06 September, 2010

Category Archives: Eastern Conference

Reports: It’s a ‘Slapshot’ and Beer Wednesday Night in Washington

28 July, 2010

Jeff Marek among others is reporting that the Capitals have acquired St. Louis Blues’ left wing D. J. King, an enforcer’s enforcer. Jeremy Rutherford, who covers the Blues for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is reporting that the Caps are sending Stefan Della Rovere the other way in this deal. Additionally, there are reports that the [...]

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Ted, Shall We Have a Wager on Next Spring?

3 July, 2010

The owner isn’t thrilled with me. Infrequently but once in a while we squabble, always respectfully. He and I share a passion for seeing greatness on the ice here; we just might go about its architecture in different ways. I’d like to see the Capitals annually look a heck of a lot more like the [...]

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AWOL from the Improvement Party

1 July, 2010
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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 [...]

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How It’s Gonna Shake Out in Round One

14 April, 2010

We asked our OFB Young Guns, Andrew and Alex, to piece together an overview of the first round of the NHL playoffs. It’s an overview not necessarily designed to wager on, but if you do, and if you win with these picks, remember us when next you see us at Clyde’s. Eastern Conference The Capitals [...]

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On Washington’s Very Winning Ways

12 April, 2010

I’m still trying to get my brain around 121 points. But not everyone is. On Saturday night I enjoyed another fun and keenly sharp analysis session in the studio of Federal News Radio, for ‘Saturday Night Caps,’ alongside Jonathon Warner, Brian McNally, Dmitry Chesnokov, Ben Raby, and Lisa Hillary. Greg Wyshynski called in from his [...]

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Dateline Philly: It’s Schadenfreude in (Early) Spring

3 April, 2010

This Holy Week, I’m having most un-Holy thoughts: Die Philly, Die! And may it be an agonizing demise as well. Heaven here is defined as an NHL postseason excluding both Pennsylvania hockey clubs, but it’s a good spring indeed if one of them misses out. It isn’t just that we enjoy, more so than good [...]

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Desperation Meets Disinterest, with Predictable Results

28 March, 2010

It was a dangerous and desperate Calgary Flames hockey club that visited Verizon Center Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, their league-leading hosts hoped to clinch, with but a single standings point, the Eastern Conference title. Translation: a mismatch of priority intensity. Still, it was stunning to see this Capitals club dominated as thoroughly as it was by [...]

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On Playing Out the String

22 March, 2010

Seldom if ever have the Capitals had as many games to conclude the regular season that mean so little in the grand scheme of things as they do this spring. The Southeast division title was locked up not long after Valentine’s day, and effectively not long after Washington’s first blizzard this winter. The Caps began [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Bruce Boudreau, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Nicklas Backstrom, Southeast Division, Washington Capitals | Comments (7)

Home Is Where the Hockey Heart Occasionally Becomes Too Content

13 March, 2010

Hockey coaches don’t like playing long stretches of games at home, fearing that complacency will set in among their players. The Capitals on Friday night, with another rejiggered lineup, and skating the final game of a five-game homestand and their second game against the Lightning in about a week, looked like a team in need [...]

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