"I think Mike Knuble is the best free agent signing we have made since we have owned the team…...

"I think Mike Knuble is the best free agent signing we have made since we have owned the team… don’t you?"

Uncle Ted

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Doesn’t he have his name on the cup? He played 53 games for the wings in 97-98

by Brainumbc on Apr 15, 2010 11:34 AM EDT reply actions

He does, yes, but in that Q&A he did at the Baltimore ESPNZone, he said he didn’t feel like those were “his” cups, because he barely played in the playoff series’ in question.

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by IRockTheRed on Apr 15, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Yea… the 97/98 series… says he only played 3 games. Wonder if he was a health scratch for that playoff run. I doubt he played any of those games in the final round or else we’d probably have heard about how he beat the caps for the cup :P

by Brainumbc on Apr 15, 2010 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions

What? No love for Jason Doig?

by David Getz on Apr 15, 2010 11:48 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs

Epic.

by jpbryant on Apr 15, 2010 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions

More or less epic than Jason Doig’s hit on Eric Lindros?

by David Getz on Apr 15, 2010 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Which there is apparently a video of now! God bless the internet.

by David Getz on Apr 15, 2010 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s probably not fair, but all I can really remember about Doig is the fear I felt whenever he and Kwiatkowski jumped over the boards. Probably a great dude, and good locker room guy, but I could never figure out how he was getting minutes over some of the other vets on the team.

by jpbryant on Apr 15, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions

If you’ve seen Jason Doig’s wife, you’d know he’s getting it good.

Doig wasn’t much a of a player, but he is a great human being, and did tons of work for charities in the DC area when he was here.

He also wasn’t bad with the fists if necessary…

Let's go Caps!

by MikeL-Pivonka on Apr 15, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Best free agent signing ever, period?

We’ll need the playoffs to know for sure, but given the price, expectations, and results delivered, it would be hard to do much better…on any team in any sport.

Just my 2¢ (which is often worth even less than that).

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by PaintDrinkingPete on Apr 15, 2010 11:58 AM EDT reply actions

Best Regular Season FA signing...

For now Knuble is the best regular season free agent signing to be sure. As for overall…well, without signing Brian Bellows during the 1997-98 season, the Caps don’t get to the Stanley Cup Finals. He stepped right in on a wing with Joe Juneau and Adam Oates and all of a sudden oppoenents had to try to find two checking lines against the Caps, one for Bondra, and one for Oates.

Bellows also scored the series clinching OT goal against Boston in the opening round, and assisted on Juneau’s goal that clinched the Eastern conference title, although his assist was actually three shots on goal in the space of 2 seconds from a distance of about one foot in front of Hasek. The third shot rebounded to the side and Juneau slid the puck in. All this while four Sabres watched Bellows and Juneau were on top of the net…

If Knuble can replicate this (and more hopefully), then I agree with Ted.

Let's go Caps!

by MikeL-Pivonka on Apr 15, 2010 12:13 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, he sure was...

Of course the bar was extremely low.

Russian Machine very rarely breaks. Oh and f**k Brooks Orpik.

by macvechkin on Apr 15, 2010 12:29 PM EDT reply actions

Brian Bellows and Ulf Dahlen were both nice signings, and both plucked out of European leagues at a discount.

by Stormblue on Apr 15, 2010 3:27 PM EDT reply actions

I’d say Dahlen was the best because he was so cheap and so surprisingly effective. Give Knuble another season or two (and a Stanley Cup?) and I’ll change my mind.

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by Alex Reed on Apr 15, 2010 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions