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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
With the seven regulars out of the lineup, the Caps needed a strong team effort tonight in Ottawa. And for about 40 minutes, that's exactly what they got. Then in the third, the Senators came out hard and the Caps suffered a collective letdown of epic proportions. They took three penalties (at least two were certainly deserved) in the last 14 minutes after taking none before that. They were out-shot...
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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
via Tarik El-Bashir of Capitals Insider, Goalie Jose Theodore has returned to Washington for personal reasons, and the Caps have recalled Michal Neuvirth and Jay Beagle ahead of tonight’s game against the Rangers. Neuvirth is here to back up Semyon Varlamov, and Beagle is here just in case David Steckel can’t go. Steckel took a teammate’s slap shot off the foot in practice yesterday...
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Goalie Jose Theodore has returned to Washington for personal reasons, and the Caps have recalled Michal Neuvirth and Jay Beagle ahead of tonight's game against the Rangers. Neuvirth is here to back up Semyon Varlamov, and Beagle is here just in case David Steckel can't go. Steckel took a teammate's slap shot off the foot in practice yesterday and was last seen limping off the ice at Prudential Center....
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Coach Bruce Boudreau said Milan Jurcina will miss tonight's game against Minnesota and probably Saturday's game in New Jersey with a pulled muscle in his lower body. Boudreau also said Jeff Schultz will be a healthy scratch, so that means Tyler Sloan will return to the lineup. David Steckel's status, meantime, remains up in the air. He was scheduled to arrive back in town this morning after the death...
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Fourth line center Boyd Gordon (sore back) won't suit up tonight against the Sharks, Coach Bruce Boudreau said. He'll be replaced in the lineup by Keith Aucoin, who was called up earlier today just in case. Aucoin will center the third line, while David Steckel will drop to the fourth line. Boudreau is hoping Aucoin can spark the third line and that Steckel might get the fourth line going offensively....
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Goaltending. It was a game about goaltending. Well, sort of. Because if Jose Theodore didn’t play as well as he did, and Chris Osgood didn’t play as poorly as he did on two shots, the Caps would have lost tonight’s game against the Red Wings by a much wider margin than the final 3-2 score. Actually, it was something of a clinic in Red Wing hockey. Subtle, yet effective defense. Don’t...
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Music,
Pavel Datsyuk,
Quintin Laing,
Shaone Morrisonn,
Todd Bertuzzi,
Tyler Sloan
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Bleatings From a Caps Nut (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Well, it's a start... Onto the Battle Damage Assessment... THE GOOD: Speaking for ourselves and ourselves alone, we're certainly glad we spending $2.8 a season for the next two seasons to get Mike Knuble to stand in front of the net and bang in rebounds on the Power Play like Brooks "and Dunn" Laich ($2.1 million this season) did twice tonight. The Penalty Killing tonight was good, going...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Photo by clydeorama . By Eli Resnick and Elisabeth Meineke With another hockey season upon us – the opening faceoff in Boston is mere hours away – it's time for the DCist hockey crew to look foolish and guess what the Caps will do this year. We'll take a wide turn of the stories heading into tonight's opener, offering our prognostications on the season to be along the way. The New Additions...
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
David Steckel Theme: “Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.” That little quote comes from one of the most familiar faces in movies and television you’ve probably never heard of, a fellow by the name of Dabbs Greer. The kind of fellow of whom you might say, “oh yeah, I remember him in ‘The Green Mile,’” or “Little House on the...
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Alexander Semin Theme: “The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.” For a guy who provides little for public consumption (absent the odd quote about Sidney Crosby), Alexander Semin is chock full of surprises. Last year, Semin was 34-45-79, +25. But that was in only 62 games. On an 82-game basis, his 45 goals would have put him tied for...
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
...to get to the prescribed roster size, that is. The Caps assigned Mathieu Perreault and Jay Beagle to Hershey this morning, bringing the Caps to 31 hands on board. There are eight more spots to move to get down to a maximum opening night roster of 23. Here are the 31 remaining Caps... Forwards: 8 – Alex Ovechkin 9 – Brendan Morrison 10 – Matt Bradley 14 – Tomas Fleischmann...
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Boyd Gordon,
Brendan Morrison,
Brian Pothier,
Brooks Laich,
Chris Bourque,
Chris Clark,
Chris Clark,
ECHL,
Eric Fehr,
Hockey,
Jeff Schultz,
John Erskine,
Jose Theodore,
Keith Aucoin,
Matt Bradley,
Michael Nylander,
Mike Green,
Milan Jurcina,
Music,
Quintin Laing,
Sean Collins,
Shaone Morrisonn,
Tomas Fleischmann,
Tom Poti,
Tyler Sloan
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
(Toni L. Sandys -- The Washington Post) Longtime Caps goaltender and often face of the team Olie Kolzig officially announced his retirement from the NHL today. You can read a full release here. It seems like a long time since Kolzig and the Capitals parted ways following the 2008 season when Cristobal Huet was brought in at the trade deadline and helped fuel a playoff run, but it's unlikely anyone...
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Your leaders in the early preseason clubhouse… Goals: Chris Clark - 1 Brian Pothier -1 Kyle Wilson - 1 Mike Knuble - 1 Alexandre Giroux - 1 Jay Beagle - 1 Mathieu Perreault - 1 Assists: Chris Clark – 2 Nicklas Backstrom – 2 Points: Chris Clark – 3 Brian Pothier – 2 Kyle Wilson – 2 Nicklas Backstrom – 2 Plus/Minus: Tom Poti - +2 Milan Jurcina - +2 Penalty Minutes:...
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Brian Pothier,
Brooks Laich,
Chris Clark,
Chris Clark,
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Kyle Wilson,
Milan Jurcina,
Music,
Tom Poti,
Tyler Sloan
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Boyd Gordon Theme: “The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.” Confucius said that. No… really. And if there was a player who gave the impression of being earnest, it would be Boyd Gordon. It’s hard to believe that Gordon is still only 25 years old (he’ll turn 26 in October); it seems as if he’s been here since the first time the Caps wore...
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