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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps captain Alex Ovechkin has informed the NHL that he will miss the 2019 NHL All-Star Game in San Jose, preferring to take full advantage of the adjoining bye week to recuperate and get ready for the second half of the season and the playoff push.
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Mike Vogel
4 years
With that goal, Ovechkin has passed Babe Ruth.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
As it should be.
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Bob McKenzie
6 years
WSH has been told there will be no @NHLPlayerSafety hearing for Tom Wilson’s hit last night.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Thrilled for Jay Beagle, who signs a three-year, $12 million deal with VAN. Hockey is loaded with good guys, but none better than Beags, who is a self-made hockey player if there ever was one. I'll miss him and I wish him all the best.
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Mike Vogel
2 years
All the best to Lars, who should never have to buy a drink in the DMV for as long as he lives.
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Washington Capitals
2 years
NEWS | The Washington Capitals have acquired a 2025 second-round pick from the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for forward Lars Eller.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
After the incident that occurred here in Chicago during #Caps ' last visit 11 months ago, Todd Reirden felt it was appropriate for Devante Smith-Pelly to be on ice for national anthem. So he is in starting lineup with Ovechkin/Backstrom, but Oshie will play on that line after.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Officials missed a blatant hi-stick from Foegele on Jensen.Should have been a double minor. #CapsCanes
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps and Carlson Agree on Eight-Year Extension - Defenseman will stay in the District as he passes on free agency for an eight-year extension worth a total of $64 million:
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Mike Vogel
6 years
This could only happen to WIlson, but not only does he get the goal, he gets two in the box for goaltender interference. Not sure I've ever seen that. #CapsWild
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Mike Vogel
4 years
Ovechkin and Orlov both on ice for #Caps this morning ahead of the morning skate. Eller also on ice, but in light blue non-contact sweater.
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Mike Vogel
3 years
Ovechkin now with 31 goals in 39 home games since changing his goal song. #BigJoeTurner
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Miroshnichenko would have been ranked much higher, but he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma last season. #Caps did their due diligence with his medical reports and interviewed him in person here yesterday in Montreal. #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
3 years
Oshie's Hat Trick Propels #Caps to Emotional Win - In his first game back after the passing of his father, Oshie's hat trick leads Caps to second straight win over Rangers, 4-2:
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Mike Vogel
6 years
With pick No. 31, the #Caps have chosen big (6-3, 200-pound) Russian defenseman Alexander Alexeyev, who has played for WHL Red Deer for the last two seasons. He's a mobile puckmover in the mold of the modern NHL defenders.
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Laviolette on Carlson: "It's tough that Carly wasn't there tonight because he sits right next to Ovi and is such a loud, vocal piece inside the locker room. Right now he is under the care of team physicians, and is being transported to the hospital for precautionary evaluation."
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Mike Vogel
4 months
Former #Caps goalie Braden Holtby will be on the ice during this week’s development camp, helping goalie coach Scott Murray as a guest coach this week.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Happy anniversary to @JohnCarlson74 and @Holts170 , both of whom were drafted into the #Caps organization 10 years ago - Carlson 10 years ago today and Holtby 10 years ago tomorrow. Time, man. It's a runaway train.
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Washington Capitals
6 years
One-on-One | #Caps defenseman @JohnCarlson74 sits down with @VogsCaps to break down the #StanleyCup run. #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Svehcnikov made a bad decision. He dropped gloves with Ovechkin, who dropped him. #CapsCanes
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Mike Vogel
3 years
Zach Fucale now holds the NHL record for longest shutout streak at the start of a career, erasing Minnesota’s Matt Hackett (102 minutes, 48 seconds from 12/6/11 to 12/8/11) from the record books. #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
3 years
#Caps get out of Denver with a 3-2 win over Avs. They become the first Eastern team to win in regulation here this season. Avs entered game 29-2-2 in last 33 home games. #CapsAvs
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Ovechkin scores early, Burakovsky nets a pair in the second, and Holtby stops 29 shots, recording his second straight shutout (4-0) to eliminate the Lightning and propel the #Caps to the Cup final for first time in 20 years:
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Mike Vogel
2 years
DSP Returns to D.C. - Ahead of trip to DC to help celebrate #Caps ' Black History Night, recently retired Smith-Pelly reflects on his career:
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Mike Vogel
4 years
The #Caps have signed free agent goaltender Craig Anderson to a one-year contract for $700,000. He was placed on waivers moments ago, at noon on Wednesday. Should he clear waivers at noon on Thursday, he is expected to join the team's taxi squad.
