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 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 »

The Washington Capitals went in to Denver on Tuesday night to take on the Colorado Avalanche at the Pepsi Center and they rolled to a 6-1 victory. Unfortunately the Caps had some more injuries as Shaone Morrisonn left after just 4:12 of ice time and then Mike Green was run into the glass on a cheap shot by David Koci. ... Read More »

Caps News Alexander Ovechkin continues to improve and if you want some proof all you have to do is check out the outstanding video coverage from Tarik El-Bashir of the Washington Post. The Great #8 has missed four games after being injured in a scrum against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday, November 1st and if he doesn’t play ... Read More »

Wednesday night brought on another Capitals-Islanders battle and for the 7th time in the last 9 contests these two teams went to extra time to decide the outcome before a packed house (18,277) at the Verizon Center. When overtime did not yield a winner on came the shootout and it took 11 players for each team but Washington’s Chris Clark scored and ... 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 »

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 »

There was quite a bit of activity for the Washington Capitals on Labor Day, the first official day of the 2009-10 season, at Kettler IcePlex in Ballston, Virginia. After the rookies were on the ice in the morning, which we will get to in a couple of paragraphs, 13 veteran skaters, rookie goalie Michal Neuvirth, ... Read More »

TV Schedule Update from the Caps Media Relations Staff VERSUS will broadcast seven Washington Capitals games to a national television audience in 2009-10, the network announced today. NBC, which will operate under a flexible schedule for eight of the network’s regular-season dates, has five potential Washington games to pick from. VERSUS, which will broadcast 54 regular-season NHL ... Read More »