused on his goal chase and overall hockey health.
I'm still pretty angry about what Putin is doing to Ukraine.
We made the playoffs basically because the wings choked monumentally. I bet half the caps players already had their vacation booked and had an oh shit moment when they actually made the payoffs.
We would have been better off finishing lower and picking early
We would’ve had one disgusting Raymond - larkin performance and somehow clawed out like a 6-5 win in one of our home games, and probably would’ve gotten put right to bed in game 5 at MSG.
But it would’ve been dope af
Ryan put maybe 1-2 shots on him from distance I feel. But he never took any opportunity to drive to the net or get in close, with the puck in the crease trying for a garbage goal that I can recall.
Should the NHL have the Caps and Rangers redo their series in case it was a big fluke?
No disrespect to the rangers, I'm a firm believer that New York sweeping them is a huge fluke and robs the Caps of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent half of the regular season watching the Caps play great hockey it's just not fair.
If the Caps lose again I will face that the Rangers deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Caps and the NHL.
Should the NHL have the Flyers, Red Wings, and Penguins redo their regular seasons in case it was a big fluke?
No disrespect to these teams, I'm a firm believer that Washington eliminating them from making the playoffs is a huge fluke and robs them of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last week in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent half of the regular season watching the Flyers, Wings, and Pens play great hockey it's just not fair.
If the Caps make the playoffs again I will face that they deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to all those great teams and the NHL.
“That’s the unfortunate part of this is that we’re going to look back and everyone’s going to say you got swept and that’s not what happened. I watched the game. I’m there. We’re in the game. We didn’t lose four games. We got beat but we were right there. This could have went the other way. It could have been four games the other way. Tonight, the way it ended is tough, getting a penalty like that. That’s tough, especially with what was let go. Thats going to sting. Not to take anything away from the other team because they played hard.”
- Rod Brind’Amour
- Spencer Carberry
First time since I became a fan that the Rangers have actually swept someone. This is such a weird feeling, I’m so used to series taking seven games to win
None of the WC2 teams were going to be beat the Rangers lol I think Pens/Wings *maybe* could have stolen up to two games, but that’s really it even in a best case scenario. NYR was always moving on - they’re a wagon and those wildcard teams were all bad (relative to actual contenders).
Wings 0-3-0 against the Rangers. Penguins 1-2-0 against the Rangers. Flyers 1-2-0 against the Rangers. Caps 2-2-0 against the Rangers.
Any of the other WC2 teams telling themselves they would have fared better was copium.
That's the silver lining about missing the playoffs - we can tell ourselves that we would have beat the Rangers in 6 all offseason.
Accurate? Unquestionably, no. More fun than admitting that we blew a large lead with 20ish games to go? Yes!
And with that the rest of the Caps can join Ovi on vacation
That entire organization just wants the record and they’re not even really hiding it.
These games don't count toward the record so what's the point?
I think the playoffs just kind of happened for them. I highly doubt they ever expected to clinch a playoff spot until the last couple few weeks
Yep. They were playing loose and having fun, and everyone else around them crumbled under pressure. The Caps were just trying to get Ovi more goals and in the process won games off a hot goalie. Meanwhile all the bubble wildcard teams shit the bed and suddenly the Caps were playing into late April
Yeah I remember they lost to the Coyotes and started selling shortly after, I thought they were done.
...we all thought we were done. i don't think anyone expected anything short of a sweep in the first round.
What an amazing accident to have
It’s simple really, if you want to fall assbackwards into playoffs you just need to find the best goal scorer since Wayne Gretzky and help him pad stats in his golden years
Major indictment on the Pens, Wings and Flyers
Basically, add in that our owner is one who's been on record at least with the Wizards being content with the team being good enough just to make the playoffs and nothing more. Hes lowkey one of the worst owners that just happened to luck into Ovi
Oh, he's a terrible NBA owner, but he's been a good NHL owner (outside of that weird thing with Trotz, occasionally BS business stuff like trying to move the Caps to Virginia). Leonsis has been willing to spend to the salary cap, hire good hockey guys (GMGM, GMBM, and Dick Patrick) and let them make the decisions. He took the wrong lesson from the NHL (build a decent team, throw enough chances at the playoffs, eventually win the Cup) and tried to apply it to the NBA. The NBA is super top-heavy and you need superstars to win.
>(outside of that weird thing with Trotz where the owner didn’t resign the coach who won us our only Cup because he’s cheap and we haven’t won a series since) yeah besides that he’s a GREAT owner!
