Evgeny Kuznetsov is back in DC.
The Russian centerman was spotted at MedStar Capitals Iceplex on Thursday with “good energy” participating in the players’ informal practices at MedStar Capitals Iceplex.
RMNB reader @2FootArata sent us photos.
For the 10th and final year, the Gardens Ice House in Laurel is hosting the Leap Towards a Cure hockey tournament from August 3-7, raising money for cancer research, treatment, and education at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD.
The tournament is operated by the Andrea Henderson Memorial Fund, a volunteer-only 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization. Every penny of the proceeds from the tournament will support cancer research at the Kimmel Center. Since the tourney’s beginnings, Leap Towards A Cure has raised over $165,000 and counting for the Kimmel Center. This year, the tournament is hoping to hit a goal of over $200,000 in total donations over the course of ten years.
By Rachel Cohen 2 weeks ago
Alex Ovechkin held a press conference and conducted several interviews on Thursday during an annual youth hockey tournament in Moscow named after him, the Alexander Ovechkin Cup.
Beyond Ovechkin responding to Artemi Panarin’s controversial comments about President Vladimir Putin, the major headline coming out of these talks came from TASS: Washington Capitals’ captain Ovechkin says (he) may wrap up sports career after 2021. Think of TASS as basically the Russian equivalent and contemporary of the Associated Press.
That headline sounds like a big deal. But it’s a bit misleading.
On Thursday, Alex Ovechkin held a press conference ahead of his annual youth hockey tournament in Moscow. Ovechkin was asked by a reporter about fellow Russian NHL player Artemi Panarin, who recently made comments critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The press conference was reported by Sport24, as translated by Igor Kleyner.
The reporter asked if Ovechkin agreed with Panarin’s comment that nothing has changed in Russia since the 1990s.
By Brennin Weiswerda 2 weeks ago
Alex Ovechkin‘s workout videos started popping up in July while he was still vacationing in Italy, but it appears he has been spending the past few weeks working out at a sports training facility in Novogorsk, Russia.
On Thursday, Ovechkin’s best friend and workout buddy, Gus, posted a video of Ovi doing a weighted sit-ups with a medicine ball.
By Elizabeth Kong 2 weeks ago
Nearly 10 years ago, I started RMNB with Peter Hassett. RMNB was a side project then. Now hockey is life. And for many of you, the same is true.
I wear hockey shirts every day (ask my friends), my basement is a hockey shrine, and I drive around with hockey sticks (and a baby seat) in the backseat of my car. That sounds … pretty passionate. But if you ask me, there’s another level I can go to.
Which is why I want to introduce you to my new design creation: the RMNB mouse pad. It’s an ice rink… on a mouse pad.
I am buying it. You should too.
The Philadelphia Flyers lost their last hockey game of the season in April, but less than a month later, their mascot Gritty started winning the entire summer. He’s receiving awards, posing for magazine covers, and rescuing hermit crabs. In other words: he’s living his best life.
He started off with a remake of Lil Nas X’s viral “Old Town Road” music video.
By Brennin Weiswerda 3 weeks ago
Former Capitals defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk has been bought out by the New York Rangers, according to The New York Post’s Brett Cyrgalis. The Fouth Line’s David Pagnotta confirmed the news.
Shattenkirk, who signed a four-year, $26.6 million deal with his hometown team in July 2017, fell to fourth on the depth chart among right-handed Rangers defensemen after the team acquired and signed restricted free agent Jacob Trouba to a seven-year, $56 million deal.
Kevin and his wife Deanna had their first child, a boy named Connor, in early July.
By Donya Abramo 3 weeks ago
Former Capital Alex Semin wore the captain’s “K” on his jersey for a friendly preseason game in the KHL. Semin led HC Vityaz in their first exhibition game of the summer against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which they lost by a score of 3-2. The game was played in Germany where the teams’ training camps are located.
Semin signed a one-year contract extension with Vityaz in May for the 2018-19 season after serving as one of the team’s alternate captain. The head coach of Vityaz referred to Semin as one of the team’s leaders.
By Brennin Weiswerda 3 weeks ago
The Washington Capitals will have a slightly different scouting staff next season.
The Athletic’s Tarik El-Bashir was the first to report the changes on Twitter.
