December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Caps beat Rangers 4-1, Looking Good for the... →
Brouwer hour. (Photo credit: Mitchell Layton) Just a few days before the Winter Classic, the New York Rangers visited the Washington Capitals ready for their close-up. The Caps showed…
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Charmin Soft, Sabres beat Caps 4-2 →
Alex Ovechkin appeals to the ref. (Photo credit: Bill Wippert) The Washington Capitals might have had too much figgy pudding, as their post-Christmas match-up with the Buffalo Sabres was…
Dec 27th
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“Ordinarily, visiting teams arrive at their destination the night before their...”
– http://www.csnwashington.com/blog/capitals-talk/post/Beninati-If-youre-not-first-youre-last?blockID=619532&feedID=6357
Dec 27th
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WatchWatch
Somewhere Braden Holtby is jealous.
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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RMNB Readers Present Their Caps Christmas Cards →
We issued a challenge, oh faithful users of the Russian Machine, to create Caps-themed Christmas cards. The only rule: use an inferior graphics program or blingee.com to make it. What…
Dec 25th
Jason Chimera and the Christmas Near-acle: Devils... →
Alex Semin interferes with Mattias Tedenby (Photo credit: Andy Marlin) The last game before the holiday break featured the Washington Capitals in desolation against the New Jersey Devils….
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“Mike Green may be almost ready to come back from his long-term groin injury, but...”
– Sean Allen on ESPN.com, blatantly stolen from a Neil Greenberg tweet
Dec 23rd
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New Jersey Devils Pregame: Happy... →
Craig is a Puck Buddy. This is his story. @PuckBuddys Ohai Caps fans! Coinciding with Coach Hunter’s latest round of mind-boggling line changes, we’re changing up things today on…
Dec 23rd
“I have vivid memories of when the Rangers would come to the Spectrum — We used...”
– Bones and Angel star/lifelong Flyers fan, David Boreanaz, in the Winter Classic program
Dec 22nd
Dec 22nd
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washingtoncapitals: On this week’s Caps Breakaway, we asked the guys who is the smartest guy on the team and who THINKS he is the smartest on the team. This is just terrific from top to bottom. Anyone wanna play Scrabble with Kanoobs?
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Caps Beat Preds 4-1 in Mike Knuble's 1,000th Game →
I score? I really score? (Photo credit: Patrick McDermott) Coming into Tuesday’s game against the Predators, the Caps had been inefficient offensively, managing to score only one goal…
Dec 21st
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Mike Knuble Pregame: Mike, Knuble, Mike Knuble,... →
“Kanooblian” by Mark Burrier. See Rare Words for more of Mark’s art. Mike Knuble will play his 1000th NHL game on Tuesday night. And I get to write the pregamer! Woohoo! …
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Why Alex Ovechkin Throwing Gang Signs is a Good... →
Photo credit: Michael Martin For those of you who stayed up late Saturday with the hopes of getting an up-close-and-personal look at #AvsFailWatch, sorry. The Capitals are scuffling….
Dec 19th
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Waste of a Saturday Night: Avs beat Caps 2-1 →
Check out Brooksy’s face. (Photo credit: Michael Martin) The Washington Capitals headed to the mile-high city to meet the Colorado Avalanche with hopes of a perfect road trip. NOPE. …
Dec 18th
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“I don’t think we play bad today. We play well but unfortunately we lose...”
– Alex Ovechkin, inexplicably
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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ListenListen to John Walton call Alex Ovechkin’s...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Peter's fictional lines for Capitals (and why)
Ovechkin - Backstrom - Knuble  (get Kanoobs > 15m TOI, start these guys in the OZ as much as possible) Hendricks  - Johansson - Semin (built for speed with two opportunists and one great forechecker/pest) Chimera - Laich - Brouwer (2/3rds of “meat and potatoes” line, good on both ends, used vs WPG’s top line) Perreault - Halpern - Ward (NHL’s best faceoff man to take a...
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“With Laich and Jeff Halpern available to take those [defensive zone] draws, I...”
– WaPo’s Neil Greenberg delivers #fancystats and wisdom 1/3rd through the season. He recommends having Ovi’s and Semin’s line(s) take more faceoffs in the offensive zone.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Warm Tidings to the Honourable Gentleman, Jaromir... →
Tuesday night is a big deal. For the first time since February 10, 2008, Jaromir Jagr will play hockey at Verizon Center. Since he is perhaps the most reviled person in Washington…
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Video: David Steckel on How Not to Win a... →
The crowd reacts to Dennis Wideman’s first PPG of the night. (Photo credit: Bruce Bennett) The Washington Capitals converted four of six power play opportunities on Friday night to best…
Dec 11th
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“Good karma. Good karma. Good karma.”
– Dennis Wideman on giving Brooks Laich credit for what would have been his 3rd goal of the night.
Dec 10th
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“Brooks is evil. People give him credit for changing that family’s tire but...”
– our friend Drew
Dec 10th
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Caps beat Leafs 4-2, Dennis Wideman Gets a Hat... →
Photo credit: Bruce Bennett Dale Hunter recorded the first two wins of his NHL career against Canadian teams. After tonight’s date between the Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple…
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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