Game One of the World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals is Tuesday night. Ahead of the first pitch, Nats fan @PoolBoyTV remixed the Friends intro and incorporated Washington Nationals players. It’s brilliant.
Instead of Ross, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, and Chandler, we’ve got Juan, Trea, Spanky, Anthony, Ryan, and Howie.
When the Capitals won it all in 2018, there were several Stanley Cup champion bobbleheads released that summer that were must-haves.
There were bobbleheads of TJ Oshie riding the Metro, Evgeny Kuznetsov doing the bird celebration, Braden Holtby making The Save, Lars Eller celebrating his Cup-winning goal during Game Five, and Devante Smith-Pelly holding up a championship belt. All of the bobbleheads are super creative (Kuzy’s arms bobble) and now all of them reside in my Capitals-themed basement.
Now there’s another championship bobblehead that you, me, and pretty much every other Caps fan in existence is going to want to own. It’s a bobblehead of Alex Ovechkin holding the Stanley Cup up with Nicklas Backstrom. Together.
The Washington Capitals are at Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome and on Monday there was a teeny tiny change with the lines.
Todd Reirden has returned Michal Kempny to the first defensive pairing with John Carlson – the NHL’s second star of the week.
Radko Gudas had himself quite a night against the Chicago Blackhawks.
During the waning seconds of the first period, Gudas fought Connor Murphy after the Blackhawks defenseman attempted to land a high and stupid hit on Alex Ovechkin. It was Gudas’ second straight game where he defended a teammate.
But Gudas had more pain to deliver. And deliver it he did. In the third period, Gudas doled out three hits in six seconds, including a hip check that sent Dylan Strome high into the air.
Capitals defenseman John Carlson had one of the best weeks of his career last week and the NHL took notice. The blueliner was named the NHL’s second star of the week for the week ending October 20.
Boston forward David Pastrnak and Buffalo goalie Carter Hutton were named the first and third stars.
By Rachel Cohen 19 hours ago
Hockey legend Teemu Selanne was back at his old stomping grounds on Sunday and the Anaheim Ducks made sure to honor him in front of the home crowd. Except – they did it in a very roundabout way.
The Ducks surprised Selanne by featuring him on a Teemu Selanne Look-a-Like Cam. Selanne’s reaction is priceless.
The Washington Capitals got their long road trip underway in Chicago, taking down the Blackhawks 5-3 for their third regulation time win in a row.
The Blackhawks out-shot the Caps 44 to 30 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 64 to 43.
By Chris Cerullo 24 hours ago
The Washington Redskins got shut out by the San Francisco 49ers 9-0, Sunday, in a soggy, mud-filled game at FedEx Field. It was the DC football team’s sixth loss in seven games of what is already another harrowing season.
Later that night, Capitals radio announcer John Walton, who always stays up and up on local DC sports current events, put in perspective just how bad things are for the Redskins after TJ Oshie scored the Capitals’ first goal of the game.
The Washington Capitals are all-in with their support of the Washington Nationals.
Sunday, after the Capitals defeated the Blackhawks 5-3, they blasted Montell Jordan’s This Is How We Do It in the locker room. The music can be heard in the background as the Capitals videoed their postgame fist bumps.
“THIS IS HOWIE DO IT,” the Capitals tweeted.
After signing a big contract last summer, John Carlson seems determined to deliver a return on the Washington Capitals’ investment. When he set up Alex Ovechkin for a one-timer goal in Sunday’s game, Carlson earned the 15th assist and 18th point of his season.
Racking up so many points in just 10 games puts Carlson in the company of legendary defenders like Bobby Orr and Paul Coffey.
By Peter Hassett 1 day ago
