30 July, 2010

Category Archives: Alexander Semin

A Fresh Independent Verdict: More Heft on the Back End Needed

22 July, 2010

A brand new Dan Rosen file for NHL.com examines seven NHL general managers worth watching in the weeks and months ahead, and it caught my attention most particularly for its diagnosis of the Capitals’ ongoing vulnerabilities. I swear I haven’t exchanged private Tweets or email with Rosen, who wrote this: “The Capitals were clearly a [...]

Also filed in Front Office, George McPhee, Mike Green, NHL.com, National Hockey League, New media, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (9)

Chicago: Case Study in Poor Cap Management

7 July, 2010

The NHL Awards have passed us by, the Stanley Cup has been hoisted by the Chicago Blackhawks and free agency is in full swing. Despite all the time that has passed, Washington Capitals fans are still left yearning from the far too early first round exit from this year’s playoffs. They are left thinking to themselves that could have been us, we do have a lot of the same qualities as the Blackhawks and yet we didn’t go all the way. After what the Hawks have had to do in the last few weeks, do Caps fans really wish they were in the same boat as Chicago though?

Also filed in Chicago Blackhawks, Free agency, Front Office, Matt Bradley, Mike Green, NHL Salary Cap, NHL Trades, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals, Western Conference, playoff hockey | Comments (38)

Draft Tweets

26 June, 2010
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Say Hello to Semin 2.0

26 June, 2010

Dynamic skill level. Exceptional hands. Controls the puck as if he’s got it on a string. Natural sniper. Elite one-on-one talent. Can manufacture his own offense. Great acceleration and finishing ability. Looks to score each shift. Oh, and he’s Russian. Sound like anybody you know? Meet Evgeny Kuznetsov, your newest highly skilled Russian Washington Capital, [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Dmitri Orlov, Dmitry Kugryshev, Entry Draft, Evgeny Kuznetsov, George McPhee, International hockey, KHL, Prospects, Washington Capitals | Comments (11)

OFB Point-Counterpoint: Trade a Semin or a Green?

24 May, 2010

Remember the ‘Point-Counterpoint‘ spoof-skits of SNL’s heyday? We’re trying our own this summer, but more respectfully, with our undergraduate interns, Alex and Andrew. Actually, Alex is no longer an undergrad. (Congrats, graduate!) Anyway, to get a hot topic kicked off this offseason, we thought we’d raise the spectre of a big trade: Do the Caps [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Bruce Boudreau, Front Office, George McPhee, Mike Green, NHL Trades, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals, playoff hockey | Comments (13)

Worlds-Weary, and Grumpy

21 May, 2010

Russia beat Canada at the Worlds in semifinal play yesterday. Ain’t that just swell? Don’t you just feel all warm and fuzzy for our Russians competing over there (wherever they are)? I only know about the result because I accidentally stumbled upon a story image of it late last night on line; when you’re a [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Hershey Bears, IIHF, John Walton, Morning cup-a-joe, Olympic hockey, Semyon Varlamov, Ted Leonsis, Washington Capitals, World Championships | Comments (5)

A Plea for Piss-’n-Vinegar Hockey

29 April, 2010

Turns out, R.J. Umberger was right. Really right. This is what Umberger said after his Columbus Bluejackets lost a close game at home to the Caps just a couple of weeks ago, right before the start of the NHL postseason: “They float around in their zone, looking for breakaways and odd-man rushes. “A good defensive [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Bruce Boudreau, Front Office, George McPhee, Jason Chimera, Mike Green, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (42)

One Final Chapter Remains

27 April, 2010

In general, having lived through each and every Capitals’ postseason series, I’m not a big fan of surging to a 3-1 series lead and injecting needless drama into them by making unheralded opposition netminders look like Johnny Bower or Glen Hall. Here we go again. This trauma we suddenly confront, it’s all my fault. Last [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Mike Green, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, President's Trophy, Washington Capitals | Comments (20)

A Change of Fortune and Fate in the Crease

20 April, 2010

Well, who has the goaltender controversy now? And, how’s that Caps’ defense look right about now? For a team that was rather thoroughly maligned for its defensive play upon arriving in Montreal on Sunday, the Capitals in game 3 gave a doozie of a debunking of that slur. Did you notice how seldom Habs’ forwards [...]

Also filed in Brooks Laich, Comcast SportsNet, Eastern Conference, Hockey Night in Canada, Hockey Towns, Jason Chimera, John Carlson, Lisa Hillary, Mike Knuble, Mike Vogel, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals | Comments (34)

So Much for the Notion of a Short Series

16 April, 2010

Thursday was Alexander Ovechkin’s first NHL playoff game as captain of the Washington Capitals. It was one he would rather forget. The Capitals in game one of their first-round series against Montreal fired 47 shots on Habs’ netminder Jaroslav Halak. Ovechkin didn’t have a single one of them. Not one, through nearly four periods of [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Bruce Boudreau, Jeff Schultz, John Carlson, Jose Theodore, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals | Comments (24)

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