Hurricanes at Capitals In-Game Blog: 03-11-2011

Pregame Preview:

The Caps come into tonight’s contest riding high on a six-game winning streak, with the latest victory coming on home ice Wednesday night against the worst team in the NHL, the Edmonton Oilers. Three point milestones were set that night in Washington’s 5-0 route with Jason Arnott gaining his 900th, Dennis Wideman reaching his 200th and Alex Ovechkin eclipsing 600 at just 25 years of age.

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Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Braden Holtby, Buffalo Sabres, Cam Ward, Carolina Hurricanes, Dennis Wideman, Edmonton Oilers, Eric Fehr, Eric Staal, Jason Arnott, Jason Chimera, Jeff Skinner, John Erskine, John Harbaugh, Marcus Johansson, Matt Bradley, Matt Hendricks, Mike Knuble, New York Rangers, Nikolai Khabibulin, Philadelphia Flyers, Tuomo Ruutu, Verizon Center, Washington Capitals

Rangers at Capitals In-Game Blog: 02-25-2011

Pregame Preview:

The Caps enter the final meeting between the New York Rangers and themselves having won three of their last four games and are coming off of three days of rest. That should bode well for the team’s energy tonight.

Four of the next seven games for the Caps will be at home, which should help after a solid 3-2 road outing.

Since their 2-1 shootout win against the Capitals on January 24th, the Rangers have mustered a 3-7-1 record since, including a six game losing streak.

An interesting note: the Capitals are 13-0-0 when Alexander Semin scores a goal.

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Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Brian Boyle, Brooks Laich, Derek Stepan, Erik Christensen, Henrik Lundqvist, Jason Chimera, Matt Bradley, Michael Sauer, Michal Neuvirth, Mike Green, New York Rangers, Ruslan Fedotenko, Ryan Callahan, Steve Eminger, Vinny Prospal, Washington Capitals

Caps Recap 11/23/09

Y’know, sometimes I think teams tend to play different when they are missing a star player. I know that seems like an obvious statement and you may be thinking “well of course they play different; they are missing their star player.” Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Caps Recap, John Carlson, Matt Bradley, Michal Neuvirth, Quintin Laing, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals

Caps Dominate Sharks, End Slide

Turning Point…
Alexander Ovechkin’s two goals less than thirty seconds apart early in the second period.

It Was Over When…
Matt Bradley stretched the Caps lead to 4-1 early in the third. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Brendan Morrison, Matt Bradley, San Jose Sharks, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals

Caps Start Strong, Can Canes 4-1

The Washington Capitals opened the ’08-’09 pre-season with a trip to the Southeast Division rival Carolina Hurricanes last night, leaving Carolina with a 4-1 victory. Much like NFL pre-season, the Caps didn’t play many of their star players, instead using the time to evaluate some of their young prospects. With a team returning a majority of the players from last year’s Southeast Division Championship team, the spots with the big club are few and far between.

For the Caps, Tomas “Flash” Fleischmann opened the scoring 6:21 in the first period, just seconds into the team’s first power play. The Caps acting Captain Matt Bradley tallied just 64 second later to close out the first period scoring.

The ‘Canes Joni Pitkanen opened the scoring in the second period with a power play goal 7:58 in. Four minutes later, Matheiu Perreault scored in his first NHL pre-season game, at the 11:57 mark. Flash closed out the scoring 17:06 into the period with his second power play goal, this time just 9 seconds into the extra man advantage.

For a good read regarding last night’s victory, be sure to check out Mike Vogel’s Postgame Notebook on WashingtonCaps.com.

Carolina travels to the phone booth this evening for the re-match. You won’t be able to find it on TV or radio, but you can watch and listen live on WashingtonCaps.com. Let’s get ‘em!

Tags: Carolina Hurricanes, Joni Pitkanen, Matheiu Perreault, Matt Bradley, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals