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No Time To Panic
by Paul on 03/07/09 at 09:35 AM ET
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from Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post,
The Caps and their fans are not just shocked by the losses, but by the combined 13-5 score, too. In one loss, they gave up six straight goals; in the next game, five in a row and, on Thursday, they trailed 2-0 entering the final minute. The last time the Caps lost three straight in regulation time at home, they fired the coach—last season.
“You can be told a little too often how good you are. I don’t know if ‘cavalier’ is the word, but you can be too cocky at times, not play as hard as you should, be more pretty than gritty,” General Manager George McPhee told me yesterday. Thursday night, he was so frustrated he went into his suite muttering, “I’m going back into my cave.”
Far better to experience such issues now than in April, when you can be dumped out of the playoffs before you have figured out your problems, much less fixed them.
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Actually, I think “cavalier” is the perfect word to describe the attitude, more than cocky. Every good team goes through such a patch where they have to re-learn how to focus on opponents that might be coming at them a little bit harder than they might be accustomed to. They have a few solid veterans on the Capitals who have gone through this before - I think they’ll be fine by the time the playoffs start.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 03/07/09 at 09:41 AM ET