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    Lumbus beats Caps 5-1
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    The Washington Capitals needed a win on Friday to avoid their third four-game losing streak of the season. You’d think they could get it against the Columbus Blue Jackets, but you’d be wrong.

    To make matters worse, I’m drinking Coors Light, which is a beer in the same way John Erskine is a pro hockey player. Barely.

    Tom Wilson nullified a Caps’ powerplay to make it four-on-four, and soon after that, John Carlson’s trip made it four-on-three for the Jackets. James Wisniewski made the Caps pay for that, and then Cam Atkinson made it 2-0 before the first intermission after Dmitry Orlov was unable to clear the crease.

    Ryan Johansen scored for Lumbus early in the second, chasing Grubauer from net and bringing in fresh-faced Braden Holtby. With the help of Martin Erat and some traffic up front, John Carlson got a long puck past Bobrovsky at the halfway point. The Caps had a flicker of life.

    Mark Letestu extinguished that flicker with a snazzy near-side goal early in the third. Then Cam Atkinson peed on the embers.

    Blue Jackets beat Caps 5-1. The Caps have lost four games in a row. This beer tastes awful.

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    By Peter Hassett 7 years ago

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    Braden Holtby Makes Insane Save with the Knob of his Stick (GIF)
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    Photo credit: Jay LaPrete

    After giving up three goals in 22 minutes of game action, Philipp Grubauer was relieved from service in the Washington Capitals net. Grubi, who wasn’t getting much help from his teammates, skated off. On came Braden Holtby.

    It was Holtby’s fourth appearance in the last month. You’d think he’d be rusty.

    Nope.

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    By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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    Caps Superfans Unite: Brouwer Rangers Take us Behind-the-Scenes of the Arrowine Commercial
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    The gang. (Photo credit: @zoharfilm)

    Editor’s note: The Washington Capitals fan base is a tight bunch. We have both super fans and normal people, but everybody comes together to watch the team blow a late lead. It’s a nice community like that. Recently, a few of those superfans shot a commercial for a local wine shop. We’ll let Nathan from the Brouwer Rangers take it away.

    On a chilly, drizzly night in December, unbeknownst to all but a few fortunate souls, magic was happening behind the locked doors of an Arlington storefront. On Tuesday, that magic was revealed to the world in the form of this commercial for Arrowine, a local fine food and adult-beverage store. Give it a look. We’ll wait.

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    By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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    Sidney Crosby Welcomes Connor Carrick to the NHL (GIF)
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    Check out Carrick’s grimace.

    When I get frustrated, I try to leave the situation before I do something stupid. I go outside, I gather my thoughts, I try to compose myself.

    World-class hockey player Sidney Crosby doesn’t have that luxury. He’s trapped in a 200′ x 85′ plexiglass case of emotion. Or maybe he really is an enabled and entitled goon who enjoys temper tantrums, complaining, and cheap shots. Whatever it is, Crosby lashed out again on Wednesday night. This time he took his aggression out on poor li’l Connor Carrick.

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    By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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    Bros or Foes? Alex Ovechkin Slashes Olympic Teammate Evgeni Malkin’s Wrist (GIF)
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    Can someone explain to me if Russian superstars Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin are friends or not? First, they were doods. Then they were enemies. Then Ovi punched Malkin’s agent in the face and things got super awkward. Then they were cool again. When we last re-visited their on-again-off-again whatever-it-is-they-have, they were totally BFF.

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    By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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    Alex Ovechkin’s Stick Slashed Away, He Picks It Up and Scores Anyway (GIF)
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    Photo credit: Gene J. Puskar

    Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has had an unbelievable year. It’s not just how many goals he scored; it’s how he’s been scoring them.

    On Tueday, Ovi scored from an impossible angle. On Wednesday, the Russian machine scored on Pittsburgh just seconds after those dastardly Pens slashed his stick away.

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    By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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    Playing Well and Losing Again? Ugh: Pens beat Caps 4-3
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    Photo: Gregory Shamus

    I pity people who can’t get up for a Penguins-Capitals game. I know intellectually that these games last just as long as a normal game and they have all the same rules and stuff, but it always feels to me like more happens when the Pens and the Caps face off. Maybe I’m just saying that because I didn’t have to watch the last one live or recap it. And maybe that’s why I was so optimistic heading into Thursday’s faceoff in Pittsburgh. The Capitals seemed to have mended their game during five-on-five, and it’s not like Oates gives his fourth line and bottom D-pair enough ice time to ruin games.

    Oh wait.

    Brooks Laich puts some hard work in to a hang a shorty on the Penguins in the first period. Kris Letang tied it up at the halfway point with a four-on-two rush that deflected off Carlson’s and Backstrom’s sticks. Jason Chimera took the lead back by finishing off a great tic-tac-toe from Orlov and Johansson. Taylor Pyatt snapped us back to a tie a minute and a half later.

    Alex Ovechkin exploited some chaos during four-on-four to rip home his 34th, but this game was incapable of being easy so Jussi Jokinen got a tap-in from the back door. The Penguins confounded the Caps in their own zone to get the lead with under two minutes left courtesy of Olli Maata. Ovi broke all of the sticks and it was over.

    Pens beat Caps 4-3. 

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    By Peter Hassett 7 years ago

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    Mikhail Ovechkin is Shooting iPhone Video All Wrong
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    The Capitals lost to the Sharks and we are sad.

    But here is Alex Ovechkin’s dad fighting his iPhone and we are happy.

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    Caps Get Chances, But Not Goals, Against Sharks
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    Photo credit: Rob Carr

    Washington Capitals head coach Adam Oates has been searching for five-on-five production all season. While Alex Ovechkin has thrived, other members of top six have been less consistent. After the first period on Tuesday, Oates had a new iteration for the first two lines: Eric Fehr-Nicklas Backstrom-Troy Brouwer and Brooks Laich-Mikahil Grabovksi-Alex Ovechkin.

    “We haven’t scored a lot of goals the last couple games and he’s looking for a spark,” Laich told me of Oates’s change. “Our line had a couple of good chances.”

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    By Chris Gordon 7 years ago

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    “Lucky Shot”: Alex Ovechkin’s Sick, No-Angle, One-Timer Goal (GIF)
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    Photo credit: Rob Carr

    After Brooks Laich shanked a beautiful slap pass from Karl Alzner in the first period, it didn’t seem like it would be Karl’s night. But the defensive defenseman’s never-ending quest for Assist Number Nine was not over yet.

    Alzner brought out his mighty excalibur again in the second period and, lo, he hooked up with Alex Ovechkin for one of the Russian Machine’s more beautiful — and unlikely — goals of the year.

    Roust the smallfolk. Sir Karl has unearthed a ruby apple!

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    By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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