Puck Daddy chats with Mike Knuble about garbage goals, crazy Flyers fans and expectations skating with Ovechkin

For Mike Knuble, there are benefits to signing with the Washington Capitals that go beyond the $5.6 million over two years he's due to receive. For example, there's the chance that he's going to play on the same line as his son's favorite hockey star, Alexander Ovechkin."[I'm going to] drag him out to a birthday party or something," said Knuble, meeting the local media this week at the Caps' practice facility in Arlington, Va. For the Capitals, there are also benefits to signing Mike Knuble, who was an unrestricted free agent this summer. He's the veteran scorer the team seemed to lack last season; the one who will go to the net to create traffic and collect the rebounds produced from sniper fire by players like Ovechkin and Alexander Semin.He's a piece to the puzzle, but Knuble was emphatic about being content with just being a piece. He's not going to be some abrasive, grizzled leader in the locker room. In Knuble's words, he's...