And that is why you fail…

Posted by HockeyinHD on 04/28/10 at 11:05 PM ET

Boudreau is not a playoff coach.

Posted by SYF from the bottom of my, what, 11teenth pint of Guinness? on 04/29/10 at 02:32 AM ET

want some cheese with that whine?  [sorry…had to use it]

CONSPIRACY!

If you’re in their zone 80% of the time that’s not a trap.

Posted by stoneman from vegas on 04/29/10 at 03:01 AM ET

maybe before bruce boudreau eats 12 more subway sandwiches tonight and moans about the goalie interference call, he should consider figuring out to coach in the playoffs and not lose 3 games in a row.  heck, teach your hotshot defensemen how to play NHL hockey and not pond hockey and that goalie interference call would’ve left the game tied at 0’s. 

boudreau is going to get fired.  if he doesnt get fired during the offseason, he wont make til 2011.  ovechkin, backstrom, green, and semin all disappeared.  actually semin and green never even showed up.  at least green took a costly penalty to show that he was in fact in the game, semin didn’t even bother putting his skates on.

it was a perfect storm of the Washington NoShows doing what they do best when it counts and Halak getting hot, but good teams find a way to win, let alone win just 1 game to close it out.

Posted by hammerdown from molina on 04/29/10 at 03:56 AM ET

Hammertown, I’m with you, I think he’s gone and would not be shocked to see Hitchcock hired. The one thing I’ve learned being a Philly sports fan, you can’t have a nut on the sideline. Boudreau reminds me of Larry Bowa the way he carries on behind the bench and we all saw what happened with a talented Phillies team once he was removed as coach. I see a similar situation with the caps.

Posted by phillyd from New Jersey on 04/29/10 at 05:36 AM ET

Boudreaux is an excellent AHL, but his ineptitude showed in this series.  There’s no way Montreal should have won one game, let alone four.  I hope he gets fired on break-up day.  Imagine what someone like Lindy Ruff would have accomplished with all of this talent…

Posted by Thag from DC on 04/29/10 at 06:41 AM ET

It’s never the Capitals’ fault.  That’s why they’ll never win The Cup, no internal accountability.

Listen to Boudreau.  His team was perfect for three straight losses.

It was all the other stuff they couldn’t control that undid them, so why should they look inside themselves and try to change?

Posted by HNBCTB on 04/29/10 at 06:59 AM ET

Right now the Owner & HC have OD’d at a All you can eat Buffet outside of the Washington D.C. area

Posted by Evilpens on 04/29/10 at 08:08 AM ET

Thing is, that was a fair goalie interference call.

I read the comments first, assuming this video would just be all whining, and guess I was write. I’ll skip this video.

The Caps look like the Wings in 1995 or 1996—all the talent in the world, they never give up the puck, but they just don’t have “it.” It’s way too easy to say Halak single-handedly won the series. Yeah, he was fantastic, but when teams like these Caps or the 1995 Wings are unable to beat teams they are far superior to (on talent, that is), there’s something else missing.

Call it heart, call it grit, I really don’t know. It’s hard to put a finger on. Maybe they just float too much and don’t get hard to the goal like you have to in the playoffs.

Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 04/29/10 at 08:09 AM ET

somebody better call the WAAAAHBULANCE for Bordeau….

....his press conference following the Game 7 loss to the Pens last year was near identical - nothing but bitching about the officiating while taking no credit for losing the series.

hilarious.

i wonder who Cover Girl is going to sponsor now since Teddy and his team are out….. also, i hope umberger sends Teddy some crow to eat bc umberger was right.

Posted by JAWS on 04/29/10 at 08:33 AM ET

Before getting on-line this morning I was already wondering if the Caps had learned anything from this series and had turned a page. I figured if they whined about the disallowed goal (even if it was very marginal call and would never have been made against the Habs back in the Forum days) or said they played a great game and got stopped by a hot goalie, then they’ve learned nothing. That’s stuff for the fanboys to talk about, not the professionals that run an organization. Why do the Caps feel they aren’t respected? Because they never seem to suck it up and look in the mirror.  You got beat by a team that understood what it took to beat you and executed their plan while the Caps reacted to it by doing the same things that weren’t working over and over.

Bruce Bourdreau was a breath of fresh air when taking over for a moribund Glen Hanlon who had clearly lost all hope with this team. Now it seems like all he has is AHL tactics and the hope that you can motivate talent to just be better than the other team. The Caps were predicatble and never once changed their game play during the game.  I’m thinking Tom Renney may want out of Edmonton as associate coach and could be in play. He at least knows tactics, not shoot lots and hope to score.

Posted by hockey1919 from mid-atlantic on 04/29/10 at 09:26 AM ET

Halak was certainly great, but I agree with the call during the game, during a power play, that the Habs were allowing shots from the areas they wanted them to shoot from.  There were few truly spectacular saves, very few rebounds, and few screens and or redirects.  The Canadiens outworked the Caps in all of the non-glamorous areas of the game.

Green’s play on the winning goal was atrocious.  There was no need to put himself in such a poor position relative to the puck and net.  And where was the desperate backcheck by Carlson or anyone else to negate Moore?

All that said, I really thought the no-goal was very marginal.  I really don’t believe the contact made any difference in Halak’s ability to make the play. Does Holmstrom call Knuble and offer condolences? I’ve seen far, far worse contact not be called.

Posted by dip on 04/29/10 at 10:39 AM ET

I read the comments first, assuming this video would just be all whining, and guess I was write. I’ll skip this video.

Wow, let me correct myself… “and guess I was RIGHT.” I’ll take a mulligan on that error, if you don’t mind.

I agree we’ve seen worse not called as interference, but that just highlights the problem with the rule, there’s too much interpretation and too much based on reputation of the goalie and skater involved.

I see no reason a play like the one with Knuble last night shouldn’t be reviewable, just like a high-stick, kick, etc. It shouldn’t be reviewable in the sense they can call a penalty on the players involved, but it should be reviewable as to whether or not the goal should be allowed. Treat it the same, call on the ice is default, video evidence must be indisputable to overturn it.

Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 04/29/10 at 11:01 AM ET