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Mike Vogel
4 years
#Caps goalie Vitek Vanecek is NHL's Rookie of Month for Jan. He is eighth Cap ever to earn the honor, and one of three current Caps to do so (Ovechkin twice, Backstrom). Vanecek is first to do so since Neuvirth in Oct. '10, and fourth goalie (Mason 12/84, Carey 3/95, Neuvirth).
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Tonight marks the first time in #Caps franchise history and the 19th time in NHL history that two defensemen from same team have both scored their first NHL goals in same game. #CapsSens
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Mike Vogel
3 years
#ALLCAPS Ink Ovechkin to Extension - Caps captain signs five-year deal to stay in D.C. through the 2025-26 season:
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Ovechkin's goal is No. 610 of his career, tying him with Bobby Hull on the NHL's all-time list. #CapsKnights
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Mike Vogel
6 years
With nine seasons of 50 or more goals, Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky are the only players with more than Ovechkin's eight seasons with 50. Bossy accounted for 9 of 68 such seasons in the league during his career (13.2%), Gretzky 9 of 131 (6.9%) and Ovechkin 8 of 21 (38.1%). #Caps
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Also, the #Caps have now swept three straight sets of back-to-back games, doing so for the first time in more than 27 years. #CapsSens
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Mike Vogel
5 years
There will be a late lineup change for the #Caps tonight. Radko Gudas is trying to catch a flight home, as his wife is going into labor. Jonas Siegenthaler is stepping in. All the best to the Gudas family!
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Modern NHL players owe debt of gratitude to the late Ted Lindsay, who put his career on the line in an attempt to start a players' association in late 1950s. Ted was also the first to hold the Cup aloft and skate it around. RIP to a true pioneer and a great man, on/off the ice.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
That's another four-assist night for Backstrom, too. #CapsWings
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Mike Vogel
7 years
The #Caps have signed T.J. Oshie to an eight-year contract extension, totaling $46 million ($5.75 AAV):
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Mike Vogel
4 years
Very much looking forward to the restoration of compassion, dignity, kindness and empathy to the people’s house at 1600 Pennsylvania Av. NW.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Marchand didn't think he could lick him, I guess.
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Mike Vogel
4 years
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Mike Vogel
6 years
With today's signing of Michal Kempny, #Caps have inked five of their top six defensemen and 10 of their top 11 forwards from last season. Focus now shifts to RFAs Wilson, Bowey, Boyd and another defenseman, potentially Brooks Orpik. They've got about $9.7 million in cap space.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps win third straight, 3-2 over Canes. They've clinched their 11th playoff berth in the last 12 years. #CapsCanes
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Backstrom said today that Caps have NHL's top PP over last 10 years. He's so right. Since he debuted at start of '07-08 season, #Caps are at 22.4% (664-for-2,961) on PP, Sharks are 2nd at 20.7%. Distance between WAS and SJ is greater than that between any other two teams on list.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps Confound Knights, 3-1 - Washington earns its first-ever home ice victory in a Stanley Cup Final series in Game 3, taking a 2-1 series lead over the Golden Knights:
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Mike Vogel
3 years
Johnny Law is looking it over. Making sure of no offside. Caps are all in the room, B's are all on the bench ... it's a goal. #Caps win. And more John Denver ... #CapsBruins
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps are heading to the Stanley Cup final for the first time since 1998. They took out Tampa Bay with the first multi-goal Game 7 win in franchise history. They'll face Vegas now for the big bowl. Game 1 is Monday in the desert.
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Mike Vogel
9 years
If I'm not mistaken, #Caps have clinched Metro, EC titles and Presidents' Trophy before any other Eastern team has clinched playoff spot.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Copley's shutout in Ottawa tonight comes two weeks after Holtby shutout the Jackets in Columbus, marking the first time since 2011-12 the #Caps have had two different goalies with road shutouts in same season (Neuvirth, Vokoun).
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Heaven's Just A Win Away - #Caps open up six-pack attack on Vegas, getting goals from six different skaters in 6-2 Game 4 victory that moves them within a win of their first Cup title:
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Mike Vogel
6 years
You people are tremendous!
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Mike Vogel
6 years
For the first time in their franchise history, the #Caps have earned consecutive road wins in overtime on the same trip. And they came from behind to get it done both times.
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Mike Vogel
5 years
#Caps Make 37-Year Climb to Top of Wins Ladder - Their first eight seasons were fallow, but the Caps have prospered since and are now the NHL's winningest regular season team since '82-83:
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Mike Vogel
6 years
With Siegenthaler making the scoresheet for the first time, every #Caps player who has pulled on a sweater has recorded a point this season, including goaltenders.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps Find Their Level and Level Carolina, 6-0 - Caps put forth a dominant 60-minute performance to raze Canes, taking 3-2 series lead:
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Mike Vogel
10 years
#Caps are in the playoffs. They clinch by virtue of Toronto's win over Ottawa. Loud cheer on the plane as boys learned the news.
