Alexander, Alex, and Alexandre?

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

Natural Not Enough

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

Kolzig Returns Against Bruins

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

Redskins Free Agency News

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

Team Needs: Pittsburgh Steelers

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 fifteenth overall pick in the draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers. 2006 Results: 8-8, 3rd in AFC North 2007 Projected Cap Status: $ 105,900,000 ($3.1 million in cap space) … Read more

Leafs Blank Caps

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

Overspending ???

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

The Return of Smoot

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

Fletcher Signs with Redskins

London Fletcher will be a Washington Redskin next season. Fletcher was introduced at Redskin Park Saturday and has reportedly signed a 5-year, $25 million contract. Washington filled one of it’s biggest off season needs , a middle linebacker, and they’re getting a player familiar with the system. The deal re-unites the linebacker with Gregg Williams … Read more

Redskins Free Agency Notes

The NFL opened it’s free agency period on Friday and to Washington Redskins fans, that means that Derrick Dockery is free to sign with any other NFL team. Washington wanted to sign Dockery and keep him from hitting the free agent market, but talks obviously broke down, and now the big guard out of Texas … Read more