"You with the pretzels, get in there."

In there anybody in the East a reasonably healthy Caps' club should waive a white flag of surrender to? I wondered about Boston before Wednesday night -- 19-4-4 is the stuff of stud teams. The Bs came out flat, and Johnny stoned them pretty good, and I still believe all things being relatively ...

How's this for the ultimate Christmas gift: hanging out on the ice with Ovechkin and then going on a shopping spree with him?  The holidays came early for some lucky kids! (Then again, if that shopping spree was in the Ballston Mall, I guess I'm not that envious. Still, it's a nice thing ...

Earlier this week Tara Wheeler, Miss Virginia 2008, jumped back into her goalie gear and hopped out onto the ice at Kettler Capitals Iceplex for a shootout showdown with Dave Steckel and Sean Collins. The Big Ten Network had a camera crew to record the two former Ohio State skaters' attempts to ...

A 6-foot-7 Web site producer for the Washington Capitals dressed as the team's backup goalie for Friday night's game against the Ottawa Senators.

Per Tarik and Corey, Simeon Varlamov will make his NHL debut in Montreal on Hockey Night in Canada. At least there won't be any pressure on the rookie.We thought it would be a good time to revisit Varlamov's sit down with the media this past July.

via The Associated Press:Back in his usual role as a Web site producer for the Washington Capitals, Brett Leonhardt shook his head in disbelief as he videotaped Brent Johnson answer questions about — who else? — Brett Leonhardt.Johnson made 32 saves in Washington’s 5-1 home victory over ...

You can't make this story up. This is one of these nice stories, but you can't phantom it happening in today's NHL. By NHL.com Staff --- The Washington Capitals dressed a 6-foot-7 producer for their Web site as their backup goaltender for the start of Friday's game against the Ottawa Senators because of an injury to Jose Theodore.Brett Leonhardt, who played Division...

So what did Bruce Boudreau do? Recall Daren Machesney? Nope. They called up the 2006 first round draft pick, 20 year old Simeon Varalamov from Hershey.

Our favorite Russian correspondent Dmitry Chesnokov passed along to us a translation of a SovetskySport interview of Capitals' Head Coach Bruce Boudreau and his new netminder, Simeon Varlamov, from Saturday.SovSport has a lot of guys in North American cities covering the NHL.One of them, Gennadi Boguslavski, met with coach Boudreau before thegame and asked a couple of questions about Varlamov.

"In the coming month, Penguins fans and Caps fans from around the worldwill form the most unholy alliance to date. And we will be launchingthe largest internet battle in the history of the NHL."That is a quote straight from the irreverent and extremely funny Pensblog.  The force behind this ...

TIC TAC TOE. Tape to Tape.Caps 2, Habs 1Along came Simeon Varlamov...What did he bring?--An absolutely blazing glove hand--32 saves--Extra strength Prozac for the all of the Alexei Kovalev super-fans--Point-blank angle saves--The W. He brought the W.O...