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Here’s Your Capitals Preseason Schedule

To tease you on this longish, summery offseason. Fresh out of the kitchen, it’s the 2012 Washington Capitals Preseason Schedule!

Date        Opponent     Location          Time
Tue Sep 25  vs. Boston   Verizon Center    7 p.m.
Wed Sep 26  vs. Columbus 1st Mariner Arena 7 p.m.
Sun Sep 30  at Detroit   Joe Louis Arena   5 p.m.
Mon Oct 1   at Columbus  Nationwide Arena  7 p.m.
Wed Oct 3   at Boston    TD Garden         7 p.m.
Fri Oct 5   vs. Nash     Verizon Center    7 p.m.
Sun Oct 7   vs. Detroit  Verizon Center    5 p.m.

The great news, as you can see under the jump, is that every game will be on WashingtonCaps.com.

So who’s taking me out to Baltimore for my birthday on September 26, hon?

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2011-12 Year-End Review: Evgeny Kuznetsov

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So, we may have come on a bit strong.

We’re sorry if we made you feel uncomfortable or overwhelmed, Evgeny Kuznetsov. If you just need some space, that’s fine, we understand. We thought you were just playing hard to get, but we’ve been wrong before.

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Reminder: #RMNBParty5 is on Saturday!

We are just one day away from RMNB Party 5: Skate or Die!  Go check out our original post or our Facebook event.

Thanks to some well timed henriquing, there will in fact be a game to watch on Saturday night, and there is a decent chance we’ll even be together to watch somebody hoist the Stanley Cup. Not gonna lie: I will get emotional.

The game is supposed to start at 8, but who knows what kind of nonsensical padding and human interest story fluff NBC will air beforehand. If Costas shows up, you know it’s gonna be bad.

Seriously: you’re coming, right?

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Year-End Review: Mike Knuble


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This is unfortunate alphabetical timing, as we’ve just learned that Mike Knuble will not be returning to the Capitals next year. We’re not really over that yet, and the tear-jerking farewell post from Knuble’s Knights didn’t help. Go read it, take a minute to compose yourself, and then come back here again. We’ll wait.

Ready? Okay. Let’s review Knuble’s last year in a Caps uniform.

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Alex Semin Talks About His New Gold Medal, Problems Speaking English, and Girlfriend

On July 1st, Alex Semin will become an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career. According to his agent Mark Gandler, the Russian winger has no intention of re-signing with the only NHL team he’s ever played for.

“It was good while it lasted,” Gandler told ESPN’s Craig Custance shortly after the season. “With the lack of playoff success, with the direction they are going. They decided to change directions. That’s within their rights. Alex doesn’t fit into that system obviously.”

Semin — perhaps not on the same page as his agent — told reporters at World Championships, “There was no talk at all that I am not going to sign with the Capitals for sure. I have not talked to them about leaving.”

Meanwhile, Semin continues to wear Capitals gear wherever he goes. During the World Championships, he could be seen wearing a Caps hat everywhere, and earlier this week, he did an interview with local Krasynoyarsk TV station Afontovo and wore his favorite Capitals rubber bracelet (shown above).

In that interview with sports anchor Sergei Kuzavkov, Sasha Minor dished about what it was like to score two goals in the gold-medal game of the World Championships, his well-documented struggles with English, and his girlfriend.

Igor Kleyner has the translation below.

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2011-12 Year-End Review: Marcus Johansson

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What do we need to do to get Marcus Johansson‘s development to take that next step? Was this year’s tumult and instability too much for him? Do we need to encase Marcus Johansson in a hockey simulation where nothing ever goes wrong next year? Send him up a mountain on a quest for truth? Get him to meet DJ Tiesto? Because if we need to, we’ll do it.

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Goodbye, Mike Knuble, from Knuble’s Knights

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[Editor’s note: We asked Nathan and Ryan of Knuble’s Knights to bid a fond farewell to Mike Knuble as he departs the Washington Capitals. Here’s what they gave us.]

Sir Michael of the House Knuble, First of Your Name, Man of 1000 Games, Crasher of Nets, Breacher of Creases, Abuser of Goalies and Grandpa of Slippers:

Thank you.

When the RMNB guys invited us to write a farewell post, they suggested that we provide some highlights of your time in D.C., defend your performance this year, or re-tell some stories about the Knights’ antics. To be honest, the stories have already been told, and there are people much more qualified who will write the reviews and summaries and analyses. As fans, all we’re really qualified to do is say Thank You.

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Washington Post Reports Mike Knuble Will Not Return To Caps

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This morning, Mike Knuble announced that he would not be returning to the Caps next season. Though we expected that this would be the case, that didn’t stop us from going through all the stages of grief simultaneously on hearing the news.

Here are our thoughts on this, as expressed in musical form.

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2011-12 Year-End Review: Braden Holtby

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We’re going to try to be restrained and professional here.

But we love Braden Holtby. So much. In fact, the only person who wrote rationally about Holtby on our blog this season wasn’t any of us.

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2011-12 Year-End Review: Matt Hendricks

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This was the Matt Hendricks’ year. This was the year that he broke out of his small, specific role and became a real contributor. This was the year that he made NHL goalies and women everywhere swoon with his dazzling shootout moves. This was the year that the most significant story about him was not centered around a ghastly eye injury.

Heck, he’s even got an RMNB t-shirt now. If that’s not the big time, we don’t know what is.

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