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Category Archives: Matt Cooke

We Could Use a Few Signings, Couldn't We?

27 June, 2008

These are salad days for salaries in the NHL. Yesterday came word that the salary cap for 2008-09 would rise to $56.7 million, with a salary floor ($40.7 million) higher than the league’s cap just back three seasons ago, in the first post-lockout regular season. ¬†Stunning. As the salary cap is directly linked to the [...]

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The Capitals' Top 10 Storylines for 2007-08

28 April, 2008

10. The Rebuild Is Over. Owner Leonsis uttered this proclamation during the preseason, later claiming that the season’s barometer for success would be qualifying for the postseason. Through the middle of November both seemed delusionally wishful thinking. But when the right guy arrived behind the bench, when the Caps’ skilled young core was encouraged to [...]

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At Kettler the Day After

23 April, 2008

You can cross one name off your list of free agent concerns for the Capitals this offseason — Head Coach Bruce Boudreau. Speaking with reporters at Kettler-Capitals Iceplex just moments after wrapping up a season-concluding meeting with the team this afternoon, the coach confirmed that he’d had discussions with General Manager George McPhee about a [...]

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Reflections from a First-Place Locker Room

2 April, 2008

“It’s probably the best crowd I ever seen in my life.” – Alexander Ovechkin

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Minimal Rest for the Surging, Now Led by an Emerging Legend

23 March, 2008

Of Alexander Ovechkin’s Friday night performance, Bruce Boudreau on Saturday morning said, “He made the strongest case you can possibly make for MVP.” He also said that the 22-year-old¬†”hasn’t reached his potential” yet.
Imagine.
You may have heard that just last week none other than the Great One himself claimed that 90 goals could be in one [...]

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Have Bauers Will Travel: Trans-Border Labor Trials

8 March, 2008

The NHL’s borderlessness is an unassailable virtue — the long-standing reality that a single NHL roster can be comprised of five or seven differing nationalities, all united in a common competitive cause. And yet as players move in significant volume as they did with last week’s trade deadline, big-time bureaucratic challenges set in as the [...]

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The Southeast Field Thins, and Some Starting To Dream Large

6 March, 2008

Through the middle of the first week of March, we’re gaining, at long last, a firm sense of identities in the Southeast division. To state the most obvious, Tampa and Atlanta have forks in them: It’s a three-team race through the final 15 games, and Florida could be the next casualty. Their no. 2 goalie [...]

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Bs Fans at the Phone Booth Tonight

4 March, 2008

Do not seem to be enjoying themselves.
Update from a press box stats flack: the Bruins actually allowed seven goals in a period on March 7, 1945.
Seconds after the Brashear beatdown of Shawn Thornton, the Verizon Center center ice scoreboard ran a high-def clip of an aged Bob Barker punching-bagging a Bs-sweatered Adam Sandler in ‘Happy [...]

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OFB Poll: Trade Impact

29 February, 2008

The trio of traded-for from this past Tuesday — a recent All Star, no. 1 netminder, a former superstar and 3-Cup vet in the twilight of his career, and the perfect pest — will help push the Caps into the postseason this April.
{democracy:20}

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