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 »

Despite jumping to an early 2-0 lead the Alexander Ovechkin-less Washington Capitals made too many offensive zone turnovers and had a horror show second period that saw the New Jersey Devils score three times as they rolled to a 5-2 victory. The Caps were on a four game winning streak heading into this contest against the Devils, who were even hotter ... Read More »

The Washington Capitals played a pretty good road game for 50 minutes but then the Caps started taking lazy penalties in the offensive zone and the New Jersey Devils made them pay, scoring two goals on the power play in the last 10 minutes to win, 3-2. The Capitals, who played without injured superstar Alexander Ovechkin, ... Read More »

Washington Capitals rookie goalie Simeon Varlamov stopped 29 of 31 shots, many of them on quality chances including a great one on Ilya Kovalchuk from point blank range in the first period, to lead the Caps to a 4-2 victory in Atlanta and move the Caps within one point of clinching second place in the ... Read More »

Tarik El-Bashir is reporting in his Capitals Insider blog that Sergei Fedorov limped off at practice today from an injury sustained in Friday night’s loss overtime to Buffalo. After Friday’s game, we talked to a subdued #91 and I posted his quotes in my blog last night. Anyways, Fedorov definitely walked over slowly to meet ... Read More »

So for those of you Caps fans who follow the day to day news of the team via the Washington Post and Washington Times daily blogs, and kudos to Tarik and Corey for doing such a great job of keeping everyone up to date, you know that the flu bug has hit the team in ... Read More »

After a stinker of a game on Monday night on Versus the Washington Capitals rebounded strong just 24 hours later shutting out the Florida Panthers, 3-0, to move to 44-22-6 overall and take an insurmountable 15 point lead in the Southeast Division with just 10 games to go in the regular season. The blanking was ... Read More »

Washington Capitals goaltender Jose Theodore stopped all six shots he faced in overtime, including a spectacular glove save on Carolina defenseman Joni Pitkanen and three sliding saves on Eric Staal during a Hurricanes four on three power play, and then shut down Tuomo Ruutu and Jussi Jokinen in the shootout while both Alexes scored for ... Read More »

Caps Tradeless on Deadline Day Washington Capitals GM George McPhee was unable to pull off the big trade he had hoped to complete today which means Coach Bruce Boudreau will go forward the rest of the regular season and in the playoffs with the current roster in addition to any re-enforcements from Hershey as well as ... Read More »

As many of you have been hearing there are lots of rumors about Michael Nylander being traded by the Caps and the reports flying around yesterday had him going to Chicago. I found this quite surprising given the horrible salary cap situation the Blackhawks are in right now so I exchanged some texts with a ... Read More »