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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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Game #22 – Hawks 2, Capitals 4: It’s Just a Face in the Crowd Down a Dead-End Street

By Rose Rankin November 21, 2018 0

I don’t know what the hell the Hawks were doing at the beginning of the game, but a slow start pretty much screwed them. They followed that up with a lot of dumb penalties, making life harder for themselves, but had it not been for some abject stupidity right after puck drop we may have […]

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Game #22 – Hawks vs. Capitals Preview – Bottled In Cork

By Matt McClure November 21, 2018 0

 @  Game Time: 6:00PM CST TV/Radio: NBCSN, NBC Sports Chicago, WGN-AM 720 What A Bunch Of Clowns: Japer’s Rink, Russian Machine Never Breaks Though the Circus Trip is now a thing of the past, the Black Wednesday/Black Friday two-fer for the Hawks still remains, and the past to years things have been set out east rather than in California. […]

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Game #22 – Hawks vs. Capitals Spotlight: Michal Kempny’s Phoenix

By John Pullega November 21, 2018 0

You knew it was going to happen. From the second the Hawks traded Michal Kempny for a conditional third-round pick from Washington (which in an annoyingly roundabout way turned into Niklas Nordgren, who might be a scoring threat in 2021), he was destined to play a noticeable role in getting Washington its Cup. You’ll remember […]

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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 […]

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Their Emblems Built of Garbage – ’18–’19 Blackhawks Player Previews – Erik Gustafsson

By John Pullega September 13, 2018 0

As we move down the Hawks’s agonizing back-end, which at this point resembles someone who’s fallen into a porta-potty in a Super Mario Bros.-esque attempt to warp to a different place after the mushrooms really started to kick in, we reach a relative bright spot. We often bemoan the fact that the Hawks don’t have […]

Live From The Five Hole

Live From The Five Hole – Back And Forth

By 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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Bury My Heart At Michal Kempny

By Sam Fels May 24, 2018 0

It’s something of a spring tradition, at least it is when your team doesn’t go anywhere or misses the dance altogether. There’s always a player or two or six who make it to the Final and some of those even win it (funny how that works). And you sit there and curse the brainpower of […]

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

By 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 […]