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Mike Green Colors, Talks Upcoming Season

22 August, 2010

It wasn’t where a first-team NHL all-star had to be on a Saturday morning, but Mike Green was game for washing toilets, hanging posters, and coloring at Powell Elementary school in D.C. as part of the city-wide DCPS Beautification Day. Though many athletes chose to give back to their communities, Green’s involvement in D.C. earned [...]

A Fresh Independent Verdict: More Heft on the Back End Needed

22 July, 2010

A brand new Dan Rosen file for NHL.com examines seven NHL general managers worth watching in the weeks and months ahead, and it caught my attention most particularly for its diagnosis of the Capitals’ ongoing vulnerabilities. I swear I haven’t exchanged private Tweets or email with Rosen, who wrote this: “The Capitals were clearly a [...]

Also filed in Alexander Semin, Front Office, George McPhee, NHL.com, National Hockey League, New media, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (9)

Blueline by a Less Than Bruising Committee (Again)

8 July, 2010

The good news: the Caps yesterday spent nearly $12 million on their less than intimidating blueline. The bad news: all of it went to Jeff Schultz. Intimidation quotient on the back end remains unchanged. Level of difficulty playing with the puck in the Caps’ end? Unchanged. Now for the really bad news: George McPhee wasn’t [...]

Also filed in Atlantic Division, George McPhee, Jeff Schultz, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Old Time Hockey, Southeast Division, Washington Capitals, playoff hockey | Comments (28)

Chicago: Case Study in Poor Cap Management

7 July, 2010

The NHL Awards have passed us by, the Stanley Cup has been hoisted by the Chicago Blackhawks and free agency is in full swing. Despite all the time that has passed, Washington Capitals fans are still left yearning from the far too early first round exit from this year’s playoffs. They are left thinking to themselves that could have been us, we do have a lot of the same qualities as the Blackhawks and yet we didn’t go all the way. After what the Hawks have had to do in the last few weeks, do Caps fans really wish they were in the same boat as Chicago though?

Also filed in Alexander Semin, Chicago Blackhawks, Free agency, Front Office, Matt Bradley, NHL Salary Cap, NHL Trades, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals, Western Conference, playoff hockey | Comments (38)

Needed: An Oil Change and a New Set of Tires

29 June, 2010

Too often during the 2009-10 hockey season the Capitals rotated tires with well-worn treads when what they really needed — most especially back on the blueline — was a new set of Pirellis. A pair of Pirelli models named Carlson and Alzner arrived together late — too late (game 7) — to save the sportscar [...]

Also filed in Andrew Gordon, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Free agency, Front Office, George McPhee, Jeff Schultz, Marcus Johansson, Mathieu Perreault, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals | Comments (9)

OFB Point-Counterpoint: Trade a Semin or a Green?

24 May, 2010

Remember the ‘Point-Counterpoint‘ spoof-skits of SNL’s heyday? We’re trying our own this summer, but more respectfully, with our undergraduate interns, Alex and Andrew. Actually, Alex is no longer an undergrad. (Congrats, graduate!) Anyway, to get a hot topic kicked off this offseason, we thought we’d raise the spectre of a big trade: Do the Caps [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Bruce Boudreau, Front Office, George McPhee, NHL Trades, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals, playoff hockey | Comments (13)

Maybe, Just Maybe, a Game’s Immediate Aftermath Isn’t Necessarily the Best Time for Reflection

4 May, 2010

Hell hath no fury like a media pack scorned. Mike Green failed to address the media out at Kettler Capitals Complex last Friday, breakaway day. To follow the media indignation over the snub on Twitter that afternoon was to be led to think that Richard Nixon had failed to show for his interview with David Frost. I couldn’t summon any [...]

Also filed in Blogging, Bruce Boudreau, George McPhee, Media, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, New media, Washington Capitals | Comments (8)

A Plea for Piss-’n-Vinegar Hockey

29 April, 2010

Turns out, R.J. Umberger was right. Really right. This is what Umberger said after his Columbus Bluejackets lost a close game at home to the Caps just a couple of weeks ago, right before the start of the NHL postseason: “They float around in their zone, looking for breakaways and odd-man rushes. “A good defensive [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Bruce Boudreau, Front Office, George McPhee, Jason Chimera, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (42)

One Final Chapter Remains

27 April, 2010

In general, having lived through each and every Capitals’ postseason series, I’m not a big fan of surging to a 3-1 series lead and injecting needless drama into them by making unheralded opposition netminders look like Johnny Bower or Glen Hall. Here we go again. This trauma we suddenly confront, it’s all my fault. Last [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Montreal Canadiens, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, President's Trophy, Washington Capitals | Comments (20)

Preparation Differs, But the Goal’s the Same

17 April, 2010

It’s pretty rare for a player to win a Calder Cup, then to have their AHL coach join them in the bigs a couple years later for the NHL playoffs. For Green, playing for Boudreau again is something special.

Also filed in Bruce Boudreau, Hershey Bears, Jason Chimera, Jose Theodore, NHL playoffs, Scott Walker, Washington Capitals | Comments (0)