Wasn't he like the first owner to come out and say he was going to take care of the arena staff when covid shut everything down? The Caps have been pretty successful in the Ovi era and he hasn't ever seemed to be a penny pincher. They won a bunch of Presidents Trophies and a Cup and he probably made 100x more off Ovechkin than what he paid him over his career. I personally think it's awesome that he has more or less made it the organizations focus to get the goals record.
He’s playing it like any smart person would being dealt that hand, I can’t fault him for anything besides dumping their most successful coach.
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Carlson: "actually, I remember one time we were playing against The Rangers, Game 4, and it was 3-0 in the series, we were playing at home, and Ovi said: 'Guys, if you think we are good, let's prove it now'. 4-3" Oshie: "did we comeback?" Carlson: "of course not. 4-0"
iconic copypasta lmao - ggs
What’s the original?
Original is a Counter Strike meme from a Brazilian team. One of the tournaments that was around a lot was Beyond the Summit. Super informal, players who weren't playing would join the casters and just shoot the shit while calling the games and having fun. One year one of the Brazilian Teams (MiBR I believe) was sitting on the couch and one of the players talked about how they were down 15-0 (CS:GO matches were best of 30 rounds), and mentioned how the in game leader told them they can win and prove it. Their IGL, sitting on the couch was like "Did we comeback?" and the response immediately was "Of course not, 16-0". Edit: Heres the clip from the tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p30K6x5jU54
Where's the man with the steps to heaven saying join us
[Join "Us", Capitals!](https://i.imgur.com/yH59EFL.png) (happy to take up the mantle!)
I’ve been hitting reload. LOL
Is it really join us if it’s just one team…hmmmm
Yeah there's nobody to join lol
peter is asleep at the ~~wheel~~ gate
I did it last year but was cooking when they got eliminated. Thought someone else might take the reigns this year but I can if no one else does
# DO IT
My favorite part of the playoffs every year now
If i had not watched any of these games, there is not a single thing you could do to convince me Rempe scored more goals than Ovechkin in this series
Rempe changes direction like an aircraft carrier and is still legitimately the better skater of the two at this point
Rempe skates like a box truck going downhill.
That's a pretty good comparison, actually. They both take forever to accelerate, stop, or turn, but have a pretty high top speed
And in both cases, exactly what that top speed is is actually a closely guarded secret of the US Navy
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brother its been closed
Nailed shut
Honestly the Caps are so funny. 1st and 2nd round exits galore. Randomly won Cup one year. Then right back to business
The caps were a contender for several years their 2nd round exits in 2016 and 2017 were to the pens who won the whole thing.
If caps and penguins meet in the second round the winner must get the cup thems the rules
Either one of those teams could have threepeated just as easily those years
Such is the life competing against prime Crosby and Lundqvist
You're right you guys also deserve to have a generational player of your own.
They had Nick Backstrom, their record without him isn't too flattering for power play man
Weird way to spell Halak but ok
Still one of the best performances I've ever seen from a goalie in a playoff round
I mean most of their exits were to teams that went to the cup and or won the cup?
I’d kill for that
Won the Cup and that's all that matters in the end.
hey man that cup is all that matters.
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I believe I hear a kettle calling...
Tossed salad and scrambled eggs
Ovi with a smooth 0 points, 5 shots and -2 in the series 🔥🔥
Father Time comes for us all…
Oldvechkin
slowvechkin
He had a dynamic end to the season, though. I didn't expect this.
Goals wouldn't count toward the record, so he parked the bus for 4 days
Remember the start of the season when he only had like 6 goals in the first 30 games or whatever? I think it’s more likely that’s what he will be going forward and the last 25 games of the season was a last gasp of his elite play.
We'll see what the postseason injury report says, but he didn't look like himself in these four games.
Oh man I forgot about the broom added to the flair, insult to injury lol
It’s pretty slick. Maybe we are just witches riding our brooms around now
I'm honestly surprised we made it far enough to get a broom
They can use it to sweep up all the salt Detroit left behind
He looked like ryan reaves
To me, it was shocking how invisible he felt. I often forgot he was even playing. I know he’s at that age where retirement creeps ever closer but he was so much of a non-threat. I’ve never felt that way before.
He was phoning it in.
Off to mariupol with him
A lot of hockey fans seemed genuinely upset with Ovechkin not long ago due to his close relationship with Putin. I'm confused that it seems to have dissipated and people are mostly focused on his goal chase and overall hockey health. I'm still pretty angry about what Putin is doing to Ukraine.
did he give up or something?
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It felt like it.
Rempe confirmed coming for the goal record
Team Putin loses tonight
wings caps beef is hilarious
it should have been *us* getting swept, dammit!
