Week 20 Snapshot: Shallow Depth and the Trade Deadline
Photo: Rob Carr By Wednesday afternoon, I expect the roster of the Washington Capitals roster to be drastically different. I've been saying…
Week 19 Snapshot: Hold That Thought
Photo: Evan Vucci Everyone sees how tough the Caps schedule will be after the Olympic break. It's not pretty. Fortunately, the team…
Week 18 Snapshot: Thinning the Herd
Photo: Greg Fiume The Capitals managed to earn half the points available to them this week, a good reversal from the last…
Week 17 Snapshot: The Beagle and the Damage Done
Photo: Francois Lacasse Finally. The Caps got positively crushed over the past few weeks, but it's over now. Before they lost that…
Week 16 Snapshot: Waiting Out the Percentages
Photo credit: Jamie Sabau I'm writing this late on Friday night after the Capitals have lost their fourth game in a row.…
Week 15 Snapshot: Need Points Now
Photo: Patrick McDermott The Washington Capitals had four days off this week, during which the rest of the Metro started raking in standings…
Week 14 Snapshot: Losing for All the Right Reasons
Photo: Bruce Kluckhohn The Capitals lost all four games this week. They weren't even playing particularly good teams. None of the Caps'…
Week 13 Snapshot: The Unsustainable Lifestyle
Photo: Patrick McDermott In 2004, the DC band Beauty Pill released an album called The Unsustainable Lifestyle on Dischord. It's a great record,…
Week 12: Everybody, Goalie Panic!
Photo: Patrick McDermott Like I said the other night, the Washington Capitals never make it easy. They took five points from four…
Week 11 Snapshot: No, Really, Mike Green is Good
Of course. (Photo: Eliot J. Schechter) The Capitals have won a point or more in 7 of their last 10 games. How…
Week 10 Snapshot: Addition by Subtraction
Look at Ward's face. (Photo: Patrick McDermott) The Capitals line-up has been changing lately. Brooks Laich's groin is acting up again, Tyson Strachan has been…
Week 9 Snapshot: Scratching, Benching, Winning
"I'm an anteater!" "I, also, am an anteater!" (Photo: Bruce Bennett) Some time in the last seven days, Adam Oates became unsatisfied…
Week 8 Snapshot: R.I.P. The Black Hole Line
Joffrey wins it. Someone get him some wine. (Photo: Graig Abel) In last week's snapshot I said the Caps were facing down…
Week 7 Snapshot: The Gauntlet
That one time the Caps went to the shootout (Photo: Dave Reginek) Straight up: The Capitals have had an easy schedule so far.…
Week 6 Snapshot: Small Steps in the Right Direction
Finally. Inevitably. (Photo: Patrick McDermott) Riding a four-game win streak (now a five-game point streak), the Capitals made no adjustments to their lineup…
Week 5 Snapshot: Line Shuffling, Good and Bad
Photo: Greg Fiume Thanks to Saturday's win over the Panthers, the Capitals are a .500 team again, but in the past few weeks…
Week 4 Snapshot: Underwater, But Winning
Photo: Gerry Thomas The Caps won two of their three games last week, so by anyone's definition it was a success. Tuesday's…
Week 3 Snapshot: Turn and Face the Strain
Photo: Patrick Smith Adam Oates made much-needed adjustments to lines on Friday morning, resulting in happy outcomes for the second line collectively…
Week 2 Snapshot: Precious Little Progress
Alex Ovechkin watches. (Photo: Patrick Smith) The Capitals only played two games this week, and one of those was a blowout 5-1 loss…
Week 1 Snapshot: Even-Strength Anxiety
Photo: Bill Smith There are lots of great statistical resources out there, but few of them allow you to see how players…
