Earlier today, the power went out at Kettler Iceplex as the Capitals were on the ice, preparing for their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series against Tampa Bay which kicks off tomorrow night at the Verizon Center. Geez, I sure hope the power outage didn’t have anything to do with Lightning.

In the 1990s, Brent Johnson was a terrific starting goalie for the St. Louis Blues. He led a good team, stopped the shots he had to stop and won more than he lost. He set a (since broken) playoff shutout record. At that time, the Capitals had a great starting goalie of their own named Olaf Kolzig. Towering over other NHL goalies of the day at 6’3″, Kolzig wore the nickname Zilla with pride, even…

Clarifying the intriciacies of replacing himself at his job, Boudreau told the Canadian Press, “Until further notice, I’m here.”

Yesterday, I found it difficult to write about Washington’s loss over the weekend to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It had nothing to do with the play on the field, which amounted to a carbon copy of the previous week’s loss. Jason Campbell strove mightily to lead the team past their mistakes, only to be done in by mistakes of his own. A game changing moment came when the offense failed to obtain some badly needed…

Two games after we suggested the Washington Capitals were trying to lose games for better draft position, the team has won back to back games against teams fighting for playoff spots by a combined score of twelve goals to two. In home games on Friday night and Sunday afternoon, the Caps cakewalked over the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Tampa Bay Lightning, and climbed from twenty-seventh place all the way back to twenty-fifth in the…

When DCist talks, the Washington Capitals listen. We’d like to thank the Caps for taking our suggestions to heart at the trade deadline. We’ll certainly have more advice for them this summer, when free agents become available. Now if they can just slide down two or three spots in the standings, they’ll be one of four teams in the lottery for the first-overall pick. They’ll have a great chance to avoid picking up a couple…

With the NHL Trade Deadline approaching, the Capitals had better make up their minds pretty quickly whether they’ll be buying or selling. With starting goaltender, team leader and future saint Olaf Kolzig on injured reserve for three weeks with a torn ligament in his knee, the team is undoubtedly thinking “sell”, if not thinking about reaching for the cellar of the league standings and getting into the lottery to draft Angelo Esposito. However, the…

Here’s the good news: Jason Campbell looked good in his first game as, well, anything for the Washington Redskins. The descriptives you’ll hear all week will be “poise” and “command,” traits that he showed in abundance both on the field and, with an easy charm mixed in that’ll only make you want to root for the kid more, in his post game interviews. His stat line isn’t world-changing: 19 of 34 for 192 yards only…

In Jason Campbell’s last full season as a starting quarterback, the then-senior at Auburn threw for a massive 2700 yards, completed nearly 70% of his passes, and accumulated 20 touchdowns offset by 7 interceptions. This translated to an unreal 172.89 passer rating. That’s the good news for Redskins fans, who learned Monday that Campbell would be starting in place of embattled veteran Mark Brunell this Sunday against the Tampa Bay Bucs. The bad news for…

Having dismissed Frank Robinson at the end of the season, the Nats are casting a wide net for possible replacements. Reports yesterday regarding the sudden firing (and availability) of four-time World Series winner Joe Torre now appear to be premature, according to the NY Post. With the nascent Torre-to-the-Nats campaign already toast, we take a look at the other candidates in the rumor mill… Lou Pinella Experience: Played briefly for O’s and Indians, but mostly…