With the NHL stuck in a labor dispute, Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom became the team’s latest star player to sign with a professional team in Moscow.
The Capitals couldn’t close the deal against Boston, the Nationals were rained out and Chris Pontius led D.C. United to a big win in the grudge match with the New York Red Bulls.
Late last week, Alex Ovechkin was accused of using steroids by a columnist in Pennsylvania. Yesterday, he responded.
I may not know much about hockey, but I do know this: Alex Ovechkin is about as close to a hometown sports hero as we have. So when he gets accused of using performance enhancing drugs, it better be well-sourced.
Last night, the Washington Capitals defeated the Anaheim Ducks in a dramatic game which featured the team coming back from a three-goal deficit in the second period and eventually winning in overtime. But all everyone wants to talk about is Alexander Ovechkin’s potty mouth.
Yes, it’s hockey season again.
Alexander Ovechkin: the man with a slap shot so powerful, it could be used as a boastful metaphor for the purportedly wide network of Capital One banks in the Washington, D.C. region!
Several tipsters emailed us this morning to let us know that there was a film crew, “replete with police cordons and director’s chairs,” putting images to celluloid this morning on R Street NW between New Hampshire Avenue and 18th Street NW in Dupont Circle. So who was it? Were there any big stars in the area? Don’t get too excited: D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development spokesperson Leslie R. Green informs DCist that…
This weekend, the best players in the NHL gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina to celebrate the league’s All-Star weekend, in which hockey players come together to not play defense, show off various skills to paying fans and deliver awkward interviews during a faux red carpet ceremony. In short, the kind of stuff that Capitals megastar Alexander Ovechkin was born to do.
If you were on Jeopardy, your response to that headline would surely be “what is the recipe for a hilarious YouTube clip?” (Or something far, far, far more disturbing that you should totally keep to yourself.)
