18 March, 2010

Category Archives: Tampa Bay Lightning

Home Is Where the Hockey Heart Occasionally Becomes Too Content

13 March, 2010

Hockey coaches don’t like playing long stretches of games at home, fearing that complacency will set in among their players. The Capitals on Friday night, with another rejiggered lineup, and skating the final game of a five-game homestand and their second game against the Lightning in about a week, looked like a team in need [...]

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New Goal Song in Heavy Rotation: Caps 5 / Bolts 4

4 March, 2010
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Vancouver: Not a Moveable Feast for Jay Feaster

24 February, 2010

“Does anyone else miss the NHL?” former Tampa GM Jay Feaster opens his anti-Olympics opinion of this week in the Hockey News. Well, Jay, that’s a relative question. Do I miss Caps-Pens matinees on snowy winter weekends? Or Caps-Flyers hate-fests on any day of the week? You bet. But Caps versus anybody in the SouthLeast, [...]

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Dudley Moore’s New 10: Caps 3 / Bolts 2

31 January, 2010

Here’s a primer for our younger readers who may not get the headline.

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On a Wretched Night, a New Role for the Captain

13 January, 2010

It was a very, very weird game in Tampa last night, a Caps’ 7-4 loss to the ‘Bolts, anomalous in so many ways. Of the game’s first five power plays, all produced goals. A hallmark of this season has been stellar play by the Caps in games’ opening 20 minutes; Tuesday night it was their [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Michal Neuvirth, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

Step One to Southeast Deconstruction?

10 December, 2009

Here is a tweet that can be filed in the “grain of salt” category. It can also be filed in the “food for thought” category as well. Perhaps it represents the first step toward fixing the decade-long, ever-underwhelming travesty that is the Southeast Division.

Though we follow @nhlsecrets, a tap of the stick on [...]

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Say Hello to a Series of Sixty Minutes of Quality Hockey

8 December, 2009

Three periods of complete hockey from this team that had gone conspicuously long this season without them now arrive nightly, in successive fashion. It wasn’t there to begin the roadtrip in Montreal, but the Caps got the win that night in a shootout. Carolina two nights later was a step in the right direction. And [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Brooks Laich, Craig Laughlin, Joe Beninati, John Carlson, Mike Green, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Semyon Varlamov, Southeast Division, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

2 Game Break, 2 Goal Return for Ovi: Caps 3 / Bolts 0

7 December, 2009
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Jamie Heward Update

2 January, 2009

Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Jamie Heward has been released from a Washington D.C. hospital and is traveling back to Tampa today. Heward suffered a concussion during the third period of last night’s game against the Washington Capitals.

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Caps Win High Scoring Game But Thoughts With Former Cap Heward: Caps 7 / Bolts 4

1 January, 2009

Caps Win High Scoring Game, But Thoughts With Former Cap Heward

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