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‘You never want to see a guy get hurt’: Tom Wilson broke Ian Cole’s orbital bone in a fight

Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson has had several vicious fights during his career, including, most recently, bouts with Blake Coleman and Jamie Oleksiak.

The Caps enforcer’s latest fight, a 20-second, one-sided pummeling of Ian Cole, came after the Avalanche defenseman delivered a headshot to star center Evgeny Kuznetsov. The Avalanche say that Cole, who was bleeding from multiple gashes from his head, is out indefinitely with a broken orbital bone according to The Denver Post’s Mike Chambers.

Monday morning, ahead of the Caps’ back-to-backs with the Los Angeles Kings and Columbus Blue Jackets, Wilson spoke to DC101’s Elliot Segal of Elliot In The Morning and commented on the Cole fight.

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By Ian Oland 7 days ago

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Hot garbage: numbers for the morning after

The Washington Capitals followed up their winning homestand with a trip to Columbus and proceeded to get smacked around by the Blue Jackets, 3-0. Wow, that was bad.

The Jackets out-shot the Caps 32 to 20.

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By Chris Cerullo 1 week ago

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🚽🚽🚽 Blue Jackets beat Caps 3-0 🚽🚽🚽

Y’all. I don’t know exactly what just happened here, but it seems that the Caps got turbo-trounced by the Columbus Blue Jackets. To kick off their longest and most important road trip of the season, the Caps got their butts kicked. In hindsight, I imagine, Washington’s training staff will regret having replaced the team’s sports drinks with whatever horse-tranquilizers-and-LaCroix mix they were obviously chugging on Tuesday night.

After a (mercifully) scoreless first period, Anthony Duclair scored for Columbus, exploiting a bad line change that created a three-on-one rush. In the third, Nick Foligno got a goal (again, on the rush) to settle the matter. Artemi Panarin added an empty netter.

Caps loose. I know that’s a typo but I’m keeping it. For stylistic reasons.

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By Peter Hassett 1 week ago

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Tom Wilson knocks Josh Anderson out of game with big (clean) hit (UPDATED)

Early in Tuesday’s game against the Blue Jackets, Tom Wilson pounded Josh Anderson along the boards, forcing the Columbus forward out of the game.

Since you’re already wondering: yes, the hit was clean.

Update, 8 PM: Anderson has returned for the second period.

Josh Anderson skating on the ice ahead of the second period. #CBJ

— Jeff Svoboda (@JacketsInsider) February 13, 2019

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By Ian Oland 1 week ago

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Caps at Blue Jackets pregame: Hitting the road

The Capitals have hit the road and won’t be back until February 24th. Tonight, they stop in Columbus to play the Blue Jackets. Back-to-back games can be tricky, especially when the second one is on the road. It would be great to see Evgeny Kuznetsov continue his hot play. He registered four points last night and had six goals and six assists during the Capitals homestand. Please, Washington Capitals defense and Braden Holtby, don’t make us listen to that stupid cannon.

Puck will be droppin’ shortly after 7 PM on NBCS Washington. Download the My Teams app to stream the game live from any of your devices. Recap will be coming to you from Peter Hassett.

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By Elyse Bailey 1 week ago

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Using projection technology, Capital One Arena develops new interactive donut game for intermissions 🍩

Capital One Arena has a new intermission game during the Capitals home games.

Picture a real-life game of Pac-Man, where players are donuts who have to run around the ice collecting coffee cups to score points. But be careful! Don’t get caught by the donut chomper and you’ll lose all yer points.

The game is played using an interactive projection onto the ice and is the first of its kind being rolled out by Dunkin’ Donuts.

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By Elizabeth Kong 1 week ago

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‘I know it’s dirty’: Evgeni Malkin hits Michael Raffl in the face after dangerously swinging stick

Earlier this season, Evgeni Malkin hit TJ Oshie high in the head and didn’t receive additional punishment from the league. He also got mad last year at Evgeny Kuznetsov for talking to him in Russian.

Monday evening, Malkin’s taste for retaliation reared its ugly head again, this time against the Philadelphia Flyers’ Michael Raffl.

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By Julia Karron 1 week ago

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Capitals players use rainbow-colored tape during Pride Night (Photos)

The Washington Capitals celebrated Pride Night at Capital One Arena Monday during their game against the Los Angeles Kings.

As part of Hockey Is For Everyone month, a number of Capitals players, led by Braden Holtby, taped up their stick blades with rainbow-colored Pride Tape and used the tape in warmups to acknowledge members of the LGBTQ community.

The Capitals also auctioned off signed sticks and specially signed pride pucks during the game, raising $18,300 for the Human Rights Campaign’s Youth Well-Being Project to promote safety, inclusion and well-being for LGBTQ youth in Washington, D.C.

The most popular item was a Pride Puck Set that fetched $3,000.

Here are my photos from warmups.

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By Elizabeth Kong 1 week ago

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Misc. You Missed: The kids are alright. Weird, but alright.

The Washington Capitals’ 6-4 win over the LA Kings offered up a cornucopia of goals and goal hugs. Christian Djoos was universally adored, Jakub Vrana and Madison Bowey did a chicken dance, and Evgeny Kuznetsov and Alex Ovechkin competed for Tom Wilson’s affection.

For a look at the hockey that happened, Ms. Bailey has a perfect recap of a perfect sendoff. Now let’s look at everything else!

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By Brennin Weiswerda 1 week ago

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Bryce Harper unfollowed Capitals players on Twitter. Tom Wilson: ‘I don’t know if that’s writing on the wall or what.’

Hockey players are just like you. They’re also sensitive about their follower counts on social media.

Monday after the Capitals morning skate, Capitals forward Tom Wilson revealed that he lost a high profile follow on Twitter recently: Bryce Harper.

Harper, the Washington Nationals MVP outfielder, is currently the MLB’s biggest free agent remaining as spring training opens up this week. Reports suggest that the San Franciso Giants, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Nats are the most likely teams to land the star slugger’s services.

Wilson, however, seems skeptical Harper will return to Washington.

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By Ian Oland 1 week ago

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