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Caps/Rags Game 7 Open Thread

For the region’s hockey fans, there’s a car-wreck quality to patronizing, however briefly, local sports radio outlet WTEM, where Andy Pollin (of yes that Pollin family) guides the evening drive chit chat. But with Red Fever enveloping the city, out of morbid curiosity I dialed in the station frequency during Monday evening errands out on [...]

Washington Capitals’ winger Donald Brashear won’t be a game 7 participant, so sayeth the NHL’s Enforcement Czar, Colin Campbell. Brashear this afternoon was suspended by the league for six games, mostly for his late hit at center ice Sunday on Ranger’s center Blair Betts. Betts suffered a broken orbital bone from the hit. “Brashear delivered a [...]

Consecutive Aprils have presented HockeyWashington with postseason-opening showdowns with hated foes of yesteryear, consecutive three-to-one deficits battled back from, and consecutive game 7s deciding them. But these two most recent game 7s feel worlds apart, don’t they?  There’s no such thing as a sure thing in any game 7, but has any engendered as universal [...]