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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few quick updates: The Caps have placed Alex Ovechkin, who is still nursing a strain near his left shoulder, on injured reserve to make room for Eric Fehr on the roster. Ovechkin could, however, still return Wednesday against the Isles. Mike Green and Jeff Schultz, who both left last night's game with injuries, will be game-time decisions tonight against Florida at Verizon Center. Also, Shaone Morrisonn...
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wishes do come true. And that is not always a good thing. One wish coming true that falls on the good side is that the Capitals beat the Florida Panthers last night, 4-1, in the front end of a weekend back-to-back to end a three-game winless streak. The wishes Caps fans might have to see Hershey defensemen Karl Alzner and/or John Carlson in the lineup could come true at the price of the loss of Mike...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
SUNRISE, Fla. | Playing without Alex Ovechkin is one thing, but the Washington Capitals were losing a player a period Friday night. Thanks to a three-point night from Brian Pothier and 28 saves by Jose Theodore, the short-handed Caps ended a three-game losing skid with a 4-1 victory against the Florida Panthers at BankAtlantic Center Ovechkin missed his second game with an upper-body strain, but the...
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Caps snapped a three game losing streak with a thorough 4-1 win tonight over the Panthers. But the story, once again, was the loss of key players to injury. Already without Alex Ovechkin, Mike Green and Jeff Schultz went down with upper and lower body injuries, respectively. Both are questionable for tomorrow's rematch between the Southeast Division rivals at Verizon Center. Something else to keep...
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Mike Green suffered an upper body injury in the first period and did not return. He told me on the way to the team bus that he hopes to play Saturday, but won't know whether he'll be able to until tomorrow morning. Jeff Schultz sustained a lower body injury in the second period and also did not return. He was spotted limping out of the visitors' dressing room here at BankAtlantic Center, an his status...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Mark Streit converted John Tavares' beautiful centering pass, and the New York Islanders beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 in overtime Friday night at Verizon Center. Tavares had several chances to put up points in the game, and even slammed his stick in frustration at one point, but the first pick in the 2009 draft made the key play, outworking Nicklas Backstrom and Shaone Morrisonn behind the net...
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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Well, it finally caught up with them. Often times in a winning streak, you can see the end coming, even when the team continues to win. In the last two games the Caps were bailed out by good goaltending in the third period, as both Semyon Varlamov and Jose Theodore had to withstand 20 shots on goal in that period in wins against Philadelphia and Atlanta. They didn’t get that good goaltending...
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I'm going to be tied up with some reporting and writing this afternoon, but I wanted to share a few updates on the injured/ill Caps: *Coach Bruce Boudreau said the team will likely have to call up two forwards for tomorrow's game in Atlanta because Alexander Semin is "touch and go" with an illness and Boyd Gordon is still battling a sore back. Both players, though, are going on the road trip....
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Practice has started and both goaltender Jose Theodore and center Boyd Gordon, who missed Saturday's game against Nashville are back on the ice at KCI. Theodore was bothered by back spasms that forced him to leave the game against San Jose. I'll check up on Theodore's status after practice, but it's definitely a good sign that he was able to return today as the team hoped. With three days of practice...
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Semyon Varlamov will make his first start in five games tonight and is expected to oppose Nashville's Dan Ellis. The defense in front of Varlamov, meantime, will be a little shorthanded. Shaone Morrisonn is out with a lower body injury, Coach Bruce Boudreau revealed moments ago. So it appears that he's the D-man who was a bit "iffy" at the morning skate. Morrisonn will be replaced in the...
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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Jose Theodore will get his third consecutive start tonight against Martin Brodeur and the Devils. Based on the morning skate, the forward lines will look the same and the scratches will be Jeff Schultz, Tyler Sloan and Michael Nylander. *Coach Bruce Boudreau praised Theodore for his overall play this season and is impressed with his focus. *The D-pairings will be Shaone Morrisonn-Mike Green, Tom Poti-Milan...
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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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Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Although the Capitals are 2-0 and playing well by most measurements, it appears Coach Bruce Boudreau has decided to shuffle his defensive pairings for tomorrow's game in Philly. The top pairing of Mike Green and Shaone Morrisonn remained unchanged during this morning's practice at KCI. But the other pairings were different. Tom Poti and John Erskine were the second tandem, while Jeff Schultz and Milan...
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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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The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Well, because there should be, and here is why. Let's look at the 2008-2009 season. In it, we will assume that the top-six defenders were as follows: Mike Green Shaone Morrisonn John Erskine Tom Poti Milan Jurcina Jeff Schultz That group of six defenders played together in 25 games last year. Playing together in fewer than one in three games is indicative of the injury/illness issues with which the...
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