Washington Capitals: Secondary Articles
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Litter Box Cats (Kevin Kraczkowski) —
Welcome back to today's episode of "Remember the Panthers." For the details on how the list was created, click here . We left off last week after checking out the very tiny numbers put up through the short Florida careers of Kristian Kudroc, Jon Matsumoto , Jim Campbell, Jeff Taffe , and Jeff Greenlaw. Today we will look at five more players, namely, two goaltenders, a right winger, a left...
Bergen —
Here’s the game story from The Record and http://www.northjersey.com/sports.Obviously, the Rangers faltered early in this game - yet again - but, unlike Games 1 and 3, this time it cost them.And, obviously, the Rangers pattern of alternating wins and losses continued. In each of the first three series, they’ve won Games 1 and 3 and lost Games 2 and 4. They are 1-1 in Game 5s, having lost to...
Kuklas Korner (Patrick Hoffman) —
This appears to be the case for the New York Rangers as the team dropped Game 4 at the Prudential Center to the New Jersey Devils by a score of 4-1.For the third straight series, the Blueshirts will go into Game 5 tied with their opponent. While this probably should not have happened against both the Ottawa Senators and Washington Capitals, the Rangers certainly deserve this fate after the way...
Bergen —
Based on the pre-game warmups, there will be no lineup surprises off this morning skates. So Stu Bickel will indeed dress as a fourth-line forward after being a healthy scratch in Game 3 when coach John Tortorella inserted defenseman Steve Eminger back into the lineup.Bickel skated during the warmups with center John Mitchell and Mike Rupp.Of course, don’t expect Bickel to get a lot of minutes...
Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Greg Wyshynski) —
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • You're probably seen Zdeno Chara's tribute to Pavel Demitra by now, but here's Slovakia's Branko Radivojevic rocking a tribute T-shirt after their semifinal win over the Czech Republic at the Hockey World Championship...
SBN: Silver Seven (Amelia L) —
Today's entry is devoted to the #2. 2 is traditionally a number worn by defenseman and that's been the case for the players who have worn the number while in Sens colours: 13 blueliners have worn the #2 in Ottawa's 20-year history. While many Sens fans are hoping Jared Cowen continues to develop into an elite shutdown defenseman, he's played 1 season for the Sens and the 12 other defensemen...
Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Ryan Lambert) —
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. It's possibly the greatest bit of investigative journalism conducted since Woodward and Bernstein brought down Richard Nixon. This exemplary, collective effort...
Kuklas Korner (Patrick Hoffman) —
For the New York Rangers, this postseason has been a story of deja vu.There have been many similarities in each round from the number of games played, to the goal scorers in each game as well as the general outcome of each tilt. While this is certainly interesting, it is time for the Blueshirts to go off script.In each series, the Rangers have taken a 2-1 series lead into Game 4 only to lose...
NY Post (TIM BONTEMPS) —
Three times in these playoffs, the Rangers have taken a 1-0 lead in their series. Each time, the Senators, Capitals and Devils came back to win Game 2 and tie the series.That same pattern played out in Game 3 and 4 in each of the first two rounds of...
Bergen —
Brendan Shanahan has released his video explanation of his decision to suspend Rangers right wing Brandon Prust one game for his elbow to the head of Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov at 2:31 of the second period of Saturday’s Game 3.You can view the video here.Shanahan describes Prust’s elbow as “reckless” and explains that while Volchenkov turned away from the check, Prust did not “flare”...
Kuklas Korner (George Malik) —
Tomas Vokoun won’t be returning to Washington next season, and the Capitals are likely to undergo something of an overhaul after their second round ouster at the hands of the New York Rangers, but the New York Post’s Larry Brooks believes that employing another Dale Hunter-style coach to teach offensively-oriented personnel to abandon their natural style of play won’t work very well come next...
NY Post (LARRY BROOKS) —
The analyses of the Capitals’ second-round loss in seven games to the Rangers was common, all right, but reflected no wisdom.The analysts largely repeated the self-serving nonsense promulgated by “hockey people,” that the Caps finally had learned the right way to play hockey under Dale Hunter, who stepped down...
Kuklas Korner (George Malik) —
The Edmonton Journal’s Jim Matheson does an absolutely bang-up job of talking about the Washington Capitals possibly trading Alex Ovechkin, said team’s search for the right coach, even wondering whether the Canadiens will trade Tomas Plekanec and a host of other topics in his “Hockey World” column, but the real eyebrow-raisers for me came in the form of his conversation with Rangers GM Glen...