Yesterday, the Capitals traded for a pure fighter in D.J. King.
The Capitals have signed restricted free agent forward Boyd Gordon to a one-year, $800,000 deal. Gordon received only a $40,000 raise over last season’s salary, but he’ll be an unrestricted free agent next season if the Caps can’t work out an extension in the coming year. So who is Boyd Gordon? If you’ve been following the Caps as long as we have, you already know. Gordon was the Caps’ first-round draft pick in 2002,…
On Thursday, the NHL allows unrestricted free agents to begin negotiating with new teams. Players who have reached the end of their contracts and achieved the right combination of age and experience — usually guys over twenty-seven years old — can go play anywhere they want, for whatever someone will pay them.
Photo by Ghost_Bear Tonight the Capitals came from behind to beat the Florida Panthers 7-4. With Alex Ovechkin and Mike Green among a slew of injured players, Mike Knuble put up four points to spark the win. The total tied his personal best, from Valentine’s Day, 2003. Asked what it was like to be a leader on this team, Knuble calmly dismissed the assertion. “It’s just one game,” he said, talking up the importance…
Fans enraptured by a second period Caps goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs. After last night’s 6-4 victory over Toronto, the season the Caps are undefeated and scoring two goals for every one they give up. They have been defensively perfect from the start of any match until they have at least three goals of their own. Superstars Alexander Ovechkin and Alexander Semin have scored three points in each game. Both Caps starting goalies…
Meet Mike Knuble (22), who’s obviously already familiar with his new teammate, Caps winger Alexander Semin. (Nick Wass/Associated Press) After the first draft in nearly a decade where the Caps didn’t make an exciting trade or a high-profile pick, it’s good to see the front office back into the mix of things, adding forward Mike Knuble at the dawn of free agency this afternoon. Costing just over $5 million for two years, Knuble snugly…
Photo by Martin Locraft/MJLPhoto.com Okay, maybe it’s not coming up. Maybe it’s not tomorrow. Maybe it’s not next year. Maybe it won’t happen this decade, but someday, Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals will face Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the playoffs again. There is no rule that says this must happen. There is no league policy forcing superstars to play each other; in fact it hasn’t happened in decades. There is…
Photo by lis_glass Tomorrow night’s Caps game at Verizon Center features the four most talented hockey players on earth competing in a winner take all, game seven, series final struggle for playoff survival. We’ll have the last two winners of the NHL’s Hart Trophy (player most valuable to his team) playing out a rivalry that has made hockey important even to non-fans. Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby have been billed for years as the…
Caps fans hold up a sign to agitate the Rangers’ great agitator. Photo by clydeorama. Going into the Caps’ opening round playoff series with the Rangers, hockey writers across the country said the key matchup would be Sean Avery on Alex Ovechkin. The Rangers’ Avery has made a name for himself as one of the most annoying people in hockey, if not in all of sports. The Capitals were thought overmatched, but the fans,…
Flamboyant Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry Canadian television personality Don Cherry grabbed some press this weekend for saying that Alexander Ovechkin celebrates his goals with too much exuberance. Cherry said he favors the Canadian way. Don Cherry is famous for making inflammatory statements while wearing suits in which Elton John would not be caught dead. Cherry’s absurd assault on the NHL’s reigning scoring champion and most valuable player follows criticism of Ovechkin by Pittsburgh…
