Check out the Washington Capital’s roster in Alex Ovechkin’s rookie season. Click here.
In the 2005–2006 season, the team was a last place squad in the conference. Of all the players mentioned within ONLY Alex Ovechkin, Brooks Laich, Mike Green and now Jeff Halpern, remain.
There are some names on this team that made me smile. I hadn’t heard some names in a very long time.
The only thing constant is change. That is for sure.
See you at camp. Thank you. Go Caps!
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Two for two.
At the 9:30 Club.
On December 13th.
Organized by Mike Green himself.
All proceeds to support local charities.
Caps fans – turn out to support Mike in this effort and to help him to help local charitable concerns. I am proud of Mike. He really cares! Double bottom line pursuits. Go Caps!
Yesterday was a good win over the very tough and very talented Philadelphia Flyers team.
We are now 10-4 with 20 points. We are tied with the Flyers for most points in the East although they have played one more game than we have. We are tied for most points in the NHL with LA although they have only played 13 games to our 14 games.
We have a really terrific home record now at 7-1. Thanks to our fan base for urging our team on to victory after victory.
We played tough even though we played short-handed. Kudos to our really young goaltender making his first NHL start. Varlamov. Neuvirth. Holtby. You can say our future is bright in goal.
I am proud of the team. We played quite productively this weekend winning two games over Boston and Philadelphia, two of the best teams in the league.
Now on to NYC and the New York Rangers then back home to face the red hot Tampa Bay Lightning. No rest for the weary. Thank you. Go Caps!
That is the spirit.
That is what we want the team to be all about.
If we win, the other things take care of themselves.
Read this one on Mike Green. Thank you.
We are getting terrific goaltending.
We are playing very well on the penalty kill.
Jeff Schultz has NOT been on the ice for a goal against this season.
Mike Green is a beast logging lots of ice time and playing world class defense.
We are quite scrappy. And tough and we stand up for one another.
We have only played a few good periods this entire season yet we are 3-1 and in second place in the East after the first week of NHL regular season play. See standings.
Go figure.
We won in OT. Alex Ovechkin scored and we get two standing points.
It was one of those games: The Senators clogged up the neutral zone; we had to play a bit of a chess match; they played a great road game. They get a point but we get two.
These are the kinds of games that can go either way in today’s NHL. We didn’t play great. We didn’t play poorly. We get a win. I am grateful.
We are playing better D. We are doing a very good job on the penalty kill, an area we are dedicated to improving. Mike Green logged a lot of minutes. He and Jeff Schultz are playing very well on the defensive end.
We play again on Wednesday night, our fourth game in six days. What a way to start the season - a bunch of games packed closely together! I hope we stay healthy. It is good to have some depth in today’s NHL. It is a long season and it is just getting started.
TSN thinks Mike Green is the leader in the midway point for the Norris Trophy. We agree. Why didn’t he make the Canadian Olympic team again?
And Alex Ovechkin is the leading candidate for MVP. Imagine if Alex hadn’t missed eight games to date. What would his stats be right now?
Thank you. This is very kind and we are very humbled. Click and enjoy.
Wow. I took a quick family vacation; stopped blogging; and a lot happened while we were away.
We had just come off a two game winning streak at the Caps beating both NJ and Buffalo in convincing fashion. All felt right in our little corner of the world.
Then we made a trade - a smart one for our team - that added a big left winger and cut some salary for us to have “optionality” at the trade deadline and for future use to keep our young core of players together. But we did trade a great man; a great player; and our captain. We then played Carolina and got spanked. I think the team was over confident playing Carolina at home and we were still a buzz around the trade. I will miss Chris Clark and thank him and his family for everything they did for our franchise.
Then while the league was gearing up for the wonderful Winter Classic, we went out on a crazy two game West Coast swing over New Year’s break. We were as far away from Boston as possible, weren’t we? And Mike Green was left off the Canadian Olympic team which I think was the wrong decision by their team management. I believe Mike Green is a unique and spectacular talent and one of the top D men in the NHL. We have Mike’s back. We believe in him. I know this snub will motivate Mike for the rest of the season. We as a franchise sometimes don’t get the respect we have earned yet but the only way to right that wrong I believe is to win a Stanley Cup. We get the joke. We have collective chip on our shoulder. And I guess I will be rooting harder now for the USA team and for the Russian team to light up the Canadian team at this year’s Olympic Games.