Radko Gudas (AKA Gudy, AKA Dadko, AKA The Cheese Wheel, AKA The Mayor of the Toronto Bubble) has played his final game in Washington.
Friday, the beard-y, eight-year veteran signed a three-year deal with the Florida Panthers shortly after the start of free agency.
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman was the first to report the news.
ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski and Emily Kaplan published a must-read story about the NHL bubble experience on Tuesday. And it’s remarkable because it features rare candor from players. The article focused on how difficult living in the bubble was and how the NHL under-delivered on the experience.
The weirdest part of the bubble, according to players, was living in the same hotels as their opponents.
Radko Gudas was supposed to be a moneyball-style upgrade over Matt Niskanen. Ha. Nope. Extremely 2020 vibes.
By Peter Hassett 1 month ago
It was an afterthought at the time, but Radko Gudas delivered one of the biggest hits of the Capitals season in Game Four against the New York Islanders.
After Washington hemmed the Islanders into their defensive zone for two minutes, Cal Clutterbuck escaped with the puck and tried to advance it into the Capitals zone.
Gudas said NO with a devastating Dmitry Orlov-quality hip check.
The Washington Capitals know that the end is near so they went to dramatic lengths to change their luck heading into Game Four.
Down 3-0 in their first-round series, several Capitals players sported new looks, highlighted by first-line center Evgeny Kuznetsov who shaved his head bald and left a goatee.
By Ian Oland 2 months ago
Nicklas Backstrom is a game-time decision today, and that decision is “go for it.”
Meanwhile, Radko Gudas will take a seat as Martin Fehervary gets some ice time.
By Peter Hassett 2 months ago
Washington Capitals defenseman Radko Gudas has earned a new nickname from his teammates since arriving at Toronto’s Hotel X, where the Caps, Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers, and Tampa Bay Lightning are all staying.
“Gudy is the mayor of the bubble,” Garnet Hathaway said on the Capitals’ podcast Between Two Blue Lines.
Michal Kempny had a lot to say during a recent Czech language interview on the BKT Podcast.
The Stanley Cup-winning defenseman discussed the European Capitals’ decision to return home and Radko Gudas’s opinion that the NHL should cancel the rest of the suspended 2019-20 season.
By Ian Oland and Brennin Weiswerda 5 months ago
As the NHL nears an announcement of a potential return to play, Radko Gudas is voicing his displeasure that the league is trying to return at all. The NHL suspended its 2019-20 season on March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Gudas does not see any practical or safe way to return and worries about players’ mental health while being quarantined in a hotel.
Gudas made the comments at a golf tournament in Beroun, a town in his native Czech Republic. The quotes are from an interview aired on ČT Sport and were transcribed by the ČTK (Czech News Agency). RMNB’s Alexandra Petáková has transcribed the pertinent quotes into English.
By Ian Oland 5 months ago
In 2018, the Washington Capitals published a Q&A with forward Jakub Vrana in their game-day program, Breakaway. In it, Vrana revealed that his biggest fear was the “bat in the corner.”
It led to some bewildered amusement amongst Capitals fans as they pondered what kind of horrifying experience Vrana might have had with one specific bat, in the corner.
Turns out, it was a spelling error.
By Donya Abramo 8 months ago
