It has been years since the Tampa Bay Lightning entered a season with such swagger. Oh, sure there have been some good seasons. There was even that great one back in 2003-04 that produced the franchise’s sole Stanley Cup. But consider that at this time last year, the Bolts were a franchise that had scratched ...
As the temperature drops in Washington, and the need for jackets (or two-toned lavender track pants if you are Alex Semin) becomes apparent, Capitals training camp opened up again Saturday. As the days progress, hundreds of Capitals faithful continue to come out to support their team at Kettler Iceplex in anticipation of the first drop ...
After a drawn out battle of words about the team’s attitude and certain players on the team, the Washington Capitals finally get news from the ice as Sunday began the first day of Caps’ rookie camp. Day one of rookie camp included many players who appeared in the highly-touted development camp like Cody Eakin, Dmitry ...
Coming into last season, there was one true rookie on the Washington Capitals roster. John Carlson and Michal Neuvirth were in their rookie seasons, but they had played with the Capitals before. The only one who hadn’t (and in fact, had never played hockey in North America before) was center Marcus Johansson. The season started ...
The Capitals’ Hockey and Heels events are what glue gun goddess Martha Stewart would call “a good thing”. They have always provided a strong turnout and a nice bit of change for the club’s charitable foundation. After all, what’s so positive about robust sales, positive press and feelgood moments for women who love The Kremlin on the Potomac? Everything.
In the Coen Brothers’ 1987 film, “Raising Arizona”, an ex-convict named Hy is given marching orders by his wife to get some diapers for their newly stolen (by them) baby. While he is in the store, Hy has a lapse and goes from being a doting adoptive dad to his former identity as a petty thief. Pulling a pair of pantyhose over his head, he hitches up his trousers, musters up every last reserve of inner badass energy and walks up to the clerk where he demands all of the cash and a package of Huggies. There is a pause as the clerk eyes him coolly and then drawls, “Son, you got a panty on your head.”
This scene stands as an apt metaphor for Predators GM David Poile’s summer.
Seasoned fans are only too aware that this is the time of the year when owners and GMs will assure everyone that old favorites are being sent out to live on a farm where they can be happy and run free. With the totality of every heart that beats in a sweater (be it NHL issued or an eBay knockoff) we want to believe that there is a hockey Nirvana where everyone gets to be Gordie Howe forever. The truth is that time, injuries and salary caps take their toll and names are removed from above the wooden benches in locker rooms all over the continent.
The Winnipeg Jets management have seemingly awoken from deep slumber and made a splash in the transfer pool. Prospect Danick Paquette and a 4th round pick in the 2012 draft was all it took for the Jets to pry Eric Fehr away from Southeast division rival Washington. The moving of Fehr’s 2.2 million contract brings ...
It’s been 72 hours since the start of free agency and the steady stream of signings has slowed to a drip, but General Managers aren’t quite on vacation just yet. For the second time in two weeks, the ‘San Jose Wild’ and ‘Minnesota Sharks’ made a blockbuster deal when overpaid scorers Dany Heatley and Martin ...
After Caps GM George McPhee led the world to believe he was pretty much done after Day 1 with free agents, he pulled one of the smarter deals this off-season, signing veteran goaltender Tomas Vokoun from the Florida Panthers to a one-year, $1.5 million deal. Washington traded Semyon Varlamov Friday afternoon to the Colorado Avalanche ...
