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Oh yeah yeah another thg video
oof
Penguins, rangers and islanders owned them
No love for Dale Hunter?
Smythe Division wasn't bad during that time either
I liked what you said about the "if" of if they played an oilers against them in a series. That is a an absolutely studded blue line, and in an era narrated by high scoring talent of the Oilers, Islanders, could they have seriously hindered their scoring ability? Would it have put a target on the oilers blue line + Grant Fuhr with a Mike Gartner going the other way? I would have liked to see what Scott Stevens would have done against a "score more then the other team" strategy.
Jeez how old is Poile he’s been a GM forever.
The 80’s Caps were a lot of fun to watch
Love the Caps vintage jersey
They had a poor regular season in 1989-1990, but they made it to the conference finals that season, the only time they did so in the Patrick. Then the rest of the 90's saw the Pens losses and the miracle run in 1998.
in 1990 the caps got out of the second round for the first time only to get swept by the bruins in the conference finals
1990 was an excellent team that went to the conference finals. They had three 40 goal scorers but never had the stud goalie and lived during the Gretzky/Lemieux era. Kolzig and Bondra were on the horizon, but the real downturn was just prior, in fact just days after falling short in that conference finals. An off-ice incident disgraced the franchise and three top players had to leave. An unexpected rebuild was required as a result. What if….?
Poile was a miracle worker with the budget and political circumstances he had to live under. An internal decision was made to prioritize the build for the playoffs and not the regular season. Hence the move for edgy Ciccarelli and Rouse. Gartner's playoff numbers were there but were low impact points while Dino's were the opposite. Additionally, Murphy was an emotional basket case with the Washington fans mercilessly on him every time he touched the puck with a whoops chant. It worked for him with multiple Cups on his resume after his time in Washington.
I believe that game 7 loss to Hrudy and Isles was on Easter Sunday and went to 4 OTs
then they got rid of Dino and Stevens after a shady limo sexual assault incident??
Bobby Carpenter is one of those guys who found a second life as a great checking forward. He was brilliant in the faceoff circle, and I remember he gave the Wings fits whenever they played against New Jersey.
Mike Gartner was always fun to watch
The natural light kind of lowers the quality but I personally appreciate being able to read the board 😀
Wow, Poille finds AMAZING dmen all throughout his career and never wins a cup …
All I remember of the early Cap's at least in my life I was maybe 8-9 and I had a huge olaf kolzig poster in my room lol
Would love to see a video about Dino Ciccerelli's career, if that video hasn't been created yet.
Great video, but McPhee was in his first year as Caps GM when they made the Cup Final against the Red Wings. But it was largely Poile's roster and McPhee never got them back to the Final in a decade and a half.
Wow! Didn’t realize they were so good in the 80’s. Or that Gartner and Stevens played for ‘em
Why was the division called The Patrick division back then?
i look at the rosters and to me the lack of the real center depth was missing from those 80s capitals roster!. imho!!
I've got a throwback for you Shannon. Started watching the Caps way back in '76, and believe it or not, the first player I remember being my favorite was Bob Kelly. He wasn't all that great of course, but when he comes in is when the Caps that were pushed around season after season (and it was rough back then), learned to fight back. When he was on the ice, things changed. I also remember Pete Peters being a LOT better than the stats say he was. lol Funny how you see things as a kid. Being a Caps fan was pretty brutal back then. I'm still not over the Easter Epic! But hell, that's also why I'm soaking up every last second of being the Stanley Cup Champions now. They did it before I died! Something that was looking to be in doubt less than a year ago! 🙂
Well I could write a book on this as I was a Caps season ticket holder for about 4 seasons and I went to a lot of games at Landover in the 80's.
The Patrick Division was good, but for the most part, I don't agree that being in it was the main reason the 80's Caps never got past the second round. The Islanders in the '83 and '84 playoffs were very good, championship level teams. The other years in the 80's, they lost to teams that really were beatable and the Caps had home ice advantage. The ran into goalies that got hot against them in '85 (Islanders, Smith), '86 (Rangers, Vanbiesbrouck), '87 (Islanders, Hrudey), and '89 (Flyers, Hextall). In '88, I don't remember Sean Burke necessarily being the difference maker for the Devils against the Caps. That Devils team was on a roll and just peaked at the right time, (and they didn't make the playoffs the previous or the next year). Patrik Sundstrom had a strong series. Also, losing Langway when his achilles tendon got sliced by Pat Verbeek's skate when Pat lifted his leg as Rod skated by didn't help.
After the trade with Montreal, the Caps had an excellent defense throughout the 80's.
