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You Share The Same Fate As The People You Hate – ’18-’19 Team Previews: Washington Capitals

Matt McClure September 19, 2018 0

Oh yeah, these guys. While the Capitals finally hoisting the Cup last season was basically the equivalent of Denzel winning an Oscar for Training Day or Scorsese winning for The Departed, they certainly didn’t celebrate like a team that beat an expansion franchise, and to be fair, they

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Live From The Five Hole – Back And Forth

Matt McClure June 12, 2018 0

The main cast returns to give thoughts on the Cup Final, the recent rumors surrounding the Hawks, and what any of this means. As usual, no subscription is required, grab the audio after the jump. And we’re on Stitcher now.

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Night Songs – That’s How Ovie Does It

Sam Fels June 8, 2018 0

Call me a sucker for these moments. I’ve certainly had my issues with the Washington Capitals. I’ve definitely reveled in their failures along with everyone else, spiced with a tinge of frustration with them for not making good on the promise of so many teams in the past (don’t tell me Caps-Hawks in ’10 wouldn’t […]

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Night Songs – Stanley Cup Final Game 4

Sam Fels June 5, 2018 0

And now we’re on the brink, though everyone already writing the tributes to the Capitals might want to check their history when leading a series 3-1. Even this grouping, for the most part, was around when they blew one of these to the Rangers three years ago in one off those Caps-Rags series we’ve all […]

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Watching The Party – Stanley Cup Final Preview

Sam Fels May 28, 2018 0

 vs.  SCHEDULE: Game 1 Tonight, Game 2 Wednesday, Game 3 Saturday, Game 4 Monday When it’s been 90 degrees for a few days you’re probably not thinking about hockey. You’re even less likely to be thinking about hockey between these two teams. This was not the Final predicted, and in the NHL’s supreme marketing strategy […]

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Night Songs – There Isn’t A Record Of Anything Until There Is

Sam Fels May 24, 2018 0

It’s probably harder to compare to other eras, but it feels like across all sports we’ve seen the breaking down of a lot of “truths” the past 15 years or so. “Truths” in that teams that would never win or couldn’t get past a certain point have done so. I suppose it starts with the […]

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Watching The Party – FFUD’s Conference Final Previews: Capitals vs. Lightning or You Come All This Way For Nothin’

Sam Fels May 10, 2018 0

 vs.  SCHEDULE: Game 1 Friday, Game 2 Sunday, Game 3 Tuesday, Game 4 Thursday They’ve broken through. After more than a decade in the Ovechkin Era, and repeated attempts to run head-first (sometimes literally) through the forcefield between the second round and the conference final, the Caps finally found the weak point and got into […]

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Night Songs – Round 2 Opening Weekend: This Is Better

Sam Fels April 30, 2018 0

I think we can all admit without turning in our hockey fan cards that the first round was pretty middling as far as entertainment. And that’s actually fine. When you have a few, clear, really good teams as the NHL does, the first round probably should be underwhelming. The Jets, Preds, and Lightning were always […]

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Watching The Party – FFUD’s Round 2 Preview: Penguins vs. Capitals or The Gods Must Be Crazy

Sam Fels April 26, 2018 0

 vs.  It’s kind of amazing, while feeling completely inevitable, that we ended up here again. The Capitals were not supposed to be good, much less win the Metro again. The Penguins flirted with both ends of the spectrum this season, flipping between simply awful and simply brilliant sometimes game-to-game. So it was thought the Penguins […]

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Game #59 – Capitals vs. Hawks Preview/Six-Man Tag: Revolution #9

Sam Fels February 17, 2018 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Capitals 33-17-7   Hawks 24-26-8 PUCK DROP: 7:30 TV: WGN THE NATIONALS HAVE NEVER WON A PLAYOFF SERIES: Japers Rink At this point, we should just enjoy every game for the singular event that it is. I guess. So tonight is the one time per year that Alex Ovechkin comes to town, and if […]