At the Rink - Caps v. Sabres 9/21

A couple quick hits in the first intermission at Verizon Center.

-As Corey Masisak pointed out on Twitter, the Caps banners and retired numbers have been taken down from the rafters. As my friend and colleague Craig Stone postulated, they might be redoing them all to have a consistent design and color scheme.
-The ice looked pretty good before the game, but a few players took unassisted spills. I'm hoping it's because there was a Dinosaur show here through yesterday (no, really) and not a sign of things to come.
-Mike Knuble has not looked good. He seems out of sync with Backstrom and Ovechkin- they are dipsy-doodling through the neutral zone and he just wants to go to the net. Took a bad hooking penalty as well.
-Also not a good period for Andrew Gordon, simply because he only has 51 seconds of ice on 2 shifts. Andrew Joudrey is not faring much better, with 2:44 on 4 shifts. There have been a lot of PPs and PKs for the Caps, so hopefully with even strength situations they'll get on more.
-Chris Bourque, on the other hand, has gotten a lot of ice, notably 2:05 of power play time. What's interesting is much of that was spent at the point on the Caps second PP unit, paired with John Carlson.