The Washington Capitals brought a six game winning streak into Friday night’s contest against the New York Islanders, a team they had gone to overtime against three of the last four times they have played one another, but tonight they finally were beaten, 4-3 in extra time, on Mark Streit’s blast in the slot off of ... Read More »

One week after nearly blowing a three goal lead in Atlanta and escaping with a 5-4 victory the Caps headed to the final period once again with a three goal lead at Philips Arena. Instead of putting this one away in easy fashion, Washington allowed a well rested (5 days off) Thrashers team to fire 20 ... Read More »

Heading into Tuesday night’s Caps-Flyers game at the Verizon Center I was anticipating a raucous arena and an incredible amount of intensity from the Washington Capitals in a contest that figured to be competed at a playoff-like level. However, for about 35 minutes it was a very quiet building and the Caps were struggling to ... Read More »

You can bet the Verizon Center will be  ”Rocking and Red” on Tuesday night as the vaunted and despised Philadelphia Flyers come to town for a 7pm tilt (shown in HD on VERSUS). The Caps look to avenge a 6-5 OT loss suffered back on October 6th when Danny Briere scored the game winner in Philadelphia. ... Read More »

For the fourth straight time the Caps have gone to Long Island with Coach Bruce Boudreau behind the bench the contest went to overtime and for the third consecutive time he left victorious as Mike Green, who I thought had his best game of the season, skated from his own goal line through the Islander team and then fed ... Read More »

The 5-2-2 Caps are in Long Island ready to take on John Tavares and the New York Islanders on Saturday night at 7pm (Comcast SportsNet) but there were alot of headlines about the team today. The biggest is that Alexander Ovechkin was fined $2,500 for his supposed “slew foot” of Rich Peverly with 30 seconds left ... Read More »

Well it wasn’t pretty at all, but it was a win. The Washington Capitals survived an atrocious night from their special teams but thanks to a lucky bounce and several goals as a result of Caps forwards going hard to the net, they defeated the Thrashers, 5-4, in front of only 13,192 at Philips Arena. ... Read More »

Caps News The Washington Capitals will take on the Atlanta Thrashers at Philips Arena on Thursday night (7pm on Comcast SportsNet) and they may be without right wing Alexander Semin (10 points in eight games), who is battling an illness. The Thrashers are off to a sizzling 4-1-1 start and they are a team that gave ... Read More »

Alexander Ovechkin, the two-time defending Hart Trophy winner for NHL MVP, leads the NHL this season in goals (nine), points (16) and shots (61) in just eight games, and all of those numbers are on a pace significantly higher than his career average. Keep in mind that Ovechkin notched 65 goals in 2007-08, 56 last ... Read More »

There were lots of negative streaks facing the Washington Capitlas coming in to Thursday night’s contest against the San Jose Sharks at the Verizon Center. The Caps had lost 11 straight games to San Jose with their last win coming in February of 1999 and Alexander Ovechkin had never scored against the Sharks, the only ... Read More »