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Ovechkin/Backstrom/Semin: Caps more than a one-line team?
October 06, 2009 by
Puck Daddy
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There are certain statistic benchmarks in hockey that indicate an NHL player has achieved an elite status. Once a winger breaks the 50-goal barrier, he's forever known as a 50-goal scorer. (No matter what happens to Jonathan Cheechoo(notes), it's still his calling card.) Once...
Capitals 3, Canes 2
3 days ago by
Lord Stanley's Blog
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RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes have lost another game.The Hurricanes, amazingly, have lost another player to a skate-slashed leg.
Can this season be any more baffling, or for the Canes any more troubling and trying?
The Hurricanes were beaten 3-2 by the Washington Capitals...
Ovi-Backstrom-Semin: A Line for All Ages?
October 08, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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It almost seems offensively audacious: to think out loud of the Capitals' first line in quasi-historical contexts. As in: could it ripen into a best-ever unit -- not best-ever merely in Washington hockey history but in league history -- and perhaps sooner rather than later? Ovechkin...
TC: New Hockey Fans
November 09, 2008 by
Chris Cooley's Blog
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A few weeks ago before the Redskins game I met Nicklas Backstrom, Alex Ovechkin, and Mike Green down on the field. I will not lie and say I am a huge hockey fan cause I'm not. I have never been to or even watched a game. So for me, meeting these three was like meeting some regular...
Coyotes blanked in Minnesota, 4-0
Photo: Jim Mone/AP The maddening offensive inconsistency of the Phoenix Coyotes surfaced again on Thursday night in a 4-0 loss to the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center that broke the Coyotes' three-game winning streak. Marek Zidlicky scored his first two goals of the year...
Emails to Me
April 21, 2008 by
ted.aol.com
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I have been overwhelmed with emails this week, very nice supportive emails. I cannot thank you enough. However, as you would expect, there have been some interesting emails too in which I will paraphrase about. "I hate the framing on the Nicklas Backstrom mini jersey gift....
Washington Capitals v. Philadelphia Flyers, Game 2 (Period 1)
April 20, 2008 by
Off Wing Opinion
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Caps end the first period, down 0-2. WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 13: Nicklas Backstrom of the Washington Capitalstakes a shot...
Caps at the Skins Game
October 05, 2009 by
Capitals Outsider
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Michael Green, Nicklas Backstrom, Alex Ovechkin, and Bruce Boudreau were present for yesterday’s Redskins victory. D.C. Sports Bog and Redskins Blog have the story. Apparently they were there helping cover the game for Chris Cooley’s Blog.
Backstrom's efforts erase Capitals' two-goal deficit
October 28, 2009 by
Washington Times
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The Washington Capitals didn't see a two-goal deficit in their first nine games, but they have in each of the past two. It has been just the right situation for them to flourish. Nicklas Backstrom shrugged off a recent slump with a four-point night, and Jose Theodore counted...
Caps vs. Rangers 10-8-2009 Post-Mortem
October 08, 2009 by
Bleatings From a Caps Nut
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Eh, they can have Game 8... Onto the Battle Damage Assessment...THE GOOD:Nicklas Backstrom joins the scoring party this year with his first two goals of the season.Alexander "Slappy" Semin with another goal and assist tonight too.While A.O. didn't register a point tonight...
Backstrom, Semin on docket
July 01, 2009 by
Washington Times
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While the Washington Capitals may do some bargain shopping once free agent season begins Wednesday, the long-term health of the franchise is more dependent on the contract situations of Nicklas Backstrom and Alexander Semin. Because of a lack of salary cap room, general manager George...
