Week 16 Snapshot: Aspirational Evaluation
My educational background is in literature and my day job is in information architecture. In both pursuits I spend much of my time…
Week 15 Snapshot: Throwing Away the Halo Effect
There's this one peccadillo in hockey discourse that is bugging me more and more. I don't know if anyone else experiences it…
Week 14 Snapshot: What Does a Bad Goalie Look Like?
Photo: Glenn James What do you make of a week like that one? The Caps split the week with two wins and two…
Week 13 Snapshot: Halfway Supersize Snapshot Special!
Halfway. Get it? (Photo: Patrick McDermott) We are 41 games in to the 2014-15 season, exactly halfway, so now is a good time…
Week 12 Snapshot: The Schmidtuation
Photo: Amanda Bowen (See more!) The Washington Capitals are looking pretty darn good overall. A whole lot of people saw them play…
Week 11 Snapshot: It’s Been a Weird December
Here's Jay Beagle and Brooks Orpik celebrating a goal. (Photo: Gregory Shamus) This is the final snapshot of 2014. What a weird…
Week 9 Snapshot: Finally Getting Paid
Photo: Patrick McDermott We're going streaking! The Caps have won four of their last five games and taken points from all of them.…
Week 8 Snapshot: The Sound of Settling
Wins are paramount. In the end, this sport is measured in wins. Goals scored or prevented are the component parts of wins,…
Week 7 Snapshot: Erosion and Corrosion
Photo: Darren Calabrese The primary source of frustration last season was knowing that, deep down, the Capitals had the potential to be a…
Week 5 Snapshot: Orpik, Ovi, and Optimization
Photo: Scott Rovak When the Caps were losing games early in the season, it wasn't a big deal. The Capitals were playing well when…
Week 4 Snapshot: Patience Pays Off
Come! Hug me, for I am an anteater! (Photo: Alex Brandon) Kevin Klein at Japers Rink wrote a piece about the correlation between puck possession…
Week 3 Snapshot: Patience, My Young Padawan
I don't like this angle because you can't see Schmidt's smile. (Photo: Scott Iskowitz) The Caps aren't winning the game they're supposed to.…
Week 2 Snapshot: How High?
Photo: Gerry Thomas Okay, so I wasn't expecting this. The Caps are good, which is what we thought, but they seem to be…
Week 1 Snapshot: Good Things are Coming Our Way
They are all smiles. We are all smiles. (Photo: Patrick McDermott) Welcome back, everybody! This is the Sunday Snapshot, where we take a…
Week 26 Snapshot: Have They Really Not Fired Adam Oates Yet?
Head coach Adam Oates of the Washington Capitals is. That sentence is still correct in the present tense. I'm astonished. This is…
Week 25 Snapshot: The Wonderful Future
Photo: Bruce Bennett This was the week the Capitals' playoff hopes effectively died. Sports Club Stats says the Caps have a 2.7%…
Week 24 Snapshot: Time to Reunite Nicky and Alex
Photo: Mitchell Layton With eight games left to play, the Capitals are two points out of a wild card spot. Columbus (reminder:…
Week 23 Snapshot: Victory in California!
Check out all the sad faces in the stands (Photo: Don Smith) Alright, now it's getting interesting. If you predicted the Caps…
Week 22 Snapshot: Wagons West!
Photo: Nick Wass For the second week in a row, the Capitals took just two standings points out of a possible six.…
Week 21 Snapshot: It’s Later Than You Think
What will Kuzya's usage tell us about Adam Oates as a coach? (Photo: Chris Gordon) The Capitals got two out of six…
