In their “Luxury Homes” column, the Washingtonian detailed Backstrom’s recent home purchase. Looks like someone got a $200,000 price cut from his buddy:
Capitals star center Niklas Backstrom bought a house in Arlington from his former teammate Jose Theodore for $2 million. The six-bedroom, eight-bath home has a fitness room, Irish pub, wine cellar, and theater. It listed for $2.2 million.
Jose Theodore may yet redeem himself this postseason — perhaps as early as tonight, in game 3 — but his getting yanked yet again before the Capitals could complete a playoff-opening homestand is a highpoint in the horror that has been the hallmark of his career: staggering and mystifying inconsistency. Theodore was rock solid in [...]
It’s pretty rare for a player to win a Calder Cup, then to have their AHL coach join them in the bigs a couple years later for the NHL playoffs. For Green, playing for Boudreau again is something special.
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 [...]
A lead storyline for the Capitals the past couple of days has been the bounce-back performance of Jose Theodore. After injecting a scare of his old inconsistent self last week, Theo was rock solid in Columbus Saturday night and he followed that vintage performance with another outstanding effort last night: 28 saves and a second [...]
Aesthetically, it wasn’t pretty last night, and Atlanta played a playoff-style road game — meaning, they were more than content to keep it choppy and ugly — but the Capitals remained patient, received solid if unspectacular netminding from Semyon Varlamov, and eventually wore the Thrashers down enough to get them to succumb. It seemed perfectly [...]
The topic of home crowd boos emerged over the past couple of days, particularly on local sports talk radio, as they were belched with some decibels during Sunday’s underwhelming effort against Calgary. And with just a couple of minutes left in Tuesday night’s first period, and the host Capitals already trailing the Ottawa Senators 3-1, [...]
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 [...]
Photo File from Capitals vs Penguins, March 24, 2010
What is important to pull from last night’s victory is not that the Washington Capitals crushed the Florida Panthers, but rather the way they went about doing it.
