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NEW: Updated edition of "100 Things
@Capitals
Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die" has arrived! The revised version includes new chapters and behind-the-scenes tales from the 2018
#StanleyCup
. Available for pre-order here
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It’s been more than 17 years since Sidney Crosby & Alex Ovechkin made their NHL debuts on the same night (Oct.5,2005)
All this time later, they are now tied with 1415 career points each (T-19th most NHL history)
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Class move from
@warriors
taking out a full-page ad in Monday’s
@TorontoStar
to wish
#Raptors
a Mazel Tov on their NBA title.
#WeTheNorth
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Nineteen years after 12yos Anderson & Nadal met in '98 Junior Nike Masters in Stuggart, they'll meet in
#USOpen
Final
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This Date
@Capitals
History
July 2, 2015:
#ALLCAPS
acquire
@TJOshie77
as part of deal from
#STLBlues
for Troy Brouwer
In five seasons in Washington, Oshie ranks second on the team in goals, behind only Alex Ovechkin
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Lars Eller
First player you think of when you see this vintage VGK logo???? 🧐
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#ALLCAPS
History
July 2, 2015:
#Caps
acquire
@TJOshie77
as part of deal from
#STLBlues
It remains arguably the most impactful trade made by GM Brian MacLellan & the biggest in Ovi Era
In 10 seasons in DC, Oshie ranks second on Caps in goals, behind only Alex Ovechkin
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🚨MILESTONE GOAL🚨
Hear
#ALLCAPS
Alex Ovechkin net the 800th goal of his NHL career as called by
@JohnWaltonPxP
&
@MayHockeyNBCS
on
@CapitalsRadio
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#STLBlues
assistant coach Larry Robinson is now a 10x
#StanleyCup
champion.
The former
#Canadiens
defenseman &
#NJDevils
coach has won the Stanley Cup in 5 consecutive decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s & 2010s)
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Former
#Caps
teammates Chandler Stephenson and Andre Burakovsky found each other during post-period shenanigans between Avs /Vegas..
With tempers escalating around them, they skated off with their arms around each other, definitely reminiscing about water fountain celebrations
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Anthony Mantha is the first player in
#ALLCAPS
history to score in each of his first four games with the franchise
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Washington earns first win over Pittsburgh at Heinz Field since Jan.1,2011
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It doesn’t happen after every practice, but every now and then, Alex Ovechkin brings his 3yo on the ice for a skate. Today was one of those days
Recently spoke to Ovi about life as a hockey dad. He loves it
Scouting report on his boy?
“He loves to shoot,” Ovi says
Of course
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Thought this was well done from
@ConorMcGahey
& Peter McNabb on Denver's
@AltitudeSR
as Nazem Kadri scored the OT winner in GM4... with an extremely delayed on-ice reaction...
#GoAvsGo
#GoBolts
#StanleyCup
Hear the final call as it sounded from the Colorado perspective
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Lars Eller scored two of the biggest goals in
#ALLCAPS
history in '18
Asked him years ago, which one was bigger?
RD1 GM3 2OT GWG (2-0 series deficit)
SCF GM5 Cup GWG
"The goal in Vegas *felt* bigger. The one in Columbus was probably more important"
He loved answering it 🐅🐅
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Funny moment outside
#ALLCAPS
room after 5-3 win over
#LetsGoPens
. As Ovechkin went to speak to media, he pretty much dropped off his little guy w/Backstrom
Nick & Sergei (18 months) then started playing hockey in the stick room. "I guess I'm the babysitter now," Nick said 🤣🤦♂️
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#ALLCAPS
Alex Ovechkin will miss a game tonight for just the 31st time in his 15-year career
Of the 31 games he's missed, only 17 have been injury related (14 others for personal reasons, suspension, etc). No forward has played more mins than Ovi since '05. Remarkable durability
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Great job by
@FriedgeHNIC
highlighting the significance of vet Chris Thorburn receiving the Cup 4th despite playing just one NHL game this season.
