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It was a typical non-conference game with low importance, Caps had three injured reserve top-six Ds (Erskine, Poti, Green), both teams have four dangerous, scorable lines, so a lot of goals were guaranteed. We haven't played extremely well, but at least we did our work very efficiently (which we couldn't in the last few games). I am so happy that MadMax and Higger scored twice, they deserved it so much, for me Lapierre is the star of October in our team. He is so consistent, I cannot mention any bad games of him but it can be said about the whole fourth line, with Weise and Volpatti they are having a great chemistry now. It wasn't accidental from AV that after the third Washington goal he gave them the next shift. Brave but totally understandable in our situation, Sedins' line isn't hard enough, Kesler's needs time to join Booth and Higgins on the wings, and Malhotra's not a possibility now to preserve it. 7-4 is not the reality, it was only an amusing game without huge interest from the teams, they enjoyed playing offensive hockey and that's all. Vigneault reached his 350th win and thank God, it's November. A six-game road trip with 3-2-1 including a Chicago beat would be acceptable.

My oh my. This team is starting to look like a Presidents' Trophy winner. Fortunately this game became boring to the third period, we clearly outplayed the Flames which can be very important in division rivalry to show no one has a chance to win the Nortwest. The only dissatisfaction was the final minute of the game, when Weise lost his mind and accepted the fight and Luongo's SO was broken, he definitely would have deserved it on this game. MadMax' move before CoHo's goal was awesome just like Hansen's pass in Higgins' game winner and Edler is an extraterrestrial (6 points in last 2 games). It was a bit funny to see Volpatti in our second powerplay unit, but why not if the opponent allows to try everybody in special teams. This Calgary will possibly have the fewest goals in the league if they follow this unconceptioned hockey which I would regret so much because NHL needs all Canadian team in the playoff, the Cup will have to be brought home.

Against Minny we were the Flames. It's not a big risk to say, it was the biggest bust of the year from our guys. Bieksa said "I think everyone's surprised. This has got to be one of the worst performances I've been a part of in this jersey,". Agree in all. We had some terrible mistakes, everybody seemed tired and unimaginative, from Hodgson's goal to the second period's PP we had only 4 shots in nearly half a game. Malhotra had -4, Hansen had -3, Bieksa and Ballard did mistakes like a rookie in a junior league, Kes, Burr and the Sedins couldn't put the puck home even if it was an open net. Minnesota definitely outplayed us, takeaways were 8-1, blocks were 16-7 and hits were 25-17, Volpatti lost his fight etc. Only Schneider's performance was outstanding and Clutterbuck's punch on the referee made me smile. And the excellent PK, we killed 30 of last 31, pretty good but hope to forget this game very quickly, and beat the Blues to 3-2 next.