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Translation of a Russian-language interview with Viktor Kozlov

A look at some of the questions surrounding the potential Michael Nylander move to a Russian team.

Will Viktor Kozlov return to the Washington Capitals or head back to Russia to play in the KHL?

Ken Campbell of The Hockey News is a hell of a hockey writer, but I've got to take issue with something he wrote in today's edition of Campbell's Cuts, in which he notes the urgent need for a new...

Innumerable thanks to Gavlegirl for stalking, err, tracking down Nicklas Backstrom for an interview earlier this month in his hometown of Gavle, translating and transcribing the chat, and sending...

Someone much smarter than I (the one and only JavaGeek) ran the numbers and says the Caps will be the best team in hockey next season. So what if he has Matt Pettinger still on the Caps (among...

Thanks to our good friend Dmitry Chesnokov for passing along the translation of a portion of SovSport's Pavel Lysenkov's conversation with Alex Ovechkin from earlier today:PL: People wonder if you...

Yesterday we mentioned that Jaromir Jagr has been offered a ridiculous sum of money to play next season for Avangard Omsk, a member club in the newly fortified KHL and one of the teams for which he...

This evening brings us yet another interesting interview translation over at the Alex Ovetjkin blog, this time with Caps top goaltending prospect Simeon Varlamov... 's father. Money quote:Q. In...

Former Cap and current Dynamo Minsk forward Ben Clymer has a blog (who knew?) over at The Hockey News, and in his most recent entry, he writes about playing against Avangard Omsk in the team's...