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Category Archives: NHL Trades

Examining the Drama Unfolding in Atlanta

4 February, 2010

The Examiner’s Brian McNally has a terrifically thoughtful blog file today on the Ilya Kovalchuk/hockey in Atlanta distress. I’m on record here as alleging that the jury’s come in on this second puck experiment in NASCAR country, and that the verdict isn’t pretty. McNally sees the situation much as I do, and captures the trauma to [...]

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The Capitals and Alexander Semin Defer Judgment Day

28 December, 2009

Far sooner than I expected, the Capitals and Team Semin came to a contract agreement. I was of the opinion that Semin and his agent Mark Gandler would use the player’s performance in the second half of this season, and most especially this next NHL postseason, to try and leverage a hefty pay raise from [...]

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Trading Deadline Open Thread

4 March, 2009

Ok, how many of us are actually doing work today? How many times are we clicking “refresh” or “F5″? How many players will be trading spaces?
Talk about it here.

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"Washington is, indeed, asking around about goalies"

21 December, 2008

During The Hotstove on last night’s Hockey Night in Canada’s broadcast, another rumour surfaced concerning the Washington Capitals. Per Al Strachan, “Washington is, indeed, asking around about goalies”. Adding more fuel to the fire was Scott Morrison who said that earlier in the year the Caps had a deal in place with Chicago. The particulars? Nylander and a pick for …

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Making Right in the Rafters on the Right Wing

3 September, 2008

Something felt very very right about the Capitals retiring Dale Hunter’s number back in March 2000, and my¬†hunch is that a similar sense of appropriateness will accompany the retiring of Mike Gartner’s no. 11 this December. The Caps announced yesterday that they would be retiring Mike Gartner’s sweater then. Huntsy was the greatest captain in [...]

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Great TV

7 August, 2008

As one who criticized the NHL Network for a meagerness of programming this summer, I need to be quick on the draw to commend the outlet for what it did for hockey fans last night. Wednesday night’s documentary on the 1988 trade of Wayne Gretzky from Edmonton to LA, labeled ‘A Day that Changed 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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The Lethal Mr. Brooks

15 March, 2008

The Capitals’ communications team Saturday morning passed along some eye-opening data for Brooks Laich, who didn’t have a two-goal game in his first 214 NHL games but has three in his last nine outings. Laich has 10 goals and 12 points in the Capitals’ last 12 games, and now ranks third on the team with [...]

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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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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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