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Category Archives: Washington Capitals

Why Braden Holtby Is Successful

20 April, 2012

There was one lesson I learned very early on covering the Capitals: look forward to the development and preseason camps, because you have a chance to interview Braden Holtby. I had a lot of hockey learning to do at the first development camp I covered in ’09—so much, in fact, that I didn’t even realize [...]

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Becoming Like Their Coach?

20 April, 2012

Capitals head coach Dale Hunter has implied through his various benchings and healthy scratches this season that the team’s roster, as is, is one he inherited rather than built. But that doesn’t mean he’s not going to rub off on the guys currently playing for him. In this Boston-Washington series, the Capitals have shown a [...]

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44 Saves + 2 Goals = New Series: Caps 2 / Bruins 1

19 April, 2012
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Bleeding Through Roster Band-Aids

17 April, 2012

A season fraught with promise and peril delivered both in game 3 Monday night, but in the end, Washington’s roster, still not yet assembled for durable playoff prosperity, succumbed to one proven to be. Most worrisome in this moment: the mental meltdown of the Capitals’ premiere pivot. This is postseason number five for Nicklas Backstrom, [...]

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Another Famous Call from Boston

14 April, 2012

While we don’t quite wish for overtime drama involving our team in the Stanley Cup playoffs, we welcome the merry messaging it can deliver, as with Saturday evening’s game-ending call from John Walton.

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Up North, Reconvened in a Perfect Circle of Puck Cheer

13 April, 2012

Part springtime sinus relief, part faith statement celebration: I am weekending in New England, where vestiges of winter are still to be found, supporting the Bears, the Caps, and the region’s craft beer culture, in the irreplaceable company of my puckhead pals Mike and Marleen. We were last united rather recently, over an elongated Presidents’ [...]

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A Hardcore Hockey Fan’s Lament

12 April, 2012

Something unique has happened to me this hockey season — I largely stopped caring about the Washington Capitals, and hockey in general. Between an on-ice product that was less than inspiring to a coaching situation that was handled, from my perspective, poorly, to other management decisions that left me confused, I decided that it wasn’t [...]

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Remembering an Entry Draft Hose Job

10 April, 2012

The NHL’s Edmonton Oilers won Tuesday night’s entry draft lottery, meaning they will select no. 1 overall this June for the third consecutive year. In a very real sense, the Oil has earned this lottery (mis)fortune with dismal showings the past three seasons, and yet, don’t shed many tears for this former dynasty: Durably quality [...]

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Paroled by Playoff Puck

9 April, 2012

For me, Saturday afternoon and evening finally delivered long elusive fun at being a hockey fan in Washington, at the very end of the regular season. For me, fun with hockey is when the present and near future offer promise. This hockey season, that didn’t arrive much before the 81st game of the season. My [...]

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Paying a Price for Telling the Truth

7 April, 2012

New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella is a lot of things — hot-headed, fiery, bombastic, caustic, exceptionally intense — but also a Stanley Cup winner. He has become somewhat iconic in recent seasons for his post-game rants in the aftermath of adverse developments for his hockey teams, and another arrived Thursday night, when his Rangers potentially lost grit center Derek Stepan to an injury the byproduct of a knee-on-knee collision with Pittsburgh’s Brooks Orpik.

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