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Mike Ribeiro Would Gladly Stay In Washington In Exchange For A Long-Term Deal

by Paul on 03/25/13 at 06:38 AM ET
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from Stephen Whyno of the Washington Times,

“If we can agree to a long-term [contract], then I’ll be more than happy to stay here,” Ribeiro said. “But I don’t know if I’m looking for two years and change place and then another two years. I don’t think I want that. So we’ll see what we’re going to come to.”

What does long-term mean to Ribeiro?

“Five years for me is long term,” he said. “Two, three years I don’t think it’s long term. It’s short-term. Two, three is short term. Four, five, six [is] long-term. Then 10 years like Ovi, that’s a marriage thing.”

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Mike Green Trying To Remove The Target On His Back

by Paul on 03/24/13 at 02:44 PM ET
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from Katie Carrera of Capitals Insider,

Late in the Capitals’ 4-0 win over Winnipeg on Thursday night, Mike Green gathered the puck behind the net and skated to the half wall to clear it out of the defensive zone. After Green released the puck, Jets forward Evander Kane cross-checked the defenseman into the boards.

It was a late and unnecessary hit, one that earned Kane a minor for cross-checking and a 10-minute misconduct, and it was the latest example of opponents targeting Washington’s No. 1 defenseman.  Welcome back to game action, Mike Green.

“It’s a part of the game; obviously it’s a physical game, but every little opportunity we have to minimize it. And he’s a targeted man,” Coach Adam Oates said. “He’s got to come to grips with that — that they’re after him. They’re talking about Mike Green tonight. It will sure help him the more he understands that.”

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A-Ove?

by Paul on 03/19/13 at 11:48 AM ET
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from Stephen Whyno of the Washington Times,

It wasn’t long after an onslaught of criticism for Alex Ovechkin by Mike Milbury, Jeremy Roenick, Pierre McGuire and P.J. Stock that Sirius-XM NHL Network analyst Jim “Boomer” Gordon made an astute comparison. When Puck the Media’s Steve Lepore asked if there was any athlete in another sport who gets as abused as Ovechkin, Gordon mentioned Alex Rodriguez.

Gordon called Ovechkin the “A-Rod of the NHL.”

“Once you become a punching bag, you have no shot,” he said.

Ovechkin does seem to take a lot of outside hits, some fair some unwarranted.

“I don’t want to compare me and Rodriguez,” he said. “But if I do something wrong of course I’m going to be [talked about] if I do something bad. If I do something good they still will talk about me. It’s kind of position what I’m in.”

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Do Or Die Week For The Capitals

by Paul on 03/18/13 at 12:57 PM ET
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from Katie Carrera of Capitals Insider,

With 20 games left to play after Sunday’s 5-3 win against Buffalo, the Capitals have 25 points. They trail eighth-place Carolina by six and Southeast Division leading Winnipeg by seven heading into a pivotal week on the road.

Washington travels to face Eastern Conference leading Pittsburgh on Tuesday, faces their immediate foe the Jets in back-to-back games Thursday and Friday and then visits the New York Rangers, who are trying to get into playoff position themselves, on March 24.

“It’s biggest week for us. How we going to play this week, we can end the season this week or we continue to fight for the playoffs,” Alex Ovechkin said. “We have to see what’s in our side and we have to see what’s going to happen situation when different teams going to play, Carolina, Tampa and Winnipeg as well.”

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Too Physical?

by Paul on 03/16/13 at 05:26 PM ET
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from Mike Cole of NESN,

“We have some big forwards, we have some guys that can play physical if they want to do that,” Washington head coach Adam Oates said after the game, according to the Washington Times.  “But we don’t want to play that kind of game, we don’t want to get involved in their game.”

The Capitals were none too pleased with some physical play that unfolded in the third period. Hendricks and Bruins enforcer Shawn Thornton could be seen having words prior to a faceoff in the Washington zone. Hendricks wanted no part of it. The puck was then dropped and as play shifted into the neutral zone, Thornton was once again unsuccessful in his attempt to pick a fight. That prompted Adam McQuaid to jump into the fray, essentially forcing Hendricks into the unfortunate situation of having to choose between Thornton and McQuaid.

Hendricks chose McQuaid, and the big Bruins defenseman ended up taking Hendricks to the ice, only to pick him back up and give him a couple of more big rights before the fight ended.

“The biggest joke I’ve ever seen,” Washington’s Karl Alzner reportedly quipped. Unsurprisingly, the Bruins had no problem with the situation after the game.

more and watch the McQuaid/Hendricks fight below...

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Video- Be Careful When Passing In Front Of Your Own Net

by Paul on 03/16/13 at 02:18 PM ET
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David Krejci intended to make a short pass in front of his own net today... instead...

Goal credited to Marcus Johansson of the Capitals.

 

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TiqIQ Ticket Preview: Capitals @ Bruins

by Paul on 03/15/13 at 11:20 AM ET
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By Eli Epstein, TiqIQ

In the dogfight that is the top of the Eastern Conference, the Boston Bruins can’t afford to give games away like they did Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, where they showed up, played a great first period, and then disappeared in the 2nd and 3rd, allowing the Penguins to skate wherever they wanted and plant a flag in the Bruins’ defensive zone.

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Afternoon Line

by Paul on 03/12/13 at 12:04 PM ET
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"But Ovechkin to me, there are no 60-goal scorers in the league any more,there are 40-goal scorers. He’s a 35-to-40-goal scorer, which would put him among the best goal scorers in the league, in my opinion, year after year after year. The one thing that I just don’t know about, it keeps coming back to this for me, is we often talk about players with high hockey IQs. I don’t think he’s got one. I do not think he’s got a high hockey IQ. He goes for power, he goes in straight lines, he doesn’t see around him really well, and to me, one of the great traits that Sidney Crosby has is his ability to think the game at the highest speed. And I don’t think Ovechkin’s got that.”

-Ray Ferraro of TSN.  More on Ovechkin and the Capitals from Dan Steinberg of DC Sports Bog at the Washington Post.

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Afternoon Line

by Paul on 03/10/13 at 01:24 PM ET
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“Of course some refs don’t like some personalities on our team, but anyway, you have to respect us. We’re emotional, we’re in the game.  When we say something bad to linesmen or bad to referees, we can’t give them two minutes when they yell at me or they yell at coaches or yell somebody. It’s kind of position when they have to give us a break.

“If we’re over [the] top of our yelling or screaming, yeah, of course you have to give us two or five or 10, it’s their call.  Not like if we say one word to them like you’re gonna get two minutes right away….I think the league and the [NHLPA] have to look at it and make a changes.”

-Alex Ovechkin on the Washington Capitals. More on the lack of respect issue from Katie Carrera of Capitals Insider.

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Tyson Strachan Hit On Jason Chimera

by Paul on 03/07/13 at 11:40 PM ET
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Strachan received a five minute major for interference, a 10 and game misconduct.

Chimera did return to play.

 

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