20 March, 2010

Category Archives: Alexander Semin

A Star in Net at the Other End

9 March, 2010

No team has any business beating these Washington Capitals when they pump 52 shots on net, literally doubling the shots tally of the opponent, as the Caps did last night in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Dallas Stars, but hockey has a last line of defense, and on Monday night at Verizon Center Marty [...]

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Let There Be (Good) Music and Dancing Amid All This Winning

7 March, 2010

When I think of the two most significant advances/evolutions in Caps’ hockey over the course of 35 years, and their impact on hockey culture here, I point to the rabid red atmosphere enveloping the team at home in Chinatown and the team’s new-age approach to cultivating media coverage.
Ron Weber on Saturday night told me that [...]

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Russian Hockey Meets Its Waterloo

25 February, 2010

Two figures loom large in Russia’s spectacular fail in the Olympic quarterfinals last night: goaltender Evgeni Nabakov and head coach Vyacheslav Bykov. Nabakov’s wholly ineffectual performance reminded of Semyon Varlamov’s in game 7 against Pittsburgh last spring. It happens to even the most talented of netminders. Obviously you just don’t want it happening in the [...]

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MisFashion Statement

20 February, 2010

You see some distinctive sweaters modeled on the concourse of an American League rink on a winter Saturday night. Our Mike Rucki has an extensive hockey sweater collection; we didn’t realize it was this extensive. Number 28 is being put to more productive use in D.C. these days.

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Too Little Too Late

12 February, 2010

Remember about 10 days ago when sentiment began to surface that the arrival of the Olympic break would prove injurious to all that great Caps’ Mojo? Today, not so much sentiment. In fact, in last night’s postgame, Bruce Boudreau explicitly claimed that the Olympic break couldn’t arrive soon enough for his club. He’s right. The [...]

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A History Lesson for Student Bloggers

3 February, 2010

When I began watching the Washington Capitals in 2007 I never expected that I would see them break a franchise record for consecutive wins. In fact, quite honestly, when I arrived as a freshman at American University from Michigan I wasn’t sure I’d see any good hockey out of this Caps’ team while an undergraduate! Man was I wrong; [...]

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All This Winning Makes Me Want My Old MTV

30 January, 2010

I Love the ’80s!
That’s where we are with our very winning hockey team here; forget about Members Only jackets, we’re now all the way back to Martha Quinn! Martha Quinn? Oh, yes, the siren of my very hormonally imbalanced adolescence. (And she had a lot to do with that.) Only the greatest, cutest MTV VJ [...]

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Single Bullet Theory

29 January, 2010

How long have goalies lodged water bottles atop their cages — at least 20 years now? And during that time we’ve come to distinguish exceptional marksmanship principally by a shooter’s ability to dislodge a netminder’s water bottle from its perch.
But what do we think of a shooter who doesn’t merely displace a water bottle but [...]

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Talking Points: Winning Like It’s 1989

28 January, 2010

With their 5-1 victory over Anaheim last night the Capitals won their eighth consecutive game, a feat last accomplished by this organization in March of 1989. That’s bypassing two full decades to get back to. As winter was transitioning to spring then, there is a strong likelihood that I wore a navy blue Members Only [...]

Also filed in 2 Points, Alexander Ovechkin, Anaheim Ducks, Bruce Boudreau, George McPhee, Morning cup-a-joe, Olympic hockey, Talking Points, Vancouver Olympics, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (1)

The State of the Capitals’ Union, January 2010

27 January, 2010

Red Army, fellow Washington puckheads, late January again finds the Washington Capitals in an enviable competitive position: in first place — by a Grand Canyon chasm — in the Southeast division, but also first overall in the Eastern conference. And of late, establishing some separation from the rest of the East. The Capitals’ brand of [...]

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