The Seahawks didnr17;t take long to decide that defensive tackle Lord Adusei-Hyeamang wouldnr17;t be making their roster this year.
Adusei-Hyeamang signed with the team on August 3 and the Seahawks announced that they waived him on Monday. They also waived fullback Khalil Hill with an injury designation.
The Seahawks also announced the players who will be filling those roster spots. They signed tight end Jer17;Ron Hamm and defensive tackle Joey Ivie.
Hamm was waived by the Seahawks last week O. J. Simpson Jersey , so he can empathize with Adusei-Hyeamang when it comes to rapid changes of fortune. He had two catches for 13 yards for the 49ers in 2016.
Ivie was a seventh-round pick by the Cowboys last year and spent time on the Falcons practice squad after failing to make the team in Dallas.
Jon Cooper is confident the Tampa Bay Lightning will be fine.
Experience tells the coach and his players they shouldnr17;t be overly concerned about losing the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals at home.
The way the Washington Capitals are playing, though, it could be more difficult to rebound from a shabby performance this time.
Game 2 is Sunday night, and Cooper expects the Atlantic Division winners to be at their best.
r1;Itr17;s unfortunate how we played a couple of these Game 1s in the last couple of rounds, (and) dug ourselves a small hole this series,r1; the coach said after a workout Saturday at the teamr17;s suburban practice facility.
r1;I guess the positive side is wer17;ve been here before, so wer17;ve seen this. But we canr17;t keep playing with fire and dropping these Game 1s, which wer17;ve done. All of a sudden your17;ve thrown home ice advantage back at them. Now your17;ve put pressure on yourself. You got to go win games on the road Bruce Smith Jersey , which you have to do anyway in the playoffs, but your margin for error gets smaller and smaller. Wer17;re really going to need a good effort (Sunday).r1;
The Capitals won the opener 4-2, ending an eight-game playoff losing skid to Tampa Bay dating to the 2003 postseason.
Alex Ovechkin, T.J. Oshie, Jay Beagle and Lars Eller scored for Washington, while rejuvenated goaltender Braden Holtby stopped 19 shots to help the Caps improve to 6-1 on the road this postseason.
The Lightning didnr17;t take solace in breaking through for a pair of third-period goals.
r1;We dissected the game a little bit,r1; Cooper said. r1;There were so many good things wer17;ve done in two rounds of hockey that I think if you bottled up all the bad things in those first 10 games it would be about half of what we did in that one game last night.
r1;You fueled the fire of a good team, and thatr17;s what Washington is. I thought a lot of their opportunities we just handed to them Jamon Brown Jersey , and a lot of our opportunities were stomped out just by our not sticking to our plan of whatr17;s worked.r1;
The Capitals, in the conference finals for the first time in the Ovechkin era, said they canr17;t afford a drop-off in performance.
Beating two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh gave them momentum heading into the series.
Coach Barry Trotz, mindful that Tampa Bay lost Game 1 of its second-round series 6-2 to Boston only to strom back and win four straight games, reiterated it wonr17;t be easy to build off the Capsr17; success in the opener.
r1;You get a little bit of confidence, obviously,r1; Trotz said at the team hotel Saturday. r1;At the same time wer17;ve got to realize Tampa Bay is going to have some desperation in their game. And, we better have some desperation in our game.r1;
Andrei Vasilevskiy Vincent Rey Jersey , Tampa Bayr17;s All-Star goaltender, yielded four goals on 25 shots in two periods after entering the series with an 8-2 record, 2.20 goals-against average and .927 save percentage through two rounds.
The Lightning are confident theyr17;ll play better in front of him in Game 2. The Caps expect the goaltender to bounce back, too.
r1;One thing you got to remember, this is not the NCAA basketball tournament, itr17;s not one and done,r1; Cooper said. r1;Itr17;s the best of seven, so you get a chance to make some adjustments to improve your game and really get a look at the other team. r30; Itr17;s hard to play flawless hockey all the way through.r1;
r1;Obviously, it doesnr17;t matter what we did in Game 1 when it comes to Game 2,r1; Beagle said.
r1;I would imagine there will be a really good push back from a really good hockey team. Wer17;re going to have to stay focused, not get ahead of ourselves,r1; Oshie concluded. r1;I canr17;t imagine wer17;re going to see the same Tampa team we saw in the first period the rest of this series.r1;
