The NHL has suspended Alexander Ovechkin 2 games for his hit on Brian Campbell of Chicago yesterday. Ovechkin was given a five minute boarding major and game misconduct in the first period of a contest in which the Caps rallied from three goals down to win, 4-3, in overtime. Campbell reportedly suffered upper body injuries that ... Read More »

With the Chicago Blackhawks leading the Washington Capitals 3-0 after two periods the NBC announcers said that the Hawks were making a statement that they were serious Stanley Cup contenders. 23 minutes and 10 seconds of hockey later it was the Alexander Ovechkin-less Caps who made the bigger statement as they rallied with three third period goals ... Read More »

So I have been following all of the coverage surrounding the Alexander Ovechkin injury and the more I read about it the more incensed I have become. So when is the NHL brass going to come out and condemn the circumstances surrounding it? After all, the most entertaining player in the league is on the shelf, week-to-week, because he ... Read More »

NHL Referees Under Scrutiny We have seen three playoff game sevens take place in the National Hockey League this week and some of the big time hockey commentators are taking issue with penalty calls in both the Caps-Penguins game on Wednesday and then the Ducks-Red Wings game on Thursday. Don Cherry, Mike Milbury, and Ron MacLean, ... Read More »

Additional Caps Advance to Second Round Coverage As promised last night, there is more to tell after Tuesday’s huge Caps win over the New York Rangers in game seven, a series in which the Caps trailed two games to none and then three games to one, yet still prevailed. How big was this series win for this ... Read More »

The National Hockey League announced Saturday that New York Rangers coach John Tortorella has been suspended for one game for squirting a fan with water and throwing a water bottle that struck a fan during Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Series with the Washington Capitals on April 24 in Washington. The incident occurred 6:33 ... Read More »

A very determined Washington Capitals team came out and put “a good ole fashioned spanking,” as Rangers Coach John Tortorella called it afterwards, on New York on Monday night in a 4-0 victory that cut the Blueshirts playoff series lead to two games to one. Game 4 is Wednesday night at 7pm at Madison Square ... Read More »

The NHL Playoff Match-ups are set and surprisingly the New York Rangers, who will face the Washington Capitals in the first round of the NHL playoffs, knocked off the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3, in regulation today to hand the Pittsburgh Penguins the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference. Here are the complete match-ups: Series ‘A’ - #1 Boston ... 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 »