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No, Kevin Weekes never reported that the Capitals were one of Patrick Kane’s preferred trade destinations

Patrick Kane is one of the more intriguing trade targets this season as he has just one year left on his contract and the Chicago Blackhawks are effectively tanking.

On Saturday, the Twitter account @OilerAnalytics transcribed some quotes from a radio appearance by ESPN’s Kevin Weekes.

Weekes named the Capitals as one of the top three teams he’d like to be traded to.

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By Ian Oland 8 months ago

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Watch the full 2020 NHL All-Star Skills Competition including the Elite Women’s 3-on-3 Game

The NHL hosted their All-Star Skills Competition at St. Louis’s Enterprise Center, Friday night. We covered a few newsy items including Tomas Hertl’s Bieber Mask and John Carlson once again hitting triple digits during the Hardest Shot Competition.

For those of you who missed this year’s edition of Skills, you can watch it in full below. I’ve also videos and the results of all of the individual events. I recommend watching the Elite Women’s 3-on-3 Game. It was very entertaining.

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By Ian Oland 3 years ago

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Patrick Kane spears Alex Ovechkin in the crotch

Patrick Kane speared Alex Ovechkin in the crotch during the second period of Sunday’s Capitals and Blackhawks game.

The two players exchanged words in the Blackhawks zone before Kane went bush league on one of the game’s greatest goalscorers.

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By Donya Abramo 4 years ago

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Here’s Patrick Kane being infinitely hit in the face with a puck

Something strange happened before the start of the Capitals-Blackhawks game Wednesday night.

NBC Sports Washington captured a star player from each team getting hit high by a deflected shot during warmups.

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By Ian Oland 5 years ago

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The NHL’s All-Star Game commercial features Alex Ovechkin and other stars reciting famous movie lines

Last week, the NHL released a fancy commercial promoting the 2017 NHL All-Star Game (which you probably saw 15 times during Caps-Penguins). Because this year’s edition of the game is being held in Los Angeles, California, the NHL went with a Hollywood theme and had several of its stars recite movie lines. Poorly.

Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby both make cameos, but the magic of their 2007 ASG ad is never quite achieved.

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By Ian Oland 6 years ago

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Fans rate Alex Ovechkin as the NHL’s ‘must see’ player, according to survey

Alex Ovechkin is the most exciting player in the National Hockey League, according to a recent Yahoo Sports/YouGov survey of hockey fans in the United States. Twenty-six percent of respondents said the Russian dynamo is a “must-see” player, the poll reports, which outranks his peers.

Ovechkin beat out Sidney Crosby, who fans selected 24 percent of the time in the survey, and Patrick Kane, who was checked off 19 percent of the time.

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By Chris Gordon 6 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin Named Metropolitan Captain for All-Star Game

The glorified three-on-three hockey tournament the NHL is calling the All-Star Game now has its captains. On Saturday afternoon, the NHL announced that Washington’s Alex Ovechkin will captain the Metropolitan Division all-star team.

The first round of players named to the all-star game also includes Jaromir Jagr, Patrick Kane, and John Scott. Along with Ovechkin, those players will serve as captains of their respective divisional teams.

Kane leads all players in points this season, Jagr leads all active players in career points, Ovechkin is one of the best scorers of all-time, and John Scott is a half-funny, half-cruel prank concocted by online fan voting.

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By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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Getting to Know New Caps Right Wing Troy Brouwer

Photo credit: Chris Gordon

Over the summer, General Manager George McPhee started snatching players like a rabid mom snatching groceries on Supermarket Sweeps. In are gritty NHL veterans like Joel Ward, Roman Hamrlik, and Jeff Halpern. Out are fan-favorites like Matt Bradley and Boyd Gordon.

Beyond the discounted signing of Tomas Vokoun, there may have been no better addition to the line-up than the Draft-night trade McPhee swung with the Chicago Blackhawks in which he landed Troy Brouwer for a first-round pick. Brouwer, who signed an affordable two-year deal worth $2,350,000 per year on July 6, was part of the Blackhawks’ 2010 Stanley Cup Champion squad and is known in part for his physical, hard-hitting game. The 26-year-old right wing has also been a proven scorer at every level he’s played, tallying 20 goals in the NHL, 40-plus goals in the AHL, and 100-plus points in Juniors.

So with Opening Night only a few days away, what can Caps fans reasonably expect offensively from Brouwer? Also, how about some bizarre facts about Troy that only RMNB can dig up? Follow me past the jump to find out.

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By Ian Oland 12 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin Signs Six-Year Deal with Bauer

Ovi sports his new gear. Click to enlarge. (Photo credit: Bauer)

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The world’s most famous hockey player has got some new gear. After dropping CCM over the summer, Alex Ovechkin unveiled a new six-year sponsorship with rival manufacturer Bauer, whose equipment Ovi used for the first three years of his career. This is Ovechkin’s second new sponsorship of the week after news of his long-term deal with superpower Nike for “lifestyle” and “performance” products surfaced on Thursday night.

“I think that CCM treat me well,” Ovechkin told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “They help me a lot and without that project I can’t score 65 goals. But in that kind of moment and that kind of situation right now, I feel that Bauer is company who I’m looking forward to work with. I played with this stick a couple years ago and I like it.”

The move doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. With Ovi’s ditching CCM — and therefore their parent company Reebok — that left Bauer as the only company with the cash to pickup a superstar endorsement.

The move was also teased on Bauer’s Web site over the holiday weekend, with their home page sporting a picture of skates with the Great Eight’s trademark yellow laces and the banner “This year will be different.”

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By Chris Gordon 12 years ago

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