Already Very Young Simeon Varlamov Has WashingtonHockey All ATwitter

Maybe, just maybe, Caps' 20-year-old netminding sensation Simeon Varlamov will John Druce-ify us this postseason. Maybe he will make like Ken Dryden or Cam Ward and backstop the Caps all the way to Glory. But no matter what else he does this spring, Simeon Varlamov has made this hockey season special. He has electrified Washington's hockey fans in the present and fostered big dreams about our future.  Already he auditioning conspicuously, and conspicuously well, for the lead role of Washington athlete who gets talked about from the corner of Clyde's to the subcommittee rooms of Capitol Hill -- by hockey fans and non-hockey fans alike. We don't have enough of these special athletes in this town. Still grappling with the intricacies and complexities of English, he is nonetheless managing to communicate his novel experience in hip fashion, informing the on-line world late last night of his plans to celebrate his big playoff shutout . . . by drinking milk a week bef...