The Evolution of Dale Hunter, and Why His Maligned Calmness Is Actually a Key...
Sometimes, the success of an NHL team is just as much about the reinvention of the coach as it is the system or the players themselves. That’s something of the case for the Capitals’ Dale Hunter. Away...
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Striving Still for Serial Killer Status
This morning I am thinking a great deal about the New Jersey Devils, a great deal about the Detroit Red Wings, and a great deal about Matt Bradley. Winners win, and losers lose, and they do so in our...
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An Evolution, and Event, To Savor
Of the NHL’s 30 member clubs merely five remain alive in the quest for Stanley, and one of them is ours. That’s a remarkable and wonderful thing, relative to the Capitals’ standing of just two months...
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Pride, Regret, and Questions
If we are of mixed emotions about the end of this hockey season — proud and uplifted by a Capitals team of unlikely cohesion and stunning sacrifice, but also exasperated by the frustration of...
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Re. Size Matters: Have the Capitals Found Their Lucic?
Going into the 2012 NHL Entry Draft there were three principal objectives I’d hoped the Capitals would achieve beginning Friday night: Keep both no. 1 picks; draft for size; draft for right wing....
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The Tree of ’98 Bears More Leadership Fruit: Adam Oates Now Coaches the Caps
A new leader in Washington Outside of his winning the Stanley Cup, it’s difficult to fathom a figure in hockey ever enjoying a day a rival to Adam Oates’ yesterday. The “lesser” of his feats Tuesday...
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A Crisis of Mismanagement
If you are shocked and dismayed by where we are with hockey in Washington these days, you weren’t reading here last July. The Unexpected Rebuild, I called it. The Washington Capitals today on the ice...
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Suspension of Disbelief
Right as Washington was settling in for a spring-delayed/prolonged winter weekend last night came word (via Twitter, necessarily) of some manner of meteor shower, or meteor explosion, high in the sky...
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The Creation of a Culture for Winning
It’s a queer feeling, moving about Washington in this the season of the calendar of our perpetual discontent, and actually feeling good about the Capitals’ chances. This morning, well post cherry...
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