Mike Fisher will have an even bigger job after retiring from the NHL for a second time: being a father of two kids.
On Wednesday, while announcing her upcoming tour, Carrie Underwood announced the couple will become a family of four, adding an addition of a new baby. The gender was not revealed nor how far along Carrie is in her pregnancy.
By Cara Bahniuk 5 years ago
On June 11, 17,271 fans rocked Bridgestone Arena for Game Six of the Stanley Cup Final. The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Nashville Predators 2-0 and took the Cup that night, but anyone who was there will remember the support Music City gave its hockey team.
For Mike Fisher, that night was a terrific sendoff for his hockey career. The 37-year-old center announced his retirement Thursday morning.
“I can still picture it vividly,” Fisher, a veteran of 17 NHL seasons wrote in an op-ed in The Tennessean. “I gasped. How was there that many people there? And all to support us? It was almost incomprehensible.”
While Fisher called the day “bittersweet” — the Preds lost after all — he knew wouldn’t play a game quite like that ever again.
By Chris Gordon 6 years ago
PITTSBURGH — Monday night, the Nashville Predators will play in their first Stanley Cup Final here against the Penguins. They had the fewest points of any team that made the playoffs. Pittsburgh, meanwhile, finished second in the league behind only the Washington Capitals. Just one player on Nashville’s roster, Mike Fisher, has championship round experience — and he is not even confirmed to be in the lineup for Game One.
By Chris Gordon 6 years ago
The Nashville Predators, and in particular, Mike Fisher, got a special surprise Monday night before Game Three of their Western Conference quarterfinal matchup against the Chicago Blackhawks. Carrie Underwood, a seven-time Grammy Award winner, performed the national anthem.
And she nailed it.
By Cara Bahniuk 6 years ago
Tom Wilson was involved in a scary moment during the third period, where the back of his head was potentially sliced open by a skate.
Several shifts later, after getting repairs from Capitals Head Athletic Trainer Greg Smith, Wilson dropped the gloves with Mr. Carrie Underwood himself, Mike Fisher.
What a violent and tough gentleman.
Steve Oleksy tangles with Mike Fisher during Thursday’s game. (Photo credit: Alex Brandon)
During Saturday’s Caps convention Steve Oleksy joked that he wore “black and blue like accessories.” It didn’t take long for Steve to bring back his trademark look.
Towards the end of the second period in Wednesday’s preseason game against the Nashville Predators, Oleksy got tangled up near the net with Mike Fisher. The two exchanged words, and soon Oleksy was pummeling the Preds star. The Washington defenseman easily won the bout, though the right side of his face was bulging out like a boulder was jammed underneath his cheek.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s preseason or regular season,” Oleksy told reporters after the game. “That’s part of my job, that’s part of the reason I’m here. It doesn’t matter who it is, I’m gonna try and hold people accountable.” (more…)
By Chris Gordon 10 years ago
Photo: Chris Gordon
Sergei Fedorov left the Capitals in 2009, leaving a hole in the middle of the second line that the team hasn’t been able to keep filled since. There’s been Brendan Morrison and Eric Belanger and Jason Arnott and Mike Ribeiro, but no player has stuck at 2C for any length of time.
Looking at his options on Friday’s free agency frenzy, general manager George McPhee saw nothing to fill that hole. “We didn’t think it was a great class of players,” McPhee told the press after development camp practice on Monday afternoon. McPhee admitted he had a few discussions, but said that contract term was a frequent deal-breaker. “Salary you can compete with,” McPhee said, “but when people get into term that’s too long, you can ultimately hurt your competitiveness down the road.” That’s certainly in line with owner Ted Leonsis’ edict regarding signing veterans.
And so the club looked inward to fill its abscess at 2C. A nation’s capital turns its lonely eyes to Brooks Laich.
By Peter Hassett 10 years ago
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The Pre Game: “And here’s my theory of punctuation. At the end of every sentence there should be a tiny clock that shows you how long it took you to write that sentence.” – Laurie Anderson.
Watching Capitals games is becoming an existential exercise, based on the obscene, neutered device we call the clock. As in: Caps score first by the clock: we lose. Caps trail in the second by the clock: we win. Watch the game, watch the clock; we score first, we lose last.
Call me crazy. Call me late for dinner, but consarnit, the Caps are just not behaving by the clock. Headline from Saturday: Caps Lose, Broadside of Barn Safe! What went wrong? Coach Juggles’ shoot-out changes? The Caps total lacking D? #BadSasha? #EvilSasha? #HailSatanSasha?
Here’s the thing: Caps, every time you take a lead and blow it, you smoke a tiny bit of our time. Think about that: every game you go forward at the first, only to surrender… you surrender a few minutes of our lives. The clock is ticking. What will you do with it?
By Doug Johnson 12 years ago
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Anyone who’s had the misfortune to spend time in Ottawa has had the quintessential Canadian city experience: clean, cultured, and quietly disappointing. All the maple doughnuts and Labatt’s in the world can’t hide the fact that Ottawa is as appealing as lap dance from Marcus Bachmann. Puzzlingly, everyone seems mostly OK with this… albeit in a polite, deferential way. Ottawantarians seem to take civic pride in their shared, outstanding blahness. Just look the Senators.
By Doug Johnson 12 years ago
