Canadiens End Top-Ranked Caps’ Season
Alex Ovechkin (#8) turns and skates away as the buzzer sounds and the Canadiens realize they’ve advanced to the next round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Montreal topped the Washington Capitals 2-1 in game seven. (Photos by Kate McGovern / OffWingPhoto)
Caps Fall to Canadiens in Overtime
The Washington Capitals fell 3-2 to the Montreal Canadiens in overtime in D.C. tonight. The top-seeded Caps are now 0-1 in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. (Photos by Kate McGovern / OffWingPhoto)
Caps Beat Thrashers 2-1
Semyon Varlamov makes a save during tonight’s game against the Atlanta Thrashers. The Washington Capitals won 2-1, earning their 50th victory of the season. (Kate McGovern/Off Wing Photo)
Flames Top Capitals 5-3
Nicklas Backstrom fights for the puck in tonight’s game against the Calgary Flames. The Washington Capitals lost 5-3. (Kate McGovern/Off Wing Photo)
Capitals Fall To Lightning, 3-2
Scott Walker dodges several loose sticks in tonight’s game against Tampa Bay. The loss was the Capitals’ first regulation loss at home since last year. (Kate McGovern/Off Wing Photo)
2010 January 31st, Lightning at Capitals
“Ten in a row”, only the second time in the history of the franchise!
Caps Beat Ducks, Extend Winning Streak
Jason Chimera celebrates Shaone Morrisonn’s goal early in the third period. The Washington Capitals won their eighth straight game tonight, beating the Anaheim Ducks 5-1. Alexander Semin scored two for the Caps, with Alex Ovechkin, Mike Knuble and Morrisonn each contributing one. (Photos by Kate McGovern/OffWing Photo)
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Capitals Challenge Coyotes at Home, Win 4-2
By Pete Silver
OffWing Opinion
WASHINGTON D.C. (January 23) – The Washington Capitals defeated the hard-charging Phoenix Coyotes 4-2 on Saturday night.
Washington Capitals forward Brooks Laich (21) goes old school after having his helmet
removed by a Phoenix Coyotes check behind the net. (Pete Silver/OffWing Photo)
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Flyers Fall to Capitals 5-3
By Pete Silver
OffWing Opinion
WASHINGTON D.C. (January 17) – The Washington Capitals defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3.
Washington Capitals forward Mike Knuble (22) fights off Philadelphia Flyers defenseman
Braydon Coburn (5) in front of the net during an NHL hockey game at Verizon Center.
(Pete Silver/OffWing Photo)
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Carolina Catches Captain-less Capitals, 6-3
by Pete Silver
OffWing Opinion
WASHINGTON D.C. (December 28) – The Washington Capitals suffered their first Southeast Division loss of the season on Monday night, bringing their division record to 8-1.
Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau and players denied a “post-trade hangover,” however, a flat performance against the ailing Carolina Hurricanes tells a different story. Following practice on Monday morning, the Capitals front office announced the trade of team captain Chris Clark and defenseman Milan Jurcina to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Jason Chimera. Chimera is a tall, tough player with 11 goals who now tops the Capitals’ roster with 47 penalty minutes for the year.
“It’s a hard situation for us because we lost our captain and a great guy,” said Washington’s Alex Ovechkin. “They’re both good players, but it’s a business and you can do nothing about it.”
The NHL’s top scoring club managed four shots on goal against the last-place Hurricanes in the first period. Carolina’s Tuomo Ruutu scored off the rebound of Eric Staal’s shot at 7:44. Staal made it 2-0 at 10:14 and Jussi Jokinen scored a third at 14:30. Capitals’ goalie Jose Theodore allowed three goals in the first nine shots, within 6 minutes and 46 seconds.
Washington Capitals’ goalie Jose Theodore (#60) defends the goal behind defenseman
Jeff Schultz (#55) on Monday night against the Carolina Hurricanes in an NHL Hockey
game at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. (Pete Silver/OffWing Photo)
Washington rallied, with goals from Mike Green and Eric Fehr in the second period. Alex Ovechkin brought the crowd to its feet early in the third period with a power play goal cutting the score to a manageable 4-3, but Carolina answered at 10:00 and sealed the game at 18:28 with an empty net goal to win 6-3.
Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin (#8) is swept off his feet while shooting
against the Carolina Hurricanes in an NHL Hockey game. (Pete Silver/OffWing Photo).
“You look at their standings, and you look at how hard they played, [and] I find it hard to believe they are where they are,” Washington coach Bruce Boudreau said. “We know them as a divisional opponent that plays hard against us all the time, and tonight was no exception.”
Game notes
Nicklas Backstrom brought his season penalty minutes to 16, with a a four-minute high-sticking penalty in the first.
Alexander Semin agreed to terms on a one-year, $6 million contract extension on Saturday.
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Caps Score Big Win Over The Devils
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 26: Chris Clark of the Washington Capitals attempts to score on goalie Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils during a NHL hockey game on December 26, 2009 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Allen Clark/OffWing)
By Allen Clark
OffWing Opinion
WASHINGTON D.C. (December 26) – Tonight the Washington Capitals picked up a big win over the second place NJ Devils. The Caps’s 4-1 win over the Devils moved the Capitals a point ahead of the Devils in first place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Alex Ovechkin gave the Caps a 1-0 lead at 4:09 of the first and Matt Bradley made it 2-0 for Washington at 13:54. Late in the first New Jersey’s Rod Pelley scored a goal and the Devils had opportunities to draw even when they benefited from the game’s first four power play chances. But Washington was able to kill each NJ power play opportunity against the Devils extra-man unit that the entered the game with the league’s fourth-best road power play numbers (25.9%).
Nicklas Backstrom’s goal at 9:52 of the second made it 3-1 Caps. Mike Green finished the Caps scoring for the evening when he netted his eighth of the season in the first minute of the third period.
Washington Coach Bruce Boudreau was pleased with the effort, “I think we played a complete game. I thought early in the third period we started to sit back a little bit too much, but then we went back at them and took it to them in the last half of the third. I thought it was a great effort on our part.”
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Following the win the Capitals also announced that they had resigned Alexander Semin to a one-year contract extension. Semin, 25, is in his fifth season in the NHL, all with the Capitals.
Semin has 32 points (14 goals, 17 assists) in 29 games this season, tied for third on the team in goals and fourth in points. In 283 career games the 6’2”, 208-pound native of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, has recorded 248 points (122 goals, 126 assists) and already ranks 26th in Capitals history in points.
Semin, who was named to the 2010 Russian Olympic team on Thursday, ranks ninth among active players 25-and-younger in goals and 12th among that group in points.
Capitals Bust Buffalo’s Christmas Wishes 5-2
By Pete Silver
OffWing Opinion
WASHINGTON D.C. (December 23) — The Washington Capitals defeated the Buffalo Sabres 5-2 on Wednesday night at Verizon Center. Photos and game analysis later in the day.
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