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Caps winning streak ends at eight games thanks to the Senators
Posted on 18 Apr 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
The Washington Capitals, who have been hot lately coming into this game with an eight game winning streak fell to the Ottawa Senators by a score of 3-1 being their streak to a hault. Ottawa, who is usually successful at home (14-3-3), showed the Caps tonight why they are one of the teams to watch out for going into the end of the season and the playoffs. This game tonight was the second time th...
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Caps win their sixth straight, Holtby sets a new career high in total saves in a regular season game
Posted on 11 Apr 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
The Washington Caps opened up a three game homestand against the Carolina Hurricanes, this being their last meeting for the season. Going into this game Carolina had lost nine of their last ten and have gone 1-12-1 since March 14th. It was all Capitals in this contest as they win over the Hurricanes 3-1 making it their sixth straight victory and their tenth in their last twelve games. After two...
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Caps win in shootout, take over first place in Southeast Division
Posted on 4 Apr 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
The Washington Capitals came back tonight to Verizion Center after a three game road trip, nine of their last eleven have been on the road. Washington attempted to avoid being swept by the New York Islanders for the season for the first time since 1981-82 and succeeded. Thanks to an Alex Ovechkin goal in a shootout the Caps prevailed over the Islanders by a score of 2-1 and now move on up to fi...
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With Laich, Green, and Orlov back the Caps at full strength are a different team
Posted on 22 Mar 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
Capitals Brooks Laich, Mike Green, and Dmitry Orlov had not all played together at the same time this season until last night when the Caps won on the road in Winnipeg 4-0. Before that game last night the Caps had only won four games on the road. This trio proves to be the key to winning road games as the Caps defeat the Jets in Winnipeg again 6-1. Brooks Laich scored his first goal of the seas...
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Caps lose at home tonight, now face six of next seven on the road
Posted on 12 Mar 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
After not taking care of business tonight against the Hurrincanes at home the Caps enter a series of games where they play six of the next seven games on the road. The Caps this season have a horrible road record, it is 3-7-1, the three wins coming against Southeast Division teams. When facing the rest of the teams in the Eastern Conference on the road they are 0-6-1. The last meeting between t...
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Caps hand Bruins first loss to a Southeast Division team this season
Posted on 5 Mar 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
Tonight's game featured two teams facing each other for the first time this season. The last time the Caps and Bruins met was in the playoffs last year in game seven of the series in which the Caps won and advanced thanks to a goal by Joel Ward. In tonights game the Caps emerged victorious once again coming back from a three goal deficit winning 4-3 in overtime,the Caps handed the Bruins their ...
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The streaks stop here
Posted on 17 Feb 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
Tonight's 2-1 loss in New York to the Rangers signifies the end of many streaks for the Capitals. The Capitals three game winning streak going into tonight was broken, and the Caps also failed at a chance to win three consecutive road games which they had not done in more than 13 years. They had also scored at least one power play goal in their last six games and that streak was also broken as ...
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When the Caps have an off period it seems to be insurmountable
Posted on 12 Feb 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
Although the Caps won in overtime tonight against the Florida Panthers 6-5, period-wise they went 1-1-1, they lost the first period, tied in the second and won the third. In total for the season after tonight, in terms of periods, Washington has won fifteen periods, lost sixteen, and tied eight, why are they only 4-8-1 on the year right now? Apparently the amount of periods lost has a goal diff...
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Canadian teams continue to cause trouble for the Caps
Posted on 5 Feb 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
Coming into this game tonight the Caps had not won a game against a Canadian team this season so far. In the first ten games played this season (which includes the one played tonight) half of the Caps opponents have been Canadian teams. Washington failed to break this winless streak by losing to the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2. The man that stuck the dagger into the Capitals chest the hardest in th...
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The Habs and Have Nots
Posted on 24 Jan 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
The Capitals came into this game with a record of 0-2 for the first time since the '96-'97 season to square off in their first game outside of the Southeastern Division this year against the Montreal Canadians. Before this game the Caps held a six game winning streak against the Habs dating back to the '10-'11 season. Now that streak has been broken with a final score of 4-1 in favor of the Hab...
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This could be a long shortened season for the Caps
Posted on 22 Jan 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
Three nights after being embarassed in the opening game 6-3 by Tampa Bay the Caps did not seem to do much better tonight as they drop their home opener to the Winnipeg Jets 4-2. The loss tonight ended a streak of ten straight home opener wins for the Caps. It also marks the Caps fourth straight loss to the Jets dating back to last season. The Capitals are simply not playing good hockey to start...
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Tampa Bay continues to CAPitalize on power plays in season opener
Posted on 19 Jan 2013 by Brendan Keelan.
Last year Tampa Bay scored almost 90 percent of the time on the power play against the Capitals and tonight was no different as they scored three goals out of their six on power plays to defeat the Capitlas 6-3 in the season opener of the 2013 (2012 part lost) season. The lockout created a short preseason which resulted in sloppy play causing eleven pentalies total between the two teams. Going ...
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Ignatius said: Muller!! When are you coming back??
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Steven Jones said: Thanks Drew! I agree that Martin was showing some nice support, but he's so depend...
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Andrew Webster said: Nice post man! I'll be checkin' in to get your take more often! I agree with how...
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