Mark Solway A lethargic Tampa Bay Lightning team showed up for their game at the Verizon Center, and the Washington Capitals took full advantage. Washington got three goals from Alexander Semin, and two from rookie Tomas Fleischmann en route to a 7-1 drubbing in a Sunday matinée match. Fleischmann is affectionately known to his teammates as ‘Flash’ … Read more
The Washington Capitals beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 at the Verizon Center, and ended the team’s longest losing streak in twenty five years. Night in and night out, the Capitals count on Alex and Alexander to carry them to victory. In a much needed victory on Friday night, Washington added an Alexandre. Alexandre Giroux … Read more
Chris Clark’s three-goal performance against the Boston Bruins was not enough to earn his team a victory on Thursday night. In what has become a familiar outcome this year, the Caps could not take the extra point in the shootout, and lost 4-3. It was Washington’s league-worst eleventh shootout loss of the season, and extended … Read more
The Washington Redskins appear to be taking a slow-and-steady-wins-the-race approach to the off season. Good for them. With the exorbitant contracts signed league wide so far, it was the wrong off season to jump in with both guns blazing. After filling their two biggest needs early in free agency, all of their most recent signings … Read more
The Washington Capitals will be trying to avoid their ninth straight defeat tonight when they face off against the Boston Bruins. The Capitals are coming off a 4-2 loss in Atlanta on Monday, and will be looking to end this three game road trip on a winning note at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. … Read more
This article is courtesy of our F2FA affiliate www.thecaptainsdeck.net. Between now and the 2007 NFL Draft, THN will be taking a look at all of the NFL teams’ off-season needs. Up next is the team with the fourth overall pick in the draft, theTampa Bay Buccaneers. 2006 Results: 4-12 (4th in NFC South) 2007 Projected … Read more
Courtesy of Staff Writer and Senior Draft Analyst Bill Wunkle of www.dawgbones.com. Between now and the 2007 NFL Draft, THN will be taking a look at all of the NFL teams’ off-season needs. Up next is the team with the third overall pick in the draft, the Cleveland Browns. 2006 Results: 4-12 (4th in the … Read more
The Washington Capitals couldn’t solve Toronto Maple Leafs’ goaltender Andrew Raycroft, and Darcy Tucker and Yanic Perreault both scored their twentieth goals of the season to pace Toronto to a 3-0 victory at the Air Canada Center in Toronto. Raycroft only had to make 24 saves to earn his second shutout of the season. It … Read more
We know the Salary Cap goes up every year and every year the new class of free agents will make more than those in years past. (see Dockery vs Hutchinson deals). We didn’t fork over the $49 million that it took to get DD to sign a peice of paper but had we the big … Read more
On Sunday, Fred Smoot was introduced to the media as the newest addition to the Washington Redskins. Always extremely popular with the fan base, Smoot’s signing consummates the return of the trash-talking prodigal son to D.C. Perhaps the best part of the presser was when Fred was asked if he had talked to Shawn Springs … Read more