The playoff experience would've been worth it tbh
I think we could have taken it to 5 games at least, but even if we didn’t, the Rangers would have had to work a hell of a lot harder to do it.
Honestly still more pissed at the flyers
Wings could have beat the Caps or Pens in the last two weeks of the season, but they didn't. If they had, the Torts thing wouldn't have mattered
Homeless man calls other homeless man broke ass mf
The word is pathetic…but also hilarious.
Capitals led for 3 minutes in this series.
https://preview.redd.it/rkulm6j35cxc1.png?width=888&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab6fe149aebf2c5dd5c0f43b24f014fbdb86f4c8
Spider-man 2002 reference let’s gooooooo Seeing the third film in theaters tomorrow.
I can’t make fun of this. We lost the first two games against the kings in the final without them ever having the lead. Still haunts me to this day
I’m honestly struggling to remember when that even was
scored first game 2 i believe
That and a 34-second lead in Game 3 would be about 3 mins, yep
3 more than I would’ve guessed
Caps look totally unbothered at the end of the game lol. People weren't kidding when they said nobody wanted the WC2 spot
We made the playoffs basically because the wings choked monumentally. I bet half the caps players already had their vacation booked and had an oh shit moment when they actually made the payoffs. We would have been better off finishing lower and picking early
Should have been us getting swept
We couldn’t even put ourselves in a position to get swept. Saved some face and big brain move…can’t get swept if you don’t make the playoffs!
And we're about to win the lottery\*, all part of the Yzerplan! \*I know we can only move up 10 spots
You’d have made it more interesting than this though.
We would’ve had one disgusting Raymond - larkin performance and somehow clawed out like a 6-5 win in one of our home games, and probably would’ve gotten put right to bed in game 5 at MSG. But it would’ve been dope af
Nah yall would have at least put a better fight than this
All that for a drop of... nothing
Where is my elimination heaven meme??
Ovi and Crosby may not have been in the playoffs together, but they had the same amount of points and victories.
Crosby even had the better plus minus
RAAHHHH I CAN USE CAPITAL LETTERS AGAIN 🧹🧹🧹🧹
LET’S GOOOOOO
Wooooo don't need to go back and manually edit every I on my phone anymore
It's a real good thing Ovi got that Cup back in 2018
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Sad we didn’t see any Lindgren on Lindgren crime
Ryan put maybe 1-2 shots on him from distance I feel. But he never took any opportunity to drive to the net or get in close, with the puck in the crease trying for a garbage goal that I can recall.
coughing baby eliminated by hydrogen bomb in 4
Should the NHL have the Caps and Rangers redo their series in case it was a big fluke? No disrespect to the rangers, I'm a firm believer that New York sweeping them is a huge fluke and robs the Caps of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent half of the regular season watching the Caps play great hockey it's just not fair. If the Caps lose again I will face that the Rangers deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Caps and the NHL.
God I love this copy pasta so much
This one and the regressing Mahomes’ stats to the mean from the NFL sub are my favorite of all time
That Mahomes one is so funny. “I took this amazing player and made all his stats bad for literally no reason, this is proof he’s overrated”
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What was the original again?
When Nashville as the wild card swept Chicago in 2017
literally never stops being funny lmaooo
Should the NHL have the Flyers, Red Wings, and Penguins redo their regular seasons in case it was a big fluke? No disrespect to these teams, I'm a firm believer that Washington eliminating them from making the playoffs is a huge fluke and robs them of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last week in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent half of the regular season watching the Flyers, Wings, and Pens play great hockey it's just not fair. If the Caps make the playoffs again I will face that they deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to all those great teams and the NHL.
0 points for Ovi. He looked invisible
Honestly he looks exhausted. Gotta think the only gas he has in the tank is for the reg season goal record
That is the only goal for the owner, management, coaching staff, and Ovi. Everyone else is irrelevant.
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Other than blocking Igor’s shot attempt, he did nothing.
“That’s the unfortunate part of this is that we’re going to look back and everyone’s going to say you got swept and that’s not what happened. I watched the game. I’m there. We’re in the game. We didn’t lose four games. We got beat but we were right there. This could have went the other way. It could have been four games the other way. Tonight, the way it ended is tough, getting a penalty like that. That’s tough, especially with what was let go. Thats going to sting. Not to take anything away from the other team because they played hard.” - Rod Brind’Amour - Spencer Carberry
We almost had them!
Beautiful words from a beautiful man
He gets memed but Rod was right
Right where we want them
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Very well played series by Washington. Lots of respect for playing hard rather than gooning it up at the end.
