Chris78

And you don't think Rubenstein could of said, Hey we may want to consider going an extra 2 years to get Burnes?

Hello. 1 big major free agent left for Arizona. They weren't trying to sign him lol? I would consider that a major free agent deal. Are you a Rubenstein mega fan? Are you jockeying to be his PR guy?

Sorry but when the team fails this hard from what expectations were the owner deserves some blame. Your being naive if you think owners aren't involved in signing of marquee free agents or in big trades when your trading away blue chip prospects for an ace. Elias deserves the majority of the blame, more than Hyde and certainly more than Rubinstein, but Reubenstein is not immune from any criticism. Now it's up to him to fire Elias after the season. My guess is he will get 1 more chance to fix this.

Oh shit. I just looked up his contract. Yep. Your right. That's not good lol.

Just awful lol. I should say Spent no long term money. All 1 year band aid deals. Even O'Neil isn't really a 3 year deal. Club can opt out after a year and I'm sure they will lol.

Too bad they don't have anymore series against the Os lol

They spent no meaningful money over the off season. There we're ace's out there to be had but we end up with Charlie Morton and Kyle Gibson. How the F does that happen? Lol. No extensions for any of the young core. Just an awful off season. He's not totally to blame but he controls the purse strings and he does get some of the blame. He shouldn't get off the hook completely. Honeymoon is over lol.

Mullins takes a called strike 3 down the middle and then Holiday gets thrown out at second. In the 9th inning. The Os broadcast team trying to somehow someway spin positivity lol Hyde needs to go. Elias needs to go. Rubinstein can fu@king go to. Clueless Let's do more Rubinstein bobble head giveaways. .

My goodness. The Os continue to find new ways to lose. 13 hits. 18 base runners and some how only 3 runs.

I'm not sure I'd call it a slump as much as a tough match up. The canes were favored in the series and have a great chance at winning the cup. There forecheck is relentless and they just overwhelmed the caps. I thought Logan Thompson was awesome for the majority of the time and kept the games closer than what they actually were.

Good night caps. Just not good enough

Didn't think the Os would be this bad this year. I thought they would be a fringe playoff team but they look like a 100 loss team easily

Carolina's forecheck is relentless. Caps are in trouble

Yeap. Pathetic

Tom Wilson played his ass off tonight.

Great response by the caps

Man this team.... looks like a 60 win team.

Nope

I don't know. Caps are going to have to dig deep. Not sure if they can generate enough offense.

Carolina 5 posts hit tonight

Caps fortunate to be up after the first 2 periods. Certainly being outplayed tonight. Carolina really tilting the ice

That's a nasty line heading northwest through Frederick county.

Is Jamie Moyer available? Ben Mcdonald come down out of the booth to pitch? They cut Palmers games in half this year. Maybe he could pitch every 5th day.

I'm thinking back over the last decade or 2. And that was a rough 10 minute stretch in the second period for the special teams. But they did pull it out with a great 3rd period.

Except for 1 magical run to the cup in 2018 the caps always know how to disappoint in the playoffs.