Cap Of The Day: Mike Ridley
| GP | G | A | PTS | PIM | +/- | PP | SH | GW | |
| Caps Career Stats (1987-94) |
588 | 218 | 329 | 547 | 250 | 49 | 69 | 17 | 32 |
Acquired from NY Rangers with Bob Crawford and Kelly Miller for Bob Carpenter and Capitals' 2nd choice (Jason Prosofsky) in the 1989 Entry Draft, Jan. 1, 1987.
Traded to Toronto with Capitals' 1st choice (Eric Fichaud) in the 1994 Entry Draft (acquired from St. Louis as compensation for Scott Stevens) for Rob Pearson and Toronto's 1st choice (Nolan Baumgartner) in the 1994 Entry Draft, June 28, 1994.
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[Cap of the Day is a shameless rip of a regular FanPost feature over at Pension Plan Puppets, but that doesn't make it any less fun to remember some of the greats - and not-so-greats - in Caps history]
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Ridley is one of a very small group: players who have played for the Caps and have scored a hat trick against the Caps. (Rids did it as a Ranger.) The only other player I can think of that fits that description is Sergei Fedorov.
Ridley is also another rarity: a player to make the NHL out of the Canadian Collegiate system. (University of Manitoba.)
Rids was a great player for a long time here in Washington, and it was sad to see him go. He was traded at the entry draft in 1994 and what made that interesting was that he was at the Caps Draft Party at the Capital Centre. They announced the trade while he was there signing autographs (he still signed an autograph for anyone who wanted one) and then he came out and got a big cheer from everyone there.
It was the right time for him to go as he really didn’t play anywhere near as well for Toronto and Vancouver after that. A quality player and more so, a really classy person.
This former-player concept is a great idea, JP...
…If I had the time I’d like to rip-off your creation and use it myself with the Cats.
Just a heads-up!
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