Photo by choofly. Sure, Capitals defenseman Mike Green can score goals, but can he hashtag and retweet like the rest of us? “I don’t really know how to use it that well,” Green admitted about the social networking site Twitter, where, as of January 22, 4,890 people follow his verified account, GreenLife52. So what prompted him to start tweeting? “I felt like it was to give the fans more of an insight on our…

The captain certainly didn’t mind getting his hands dirty — neither did his charges in a 5-2 win over Ottawa last night. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) The Capitals were up 3-1 over Ottawa in the third when Mike Green took Senators winger Jarkko Ruutu to the ground and brought the Verizon Center crowd to its feet. The teams had been going back and forth all night, and Green, with help from his teammates, finally took…

At times last night, it took all six Carolina players on the ice to deny the Caps.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Cam Ward probably won’t be sending Alexander Semin a Christmas card anytime soon. Semin, who scored two game-winning goals against Carolina last year (including one against Ward), had two goals Friday to lead the Capitals to a 4-3 win at Verizon Center over the Hurricanes. Mike Green scored the game-winning goal for the Caps in overtime….

Mike Green scored a goal to lead the Caps to their fourth straight win last night.Photo by choofly.Friday’s highlights belonged to the Caps’ defense. In a 3-1 win over the Minnesota Wild, Washington’s defensemen were responsible for the majority of goals scored, while Semyon Varlamov again turned in a strong performance between the pipes. Despite the Wild having the best penalty kill percentage on the road in the NHL, the Caps’ first goal of…

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…

Alexander Ovechkin stole this puck at center ice, but the Devils stole the game in overtimeon Monday night. Photo by choofly. It was the Mike and Mike show goal-wise at the Phone Booth on Monday: Mike Green scored his first goal of the season, and Mike Knuble had a goal and an assist. But after those tallies staked the home team to a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period, the Caps…

By Eli Resnick and Elisabeth Meinecke

With another hockey season upon us – the opening faceoff in Boston is mere hours away – it’s time for the DCist hockey crew to look foolish and guess what the Caps will do this year. We’ll take a wide turn of the stories heading into tonight’s opener, offering our prognostications on the season to be along the way.

Florida defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. (Steve Mitchell/Associated Press) It’s not often in professional sports that the home team has the chance to keep the best player on the visiting team after the game, but that might be the case this afternoon if the Capitals can make the right impression on the Florida Panthers. Panthers defenseman Jay Bouwmeester is an emerging star. He plays defense well, passes the puck well and scores goals. All year, Florida…

Mike Green came to terms with the Capitals today on a four-year, $21 million dollar contract to play ice hockey. In my first post on DCist, all the way back in October of 2006, I described a hard-fought match between the Caps and the Avalanche that reached its climax when “Green, the Caps star minor-league defenseman, who is expected to show signs of someday belonging in the NHL by the end of this season,…

They may measure two inches shy of a collective 19 feet tall, but the first three Caps picks from this weekend’s NHL draft stand on the shoulders of giants. With two picks in the first round and their first of two in the second, the Caps brought in players with strong connections to franchise history, tying the team’s future to its past. The Caps traded up to the 21st overall spot to pick Anton Gustafsson,…