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Avert Your Eyes Away from Fresh Media Malfeasance
Nature Herself this week is condemning local media, freezing hard and fast our Canal and urging us to recreate outside, far away from media’s maelstrom of malfeasance. Once again, burgundy and gold incompetence is being feted and celebrated by ...
Dumbing Down Hockey Mike Duco Style
Prior to Thursday night, I had no idea who Mike Duco was. Going forward, I’m not sure I’m going to hear much about him that’s flattering. It was the Florida Panthers’ Mike Duco, making his second appearance in an NHL sweater, ...
The Habs Spoil a Wonderful Family Reunion
It was very much a family affair at Verizon Center on Friday night. The Red Army family endured a rare evening of frustration and torment from the home team’s missed opportunity after missed opportunity, culminating with the Capitals’ 3-...
A Warrior’s Will Wins It
“Tremendous intensity to this game, right from the start,” Versus’ Joe Micheletti informed viewers. I remind: once upon a time this was a Patrick division rivalry game. And the intensity was not unlike what we saw twice earlier on ...
An Early Holiday Gift
pucksandbooks suggested yesterday that Caps’ fans in some number would ask Santa for a Mathieu Perreault sweater under the Christmas tree this year. Reader Matt emailed us with imagery of his impatience for the gift-giving season — he gav...
A Turning Point for Semyon Varlamov?
Semyon Varlamov’s struggles this season have struck me as often being of the mental as opposed to the physical variety. So consider the mental fortitude he displayed in last night’s 11-round shootout victory over the New York Islanders. ...
First Fifth Review
The first fifth of Capitals’ season leaves the club with a 10-3-4 record, 24 points, and first-place place tie for the the conference lead with the archrival Penguins. But is the Capitals position in the standings reflective of an authentic Cup-con...
First Fifth Review
The first fifth of the Capitals’ season leaves the club with a 10-3-4 record, 24 points, and a first-place tie for the the conference lead with the archrival Penguins. But is the Capitals position in the standings reflective of an authentic Cup-con...
Maine Objective: Pursuing Pucks and Mighty Fine Microbrews
(Portland, Maine) — Embarked I am on roadtrip no. 1 of the new hockey season, catching up with my friends Mike and Marleen, who are newly relocated here from D.C. and adjusting to life without live Caps’ hockey. Like so many others, they...
A little man looking to make a big impact
The Washington Capitals have recalled center Mathieu Perreault from the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL) and assigned center Keith Aucoin to Hershey, vice president and general manager George McPhee announced today. Perrault had a co...
Snapshot of a Prospect as a Saturday Night NHL Hero
When he skated in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for Acadie Bathurst, Mathieu Perreault often played the hero's role. His reward for his heroics, say on the road in Val d'Or on a winter Saturday night? Little fanfare and an eighteen-hour bus r...
Smaller Skater Carrying a Mighty Magical Stick
Hockey needs, and greatly benefits from, stories like Mathieu Perreault's. He's the undersized, way-late-in-the-draft, uber-skilled kid who soaks up instruction, commits himself to bettering his weaker areas, and steadily gets better and better, seas...
Opening Duchesne Cup Scrimmage Notes
Snapshot of precocious virtuosity: during Monday's 10:00 a.m. practice session, on a deep-zone dump in, puck retrieval and exit drill, with Alexander Ovechkin chasing him from the near boards and Mike Knuble hot on him down the middle of the ice, Joh...
