Week 6 Snapshot: Small Steps in the Right Direction
Finally. Inevitably. (Photo: Patrick McDermott) Riding a four-game win streak (now a five-game point streak), the Capitals made no adjustments to their lineup…
Week 5 Snapshot: Line Shuffling, Good and Bad
Photo: Greg Fiume Thanks to Saturday's win over the Panthers, the Capitals are a .500 team again, but in the past few weeks…
Week 4 Snapshot: Underwater, But Winning
Photo: Gerry Thomas The Caps won two of their three games last week, so by anyone's definition it was a success. Tuesday's…
Week 3 Snapshot: Turn and Face the Strain
Photo: Patrick Smith Adam Oates made much-needed adjustments to lines on Friday morning, resulting in happy outcomes for the second line collectively…
Week 2 Snapshot: Precious Little Progress
Alex Ovechkin watches. (Photo: Patrick Smith) The Capitals only played two games this week, and one of those was a blowout 5-1 loss…
Week 1 Snapshot: Even-Strength Anxiety
Photo: Bill Smith There are lots of great statistical resources out there, but few of them allow you to see how players…
Divining the Capitals Lines
Some old-school headshots for ya. This time of year, we tend to get one question more than any other: what do you think…
Mike Ribeiro in Nashville, Corsi-In, Corsi-Out, And Other Reasons Why Grabovski is No Good
On Friday we posted an article in which we mistook a fake twitter account as genuine. I say that to make clear…
Grabovski > Ribeiro is the Hill I Will Die On
Since Thursday, our comments and Facebook page have sort of been railroaded by Ribeiro loyalists. These folks have been saying that Mike…
Mikhail Grabovski is Not a Replacement for Mike Ribeiro
...He's an improvement. A big one. They're both presumptive second-line centers in UFA status, but George McPhee upgraded big-time when he signed…
Fake Mikhail Grabovski Tweets At You, Thanks Obama
Update: This is a fake/parody Twitter account. We're sorry for the confusion. I guess this is a good time for you to…
Robert Vollman’s Hockey Abstract Is For Everyone
People on Twitter often ask us for some kind of resource that explains advanced statistics in hockey. From now on, Robert Vollman's Hockey…
Ridin’ Solo: That Time Slow Jamz Interrupted Alex Ovechkin’s Press Conference
Alex Ovechkin was understandably disappointed when he met the media for the final time this season. The Caps had been eliminated from the…
My Apology, and How We Got Here
Photo credit: Patrick McDermott Sooooooooo... I was wrong about the Capitals. And I'm sorry. Early in the season, I waved away the…
The Washington Capitals at the Halfway Mark
I have no idea who the Washington Capitals are. We are exactly halfway into the 2013 season, and the team seems to…
Braden Holtby’s Shutouts > Pekka Rinne’s Shutouts
Photo credit: Jonathan Kozub Braden Holtby's 35-stop afternoon in Manitoba puts him in a three-way tie in shutouts (3) alongside Nashville's Pekka Rinne…
Programming Note: PuckBuddys is (are?) Taking Over
I'll be out of town on business this week, so Craig and Doug from the always-perfect PuckBuddys site will be taking over…
Russian Machine, Creative Commons, and Aaron Swartz
Effective immediately, all original content on RussianMachineNeverBreaks.com and its related sites is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. This means you can…
Clear Your Cache: We’ve Redesigned the Site
R.I.P. The Gray Thing 2009-2013 Happy hockey day. Peeking at RMNB today, you might notice we've made some changes. The new RMNB…
RMNB’s Biggest Stories of 2012
2012 is just about done, and although we've covered about 40 fewer hockey games than we wanted, we're now delighted to take…
