This Team, Y’all: Week 12 Snapshot
Photo: Bruce Bennett This team, y'all. Whether it be through elite goaltending, top-notch special teams, strong 5v5 play, luck, some sort of…
Caps Beat Isles: Numbers For The Morning After
Photo: Bruce Bennett On Thursday night, The Caps continued trouncing everyone in their path by tossing the Islander aside, 4-1. Nate Schmidt…
Turning the Corner: How Tom Wilson’s Value is Changing
Photo: Maddie Mayer For most of his career, Caps 2012 first-round pick Tom Wilson has languished on the team's fourth line, more…
Inflection Point: Week 11 Snapshot
The Capitals have played sixteen games since the beginning of December. In that time, the team added 24 standings points, making them…
Braden Holtby Is The Caps MVP and Playing at the Highest Level of his Career
Screenshot by RMNB reader Victor K. Monday night, Braden Holtby made 31 saves against the Buffalo Sabres and notched his second shutout of the season.…
The Past Can’t Be Changed: Week 10 Snapshot
Photo: Maddie Meyer Welcome to the final snapshot of 2015. To note that Jason Chimera's 13.3 percent shooting percentage isn't likely to…
Asses Not Inside Heads: Week 9 Snapshot
Photo: Patrick Smith/Getty Images Friday night's thrilling comeback win over Tampa Bay propelled the Caps into first place in the NHL standings.…
Jeremy Roenick’s Astonishing Ignorance
I guess I'm going to write about plus/minus again and why Jeremy Roenick is a bad analyst. Please skip this article if any…
Braden Holtby Is Playing the Best Hockey of His Career
Photo: Patrick Smith/Getty Images During the course of an 82-game season, every team goes through periods where they just don't play well. Recently,…
Keep On Keepin’ On: Week 8 Snapshot
Photo: Rob Carr For a good part of the early season, the Caps were playing like they had discovered the goal cheat…
Worry Not for Alex Ovechkin’s Offense
Photo: Patrick McDermott With a hard-nosed drive to the net on Tuesday, Alex Ovechkin ended a three-game goal-less slump in which he…
Bless You, Braden: Week 7 Snapshot
Photo: Amanda Bowen The weekly snapshot has been a very happy place so far. Overall, the Caps have been racking up points…
Nate Schmidt Should Remain on the PK Even After Brooks Orpik Returns
Photo: Rob Carr When Brooks Orpik went down with an injury on November 10, Nate Schmidt was handed a large role by…
And the Beat Goes On: Week 6 Snapshot
Photo by Amanda Bowen Twenty-three games into the season, the Caps sit atop the Metropolitan Division (worst division name in sports? yes!)…
Twenty Games In: These Capitals are The Team
Photo: Patrick McDermott With roughly a quarter of the season gone and lots of great hockey already in the books, it's time to…
The Type of Decision That Will Get Andre Burakovsky Scratched Again
Photo: Rob Carr After being a healthy scratch for the past two games, Andre Burakovsky returned to the lineup Wednesday night against…
Twenty Games In: A Very Green Color-Coded Possession Visualization
As you might've noticed from our podcast this morning, the Capitals are twenty games into the season so it's time for us…
Spread the Love Around: Week 5 Snapshot
Photo: Amanda Bowen Ahoy, snapshot people! The season is almost a quarter of the way over (not to be confused with the…
Nate Schmidt’s Skating and Passing Abilities Lead To Success
Awesome Photo: Chris Gordon The love for Nate Schmidt 'round these parts is well-documented. Possession monster, always smiling blah blah blah. Enough already,…
Stay the Course: Week 4 Snapshot
The Caps grabbed three of six available standings points this week against teams that are far from the NHL's elite. Their performance…
