For some of us around here, today is a bit of a sad day. The Caps dealt Brian Sutherby to Anaheim today in exchange for the Ducks’ second-round choice in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. I’ve known Sutherby since the say he was drafted, and he was always a favorite of mine, both for the [...]
Almost as soon as we got off the plane in Toronto a few Sundays ago, Nate Ewell and I accompanied Caps goaltender Olie Kolzig to the XM satellite radio studios in Toronto so he could be the guest on a brand new XM hockey show.
Kolzig is featured in the first episode of Hockey Confidential, a [...]
Got into Toronto around noon today, and then met The Washington Times’ Corey Masisak for lunch. We ate at a nice spot we discovered here a few weeks ago, good place to watch football. Around 4 p.m., Ron Weber and Carter Myers stopped by to pick us up and we set out for Oshawa where [...]
Nate Ewell passed this along this morning. It’s pretty cool.
Chris Bourque is the 23rd son of a Hall of Famer to reach the NHL and second currently in the league (Paul Stastny). The full list:
Son(s)————————Father
Gerry Abel——————————Sid
Syl Apps Jr.—————————–Syl Sr.
Pierre Bouchard————————-Butch
Chris Bourque—————————Ray
Terry Clancy—————————- King
Pete Conacher—————————Charlie
Brian Conacher————————–Lionel
Bryan and Dennis Hextall—————Bryan Sr.
Mark and Marty Howe——————-Gordie
Brett Hull———————————Bobby
Daniel Laperierre————————Jacques
Muzz and [...]
To Chris Bourque on his recall from Hershey and his impending NHL debut. He joins Alex Ovechkin, Jeff Schultz and Mike Green on the Caps roster from the 2004 NHL Entry Draft class. I know how hard Chris has worked to get here, and I think he has a good idea of how hard he’ll [...]
I lived in Boston when I fell in love with hockey, but I grew up mostly in Chicago and spent most of my adult life there. I never was a rabid Blackhawks fan, but I loved the old Chicago Stadium, respected the history of the franchise and loved the logo. So it has greatly saddened [...]
Okay, so in the previous post I teased that in the next post (this one) I would reveal the reason for the Capitals’ offensive difficulties. I have been tracking this for a few weeks now, and even wrote about it once before this season.
To save you the trouble of scrolling through that lengthy Oct. [...]
A few weeks back I wrote an entry about how some were overreacting to a couple of bad Washington losses, consecutive setbacks to the Rangers and Sabres on Oct. 12 and 13, respectively. Now that the Caps have lost eight of their last 10, you’re probably moving aside to make room for me on the [...]
The Caps will go with Olie Kolzig in goal, marking the first time this season that he will start games on successive evenings. Washington’s lines will remain the same as they have been for the last two games. The Caps were shutout in New York last night, but played well and certainly generated enough offensive [...]
We landed at Dulles in the wee hours of this morning after the just concluded three-game road trip, and I headed back to the palatial estate in Charm City to finish up the notebook from the Rangers game and the preview of tonight’s Flyers game. We’ll be doing the Pre-Cap podcast in just a bit, [...]