Record, Shmeckord
January 30, 2008 by
Bettman Hates Hockey
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Congrats to Nicklas Backstrom on becoming the first rookie EVER to record back to back 4 assist games. Think about that. In the 80+ years of the NHL it's never been done before. Not by Crosby. Not by Lemieux. Not by anyone. Of course, Gretzky was never a "rookie" in the...
knuble settling in just fine
October 15, 2009 by
Homer McFanboy
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(photo by Brian Murphy)
It became painfully obvious during last year’s playoff run that the Washington Capitals, while immensely talented, were lacking in one major area.
Sure, guys like Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin and Nicklas Backstrom can skate circles around the competition...
Calder Candidates Announced
April 23, 2008 by
Skate 2 Stick
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Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom and a pair of Chicago Blackhawks — right wing Patrick Kane and center Jonathan Toews — are the three finalists for the Calder Trophy in 2007-08, awarded "to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of...
Ovechkin: Cover Boy
February 20, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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Here is page 1 from Sovetsky Sport. Looks good.
Cars and Capitals on a Friday Night
February 07, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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The Washington Capitals' players boast quite an array of high-end
vehicles -- from Alex Ovechkin's uber-Mercedes to Donald Brashear's
low-slung jet-black Lamborghini. So it makes sense that a few of the
Caps were at the annual Washington Auto Show last night, signing...
Another One Bites the Dust
January 23, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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Another year, another All-Star Game, another round of no-shows. James Duthie of the Ottawa Citizen had something to say about that: Strange, isn't it, that every season, right before the All-Star game, a few stars suddenly pull groins or tweak knees or develop some other unknown...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
March 10, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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Some very good came out of Sunday's shootout disappointment versus the Pens: after the game, 300 generous hearts gathered at the Acela Club and ponied up $110,825 in auction money as part of Amazing Auction, hosted by the wives and girlfriends of Capitals' players. The sum...
Ankle injury redux: Backstrom
September 15, 2008 by
Three Grumpy Caps Fans
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Unfortunately, it looks like the Caps will once again have to deal with a marquee player injured before the start of the season. Tarik has reported that, like Alex Semin last year, Nicklas Backstrom has sprained his ankle. The injury may cause Backstrom to miss the beginning of training...
Introduced This Week in Person to the Shootout, Count Me as a Fan
February 21, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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I have been watching hockey since I moved back from England in the second grade -- some 15 years now -- and I have been to dozens and dozens of NHL hockey games, but prior to this past Wednesday night, I had never seen a shootout in person. Sure I have seen them on T.V., and I have been in a ...
Mr. Trotz Goes to Washington
October 28, 2008 by
On the Forecheck
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The Nashville Predators take the ice in Washington tonight under strange circumstances, to be sure. With Alex Ovechkin back in Russia with his ailing grandfather, the Preds will presumably focus on defending Alex Semin, the "other Alex" who leads the NHL in scoring at the moment. ...
Top Tweets from the Caps Convention
September 26, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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It became apparent to us fairly early on Saturday that the first-ever Capitals' Convention was taylor-made for Twitter tweets. So much is going on in so many convention hall rooms, with so much interaction between players and fans, bloggers and Caps' alumni and fans, bloggers...
Staffan Kronwall, Welcome to DC
February 09, 2009 by
On Frozen Blog
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In today's Toronto Sun, Mike Zeisberger chats with newly-acquired Washington Capital Staffan Kronwall about Kronwall's first experiences with the Caps. The former Toronto Marlies defenseman had nothing but good things to say about his new teammates: "He's a really...
Backstrom Love From Back Home
April 20, 2008 by
Japers' Rink
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A tip of the hat to Strike Man for pointing us to a great Swedish feature on Nicklas Backstrom, which can be found at this page (or by clicking on the picture below).
Caps vs. Flyers 10-27-2009 Post-Mortem
October 27, 2009 by
Bleatings From a Caps Nut
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We love it when we're right... Onto the Battle Damage Assessment...THE GOOD:Back from the Oink or something like it, Alexander "Slappy" Semin registers 3 points, scores the game winning goal, is a +3 but isn't one of the three stars of the game. This gives you an...
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