Thorburn spent most of year in AHL before
#STLBlues
called him up so he'd receive NHL medical insurance to help treat autistic son
From Pietrangelo to
Bouwmeester
Steen
Thorburn
Perron
O’reilly
Tarasenko
Bozak
Schwartz
Maroon
Gunnarsson
Schenn
Bortuzzo
Parayko
Binnington
Edmundson
Allen
Fabbri
Butler
Dunn
Sundqvist
Barbashev
Sanford
Blais
Thomas
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Our player to be named later has arrived. Cassidy Emma Raby joined the family this morning. Mom and baby doing well. She’s not talking back to dad yet, so I have that going for me. She joins big brother Dustin in rounding out our ‘DC’ family.
#RabyShark
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#Caps
History
June 7, 2018:
#ALLCAPS
beat
#VegasBorn
4-3 in GM5 to win the
#StanleyCup
for the first time
Below:
#ALLCAPS
lineup sheet that was distributed in
@TMobileArena
PressBox
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Not unlike New York's hottest club, Tom Wilson's season debut has everything
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#ALLCAPS
Lars Eller could become the first player from Denmark to win the
#StanleyCup
. He has plenty of support back home. Eller told me that there is a viewing party at the local movie theatre in his home town of Roedvre, Denmark, for GM5. Puck drops at 2:22 a.m. local time
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VIDEO: “Good Morning! Good Afternoon! And Good Night Tampa Bay!” It’s
@WaltonCaps
final call from
#ALLCAPS
GM2 win over
#GoBolts
in East Final
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Few could've predicted this a wk ago
The Caps, having already turned to both goalies & having been w/out Tom Wilson for all but 3 shifts, lead FLA 2-gms-to-1
Series lead is noteworthy, but *how* WSH has done it is most impressive. This isn't puck luck. They've been better team
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This Date
@Capitals
History
Feb.7,2010: With DC buried in 25 inches of snow,
#ALLCAPS
rallied from 4-1 down and beat
#LetsGoPens
5-4 in OT to earn franchise-record 14th straight win
Alex Ovechkin hatty; Mike Knuble GordieHowe hatty including OT GWG. A
#SuperBowlSunday
Classic
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#ALLCAPS
Alex Ovechkin is up to 48G/87PTS with 6 games remaining
He is on pace for a fifth season with at least 50G *and* 90PTS
The previous 4x he pulled the feat?
In his age 20, 22, 23, and age-24 seasons
He is now 36
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The Demons Have Been Exorcised.... again
Not unlike 2018
#ALLCAPS
, the 2019
#Nats
worked overtime to finally break through and erase years of playoff disappointments. The
#Caps
went on to win 8 more games en route to a title.
#Nats
are now 8 wins from doing the same
#OnePursuit
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This Date
@Capitals
History
May 7, 2018: Evgeny Kuznetsov nets series-clinching OT GWG as
#ALLCAPS
beat
#LetsGoPens
& advance to East Final
Biggest goal team history
Exactly one month later,
#Caps
were
#StanleyCup
champs
Call from
@JohnWaltonPxP
& Ken Sabourin
@CapitalsRadio
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"Tom Wilson's job is to get in people's face- in the goalie's face. He creates a lot of emotions. The emotions were high. He did what he had to do. And we reacted. It cost us the game.
"He does that to every team, every game. That's his job. He's one of the best in the League."
Pascal Vincent calls tonight's loss 'disappointing' and says the Merzlikins incident cost them the game.
#CBJ
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#Caps
alums Brooks Orpik & Matt Hendricks both retired today. Both revered by teammates for their workmanlike games
These guys would be locks for an “all-grit/glue-guy” Caps lineup from Ovechkin era. Who else you throw in there? Beagle for sure. Who else? (Lunch pail included)
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How it started How it’s going
Nice moment
@CapitalOneArena
as
@LittleCapitals
alum and Herndon, Va. native Joe Snively has opened the scoring in the
@Capitals
preseason opener
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This Date
@Capitals
History
April 17, 2018: Lars Eller scored in 2OT as
#ALLCAPS
beat Columbus in GM3 of their RD1 series.
