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Ovechkin Has Chosen... Wisely
Alexander Ovechkin has exercised his option to void his contract for this season with Omsk of the Russian Super League, meaning that little stands between him and signing with the Caps. It was reported first by TSN.ca here, then soon thereafter on the Caps' official site here, by the WaPo here, and...
And They're Off, Part II
Today at noon begins what promises to be the craziest free agency period any sport has ever seen. There are plenty of rumors to get to, but first, the news and transactions of the past few days, starting in Washington. The Caps have re-signed Jeff Halpern and Brendan Witt, and have signed 2003...
Selanne A Duck Again
Anaheim has signed free agent right wing and former Duck Teemu Selanne. The nine-time All-Star is the NHL's second-leading goal scorer since 1992-93 (Jaromir Jagr is first) and spent parts of six seasons in Anaheim from 1996-2001.
Team Preview: New York Rangers
Key additions: Kevin Weekes, G (FA - CRL); Martin Straka, C/LW (FA - PIT); Michael Nylander, C (FA - BOS); Martin Rucinsky, LW (FA - VAN); Steve Rucchin, C (T - ANA); Marek Malik, D (FA - VAN); Ville Nieminen, RW/LW (FA - CGY); Michal Rozsival, D (FA - PIT); Jason Ward, RW (FA - MTL); Jason...
Capitals 3, Penguins 2/Monday Roundup
[Box Score - Recap]Caps win! Caps win! Caps win! Say what you will about the coming NHL season, but one thing is for sure: no fans will savor victories like Caps fans. In Boston it will be "ho-hum, another win." In Ottawa, "Did the Sens win again last night? Sweet." Not in Washington. Here, every...
Monday Roundup/Penguins 7, Capitals 1
[Box Score - Recap]The Caps gave up 14 goals in their last two preseason games. There were valuable lessons in each game from which a young team can learn, especially in Saturday night's loss in which the Caps blew 4-0 and 5-1 leads. Let's hope the squad went to school.Here's the WaPo's coverage of...
Tuesday Roundup/Caps 3, Rangers 2
[Boxscore - Recap - Postgame Notebook]Since I was out of town, we'll just pretend this past weekend didn't happen, ok? Cool. So how 'bout them Caps? As the old adage goes, you've gotta win the games you should win. Well, this year there really are no games the Caps "should win," but a home game...
Tuesday Roundup: LalalalalalalalalalalaFontaine
No game to recap or preview and a light schedule in the League means an easy morning at the Rink. The WaPo has a nice piece on Steve "Slim Shady" Emineminger, the WTimes has an article on Olie Kolzig's ridiculously heavy workload. That's about it locally.In other news around the League: The Sabres...
Friday Roundup/Panthers 3, Capitals 2
[Boxscore - Recap]Stop me if you've heard this one before - the Caps got badly outshot, but Olie Kolzig kept them in the game. Unfortunately they didn't get any offense from anyone other than Alex Ovechkin and, as a result, they lost. The Caps are making life too easy for recap writers. In Miami...
Friday Roundup/Flyers 8, Caps 1 Gamenight: Thrashers @ Caps
[Boxscore - Recap]Well, it started out okay. In fact, for the first five minutes of the game, the Caps took the play to the Flyers, opening up a 1-0 lead on Chris Clark's all-effort second goal of the year. But then things got real bad real fast and the team spent the rest of the night looking like...
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