09 February, 2012

Category Archives: Mathieu Perreault

OFB: Three Stars, How Far Perreault Has Come, and Cody Eakin Talks About Shaun White

25 January, 2012

In honor of Mathieu Perreault’s hat trick Tuesday against the Boston Bruins, we wanted to take a quick trip down memory lane. Here is an excerpt from an OFB post that introduced what we called the “Matty Diaries,” where Perreault chronicled for us the days and uncertainty leading up to last year’s Winter Classic: We [...]

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Hats Off to Matty: Caps 5 / Bruins 3

24 January, 2012
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The Club That’s Needed Has Been Built

24 October, 2011

The sort of Capitals club I’d want to see contest an NHL postseason would be able to roll four lines almost interchangeably, impact achieved rather uniformly among them, and cumulatively, deliver an impact that wears down a quality opponent the longer games go. In the absence of possessing an authentic “shutdown” defenseman, this designer Capitals [...]

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By and Large, by Design, a Training Camp of Tranquility

3 October, 2011

The best part of the Capitals’ preseason has arrived — its conclusion. They survived a slate of seven exhibition games largely unscathed; no front-line performers ought to be missing from Saturday’s opening night here against Carolina. For a team not far removed from serious springtime turmoil and torment, camp this fall has been an oasis [...]

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The Final Note on Caps’ 2011 Preseason

3 October, 2011

Sunday night was the Capitals’ last preseason game before their home opener Saturday against Carolina, and the Caps managed a 4-1 win against a Chicago roster that left off several of the Blackhawks’ best players. Some notes on the final game and where it takes the Capitals going into the regular season: –Boudreau said overall [...]

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Fresh Imagery from a Great Old Barn

5 March, 2011

On every visit to Hersheypark Arena, as more and more evidence of its physical decline confronts me, I find myself compelled to snap stills of its architectural charm for posterity. I don’t know how much longer we’ll have it. I don’t know if anyone knows. But in the meantime, I think it’s a wonderful thing [...]

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Two Young Centers, Two Stories of Struggle with Consistency

11 February, 2011

The Washington Capitals’ Marcus Johansson and Mathieu Perreault are in a unique situation. Despite coming from completely different backgrounds and being in two totally different places in their careers, both are faced with the exact same problem, proving they are worthy of the second line center job.

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Matty’s Back

31 January, 2011

Early last month, of Mathieu Perreault, I wrote, “He especially is a compelling photo-op at local elementary schools, perhaps leading floor hockey stick-handling clinics among schoolchildren not much smaller than he.” In the interim he actually made a schoolhouse appearance for the Caps. He can do so again if called upon, as today Matty was [...]

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Readers React: On Thoroughbreds Being Asked To Be Clydesdales

31 January, 2011

I’m highly suspicious of the likelihood that the actual jockey for the great Secretariat, Ron Turcotte, is an OFB reader; nonetheless, a commenter identifying himself as such had over the weekend what I regarded as the best reflection related to my Saturday morning cup-a-joe, which dropped the gloves on this stinker of a Caps’ season: [...]

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Mathieu Perreault Suffers Bloody Nose for Good Cause in Classic Win

2 January, 2011

It was, above all, an everyman’s Winter Classic in 2011. A game touted as Sid vs. Ovie was instead dominated by a player who had yet to truly find his offensive stride this year. Eric Fehr had only 13 points on the season coming into tonight’s game. But in the torrential downpour at Heinz Field, [...]

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