Chris Clark arrived in town in time to join his teammates last night, and he and Alexander Semin were both out on the sheet during today’s Caps practice at Chelsea Piers. Tom Poti did not practice today and will not play against New York on Thursday.
I chatted with Clark after practice, and here’s what he [...]
Last night’s win in Toronto was a tonic for a Caps team that had lost six of seven and three straight on the road. I don’t think the Caps have played all that badly since the Oct. 13 loss in Buffalo, but the NHL hasn’t gotten around to awarding style points yet. Check that. We [...]
I think we all knew this day was coming, but today former Caps great Peter Bondra made it official when he announced his retirement from the NHL as a player to become the general manager of Slovakia’s National Team. All of us who know him and who watched him on the ice for so many [...]
We got into town here in Toronto yesterday. We went to the hotel, dropped off our bags, and then I accompanied Nate Ewell and Olie Kolzig over to the XM Studios. Olie was slated to be the first guest on the premier edition of a new XM show, “Hockey Confidential.” A car was waiting to [...]
My fancy recording device went on the fritz this morning, so I had no way of documenting the conversations I took part in at the morning skate in St. Louis here today. I scrawled a few notes, and later replaced my recorder. I’ll work backwards, starting with this morning.
Alexander Semin was nonplussed by his contract [...]
Caps defenseman Tom Poti skated this morning but his groing injury has not improved sufficiently enough to permit his return to the lineup.
Chris Clark does not have a concussion, but he does have a lot of stitches in his left ear. Said a team spokesman: “We’re going to look at bringing him into Toronto.”
Clark’s [...]
The Capitals and Alexander Semin have come to terms on a two-year contract extension. The deal will pay the Russian left wing $4.2 million in 2008-09 and $5 million in 2009-10. The salary cap hit will be $4.6 million for the term.
I’m typing this from the lower bowl of the Scottrade Center. The ice is [...]
Comments from Caps coach Glen Hanlon prior to tonight’s game with Vancouver:
On the new look power play:
“We were definitely going to make some changes on it. Our feeling when we had the meetings that if weren’t in 15th place and we weren’t quite happy we’d tinker a bit with moving some people around. But when [...]
Caps defenseman Tom Poti is day-to-day with a groin injury and will not play tonight against Vancouver. John Erskine steps in alongside Mike Green for the Capitals tonight. Lukas Krajicek is hurt and will not play for the Canucks; Alexander Edler will replace him.
I’ll have some quotes from Glen Hanlon’s pre-game presser in a [...]
All the talk in the media lounge before tonight’s game is about the Caps’ new power play look, one that features five forwards as first reported this morning by The Washington Times‘ Corey Masisak.
Some are embracing this change while others are expressing reservation over the format that features forwards Alex Ovechkin and Alexander Semin on [...]
