It’s been a couple of months since Caps’ fans at Verizon Center have been able to chant “Let’s go Matty!”, in support of Mathieu Perreault, but those cries could resume soon. Last night, the fan favorite pivot scored four goals for the Hershey Bears in their 9-2 dismantling of Bridgeport before another sold out Giant [...]
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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Nature Herself this week is condemning local media, freezing hard and fast our Canal and urging us to recreate outside, far away from media’s maelstrom of malfeasance. Once again, burgundy and gold incompetence is being feted and celebrated by the local press. Our hockey team’s captain was traded a week ago and hardly any of [...]
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Prior to Thursday night, I had no idea who Mike Duco was. Going forward, I’m not sure I’m going to hear much about him that’s flattering.
It was the Florida Panthers’ Mike Duco, making his second appearance in an NHL sweater, who took leave of his senses and attacked the Caps’ Alexandre Giroux in the third [...]
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 [...]
“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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pucksandbooks suggested yesterday that Caps’ fans in some number would ask Santa for a Mathieu Perreault sweater under the Christmas tree this year. Reader Matt emailed us with imagery of his impatience for the gift-giving season — he gave himself the gift of a Perreault game-worn from the 2008 NHL preseason:
Semyon Varlamov’s struggles this season have struck me as often being of the mental as opposed to the physical variety. So consider the mental fortitude he displayed in last night’s 11-round shootout victory over the New York Islanders. Beginning with Robbie Schremp’s shootout attempt in round 3 and lasting all the way through Cap-killer Jon Sim’s [...]
The first fifth of the Capitals’ season leaves the club with a 10-3-4 record, 24 points, and a first-place tie for the the conference lead with the archrival Penguins. But is the Capitals position in the standings reflective of an authentic Cup-contending team? At the moment, Washington is the streakiest team in the league and [...]
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(Portland, Maine) — Embarked I am on roadtrip no. 1 of the new hockey season, catching up with my friends Mike and Marleen, who are newly relocated here from D.C. and adjusting to life without live Caps’ hockey. Like so many others, they are Versus-less at home this fall, and for the Caps’ first few appearances on that network this season they took to lodging themselves at a Portland Vietnamese restaurant bar that has the TV feed. Mike and Marleen are most enthusiastic puckheads, and they’ve told me that they firmly believe they’re converting the Vietnamese restaurant proprietors to hockey with their patronage. I have no doubt.
