Just two more games... Two more games, and Disney gets the eff off our ice, and the Flyers can resume their domination at the Wachovia Center. After a rough start to a long road trip, they've leveled off some, winning their last two and weathering some untimely injuries. They enter tonight's ...
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Via The Rivalry
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January 04, 2009
Well, another game, another ineffective power play, another weak performance by veterans, another short-handed goal against, another loss, another 2 points the Rangers will be missing come late-March, early-April.Who's fault is it??The GM who assembled the team? Partly. Wade Redden should never?have been signed. Michal Rozsival should have received less money so a real 1st- or...
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January 03, 2009
Finally, a Ranger game!It feels like a week ago that Versus treated us to the analytical stylings of Joe Beninati and Billy Jaffe during the Islander-Ranger game at MSG (that I sold my tickets to).In reality, it was something like 4 and a half days ago, and by chance, Joe Beninati will be at Saturday night's game also, as he is the play-by-play voice of the Washington Capitals...
Via 700 Level
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January 04, 2009
As improbable as it seemed that the Flyers' top draft pick would make the team out of camp, defenseman Luca Sbisa did just that. Winger and blue chip prospect Claude Giroux was assigned to the Phantoms, and 2007 #2 overall selection James vanRiemsdyk was up in New Hampshire. The Flyers are ...
Via On Frozen Blog
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January 02, 2009
Goaltending could be an issue for Team USA today in its quarterfinal
matchup against Slovakia (3:30, NHL Network), but it will definitely be
an issue tonight at 10:00, when Tara Wheeler, Miss Virginia 2008, makes
her national television debut. TLC then will air the reality program "Countdown to the Crown."
Via Gunaxin Sports
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January 04, 2009
On Saturday, Capitals star and often-injured forward Alexander Semin
got into it with the Ranger's Marc Staal, but instead of throwing
punches, Semin likely delivered the most slaps to an opposing player in
any fight in NHL history. After Staal pulled off Semin's jersey and
shoulder pads, Staal fell to the ice, at which time Semin wasted no
time wailing his open hands...
Via The Hockey Herald
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January 04, 2009
So, I didn’t want to do these so close together. But, due to popular demand, and my schedule with having small children. I didn’t know when I would be able to do it again. And I really enjoy these. So, here is one more, possibly final, running
10:32: Man, lost Lupul and Giroux to ...
Via Stet Sports Blog
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January 03, 2009
.. .then its possible Alex Ovechkin would not have been snubbed in the NHL All-Star Game fan voting. If they had the same passion in voting for the local hockey star as they had for rigging the NFL Pro Bowl nominations, then Washington Capitals fans wouldn?t have to bear watching Sidney Crosby lead the league [...]
Via On Frozen Blog
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January 02, 2009
No, there's been no announcement regarding next year's Winter Classic. Rumors are flying around about Fenway Park, or Philadelphia... actually every cold-weather city that hasn't already hosted is grist in the rumor mill. While we'd love to see the Capitals play in the great outdoors, it's all ...
Via Goon's World
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January 05, 2009
Here is the latest act of aggression in the NHL. Duck player Corey Perry received a 4games suspension for this brutal cheap shot. I think the league should have given him a 5-7 game suspension. I personally believe that these types of hits have no place in hockey. You can really light a player up legally without trying to knock their head off with your elbow. Ducks' Perry suspended...
Via On Frozen Blog
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January 03, 2009
Courtesy of Caps PR (thanks, Nate):TAMPA BAY - Tampa Bay Lightning
defenseman Jamie Heward has been released from a Washington
D.C. hospital and is traveling back to Tampa today. Heward
suffered a concussion during the third period of last night's game
against the Washington Capitals.Heward, 37, was taken to Sibley Memorial
Hospital last night,
accompanied by Lightning...
Via 700 Level
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January 03, 2009
Today's Fan Report comes from commenter David Foley, who regularly carries the flag for Philadelphia sports fans out west. He recently reported on the Phillies in LA for the NLCS for us, and he's catching both games of the Flyers' weekend series against the Ducks and Kings.
The Flyers are now ...
Via On Frozen Blog
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January 05, 2009
Rangerland, a New York blog about (you guessed it) the New York
Rangers, asked us a few questions -- some serious, some snarky -- about
the Washington Capitals, D.C. as a new hockeytown, Ted Leonsis
lookalikes, and more. I had fun with the answers and we hope you enjoy
it too. Check out the Q&A on their site; here's a teaser: RL: This is a two part question - 1) Is it...
Via On Frozen Blog
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January 04, 2009
Last night at Verizon Center I was implored by my press box
colleagues to eyeball the video of Sidney Crosby's ambush of Florida's
Brett McLean earlier in the day. Suspecting an incendiary motive among
them, I waited until I arrived home from the game. By puck-drop between
the Caps and Rags last night, I was already aware that with their most
recent humiliation, at the...
Via On Frozen Blog
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January 04, 2009
Flipping through Sunday's edition of The Washington Post with my
morning coffee, I was surprised to find an image of celebrating Toronto
Maple Leaf players in what I thought was the Travel section. Such a
non-Caps hockey image even in the Sports pages would be unusual; but in
Travel? But there it was, in full color. It
seems guest writer Mark Stevens visited Toronto as part...
Via 700 Level
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January 03, 2009
In a startling rift from customary Toronto decorum, the NHL has suspended a player for a dirty hit against a Philadelphia Flyer. I The Onion you not. Anaheim Ducks winger Corey Perry has been suspended
four games by the NHL for an elbowing incident in Friday's 5-4 shootout
loss to the ...
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