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Mike Vogel
5 years
Congratulations to ex-Cap Matt Hendricks, who also announced his retirement from the NHL today. He will go to work for the Minnesota Wild in player development.
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Backstrom is Back - Following two tough years of rehab, Backstrom returns to lineup, pain-free: "I just wasn't ready to stop, and I wanted to give this another shot": #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
5 years
The big fella is now 34. Snapped these pics a dozen years ago today. Happy birthday, Ovi! #Caps
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Mike Vogel
5 years
The #Caps have issued qualifying offers to the following six players: Burakovsky, Djoos, Stephenson, Vanecek, Vrana and Williams.
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Mike Vogel
2 years
#Caps Extend Strome - Caps center signs a five-year, $25 million deal to stay in the District:
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Mike Vogel
3 years
With Oshie joining Backstrom and Kuznetsov in protocol and both Wilson and Mantha still out with upper body ailments, the #Caps will take the ice against LA tonight with Alex Ovechkin as last man standing among group they envisioned as their top six forwards last summer.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps have signed Jensen to the same deal they gave Kempny last summer, four years at $10 mil total. They have their top five defensemen under contract for the next two seasons beyond this one at a combined hit of $23.85 million.
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Mike Vogel
5 years
Ovechkin and #Caps Stun Isles with Late Rally, 6-4 - Ovechkin has third straight multi-goal game while Caps score five unanswered in third for third straight win:
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Mike Vogel
2 years
My sense is that you know much more about bullshit than math.
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Mike Vogel
3 years
Samsonov is first #Caps goalie with whitewashes in consecutive starts since Braden Holtby on Jan. 5-7, 2017. Samsonov is first Caps goalie to achieve the feat entirely on the road since Clint Malarchuk on Feb. 19-20, 1988. #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
5 years
You do realize I have been posting a postgame notebook the day after every game - in addition to a recap the night of every game - for more than a decade now???
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@VogsCaps You do realize this game ended yesterday???
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Mike Vogel
4 years
Ovechkin Nets No. 708 to Win it in Overtime - #Caps captain returns from 10-day absence from ice to help Caps clip Bruins, 4-3:
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Yesterday marked Ovechkin’s “half life” with #Caps . As of today, he has been a member of the organization for one more day than he has not. Also, today is 19th anniversary of the Caps winning the 2004 NHL Draft lottery for right to draft 1st overall, and to select Ovechkin.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps have recalled G Ilya Samsonov from AHL Hershey to serve as their No. 3 netminder. Standard playoff practice, nothing to worry about with Holtby or Copley.
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Mike Vogel
2 years
And Howe! The Great Eight has tied Mr. Hockey for second all-time, notching goal No. 801 here in the District against Winnipeg’s David Rittich, at 18:22 of the 1st. #Caps lead 1-0, and that's victim no. 166 on Ocho's hit parade. #CapsJets
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Mike Vogel
7 years
Holtby earns his fifth straight win and 200th of his career, becomes second fastest goalie in NHL history (K. Dryden) to reach that milestone. #Caps win, 4-1 #CapsPens
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Mike Vogel
3 years
Believe that makes 15 goals for Oshie in his last 20 games. #CapsFlyers
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Mike Vogel
5 years
Hats and Nats Propel #Caps to Fourth Straight Win - Jakub Vrana's first career hat trick and the World Series champion Nats fuel Caps 4-2 win over Flames:
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Mike Vogel
5 years
In addition to being the 10th anniversary of Alex Ovechkin being named #Caps ' captain, today is also the 10th anniversary of John Carlson's game-winning overtime goal for Team USA in the gold medal game of the 2010 WJC tournament.
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Ovechkin has now victimized a new goaltender for the first time for the third straight game, doing so for the seventh time in his career, but the first in 14 years. He last did so Nov. 24-28, 2008 against Backstrom, Pavelec and Halak. #CapsOilers
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Mike Vogel
4 years
Caps Unleash Flurry of Goals in 6-3 Win Over Isles - Facing first multi-goal deficit of season, Caps rally for six unanswered - including five in less than 10 minutes in 2nd - to extend point streak to eight straight:
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Mike Vogel
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Holy Holtby - Holtby's desperate late save lifts #Caps to a 3-2 win over Vegas in Game 2 of Stanley Cup Final, the first SCF win and first win over Vegas in franchise history:
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Mike Vogel
4 years
All players placed on waivers by the #Caps on Monday have cleared and are still part of the organization.
