Friday Caps Clips

by J.P. on Feb 20, 2009 6:44 AM EST in Caps Clips

What do we think of "Caps Clips?" Until I hear something better, that's what you get. On to the links:

Corey on AO's Hart credentials, Tarik on the same. So who wrote it better?
Jose Theodore is good at a number of things, but hiding how he really feels apparently isn't one of them. [Capitals Insider and Denver Post]
A respected writer out of ChiTown claims that "Washington is looking for a goalie." Notice I didn't say by whom he's respected. [Daily Herald]
Kevin Allen is on to you, GMGM. [USA Today]
"The best tip Ovie has given me was to take it easy at the bars." - Nicklas Backstrom, who's getting more comfortable every day (and it certainly shows). [NHL.com]
Our neighbors to the north in Baltimore (a.k.a. D.C./Philly's taint) want to know if you've got Caps fever. [Baltimore Sun]
Bill Clement is on the "Green for Norris" bandwagon. [NBCSports.com]
Sticking with The Peacock (gee, why are they pumping the Caps' tires so much?), Kevin Dupont is "an Ovechkin guy" when it comes to picking between AO and Sid. [NBCSports.com]
The Nationals are so bad and boring that Tom Boswell is hopping on the Caps bandwagon. [OFB]
"On Friday, March 6th, join Mike Green and Elliot at The Front Page in Arlington, Virginia, to help raise money for ‘So Kids Can.’" Good stuff. [EITM]
The Caps have a relatively easy schedule the rest of the way (which, of course, means that it will be relatively difficult... huh?). [AVFtCS]
Alex Semin is a buck richer after Wednesday night. [CK]
"Unless you’re Canadian, chances are you’ve never heard of Alexander Ovechkin" and what follows may be the stupidest thing I've read related to AO's goal the other night, but somehow I spent an inordinate amout of time at the site at which it was posted. [College OTR, possibly NSFW]
Speaking of that goal, it reminded some Pens fans of an old Mario goal, marking perhaps the first time they've willingly compared AO to Le Magnifique. [Empty Netters]
Catch Capital Spirit on Capitals Red Line Monday next week. Looking forward to it. [Capital Spirit]
Birthday wishes go out to Brendan Witt (34), Glen Hanlon (52) and Rick Green (53).
Remembering the imminent departure of Dainius Zubrus.
Finally, with Colorado coming to town, let's have a look at a little something we like to call "foreshadowing":

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How about Cross Ice Posts, ya know, like a cross ice pass…oh I’ll stop.

Capitals Kremlin: Like a Hershey Call-up, in blog form!

by CapitalsKremlin on Feb 20, 2009 9:21 AM EST reply actions

Not bad. How about “Tape to Tape”?

by Scott in Shaw on Feb 20, 2009 10:59 AM EST up reply actions

Clean break out.

by Sct112 on Feb 20, 2009 9:44 AM EST reply actions

Rock the Red Roundup (strike that…I hate the phrase “Rock the Red”)
Red Roundup
The Weagle Woundup
Weagle Winks

by hotdog88gt on Feb 20, 2009 9:57 AM EST reply actions

We got Novotny and a draft pick or two for Zubie, correct? What did those picks turn into?

by Sombrero Guy on Feb 20, 2009 10:08 AM EST reply actions

The Caps sent Zubie and Timo Helbling to Buffalo for Novotny and a 1st in 2007.

The Caps sent that pick (which turned into Nicholas Petrecki) to SJ for the Sharks’ 2007 second round pick and 2008 second round pick (#57-Eric Mestery).

The Caps sent that 2007 2nd round pick to the Flyers for Philly’s 2007 third round pick (#84-Phil Desimone), 2008 second round pick (#58-Dmitri Kugryshev).

So Zubie and Helbling for Mestery, Desimone and Kugryshev and an assload of cap space.

Japers' Rink: Hockey blogging from the most powerful city in the world

by J.P. on Feb 20, 2009 10:17 AM EST up reply actions

Man I just spent 15 minutes trying to decipher what happened from Wikipedia and hockeydb. How do you come up with this stuff so fast, JP?

by David Getz on Feb 20, 2009 10:19 AM EST up reply actions

Magic!

Japers' Rink: Hockey blogging from the most powerful city in the world

by J.P. on Feb 20, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions

I thought the answer was going to be that instead of sleeping you stay up and memorize the Capitals past transactions. But I can buy Magic too.

by David Getz on Feb 20, 2009 10:59 AM EST up reply actions

Whoa...

Here I am settling into my early morning first read on Japers’ Rank and I get blindsided by a off-hand shot at Baltimore with moniker of being one or two cities “taint”.

I’m only my second cup of coffee and haven’t even got through my Inbox yet and people are taking cracks on Charm City? Oh nooo… this is NOT how we start a Friday my friends.

by Wisper on Feb 20, 2009 10:22 AM EST reply actions

Japers’ Rank… touche.

And what do you want from me re: B’more? ’Tain’t D.C. and ’tain’t Philly!

Japers' Rink: Hockey blogging from the most powerful city in the world

by J.P. on Feb 20, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions

Honorable Land of the Skipjacks would be nice

if it was still true. :-( Charm City. Crab City. B-more. Ravenstown. “The Wire”.

Anything that doesn’t associate us with PHILLY or try to put us on equal (bleh) or worst yet, lower footing then DC…sterile home of lawyers, lobbyists and transient residents (myself included).

