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Wednesday Caps Clips: Window Starting to Close

Daily Washington Capitals news and notes: Reliving the glory of last night's 5-0 loss to Dallas, Ward and Chimera sub in for Walton and Vogel and more.

By Becca H
Patrick Smith

Your savory breakfast links:

  • Check out who was up and who was very, very down after another week of joyous Caps' hockey in this week's Ups and Downs. [Rink]
  • Recaps and other assorted musings on last night's 5-0 drubbing from us (with quotes, and relive the night in GIFs), Vogs, Monumental video (Oates, Ovechkin, Fehr, Alzner, Carlson), NHL.com, AP, Sports Xchange, PHT, WaPo (gamer, blog) CSNW, Frankovic, Talk the Red, RMNB, GM on a Couch and Defending Big D.
    • That top-ranked power play is great, except when it's not. [RMNB]
    • The Caps weren't the most gracious of hosts, but some Olympians were in the house last night - and they brought a big check for the MSE Foundation to help fund youth hockey programs. [Monumental]
  • News and notes from out at Kettler:
    • In general. [Monumental video (Oates, Green, Johansson, Rinkside Update/Brouwer)]
    • The Caps have six games remaining. They believe they need to win five or six to get into the playoffs. You do the math. [CSNW]
    • A desperate Caps team was gearing up for a meeting with a desperate Stars team. Good thing that desperation translated to the ice equally for both tea-...wait. [WaPo, NHL.com]
    • Read on to see why Mikhail Grabovski played last night's game on the wing and why John Erskine played last night's game at all. [WaPo, CSNW]
    • Things aren't good in Caps Nation these days, but you can always count on Jason Chimera and Joel Ward to bring some much-needed comic relief. Worth a watch. [Monumental, WaPo]
    • Did Troy Brouwer kind of, sort of, pretty much call out his coaching staff? Yes. Yes, he did. [SI.com]
  • The Caps have gone to overtime and/or a shootout 26 times, which is way too many. That said, we would have taken that over whatever last night was. [Ted's Take]
  • A few guys moved up and down the organizational ladder, as Chris Brown returned (a day after being sent down) and the Bears recalled defenseman Brett Flemming from Reading. [Caps, Patriot News (Brown, Flemming)]
  • Boz has Adam Oates's back... for some reason. [WaPo]
  • The RMNB crew, however, perhaps not so much. [RMNB (and (again)]
  • Looking ahead to some highlights - and a few Caps games - as the final two weeks of the 2013-14 season lie ahead. [Grantland (DGB)]
  • And hey, here's something to look forward to: the NHL draft! Check out who the Caps might take come June. [ESPN ($)]
  • Finally, happy birthday to Owen Fussey and Joey Tenute, who both hit the big 3-0 today.