“Ho cominciato pattinare due volte una settimana all'inizio di giugno, che i tipi molto non fanno,„ lui ho detto. “I also worked on my strength, just trying to get stronger.”

“I want to get lower [in my stride]. You see how low guys like Nylander and Crosby get in their strides . . . taller guys have to work at it.”

His long battle with a troubling groin appears to be in the past. “It’ll never be 100 percent,” he told me. “I battled it a long time, and it feels great now. I think I’ve put [that concern] to bed for the most part.”

I also asked him to try and place this year’s camp into context with the other half dozen or so he’s completed with the Caps. I wanted to know how far he’d thought the organization had come since his arrival in it.

“Compared to the first couple of camps, we’re getting right there, with where we want to be,” he told me. “Back when I first got here, we were supposed to be good — we had guys like Jagr. Now it’s a lot different. We have a lot of depth. We have a lot of young guys but they’ve got 150, 200 games in the league.”

Reminder: today’s matinee exhibition opener in Carolina will be audiocast on the Caps’ web site, with Mike Vogel teaming with Steve Kolbe on the call.

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Posted at 11:52 am. Filed under Brian Sutherby, Mathieu Perreault, Viktor Kozlov, Washington Capitals.
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2 Comments

  1. Grooven wrote:

    Ah, he’s put his troubled groin to bed.
    Once the unintended innuendo starts, it must be hockey season. So really… it’s hockey season year-round. :)

    So you’re at practice today. Is there an OFB representative at the game in Carolina?

    Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
  2. pucksandbooks wrote:

    We’ll be attending the team’s home exhibition games, but not the road ones. Vogs’ being in Carolina this afternoon is more than adequate to the coverage task.

    Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

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