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Tuesday is the first Stanley Cup championship parade in the #Caps ' franchise history. It comes 44 years to the day after the team conducted its expansion draft along with the Kansas City Scouts, June 12, 1974.
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Mike Vogel
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Orpik Calls it a Career - Nineteen years and one day after he was drafted in the first round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, #Caps defenseman Brooks Orpik announces his retirement from the NHL:
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Mike Vogel
9 years
Oh, and congrats to Tom Wilson on the first game-winning goal of his career, a day ahead of his 22nd birthday. #CapsJackets
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Mike Vogel
9 years
Ovechkin played in his 800th NHL game today. He has scored 250 goals in 400 home games, 249 goals in 400 road games. #Caps #consistent
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Mike Vogel
2 years
For the #Caps , this is potentially similar to the 2010 Draft when they were able to land Evgeny Kuznetsov at No. 26 overall after having ranked him in the top five on their list that year. #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Ovechkin's first goal of the game marked the 66th time in his NHL career that he has opened the scoring in a road game, passing Brett Hull (65) for most in League history.
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Mike Vogel
5 years
Backstrom and Hagelin both on the ice and no light blue non-contact sweaters in sight. Good chance the #Caps take the ice against the Sharks tomorrow with a fully intact lineup for first time this season.
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Mike Vogel
4 years
#Caps Land Chara - Washington inks veteran free agent blueliner to a one-year deal for 2020-21:
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Mike Vogel
2 years
To the surprise of no one, #Caps have signed goalie Darcy Kuemper to a five-year deal worth $26.25 ($5.25 AAV). They're still working on potential additional deal or deals beyond this one, too. #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Ovechkin Opts Out of All-Star Game - With a heavy recent workload and a need to rest up for the season's second half and playoff push, #Caps captain Alex Ovechkin will sit out the 2019 NHL All-Star Game:
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Mike Vogel
5 years
Some exciting early Tuesday news here. The greatest center in franchise history is sticking around for another half decade!
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps goalie Ilya Samsonov pitches a 21-save, 5-0 shutout over the Lightning. Five different Caps light the lamp, sending the Bolts home without a win in the 2018 Prospect Showcase.
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Fans here are chanting "OVI, OVI, OVI"
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Ovechkin picks up career point No. 1,300 on the Oshie goal, becoming the 35th player in NHL history to reach that plateau. #CapsIsles
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Mike Vogel
4 years
A Grand Occasion - It's N1KY Night in D.C. as #Caps Honor Backstrom's 1,000th game:
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Mike Vogel
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Wilson Signs Seven-Year Extension — Ten-year veteran winger inks $45.5 million contract extension that carries into next decade:
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Mike Vogel
8 years
Oshie has now scored against all 30 NHL teams. Just bit the hand that once fed him here at 3:47 of 2nd. #Caps up 3-1. #CapsBlues
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Mike Vogel
2 years
Wilson Returns - Eight months after tearing ACL in playoffs, Caps' winger is back in action today vs. Columbus: #ALLCAPS
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Mike Vogel
3 years
#Caps Mourn Loss of Bryan "Bugsy" Watson - After ending a 16-year playing career in the NHL, the legendary Watson stayed in the area and operated Bugsy's, a popular sports bar/pizzeria in Old Town:
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Mike Vogel
6 years
The #Caps ' first-ever win in a Stanley Cup Final comes some 44 years after they began their NHL existence, on the same night as their first-ever win over Vegas, and with Brooks Orpik supplying the GWG. This game is nuts sometimes.
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#Caps Stun Sharks in OT, 5-4 - Down two with a minute left, Caps engineer a comeback for the ages and win on Eller's goal in overtime:
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Mike Vogel
6 years
#Caps win on Kuznetsov goal in overtime. On to Tampa. #CapsPens
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Mike Vogel
6 years
Holtby pitches 24-save shutout, gets plenty of support up and down lineup to help #Caps force decisive Game 7 with 3-0 win on Monday in the District:
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Mike Vogel
3 years
Finally, some good news from MCI. Backstrom, Oshie and Orlov all back on the ice today, and it seems as though all are present and accounted for. Practice underway in five minutes, flight to STL this afternoon. #ALLCAPS
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Living The Dream - Every NHL player has a unique story, but #Caps defenseman's Michal Kempny's rise to the NHL is among the most improbable I've encountered, and I tried to tell it here:
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Mike Vogel
5 years
The #Caps won their first four road games in 2015-16, but they opened that season with a four-game homestand. This season marks the first time in franchise history that they’ve opened with two road games and brought home four points.
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