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It’s hard to keep track of knee-jerk notes when you attend the game with your four year old son AND your 3 week old son. Two words: Free and Wings The pre-game Kids Club festivities were a bit disorganized, perhaps they were not expecting as many to show up as they did. I was surprised [...]

It’s hard to pay close attention to the game when trying to console a very cranky 2 week old baby, much less generate knee-jerks. Wow, a power play goal after only 2 seconds. Nice try by Ovechkin defending the breakaway, but it finally caught up with him resulting in a penalty shot. Nice work by [...]

Somewhat ferocious and foul fall weather descended upon Washington late Monday evening. A propos given the dark clouds clinging to HockeyWashington these days. † It would have been easy — knee-jerkish, even — to absorb†a 3-0 first-period dark well dwelling and react with “Another flat effort from the Caps,” or “Olie stunk it up,” but [...]

With a few days of rest and a few rookies with lighter wallets, the Caps take the ice for the first time since the 7-1 raking of the Leafs. The Rags are a low-scoring, scare-free squad, and far from the shoe-in for the Stanley Cup finals many in the MSM forecasted in the preseason. Heard [...]