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Category Archives: Montreal Canadiens

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 [...]

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A Summer Wish List of Size and Snarl

21 June, 2010

The Flyers and Devils spent the weekend improving themselves. Gulp. The leadup to the NHL draft brings the greatest week of player movement on the calendar next to trade deadline comings and goings, and so this week we in Washington especially wonder: what does general manager George McPhee have up his sleeve? We know that neither [...]

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Where’s the Reward?

14 May, 2010

We are staring square at the very real possibility of the Eastern conference champion being decided between the 7 and 8 seeds this postseason. Such a development would add fresh fuel to the charge that the NHL’s regular season is altogether meaningless. Interestingly, the Capitals’ Mike Green intimated as much when he met with media at Kettler Capitals last week. We have 82 games to get through [next season] before we get another shot [at redemption], the rearguard noted.

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Schadenfreude in Seven: Habs 5 / Pens 2

12 May, 2010
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Habs / Pens – Pick ‘Em

11 May, 2010

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A Cursed Franchise? Obviously

9 May, 2010

Some 58 percent of OFB readers believe that a Postseason Curse plagues the Washington Capitals. A bit fatalistic, isn’t it? And yet, the eras change, the uniforms get redesigned, a wise blueprint for competitive durability is adopted, a franchise-altering Dynamo-hero arrives to make all the past agony better, and to quote Zeppelin, The Song [in spring] Remains the [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Capitals greats from the past, Dale Hunter, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Olaf Kolzig, Washington Capitals, Washington the cursed hockey town | Comments (27)

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, Mike Green, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (42)

“Fate Loves the Fearless”

28 April, 2010

In the NBA, home teams seem to win game 7s approximately 102 percent of the time, which is partly why life here has seemed so special the past couple of days. We have no idea what will happen in our game 7 tonight. We never do with decisive games in our sport. A good many [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Game 7, Hockey Rituals, Media, Mike Vogel, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals | Comments (16)

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 [...]

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Suddenly, It’s a Short Series Again

22 April, 2010

We’ll get to Boyd Gordon’s remarkable shorthanded, late second period heroics in a minute. But first, you can see the way this whole thing in the East is setting up, can’t you? The Caps are all but certain to move on, vanquishing the 8th seed and drawing next the 7th — Philly — in a [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Boyd Gordon, Jason Chimera, Matt Bradley, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals | Comments (29)

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