capitals vs. rangers 2009 Stories - Japers' Rink
Fedorov Asks for Absolution
[Slava Malamud with Sport Express was able to catch up with Sergei Fedorov following his unforgettable unbelievable indescribable game-winning performance in game seven.] Sergei, your goal carried your team into the second round of the playoffs, where you'll meet up against Pittsburgh. Does that...
Gone in 50 Seconds: Yin and yang of sweet hockey displayed in Game 7's
So there I was at the tail end of each of last night's Game 7's, licking my chops at the possibility of Game 7 overtime -- when two even greater versions of hockey at its best revealed themselves. In one corner, you had the yin of great offensive hockey: Sublime individual effort and elite skill,...
Rangers Recap: Endgame.
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Varlamov: Russian for "Ward?"
All it took was one bad outing from Jose Theodore for blogs and message boards to start using the names "Simeon Varlamov" and "Cam Ward" in the same sentence. It was speculative and even overly optimistic, sure, but not totally unreasonable. After all, like Ward, Varlamov was a former first round...
Third Line's A Charm
Like Matt Bradley said before Game 7 of the first round series with the New York Rangers, "We've come too far and worked too hard to let [losing a Game 7] happen again." And so what was unthinkable almost a week ago has come to pass. While the hands of The Legend made complete the storybook...
Fedorov: Varlamov "Cracked Open This Series"
[While many of the Russian sporting newspaper articles on the Capitals players are mostly concerned with whether or not any of the Russian players will soon be making their way to the World Championship, there are a few little nuggets to be found, such as this Sport Express interview with Sergei...
Game (7) Day - Rangers @ Capitals
After the first twenty minutes of their final game before the Christmas break back in late December, the Caps found themselves in the visitors' locker room at Madison Square Garden in what seemed like an insurmountable hole, down big in a building in which they hadn't won in nearly five years and...
Artem Anisimov: A few thoughts from Andrew Gross at "Ranger Rants"
I was able to reach out to Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants, and ask him a couple of questions about the Anisimov call up. Since we'd been clamoring for it all week, I wanted to get some insight from Andrew, and he was nice enough to answer a couple of questions for us: Blueshirt Banter: Our...
Looking at the Donald Brashear hit on Blair Betts
A dirty hit should not be allowed to swing the momentum in a hockey game to the team of the player who gave it. The hit Donald Brashear laid on Blair Betts was not only one of the dirtiest hits of the year, but it was also blatantly intentional. Betts had shot the puck into the...
Cyclone Ovechkin
For the island nations of the southwest Indian Ocean, the cyclone season nears its conclusion. As you likely know (certainly from recent tragedy suffered in this nation on account of Mother Nature's wrath), storms are named in alphabetical order, using names submitted in advance of the season's...
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