21 March, 2010

Category Archives: Brendan Morrison

For the Caps’ GM, a Pause To Ponder

14 February, 2010

This morning commences perhaps the most interesting 15 days in the Capitals’ career of General Manager George McPhee. All NHL rosters are frozen until 11:59 p.m. on February 28, coincidental to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, at which time NHL clubs will have less than three full days to tinker with their rosters before the league’s [...]

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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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A Night for Great Skating, and Morrison’s Magnificent Marker

24 December, 2009

This week I have as part of my city-to-suburban-home commute a wonderful walk through some snowy suburban woods. I arrived at the woods late last night fresh off a thrilling and well played hockey game downtown, featuring two quality hockey clubs, aware that much-need holiday leisure was setting in at last. It was a walk [...]

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Case Studies in Development Patience: Eric Fehr, Tomas Fleischmann, and Jeff Schultz

23 December, 2009

A quick lesson in hockey prospect development: be patient.
Last May, as Capitals’ players packed up their gear after succumbing to the Penguins in seven games and headed home for the offseason, an awful lot of Caps’ fans rightly wondered what management would do to upgrade a roster that, while 100-pt.-worthy and playoff-perennial, seemed an ingredient [...]

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