Caps News & Memories of 1983-84 Season The Caps headed to Boston today to take on the Bruins for tomorrow night’s game in Beantown, where they will seek a club record 11th straight victory. Tarik El-Bashir of the Washington Post reported this afternoon that the Caps players will have their fathers along for their annual road trip. Last year they took in ... Read More »

The Hershey Bears returned to Winnipeg Friday night for the first time since last June, when they knocked off the Manitoba Moose in game 6 to win the Calder Cup AHL Championship, with a 10 game winning streak on the line. Well, it took 7 rounds in the shootout but the Chocolate & White prevailed with a ... Read More »

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 »

Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Mike Green, and Jose Theodore made their pre-season debuts tonight at the Verizon Center in Washington’s third of six games (previously they beat Buffalo and Chicago) that will be used to prepare the Caps for the regular season, which starts on Thursday, October 1st in Boston. As could be expected, the ... Read More »

I know it has been a purple Sunday for most of you and it was for me too but a couple of things of note happened in Washington Capitals land today that were worth passing along to you hockey fans out there ready to Rock the Red in the upcoming season. First, forward Michael Nylander met ... Read More »

The Hershey Bears are the Calder Cup Champions after knocking off the Manitoba Moose, 4-1, in game six of their series tonight in Winnipeg. Hershey blitzed Moose goalie Cory Schneider for three goals in the first period and never looked back. Rookie goalie Michal Neuvirth, who won the Jack A. Butterfield trophy for AHL playoff ... Read More »

The Hershey Bears attempt to win the Calder Cup on home ice for the first time in 29 years did not happen on Tuesday night as the Manitoba Moose snuck out of town with a 3-2 victory and both teams will head back to Winnipeg with Hershey leading the series three games to two. Game ... Read More »

The Hershey Bears dominated the Manitoba Moose territorially for over 45 minutes but all they could  muster was a 1-1 tie with just over five minutes gone into the third period in game four of this Calder Cup final series. Then former Capital Nolan Baumgartner took a holding penalty to give the Bears a power ... Read More »

Hershey Takes 2-1 Series Lead The Hershey Bears trailed 3-0 in the second period and then 4-2 with 19 minutes to go in Providence tonight but rallied with four goals during the final period to beat the Bruins, 6-4, and take a two games to one lead in this best of seven series. Graham Mink tipped home ... Read More »

It is hard to believe that as much as the Pittsburgh Penguins outplayed the Washington Capitals in game three on Wednesday night that the Caps might have won the game in overtime had the puck not rolled off of Alexander Ovechkin’s stick when he was in prime scoring position during the extra session. That is ... Read More »