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Category Archives: Milan Jurcina

In-Game Knee-Jerks & Notes: Caps-Isles, 2/20

21 February, 2008

I’m not one to traffic much in the off-ice affairs of star athletes, at least not in published fashion, but with local media’s over-the-top coverage today of Alex’s overseas ingenue, there was for me a slight sense of light and welcome distraction from the day-in, day-out drain of the team’s postseason pursuit. Another positive spin [...]

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Opening Night Roster

2 October, 2007

2007 WASHINGTON CAPITALS OPENING NIGHT ROSTER FORWARDS # Player Ht. Wt. Shoots Born Birthplace 2006-07 Club(s) League(s) 19 BACKSTROM, Nicklas 6-0 183 Left 11/23/87 Gavle, Sweden Brynas SEL 10 BRADLEY, Matt 6-3 205 Right 6/13/78 Stittsville, Ontario Capitals NHL 87 BRASHEAR, Donald 6-2 235 Left 1/7/72 Bedford, Indiana Capitals NHL 17 CLARK, Chris 6-0 200 [...]

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It's All Good (but for the playing of the games)

1 October, 2007

What did the Washington Capitals accomplish with their preseason this September? A good bit, I think. First and foremost, they accomplished the most important task: they avoided serious injury — we’ve no indication that Alexander Semin’s ankle sprain is serious. The second most significant accomplishment, in my opinion, was seeing a healthy number of fresh [...]

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Jurcina vs. Jagr

25 August, 2007

OFB is fortunate to have some of the best readers in the blogosphere. Case in point, friend and loyal reader Tomppav sent us a much needed bit of fresh hockey news and video to help us bide our time for the next two weeks until rookie camp starts. Team Jagr played a friendly match twice [...]

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The Shooting in the Dark Industry

24 August, 2007

I greatly appreciate my bloggermate Orderedchaos’ initial survey of preseason prediction silliness. Outside of Entertainment Tonight, there can be little in this world as vacuous and vapid as “experts” engaged in summertime “prognosticating” about the performance of sports teams. I’m a college football enthusiast, and there are at least a half dozen published preseason magazines [...]

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Summer State of the Team – The Defensemen

6 August, 2007

“Offense sells tickets, but defense wins games” is how the old adage goes, and in our on-going offseason look at the organization, we examine a blueline corps with a new face, an old face returning, and a bunch of fresh faces looking to make some noise. Competition for the 7 projected defensive spots should be [...]

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Caps Avoid Arbitration with Jurcina

27 July, 2007

The Washington Capitals have announced that they have re-signed defenseman Milan Jurcina to a two-year contract. In doing so, they have avoided the arbitration process which was to begin on Monday. In keeping with club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Washington Capitals Depth Chart, Summer 2007

20 July, 2007

Herewith, our attempt to devise a depth chart for the Caps to coincide with the recent completion of the team’s annual Rookie Development Camp. It’s important to note that with it we are not forecasting specific line combos but rather attempting to slot players by position according to their professional production and most recent performances [...]

Also filed in Andrew Gordon, Boyd Gordon, Brian Sutherby, Brooks Laich, Chris Bourque, Dave Steckel, Development Camp, Francois Bouchard, Hershey Bears, Joe Finley, Karl Alzner, Mathieu Perreault, Matt Pettinger, Michal Neuvirth, Olaf Kolzig | Comments (15)

Are You Qualified?

25 June, 2007

Another step in the off-season’s activities is tendering qualifying offers (QO’s) to Restricted Free Agents (RFA’s) to keep their rights (rights). QO’s were due today, and the Caps qualified the following players: Steve Eminger, John Erskine, Tomas Fleischmann, Jamie Hunt, Milan Jurcina, Jakub Klepis, Brooks Laich, Dave Steckel and Brian Sutherby. The Caps declined to [...]

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Caps' Season Overview: "A Work in Progress"

9 April, 2007

From our vantage, the Washington Capitals have not yet assembled the key roster pieces that ownership and management need to supplement the rebuilding blocks laid during the first two post-lockout seasons — and which can deliver the Caps to springtime viability. Even prior to the trade of Dainius Zubrus, the team lacked a true first-line, [...]

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