The Caps announced today that they’ve signed left wing Tomas Fleischmann to a two-year contract extension. The deal will pay Flash $725,000 for each season, and the pact is one-way for both years. Fleischmann would have been arbitration eligible for the second of those two years.
We just got back from the morning skate at Philips [...]
Nate Ewell flipped me this link this morning about former Caps farmhand Jared Aulin. This has the makings of a terrific story if Aulin is actually able to make it back to the NHL after all he has endured, physically and otherwise. I know this: there are plenty of folks (myself included) around Washington, Hershey, [...]
Those of us who go back more than a decade with the Caps remembered a different foursome of youngsters when the Caps recently trotted out a ticketing/poster incentive involving four of Washington’s top young players and titled it “Young Guns.” Joe Reekie and I remembered it right away and I set out to find a [...]
The Caps’ first trip to a Southeast Division city in nearly two months will involve visits to three Southeast cities, and 16 of the players’ dads/mentors will be along for part of the ride. We got into Atlanta about an hour ago, and the team will be joined by the dads once we get to [...]
On Sunday against the Rangers, Caps goaltender Olie Kolzig became just the 20th goaltender in NHL history to play in 700 games. Here’s the list:
1. Patrick Roy — 1,029
2. Terry Sawchuk — 971
3. Ed Belfour — 963
4. Martin Brodeur — 942
5. Curtis Joseph — 914
6. Glenn Hall — 906
7. Tony Esposito — 886
8. John Vanbiesbrouck [...]
Just as quickly as he arrived, Sami Lepisto has been returned to Hershey. He was recalled as a precautionary measure, but John Erskine skated at Kettler today and has been pronounced healthy enough to play tomorrow in Atlanta.
If you’ve been paying attention to this spot and/or the Hershey Bears at all lately, this won’t come as any surprise to you. The Capitals today announced that they have recalled defenseman Sami Lepisto from Hershey. He will join the Caps at Kettler for practice today and will be on the trip when the Caps [...]
This just in from Hershey Bears radio play-by-play voice John Walton: Bears forward Andrew Gordon has been named the AHL’s Player of the Week for the period ending Feb. 10. He had four goals — including a hat trick against Portland on Feb. 6 — and three assists on the week.
Also, got this missive from [...]
I took a drive up to Hershey on Wednesday to check in on the Bears. The outcome wasn’t good; Hershey squandered a 3-1 third period lead and dropped a 4-3 decision to the Portland Pirates. But I came away with the impression that Washington’s 2004 draft class — already the best in franchise history — [...]
The 2007-08 season is the Capitals’ 33rd in the National Hockey League. Thirty-two Stanley Cup titles have been won since Washington joined the league in 1974-75, and a total of just 16 different goaltenders have backstopped those teams to those titles. Including the up-to-date win totals of the goaltenders from that list who are still [...]
