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The NHL decided on Tuesday that the match penalty for Nicklas Backstrom of the Washington Capitals should stand, suspending him for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals against the Boston Bruins for this cross-check to the face of Rich Peverley:

On Wednesday, [...]

Boston Bruins goalie/White House trip skipper Tim Thomas will lead the Bruins into Washington D.C. tonight to face the Capitals for game 3 of their playoff series. And since this trip to D.C. is one that Thomas won’t be able to skip, Capitals blog Russian Machine Never Breaks invites Capitals fans to greet Thomas with cutout masks of President Obama.[...]

As expected, Washington Capitals defenseman Mike Green earned a suspension for his hit to the head of Tampa Bay Lightning forward Brett Connolly on Thursday night, as Connolly was being checked along the end boards by Green’s teammate Dmitry Orlov. It was just a question of how many games; the answer from Brendan Shanahan and [...]

One of these days, Ovie. Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!

When Dale Hunter replaced Bruce Boudreau as the coach of the Washington Capitals on November 28, 2011, there was some question about whether Hunter, whose 11 years of coaching experience were limited to Ontario Junior hockey, could handle the transition to the NHL. When Dale Hunter replaced Bruce Boudreau [...]

At 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning, coach Bruce Boudreau discovered his time with the Washington Capitals had come to an end after 201 victories since Nov. 2007. He had emptied his bag of tricks to motivate the team. His general manager said his tank was on empty.

Yet Boudreau said he was ready to coach in the NHL again the moment the Capitals replaced him with Dale Hunter.[...]

Can Dale Hunter lead the Washington Capitals deeper into the playoffs than Bruce Boudreau? That’s the essential, and frankly the only, question that needs to be asked as Bruce Boudreau was fired Monday morning, about 12 hours after Sportsnet speculated this move could happen. Can Dale Hunter, who has coached the London Knights of the [...]

On Nov. 23, 2007, Washington Capitals General Manager George McPhee made a decision with monumental consequences for his team. They were 6-14-1, losing nine of 10 games. The fans chanted “FIRE HANLON” during a 5-1 loss on home ice to the Atlanta Thrashers in reference to head coach Glen Hanlon, who had toiled behind the bench since 2003. [...]

Ovechkin, the two-time league MVP, was off to a slow start with only one goal in the first five games. He ended that slump with goals in the first and third periods to lift the Capitals to a 6-0 start for the first time in team history. Washington had never started better than 4-0.

The Capitals stormed into Philadelphia and roughed-up Ilya Bryzgalov(notes), scoring three goals in a 2 minute, 54-second s[...]

Quite the game went down in Pittsburgh Thursday night, as the league’s best current rivalry got off to an intense start for the ’11-’12 season that saw the Washington Capitals win in overtime, 3-2, over the Penguins.

The game itself was ugly, for the most part, as both the Penguins and Capitals struggled to cohesively move the puck amongst themselves, but what [...]

Here’s Alex Ovechkin throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at today’s game between the Baltimore Orioles and the LA Angels.

So the pitch itself is a relatively innocuous affair. It comes in a little high, but we can forgive Ovechkin for overshooting a little, can’t we? Lord knows Capitals fans do. [...]