The forwards were not bad, but there were gaps. They could have had another consistent goal scorer for secondary scoring. I would also have liked to see an upgrade at center. Not necessarily a Gretzky or Lemieux or Yzerman, though of course either would work. I'm thinking more along the lines of a durable center with size who plays a strong complete game. Someone like Ron Francis, though not even necessarily quite as good as Ron.
I think the goaltending was the main problem. It was pretty much ordinary in the 80's and I have trouble remembering an 80's playoff game where the Caps goalie stoned the opposition and stole the game. And the defensive style the Caps played made the goalies look better than they actually were during the regular season,
Owner Abe Pollin kept the team in town, (anyone remember Save the Caps?). However, it was pretty clear his heart was really with his other team, the NBA Bullets. Heck, he even left a Caps playoff game to see how his Bullets were doing in their playoff game. He didn't have the big pockets or the will to spend that some other owners did. And this makes me wonder how much GM David Poile was constrained.
Woohoo Caps!!!!
Can you maybe look at the 1979-1987 flyers? Maybe the Lindros era too?
Please do a video on Dino cicarelli and scotty bowmans relationship
Very nice review. Brings back a lot of good and bad memories. The triple overtime game against the islanders I was on my knees screaming at the tv. Was a heartbreaker. Thanks very much for sharing.
This video hit me right in the heart. Patrick Division, those beautiful jerseys, Langway, Gartner, Carpenter and Scott Stevens. First Eastern Conference Championship and eight years in a row they made the playoffs. Which lasted fourteen years into the 90's. Plenty of heart break too, but I wouldn't trade these memories for anything. I love this team.
Being a long long time Cap fan there biggest problem was that they didn't have that dynamic duo superstar tandem to take them to the cup. There were on other teams Gretz & Mess, Bossy & Trottier, Taves and Kane, Lemieux and Mario Jr. (Jagr) etc. The Caps had HOFers but not superstars until now with Ovi & Backstrom and guess what now they have a cup.
Great video Shannon! It brings back memories when I started watching them in '83-'84 season. It sucked because the games in Maryland were blacked out, but I still managed to watch away games.
love these vids of the 80’s keep them up
"What were we thinking then (regarding Adidas jerseys)?" – Everyone in 2030 (many by then pretending they also felt that way in 2018-19).
I mean no… the sore-thumb pentagon thingy around the NHL logo looks totally cool and makes perfect sense…
I lived these heart breaking years. So when the caps won last year I celebrated like a madman. So many playoff frustrations, seeing puck luck go against the caps. Being up 3-1 and loose game 7s in soul crushing fashion.
The best team the Capitals ever had was the ‘91-‘92 team (compared to the top contenders that season) as they finished 2nd Overall in Goals For and 10th in Goals Against. 2nd best on Power Play and 4th best in Penalty Kill. Regular Season they beat up on Pittsburgh winning 5 of the 7 matchups. Now to the postseason… Capitals jumped out to a 3-1 lead winning Game (4) 7-2 at Pittsburgh as Dino had 4 of the 7 goals that night (Dino scored the 4 goals on only 4 shots) and it looked like they would easily move on. This was the first of many matchups that has become a great rivalry today. Unfortunately for the Capitals the more “talented” Penguins woke up and went 15-2 after that Game 4 loss putting them on the brink of elimination that they would not need to overcome until after they had back-to-back Cups.
The caps have had the ugliest uni's ever!
Hey Shannon, why is it so hard for you to talk about why management was in such a hurry to get Stevens, Dino, and Courtnall out and the PR nightmare that ensued? I mean it's been years and a grand jury chose not to proceed. As good as Dino was he was always problematic on a personal level even before the limo incident. There are also younger fans who don't know the whole story and why they gave up someone like Stevens. If you don't explain it then the Caps just look like idiots to the uninformed.
I think your 20/20 hindsight on Dino Ciccarelli is great despite him making the Hall of Fame. I was a teenager at the time, I enjoyed watching all the goals he got for the Caps then. But yes, I remember those years.
The one player you pointed out that I took for granted for all these years was Larry Murphy. (I did not know he got entered into the Hall of Fame.) The team was
Underachievers Central. I've heard people deabte years later whether it was a goalies, coach, or whatever?
I moved out to Phoenix in 2001 and I'm still here. Anyway, a few years later a woman I'm talking to at the computer terminal at the library (back in the days before we all had that on our telephones) said it was the goalies. But your pointing out of the Dino trade, which I thought was good at the time and even after for all these years, IS a second opinion I'm gonna agree with here.
Ovi might have gotten the Cup and many other accolades. But I loved that blue collar hockey team. I'm frankly privileged to watch your assessment on it and learned something that I missed a little in my teenage years back there