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Game #28 – Hawks vs. Bruins Spotlight: Pastrnakamura

By Sam Fels December 5, 2019 0

These are the kinds of posts we like, even if it’s about the Bruins. Or Bruin, in this case. Because goals are fun. It’s the name of the game, after all. And lots of goals are lots of fun. Which means David Pastrnak is having the most fun of anyone, causing the most fun for […]

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Game #6 – Capitals vs. Hawks Preview: Spike To Streak

By Sam Fels October 20, 2019 0

vs. RECORDS: Capitals 5-2-2  Hawks 2-2-1 PUCK DROP: 6pm TV: NBCSN Chicago/NHLN Outside the 606 WHAT A BUNCH OF CLOWNS: Japers Rink The Hawks come in to their first game of the year on a positive base, though perhaps a touch lucky to have their second win of two. So the Hawks have a chance for […]

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You Ain’t Shane, You Ain’t Mook – ’19-’20 NHL Team Previews: Washington Capitals

By Sam Fels September 11, 2019 0

The old standby. The last four seasons, no matter what happens, there the Caps are, finishing first in the Metro. There’s always a portion of the season where it feels like it’s gone on them, that this is finally where they’ve gotten too old and too predictable and too comfortable, and yet the season ends […]

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You Get What Anyone Gets – Saying Goodbye To The ’18-’19 Washington Capitals

By Sam Fels April 26, 2019 0

I would say that the Washington Capitals learned all the wrong lessons from winning their first Cup last spring, but then what can you learn when you spend the next eight months riding the creature? You’ve probably learned some lessons while bass-ackwards, but they were learned the wrong way and could have been absorbed in […]

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You Were So In, With The Out Crowd – Playoff Previews: Hurricanes vs. Capitals

By Sam Fels April 11, 2019 0

vs. Schedule Game 1 in DC tonight, 6:3o Game 2 in DC Saturday, 2pm Game 3 in Carolina Monday, 6pm Game 4 in Carolina Thursday, 6pm There’s a chance that being everyone’s bandwagon team, the Carolina Hurricanes could get kind of annoying pretty soon. I’ll never find them that way, because of Our Dear Sweet […]

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Game #50 – Capitals vs. Hawks Preview, Themed Birthday Party – Do The Standing Still

By Matt McClure January 20, 2019 0

 vs  Game Time: 11:30AM CST TV/Radio: NBC, WGN-AM 720 What A Bunch of Clowns: Russian Machine, Japer’s Rink Now that the calendar has turned, the usual heavy dose of brunch hockey games on national TV is set to begin, with this installment featuring the defending champs, and at present, the worst team in the NHL. How’s that for star […]

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Game #50 – Capitals vs. Hawks Spotlight: Alex The Accurate?

By Sam Fels January 20, 2019 0

Only in this way is it a shame that Russia-US relations are headed to Cold War status soon, because Alex Ovechkin should be considered an imported treasure, if not a national one. But being a close friend of The Shirtless Rider in charge over there probably won’t help his cause in a lot of eyes. […]

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Game #50 – Capitals vs. Hawks Q&A: Greg Young From Japers Rink

By Sam Fels January 20, 2019 0

Japers Rink has been among the gold-standard in team blogs for over a decade. They lent us Greg this morning.  The Caps for the second straight year are kinda weird. They’re near the top of the Metro, so no problems there, but their metrics say they shouldn’t be. Braden Holtby has been good, but short […]

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Game #22 – Hawks vs. Capitals Q&A: Russian Machine Never Breaks…Unless It’s Drunk…Then Only Sorta

By Sam Fels November 21, 2018 0

RussianMachineNeverBreaks.com has been a quality Caps outlet for as long as we’ve been doing this. Follow them @RussianMachine.  It’s odd for a Cup-winning team to lose its coach. What really happened with Barry Trotz and has it made any difference so far this year? There’s probably less to the story of Trotz’s exit than meets […]

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

By 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 did take out the top seed in the conference […]