#Caps
entered GM3 trailing the series 2-0
Washington would rally to win the series in six games. Less than two months later, they were
#StanleyCup
champs
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Did they ever! Beat them 4x, in fact. Something the Kings, Sharks and Jets couldn't accomplish between them in 15 tries combined
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🤷♂️🤦♂️
if Auston Matthews is robbed of a 50 goal season for the 3rd goddamned time in a row, man.
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Happy for
#ALLCAPS
alum Marcus Johansson, who has advanced to the
#StanleyCup
Final for the first time in his career
MJ90 played seven seasons with Washington only to be traded in 2017, months before
#Caps
finally won Cup. Now he’ll have opportunity to do the same with
#Bruins
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Five years ago tonight
June 7, 2018: The lineup deployed by Barry Trotz ahead of
#Caps
#StanleyCup
clinching win in Vegas
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VIDEO: “The Washington
@Capitals
are one victory away from the
#StanleyCup
!” Watch
@WaltonCaps
Final Call from
#ALLCAPS
6-2 win over
#VegasBorn
as heard
@CapitalsRadio
(spoiler alert: it was loud
@CapitalOneArena
)
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To Mike's point:
1990:
#ALLCAPS
used RD9 pick (156th overall) on Peter Bondra
2004: Bondra dealt to Ottawa for Brooks Laich & RD2 pick
2016: Laich (and Connor Carrick) traded to Toronto for Daniel Winnik & RD5 pick (Beck Malenstyn)
2024: Malenstyn goes to Buffalo for RD2 pick
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This Date DC Sports History (Oct.30, 2019)
The
#Nats
finished the fight and rallied to beat the Astros 6-2 in GM7 of the
#WorldSeries
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#ALLCAPS
since Dec.5:
12-1-2 record (1st in NHL)
4.40 GPG (1st)
2.13 GAA (1st)
7-0-0 on the road (1st)
Ovechkin 16G (1st)
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Former
@Montreal_Expos
catching prospect Tom Brady (well, draft pick anyways) heading back to another title game
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Hendrix Lapierre, 19, nets his first career NHL goal in his NHL debut
His parents, grandparents, brother, sister and girlfriend all made the trip from Quebec and are in attendance tonight
@CapitalOneArena
. Great moment
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LONG-READ: Jay Beagle was introduced to the
@Capitals
over dinner at a T.G.I.Friday's two miles off the Vegas strip in 2007. Eleven years later, and some two miles away, Beagle's closing act with the
#ALLCAPS
could involve lifting the
#StanleyCup
@WTOP
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#ALLCAPS
Alex Ovechkin (49G/40A) is now a point shy of his first 90-point season in 12 years
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This Date
@Capitals
History (April 6, 2004):
Despite owning the third best odds, the
#ALLCAPS
(14.2%) won the 2004 Draft Lottery and the opportunity to select Alex Ovechkin with No.1 pick.
#LetsGoPens
(25%) &
#Blackhawks
(18.8%) had best odds to win the lottery
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#ALLCAPS
alum Philipp Grubauer back
@CapitalOneArena
with
#GoAvsGo
this morning: "It's special coming back. I've had this date circled. Washington is always going to be home."
Grubauer says he and his (DC native) girlfriend will be spending the offseason in Washington
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“They are
#CalderCup
champions-
@TheHersheyBears
for the 12th time in franchise history. It’s sweeter by the dozen!”
AUDIO: Hear GM7 OT GWG from Mike Vecchione as Hershey rallies from 2-0 down to beat
@Firebirds
3-2 in OT for series win
Call from
@zackfisch
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Gretzky 894 Goals
Ovechkin 692 Goals
He's within the area code...
