Caps defenseman Sami Lepisto lifted Team Finland to the semifinals with his overtime game-winning goal against the young and plucky Team USA earlier today in IIHF World Championship action.
Lepisto’s goal came after the Americans erased a 2-0 deficit in the final five minutes of regulation on goals by Phil Kessel and Drew Stafford. The two [...]
Thanks again to our friend Dmitry Chesnokov for sending in this translation of Alex Ovechkin’s Saturday interview with Sovetsky Sport.
As a result of a poll conducted by “Sport” [Russia’s public sports channel] and Sovetsky Sport [Russia’s largest newspaper], Washington Capitals and Russian national team forward Alexander Ovechkin was named Athlete of the Month in April. [...]
Here are a few more quotes from Caps goaltender Olie Kolzig from our lunch meeting on Friday.
I asked him whether he could feel himself slowing down as an NHL netminder:
“Not really. Earlier in the season there were points when I was a little tired. I changed things around right before we played in Toronto [on [...]
There is a much different tempo to the off-season for those of us in the hockey business. During the season, you’re in a constant “go, go” mode because there are always practices, games, planes, buses, press conferences, scrums and dozens of other things demanding your immediate and/or constant attention.
The pace of the off-season is slower, [...]
Extreme thanks to our friends Dmitri Chesnokov and Pavel Lysenkov for passing along this lengthy Sovetsky Sport interview with Alex Ovechkin.
Sovetsky Sport continues the tradition of “on the road” Q&A sessions with players at major hockey tournaments. Sunday night, right after the game against the Czech Republic, NHL’s highest scorer and simply a great guy [...]
Congratulations to coach Jared Bednar and the South Carolina Stingrays are in order this morning. The Rays blanked the Columbia Inferno 2-0 last night in Game 5 of the best-of-five South Division finals at North Charleston Coliseum. They’ll now move on to face the Cincinnati Cyclones in the American Conference finals. The Cyclones won Game [...]
The 2008 IIHF World Championship gets underway today in Quebec City and Halifax. Sixteen teams will be competing for the gold medal, and Canada will attempt to defend the gold it won in Moscow last spring. Among the participants in this year’s tournament are 11 players from the Washington Capitals’ organization. Those 11 players will [...]
June 12 could prove to be a very busy night for the Washington Capitals contingent at the NHL’s 2008 Awards Presentation.
Alex Ovechkin, who has already claimed the 2008 Art Ross and Maurice Richard Trophies, today was named as one of three finalists for the Lester B. Pearson Award, which is presented annually to the [...]
As we witnessed this season, most of the pieces of the next great Washington Capitals teams are already in place and merely need to ripen alongside each other for the next several seasons. The one notable exception is defenseman Karl Alzner, who spent this past season with the Calgary Hitmen of the WHL.
Alzner was Washington’s [...]
Ex-Caps defenseman Yvon Labre, whose No. 7 sweater hangs from the rafters of Verizon Center, is back behind the bench. Labre was named as the coach of the 16-and-under Baltimore Stars for 2008-09.
Congrats to Yvon, and to the lucky kids who will be learning the game from him.
