Cap Of The Day: Brendan Witt

by J.P. on Jan 19, 2009 8:51 AM EST

	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	+/-	PP	SH	GW
Caps Career Stats (1995-2006)	626	20	63	83	1,035	-50	0	0	1

Capitals' 1st choice (11th overall) in 1993 Entry Draft.

Traded to Nashville for Kris Beech and Nashville's 1st choice in the 2006 Entry Draft (Simeon Varlamov), March 9, 2006.

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Got him with one of the draft picks we received for losing Scott Stevens…

I’d still rather have had Stevens (limo activities included)

by YvonLabresMoustache on Jan 19, 2009 9:31 AM EST reply actions

Witter

WOO HOO!

It’s a shame he’s about as mobile as a tree trunk now, which is clearly less than ‘as mobile as an 18-wheeler’ which is what he used to be.

by wittcap79 on Jan 19, 2009 11:16 AM EST reply actions

Yikes

0 G, 3A – 3 Pts. -27!

Your favorite meme is dead

by Edanger6 on Jan 19, 2009 1:57 PM EST reply actions

thanks for the two power plays Brendan

by Sombrero Guy on Jan 19, 2009 5:31 PM EST reply actions

+1

One in OT. Giving up power plays in OT is deadly dangerous.

by gotsparkly on Jan 20, 2009 4:33 AM EST up reply actions

One of the truly nice guys off the rink. His wife and kid sat about 3 rows in front of me when they had the cheap seats down low behind the net the Caps shot once at. During the warm up, his wife and daughter would walk down to the glass and he’d always stop and say hi to them. My wife took a photo of this and gave it to Mrs. Witt after one game.

Another Witt story, just after his first was born, I took a friend of mine and his daughter to a Caps autograph signing event. When my friend introduced his daughter to Witter, he smiled up at her, pulled out his wallet and showed off photos of his new born daughter to her with the “proud papa” grin.

Truly a class act.

by MikeL-Pivonka on Jan 20, 2009 1:36 PM EST reply actions

Toughness

His brand of hockey has been sorely missed on this club. Wish we could trade Shultz or Erskine for him.

by Rompy on Jan 20, 2009 4:08 PM EST reply actions

How bout Semin? They take the same number of bad penalities, make the same bad turnovers and Semin’s toughness has been doubted for a while.

by Sct112 on Jan 21, 2009 5:02 PM EST up reply actions

Call me crazy, but I’d rather be starting the Helmer/Collins/etc. pupu platter than Witt at this point.

by grapejoos on Jan 22, 2009 10:32 AM EST up reply actions

A big minus to Parkhurst for using the same photo for the front and back of the card. What – that’s the only photo of his they had in stock?

I have as many wins in a Capitals uniform as Michael Belhumeur does.

by marky narc on Jan 21, 2009 10:34 PM EST reply actions

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