The NHL and NBA playoffs have begun. That’s good news this year for the two teams that occupy the Verizon Center in our Nations Capitol. The Wizards and Capitals are both in the playoffs at the same time since the early 2000’s. Good news for the city and their owner, Ted Leonsis.
The playoff season got off to a slow start thanks to the Capitals last night and the Mr. Hyde version of their extremely talented team. I say mr. Hyde because of how passive and boring to watch they are. Usually when you make this comparison the Jekyll is the bad side, but the capitals need a little more Jekyll in their game to play to their maximum potential. They need to play mean, Ovi plays mean every night, and he brought it last night you know he’s going to in the playoffs. But the rest of the team was soft, and that’s too bad, because we just gave home ice back to the Islanders. Need to win Friday and take care of the rest from there. Not time to panic, but someone needs to get mean.
The wizards will begin their postseason push early Saturday on ESPN. Im not expecting much from this group, I’m cautiously optimistic they can escape the first round, but it’ll be hard to overcome a bone head coach to get much farther than that. Wittman holds this team back, and John Wall’s stardom, dominance, and leadership overcomes most of that, but Bradley Beal needs to be let loose, let the man eat, because he’s 21 years old and hungry. I realize he may not be 100% but PP takes too many shots from him and he doesn’t play enough alongside Wall. Figure it our Wittman, cause this team is going to be good soon.
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