The Washington Capitals will head to the Olympic Break with a three game losing streak after falling to the St. Louis Blues, 4-3, in the shootout on Saturday night. All three losses have come on the road this week and two were after regulation time had ended. The good news is the Capitals have a 13 point lead in the ... Read More »

From the NHL and the Washington Capitals: Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, St. Louis Blues goaltender Chris Mason, and Minnesota Wild left wing Guillaume Latendresse have been named the NHL ‘Three Stars’ for the week ending Jan. 17. FIRST STAR - ALEX OVECHKIN, LW, WASHINGTON CAPITALS Ovechkin led all scorers with 10 points (3 goals, 7 assists) ... Read More »

It was a super day for the Baltimore Ravens franchise as they put on a first quarter clinic en route to a 33-14 whipping of the New England Patriots on their home turf in the opening round of the NFL Playoffs. There were lots of firsts for the Ravens on Sunday, as chronicled by Drew ... 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 »

As this Caps team gets ready to play a game 7 for the second straight season (Note: WNST “Rock the Red” viewing party is at the Silver Spring Mining Company in Perry Hall!)  it should be noted that Washington’s game 7 record is not good at all, at 1-5. I’ve been at every game 7 ... 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 »

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 »

Well here are the positives after Tuesday night’s Caps 5-2 loss to the Edmonton Oilers at the Verizon Center: The Carolina Hurricanes were blasted, 5-1, by the Ottawa Senators so the Caps maintained their 10 point division lead on the second place Carolina Hurricanes (Florida is 11 points back but has two games in hand). Defensemen ... Read More »

The Washington Capitals have to be very happy that they won’t be seeing the Columbus Blue Jackets and their rookie goalie Steve Mason for the rest of the season. Columbus and Mason beat the Caps, 3-0, in Columbus back on December 1st and tonight at the Verizon Center they dropped the Caps to 18-2-1 at ... Read More »

So I am up here for the weekend in the Great White North so I haven’t been able to do my usual calling around to my Ravens cohorts to chat about the HUGE win in Dallas last night but my Canadian friends up here, who are big NFL fans, think that the Ravens win last night was the ... Read More »