In what was pretty much a playoff atmosphere at the sold out Verizon Center Tuesday night, Caps goalie Jose Theodore stopped 33 of 34 shots as well as all three Flyers in the shootout to help the Caps beat Philadelphia, 2-1. Theodore was outstanding, as was Flyers goalie Martin Biron, and he has now won [...]

Caps Coach Bruce Boudreau hasn’t exactly put a bounty on anyone’s head as Paul Newman did in Slap Shot but he is pretty much making it known to the media, his team, Caps fans, and anyone within ear shot that he does not like the Philadelphia Flyers and he expects a win tonight at the Verizon [...]

Caps Now 17-1-1 at Home
Alexander Ovechkin scored his first shorthanded goal of the season to lead the Caps to a 2-1 win over the New York Rangers at the Verizon Center to run Washington’s season home record to a staggering 17-1-1. The Great #8, who was not voted in by the fans as a starter [...]

At the 39 game mark of this season the Washington Capitals now have a 25-11-3 record which is good for 53 points and a 12 point lead in the Southeast Division over the second place Carolina Hurricanes. The Caps are also second in the Eastern Conference standings despite using 34 different players this year because [...]

Caps Assign Sloan to Hershey
The Washington Capitals have just announced that defensemen Tyler Sloan was reassigned to Hershey meaning that defensemen Karl Alzner will play tonight against Tampa Bay (Verizon Center, 7pm) after missing Tuesday’s win in Buffalo due to a bruised right hand. Drew had a Karl on with him on Wednesday morning’s [...]

Caps Beat Sabres 4-2
Buffalo, which was the site of the Washington Capitals worst game of the season when they were buried, 5-0, back on November 1st, has historically not been a friendly place for the Caps franchise but tonight they “exercised some demons” to steal a quote from Caps Coach Bruce Boudreau as they [...]

Congratulations to Alexander Ovechkin for being named the number one star for the week ending December 28th by the NHL. Ovechkin tallied six points (five goals, one assist) as the Capitals (23-11-3) went 3-0-0 and extended their Southeast Division lead to 10 points. He tallied three points (two goals, one assist) as Washington overcame a [...]

Alexander Ovechkin once again took over a hockey game at a point where it could have gone either way to lead the Caps to a 4-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Mike Gartner night at the Verizon Center on Sunday Night. Ovechkin used his relentless determination to score the pivotal goal in this [...]

Caps Knockoff Sabres, 3-2
Another game and we have another highlight reel goal by Alexander Ovechkin that propels the Washington Capitals to a victory. Tonight the victims were the Buffalo Sabres and goalie Patrick Lalime who will be watching, along with several other sports fans, the Great #8’s game winner on hockey highlights around the country [...]

Caps Update
Tarik El-Bashir of the Washington Post is reporting that Chris Clark will be in the lineup tonight against the Buffalo Sabres and will be coming off long term injured reserve. Clark had a forearm injury and also was still battling the groin injury that sidelined him for most of last year. The Caps team [...]

Recently there has been a lot of talk about the Washington Capitals goaltending situation. Tarik El-Bashir of the Washington Post did a story on this last week and Caps television analyst Craig Laughlin also talked about it this past Wednesday morning with Drew Forrester on WNST. El-Bashir thought that the goaltending was the team’s biggest [...]

You can pick Sydney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin or Pavel Datsyuk or any other NHL player and I’ll take Alexander Ovechkin over any of them every single time. The reigning NHL MVP once again put on a show scoring two goals and added an assist as the Washington Capitals stormed back from a 4-0 second [...]

The Washington Capitals have recalled defensemen Bryan Helmer and forward Andrew Gordon from the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL), vice president and general manager George McPhee announced today.
 
Helmer, 36, is a 6’1”, 215-pound 16-year pro from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He is the Bears captain and is the active AHL games played [...]

Caps to Face Rangers
The Washington Capitals are back on the ice on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden to face the New York Rangers in game two of their four game regular season series. The Caps won the first tilt, 3-1, back on November 8th at the Verizon Center. Washington looks to rebound after being [...]

So I am up here for the weekend in the Great White North so I haven’t been able to do my usual calling around to my Ravens cohorts to chat about the HUGE win in Dallas last night but my Canadian friends up here, who are big NFL fans, think that the Ravens win last night was the [...]