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#OTD
@Capitals
History
April 25, 2012:
@JRandalWard42
scored the OT winner as
#ALLCAPS
beat defending Cup champion
#NHLBruins
2-1 in GM7 of RD1 series
Classic series marked the first time in NHL history that a best-of-7 went the distance with all seven games decided by one goal
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Great shot of Spencer Carbery and his staff (Mitch Love, Scott Allen and Kirk Muller) moments after
#ALLCAPS
officially clinched playoff berth with win in Philadelphia
Shot courtesy
@MonSportsNet
@NBC4Sports
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AUDIO: Hear Alex Ovechkin establish a new NHL record with his 18th career 30-goal campaign. Ovechkin's latest tally - the 852nd of his career- gave
#ALLCAPS
2-0 lead in Detroit in critical game with playoff implications
Call from
@JohnWaltonPxP
on
@CapitalsRadio
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So there may be recency bias, but regardless of what happens next, the Howie Kendrick Grand Slam passes the Jayson Werth 2012 walk-off homer as the biggest hit in
#Nats
team history yes?!
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Starting Saturday at 12am ET (midnight, if you prefer)
@CapitalsRadio
will be airing a 2018
@Capitals
StanleyCup marathon
Commercial-free presentations of all 16
#ALLCAPS
wins from Spring 2018 in 16 days. One win a day on a loop
Listen anytime
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Updating tweet originally sent before NLCS:
Kudos to
@NatsRadio
's
@CharlieSlowes
&
@DaveJageler
. Slowes has called 3000+ games across 22
@MLB
seasons; Jageler nearly 2300 games in 14 seasons with
#Nats
Tonight, they'll call the
#WorldSeries
for the first time. Great stuff
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#ALLCAPS
Gordie Howe Hat-Trick Watch is on in Ottawa:
Tom Wilson: 1G/1A
Tyler Lewington: 1G/1A
Madison Bowey: 1G/1Fight
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Then added that he’d feel better if Burakovsky took him out for dinner rather than cooked for him
“I want to play tomorrow”
Tom Wilson says he plans to meet up with old pal Andre Burakovsky tonight in COL. “I haven’t texted him yet but he better clear his schedule.”
#Caps
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#ALLCAPS
alum Braden Holtby heading to Vancouver where he’ll reunite w his longtime teammate in Hershey & Washington, Jay Beagle
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The Houston Texans blew a 24-point lead with a berth in the AFC Championship at stake.
They didn't even have the worst 24 hours in Houston sports
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This Date
@Capitals
History (June 24, 2006): Alex Ovechkin made the announcement at GM Place in Vancouver as the
#ALLCAPS
selected center Nicklas Backstrom with their RD1 pick (4th overall) in 2006
#NHLDraft
. More
#Caps
history available in
#100Capitals
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AUDIO: Hear Alex Ovechkin net the 802nd goal of his NHL career to pass Gordie Howe into sole possession of 2nd place on the NHL's all-time goal-scoring leaderboard
Call from
@JohnWaltonPxP
& KenSabourin
@CapitalsRadio
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AUDIO: "Start spreading the news! The Capitals are going to the postseason!"
Hear the final call from
@JohnWaltonPxP
on
@CapitalsRadio
as
#ALLCAPS
beat
#LetsGoFlyers
2-1 in regular-season finale to clinch a playoff berth and set up a first-round showdown against New York
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#NHLBruins
were held to fewer than 20 shots on goal just 2x this season.
#NHLBruins
were shutout just 2x this season
Both instances came vs
#ALLCAPS
Feb.10 in Boston:
#Caps
win 3-0. Lindgren 18 saves
Apr.15 in DC:
#Caps
win 2-0 Lindgren 16 saves
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Well, it happened
#ALLCAPS
John Carlson,
#SJSharks
Erik Karlsson and Melker Karlsson were all just on the ice at the same time
"Yup. We've got the trifecta" -
@WaltonCaps
living the dream
@CapitalsRadio
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For upcoming
#Caps
book project, love this anecdote from one of Nicklas Backstrom's teammates going back to early yrs
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To close out 2021:
#ALLCAPS
sit atop NHL's overall standings (47pts)
Alex Ovechkin sits atop NHL goal-scoring leaderboard (24G)
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47 YEARS IN THE MAKING: For the first time since their inaugural game (Oct.9,1974),
#ALLCAPS
have an all-time positive goal differential
Games: 3709
GF: 11,706
GA: 11,705
Thanks
@CapsOutsider
&
@ScottSAllen
for the background
Details on
#Caps
This Morning from
@JohnWaltonPxP
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