Baltimore is a place where people LIVE. DC is just a place where people work.

I wish I could go home to Baltimore but their job market was bad BEFORE the recession/depression… now it is non-existent. I keep my boat in Canton and sailing season starts right when Hockey season ends so my DC-to-Baltimore transition of focus is almost here!

Good seafood…Preakness…Canton Square….Natty-Bo…Steamed Crabs…. a cold Dark and Stormy with a big slice of lime and sailing the Bay. Enough daydreaming to warm a displaced Baltimorean heart even when its 20-degrees out there!

by Wisper on Feb 20, 2009 11:43 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Preakness is going to be a bummer this year as you can no longer bring your own Natty-Bo…

by Sct112 on Feb 20, 2009 11:53 AM EST up reply actions

Plus the infield is MUCH more tame nowadays

not so much drunken sun-baked orgiastic revelry as it used to be.

by Wisper on Feb 20, 2009 1:36 PM EST up reply actions

I get all my knowledge of Baltimore from watching The Wire. Did you live up in that ‘Western District’? LOL.

Russian Machine Never Breaks

by macvechkin on Feb 20, 2009 12:08 PM EST up reply actions

I actually lived a little ways over the line in the County

but I went to school in Irvington. That’s in the SouthWestern.

I left in 1994 (not too far… … Rockville.. Germantown….now in downtown DC) but always because of jobs. If I knew I could find comparable work back in B’more, my wife and I would move there in a SECOND.

by Wisper on Feb 20, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions

Statements like that will lead us to question your judgement about all things… hockey opinions as well. :)

by Sct112 on Feb 20, 2009 1:56 PM EST up reply actions

yeah, and you haven’t spent much time watching The Wire, have ya? ;-)

Russian Machine Never Breaks

by macvechkin on Feb 20, 2009 2:19 PM EST up reply actions

As a resident of Canton, I love Baltimore. I moved here 4 years ago because I was 23, wanted to buy a place for cheap that I could fix up and be in a City. Obviously that priced me out of D.C. but I got a sweet place that I can walk to the waterfront, or to 3 dozen bars and restaurants. I just make sure I don’t go more than a few blocks north of Eastern ave haha.

by Sombrero Guy on Feb 20, 2009 2:39 PM EST up reply actions

after spending one year in east baltimore..

i refined a system for getting to verizon center:
I-295 directly to the anacostia stop (w/ parking garage), green line directly to chinatown. easy peasy. i know the money’s in DC and northern VA, but i’d like to see more caps marketing and outreach in charm city.

by Natty Bumppo on Feb 20, 2009 6:25 PM EST up reply actions

Baltimore: “Neither D.C. nor Philly.”
/obscure reference

But in seriousness, nice to see some love for the Caps from Charm City on that post. And what a nice piece on Green from Clement.

by grapejoos on Feb 20, 2009 11:49 AM EST up reply actions

Baltimore smells bad.

by David Getz on Feb 20, 2009 10:59 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah, my first though too. Lay off Balmer. And go O’s. Does DC have a baseball team yet?

by theredskate on Feb 20, 2009 11:06 AM EST up reply actions

They can only aspire to one day be as great as the 68 win Orioles.

Although, actually, the Nationals have won more games than the Orioles since their move from Montreal.

by David Getz on Feb 20, 2009 11:11 AM EST up reply actions

So you’re saying that the Mid-Atlantic is a hotbed of professional baseball… the reason B-more smells bad is Peter Angelos.

At least the Lerners don’t have a stake in the Caps.

by Sct112 on Feb 20, 2009 11:33 AM EST up reply actions

Who doesn’t see the Mid-Atlantic as the center of the baseball universe?!

In seriousness, I think the Lerners have done a very good job with the Nationals thus far.

by David Getz on Feb 20, 2009 12:10 PM EST up reply actions

thank God ’taint Philly.

by Sombrero Guy on Feb 20, 2009 10:37 AM EST reply actions

I’m still partial to something like “Right Out of the Box”

by Scott in Shaw on Feb 20, 2009 10:56 AM EST reply actions

I like it too, but it makes me think of baseball more than hockey (i.e. a speed guy who’s fast out of the batter’s box).

Japers' Rink: Hockey blogging from the most powerful city in the world

by J.P. on Feb 20, 2009 11:04 AM EST up reply actions

I’m going to modify mine from earlier: Morning Breakout or something to that effect.

by Sct112 on Feb 20, 2009 11:34 AM EST up reply actions

Good point. How about “Over the Boards?”

by Scott in Shaw on Feb 20, 2009 11:08 AM EST reply actions

Man I’ve almost forgot how bad those new/old unis are.

by usiel on Feb 20, 2009 11:20 AM EST reply actions

They made a lot of mistakes in those days. Thankfully, the front office has rectified most of them

by Sct112 on Feb 20, 2009 11:35 AM EST up reply actions

If anyone mourned the screaming chicken (or the black one) when the change was first made, surely they’ve come around now. The new unis are a vast improvement.

by grapejoos on Feb 20, 2009 11:51 AM EST up reply actions

In that Green clip

Is it just me, or are there two #16s on the Caps bench?

Man those old numbers sucked.

by grapejoos on Feb 20, 2009 6:26 PM EST reply actions

Unis

Even though some of the previous unis leave something to be desired, at least we don’t have to wonder what vintage might look like Pity the poor Habs fans – unless you’re partial to barber poles.

by arl2 on Feb 21, 2009 12:56 AM EST reply actions