After pretty much putting up a clunker on Monday night against last place Carolina, the Washington Capitals followed that up with another bad outing on Wednesday getting outshot 13-3 in the first period to fall behind by two goals en route to an overall 5-2 loss to the best team in the Western Conference, the San Jose ... Read More »

To those of you hockey fans and Olympic aficionados waiting for the 2010 Winter Olympics to start in Vancouver in February, Team Canada just put out their hockey roster and Mike Green of the Washington Capitals, who leads all NHL defenseman in scoring since January 1, 2009, was not picked on the squad. The Caps ... Read More »

The Washington Capitals have assigned goaltender Semyon Varlamov (SEHM-yahn var-LA-mohv) to the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL), vice president and general manager George McPhee announced today. Varlamov, 21, is a second-year pro who stands 6’2”, 209 pounds. The Samara, Russia, native last saw action for the Capitals on Dec. 7, when he made ... Read More »

After reporting to the rink and hearing that their team captain, Chris Clark, and defenseman Milan Jurcina had been traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets in return for left wing Jason Chimera, the Caps promptly came out and collectively laid an egg in the first period, falling behind 3-0 en route to a 6-3 loss ... Read More »

The Washington Capitals have traded Captain Chris Clark and defenseman Milan Jurcina to the Columbus Blue Jackets in return for forward Jason Chimera. The deal has been confirmed by the Caps outstanding Media Relations Department and here is some information on the new Capital: Chimera (chih-MAIR-uh), 30, is an 11-year pro who has played 461 NHL games between ... Read More »

The Washington Capitals were 0-2-1 against the New Jersey Devils this season coming into Saturday night’s fourth and final 2009-10 regular season meeting and after a shaky early start, the Caps took over thanks to Alexander Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom to soundly defeat Martin Brodeur and company, 4-1. Michal Neuvirth (29 saves) was very good in his ... Read More »

Fresh off of a two day Christmas break, the Washington Capitals will take to the Verizon Center ice on Saturday night at 7pm (Comcast HD) against the New Jersey Devils for the fourth and final time this regular season. The Devils, who are first in the Eastern Conference at a staggering 26-8-1, are 3-0 against the Caps ... Read More »

After playing seven of their eight previous games on the road, the Washington Capitals came home to sold out Verizon Center and despite a sloppy second period, they managed to put five pucks past one of the best goalies in the NHL (Ryan Miller) to defeat the Buffalo Sabres, 5-2. Alexander Ovechkin (1 goal, 2 ... Read More »

The Washington Capitals had lost the last three times they have played on Saturday after a Friday night contest. After two periods at Rexall Place in Edmonton they trailed, 2-0, despite some good goaltending from rookie Michael Neuvirth, and it looked like they would drop another. But on the opening shift of the third period Alexander ... Read More »

The Caps were in Vancouver on Friday night to take on the Canucks but their power play let them down and Vancouver capitalized on some Washington mistakes to win 3-2. Below is the live blog followed by the end of game analysis: Based on all of tweets coming from the Caps personnel and media out there, it appears that Alexander ... Read More »