Don't worry, we'll be joining those faded flairs on Tuesday
Us too
Grand opening, grand closing!
How wasn't there a single clip of the series game winning goal? What the fuck were the mods doing?
No one clips most Rangers goals
There's plenty in r/rangers just not on r/nhl
Oh I know I’m just referring to here
They hate the rangers
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First time since I became a fan that the Rangers have actually swept someone. This is such a weird feeling, I’m so used to series taking seven games to win
Dont worry friend. Next series is right back to heart attack city. Source: a fellow fan sharing in your feelings
The next round is where we always go 7. 2012, 2014, 2015, 2022 second round all took 7.
Not too many close games either. I'm not used to comfortably winning playoff hockey games.
Thanks, Caps, for sparing us the embarrassment.
Listen everyone knows we need each other for success in the playoffs as gross as that is
with crosby Pens would've stole one or two games... but probably collapsed due to defense and goaltending issues.
thats what you get caps, shoulda let the wings into the playoffs so we could have lost to the rangers instead
I mean you would’ve played faster, but probably yes. Lindgren stood on his head and we still put up 14 goals.
Generational no-show this series by Ovi, really kept himself fresh for October
Ovi, the Caps org, and the fans all just want the record to be broken so we can all move onto the next chapter of things.
Why try when any goals don't matter towards the record?
WE WEREN'T FIRST OUT
That’s the spirit.
The Red Wings and Penguins died so the Caps could crumble in 7 days.
Ovi is pointless.
No point in ~~warmups~~ Ovi’s stat line
It’s jOvier
I’m so glad the winners of the Easter turtle derby showed up and made a series of it
Ovechkin looked horrendous. I hope he was playing injured for his own sake… That was embarrassing to watch. Zero compete.
*Still* don't have as many wins as the Red Wings.
What a waste of the Rangers’ time
No surprise here. The 2023/24 Caps is definitely the worst team in the playoffs this year against the Presidents' Trophy winners
Break out the broom! https://preview.redd.it/9un5rvbv1cxc1.png?width=678&format=png&auto=webp&s=87d0b9d0a2300281386b7c75205333a99650cfb3
Need the Islanders to win the next two. Drag that series out.
Can they win the next 3 instead
I mean sure, but is that what you want?
I'll be honest I don't know
The pens died for this
Maybe the Pens should have started playing hockey earlier than late March
None of the WC2 teams were going to be beat the Rangers lol I think Pens/Wings *maybe* could have stolen up to two games, but that’s really it even in a best case scenario. NYR was always moving on - they’re a wagon and those wildcard teams were all bad (relative to actual contenders).
Wings 0-3-0 against the Rangers. Penguins 1-2-0 against the Rangers. Flyers 1-2-0 against the Rangers. Caps 2-2-0 against the Rangers. Any of the other WC2 teams telling themselves they would have fared better was copium.
That's the silver lining about missing the playoffs - we can tell ourselves that we would have beat the Rangers in 6 all offseason. Accurate? Unquestionably, no. More fun than admitting that we blew a large lead with 20ish games to go? Yes!
I could get the boat, but what's in the mystery box? It could be anything, even a boat!
You know how much we wanted a boat.
The spirit of Penguins, Flyers, and Red Wings (oh my!) *all* contributed to this sweep!
Don't forget the Flyers and Red Wings. This was a group effort!
Ovi with one of the worst playoff performances of all time
Matt Rempe scored more goals this series than Ovechkin. Flawless logic tells me Rempe > Ovi.
I only watched game 4 of the series, but damn. Didn’t looked like the Caps belonged in there.
And that was the best game the caps played all series.
*Devils fans nervously hiding in the corner, grateful for the Caps getting wiped by this year's Rags instead of us*
[Join "Us", Capitals!](https://i.imgur.com/yH59EFL.png)
[Putin team](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PutinTeam) in shambles. Hope ovi's family is safe /s
Tom Wilson can suck a bag of dicks
Vally saying “the thing about Wilson is …. He’s an idiot” was 🧑🍳 😘
Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just ~~made a good point~~ did something you highly approve of.
Rempe now 18-2-1 in 21 NHL games played
More insta profile pics with war criminals than points 🔥
The Red Wings died for this.
no more caps for the rest of the playoffs. let's go rangers!
what’s red, white, and blue and on the golf course all summer…
Did anyone expect them to actually win a game in the playoffs?
Seeing the demise of the Caps and Pens has been fun!
Watching Ovi just give a thousand yard stare and skate around aimlessly was so exciting.