10 February, 2012

Category Archives: Washington Capitals

ThunderCats Are No-Go: Caps 4, Cats 0

What Brooks Laich’s Injury Means for the Capitals, No GQ Magazine Call for Orlov

The Capitals lost 4-1 to the Boston Bruins Sunday, and they also lost a key piece when center Brooks Laich went to the locker room game with an undisclosed injury that kept him out for the rest of the game (it looked to be either knee or ankle). In addition, despite actually outshooting the Bruins, [...]

OFB: Three Stars, How Far Perreault Has Come, and Cody Eakin Talks About Shaun White

In honor of Mathieu Perreault’s hat trick Tuesday against the Boston Bruins, we wanted to take a quick trip down memory lane. Here is an excerpt from an OFB post that introduced what we called the “Matty Diaries,” where Perreault chronicled for us the days and uncertainty leading up to last year’s Winter Classic: We [...]

Hats Off to Matty: Caps 5 / Bruins 3

How Much Do NHL Players and Coaches Trust Stats to Judge Performance?

How much do NHL athletes and coaches rely on stats—versus their eyes and game film— to tell them about a player or his performance? The stats part of the question was alluded to a few weeks ago in a radio interview Capitals forward Brooks Laich did on The Sports Junkies, where they briefly discussed statistics [...]

Hendricks et Neuvith répondent à l’appel: Caps 3 / Habs 0

Karl Alzner Deserves a Thank-You

About the only nice thing a Caps fan could say after Tuesday’s game against the Islanders was that the postgame weather was unusually pleasant— almost 60 degrees (heck, even January didn’t show up for the game). Losses like the Capitals suffered Tuesday—roughly 60 minutes of missed assignments and wandering aimlessly around the ice, everyone playing [...]

Orlov’s 1st Career NHL Goal is the GWG: Caps 2 / Canes 1

A Snapshot from Hershey

The Hershey Bears’ Braden Holtby said what happened this summer with the Capitals’ goaltending situation—when the Capitals traded a goalie above him in the depth chart only to sign another— is almost out of his mind. There’s been a lot to focus on in Hershey. While their NHL affiliate has gone through a systems makeover [...]

Friday the 13th A Bit Scary: Caps 4 / Bolts 3

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