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Category Archives: John Erskine

Erskine on Asham Fight: Whatever Happened With Beags, It Happened Between Them

2 December, 2011

The John Erskine vs. Arron Asham fight in the first period of Thursday’s Caps-Pens game seemed self-explanatory: it looked like retaliation for Asham’s lambasting of Capitals forward Jay Beagle in October and his classless gesture afterwards. But Erskine, after Thursday’s game, was sticking to the mantra that the fight wasn’t related to the earlier Beagle [...]

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A Bad Matchup Indeed — for New York

16 April, 2011

This Rangers club was supposed to be a bad matchup for these Capitals. Big up front, racsally around the net, opportunistic offensively, a good defensive club backstopped by a premiere netminder. Turns out, the Capitals are a very bad matchup for New York. Through two games in this opening round series it’s the Capitals playing [...]

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The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody

1 April, 2011

After John Erskine and Jared Boll dropped the gloves Thursday, a quality fight’s memory got lost in the aftermath of Erskine leaving the game in the next period as an injury “precautionary” measure, according to Bruce Boudreau, which forced the Capitals to rotate 5 defensemen for the remainder of the game. But it was a [...]

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Mr. Hat Trick Strikes Again Against Tampa

26 November, 2010

Alexander Semin certainly seems to have the Lightning’s number this year. In two games he has six goals against them and last night he scored his three in just over four minutes. It took his goal total of the year to 17 and also gave him his third hat trick of the season. He scored the fastest natural hat trick in the NHL since Bobby Ryan did it in 2:21 in Jan., 2009.

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Mike Knuble: Goat No Longer

10 November, 2010

Let us sacrifice more goats, I say. (But not Goat.) Mike Knuble had, by my count, at least three quality scoring chances in tight on Henrik Lundqvist just in Tuesday night’s first period, and as all of them went unlit and uncelebrated you had this sense that it just wasn’t going to be his night. [...]

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Late-Night Gamewatch Duty Falls Upon the Young

16 December, 2009

One of the virtues of having undergraduate associates is that they can be assigned to monitor West Coast games while we old geezers hit the hay around period two for work in the morning. Take it away, night owls: 1st Period Andrew’s take: It is hard to make a definitive decision for or against the [...]

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The Habs Spoil a Wonderful Family Reunion

21 November, 2009

It was very much a family affair at Verizon Center on Friday night. The Red Army family endured a rare evening of frustration and torment from the home team’s missed opportunity after missed opportunity, culminating with the Capitals’ 3-2 defeat to Montreal, but the home arena family also welcomed its newest members: the brother, mother, and father of John [...]

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A Warrior's Will Wins It

18 November, 2009

“Tremendous intensity to this game, right from the start,” Versus’ Joe Micheletti informed viewers. I remind: once upon a time this was a Patrick division rivalry game. And the intensity was not unlike what we saw twice earlier on Versus this season, in games against Philly, another Patrick division alum. The weekend before last, during a home-and-home [...]

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The Startling Progression of John Erskine

2 May, 2009

We talked to John Erskine about his powerfully strong performance in the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

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Trouble Signing

24 October, 2008

I agree with JP — the Erskine signing’s a serious head-scratcher. He entered this season lodged somewhere between 7th and 9th on the Caps’ blueline depth chart. When you think about his skill set (such as it is), you don’t quite come up with the prototype rearguard in the renovated NHL. Really — on any [...]

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