23 May, 2012

Category Archives: Michael Nylander

Meet the Caps, but Beware the Batwing

4 October, 2008

For the first time in team history, the annual Season Ticketholder “Meet the Caps” event was held at an amusement park: Six Flags America. To say it was a success is an understatement; as one who has attended the past ten years’ events at the Verizon Center ‚Äî and seen those events gradually shift from [...]

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How a Cup Contender Candidate Is Identified

2 October, 2008

The flattering forecasts are coming in fast and furious. The Caps are a consensus selection to win the Southeast division for a second consecutive season, but additionally, they’re commonly identified either explicitly as a Stanley Cup contender or a “dark horse” one. To quote the good living theme from the movie ‘Things to To in [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Boyd Gordon, Brooks Laich, Bruce Boudreau, Corey Masisak, Media, Mike Green, Morning cup-a-joe, Nicklas Backstrom, Prospects, Sergei Fedorov, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals, Washington Times | Comments (5)

In China, Michael Nylander Is Tending Bar (sort of)

3 August, 2008

Dan Steinberg, newly arrived in China for the world’s biggest quadrennial corruption party the Olympics, has renamed his blog the Beijing Sports Smog — though he has not found the smog.¬† Already he’s made a marvelous discovery over there: a sports bar located in the heart of the Chinese capital partly owned by the Capitals’ [...]

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Scuttlebutt, Conjecture, and Perhaps Wishful Thinking

30 June, 2008

The Caps are trying to deal Michael Nylander — and back to the Rags? So says Globe and Mail hockey reporter Eric Duhatschek. If the Caps were as impressed with Sergei Fedorov’s play here as we were, such a deal might make sense. Fedorov is a better fit in Bruce Boudreau’s system, and he clearly [...]

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Alzner Done with the Hitmen

23 May, 2008

Yesterday, I was able to participate in the conference call with newly signed Karl Alzner and General Manager George McPhee. It was a call short on time, but not on content. I asked Karl if the team had expressed their expectations of where he might play this fall — Calgary, Hershey, or Washington. He told [...]

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