The Washington Capitals’ social media team asked several players to do Evgeny Kuznetsov’s bird celebration to sell tickets for Tuesday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes. The team is giving away Evgeny Kuznetsov bobbleheads to all fans in attendance.
I am okay with this because the resulting content is great and it resulted in these GIFs.
We’re kicking off a brand new week with something near and dear to my heart…TJ Oshie‘s daughters. But, this is specifically for the eldest, Lyla Grace Oshie, who celebrated her fifth birthday yesterday!
By Elyse Bailey 1 week ago
Hockey players get hurt in the gnarliest ways.
During the first period of Tuesday’s Caps-Penguins game, TJ Oshie took a skate boot to the face.
It was scary, but the Osh Babe didn’t miss a shift.
By Cara Bahniuk 2 weeks ago
Hockey players are a superstitious bunch. For years, the superstition has been that it is bad luck to touch the Stanley Cup before you have rightfully won it. That belief has extended to not touching the conference trophy as well, lest teams anger the hockey gods by touching a trophy inferior to Lord Stanley’s.
Hockey fans also believe in the curse. To touch the Stanley Cup is to doom your team to never winning the Cup. This leads to some funny, hover-hand photos with the Cup at the Hockey Hall of Fame.
On Sunday, TJ Oshie put a dent in believers of the curse by sharing the story of how he touched the Stanley Cup when he was 12 or 13-years-old.
By Elizabeth Kong 2 weeks ago
Everyone remembers the joyous days that followed the Capitals’ first Stanley Cup. The team attended a Nationals game where Alex Ovechkin threw out two ceremonial first pitches. The team then took the championship trophy to the Georgetown Waterfront where they invented the Cup stand and swam in the fountains.
One small, but overshadowed part of the night was when several members of the team, who appeared to be inebriated, got tattoos.
In an article in the Players’ Tribune, Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby shared more details about that night and recalled what TJ Oshie said to him at the waterfront.
“We’re doing it, dude. I’m getting a Wario tattoo,” Oshie said according to Holtby’s article. “I’M GETTING A WARIO TATTOO! HOLTS! CALL THE TATTOO GUYS!”
By Ian Oland 3 weeks ago
The Washington Capitals have recently struggled to hold on to leads in six-on-five, empty-net situations.
That was not a problem on Friday night, when New York’s Josh Bailey beefed it hardcore, scoring an own-goal that will haunt his dreams until his dying day. Probably.
By Ian Oland 3 weeks ago
The Washington Capitals had an embarrassing start against the NHL’s very worst team. The Ottawa Senators, who traded Mark Stone (Vegas), Matt Duchene (Columbus) and Ryan Dzingel (Columbus) ahead of Monday’s trade deadline, scored twice in the first 7:16 of the game, not allowing the Caps a shot on goal for nearly the first 10 minutes of the game (9:53, Andre Burakovsky). Yiiiiikes.
The Capitals responded by scoring seven unanswered goals, including four joker tallies in the second period.
What turned the game around? “Well, we decided as a group we’re going to get engaged in the game,” Capitals assistant coach Scott Arniel said, failing to hide his sarcasm. “We were spectators there for the first ten, fifteen minutes. You know what? In this league, if you don’t put the work in, those things are going to happen. But you saw what happened here. We got a little ticked off and got some goals.”
Yes, yes they did. And now I will recap them all for you.
Days after one of his best games of the season — a two-goal, three-point night against the San Jose Sharks, TJ Oshie left the Capitals’ matchup against the Anaheim Ducks early with an upper-body injury in the second period.
It’s not completely clear how Oshie got injured.
TJ Oshie scored his 500th career point against the San Jose Sharks, Thursday.
The forward received props from his teammates. “That’s a lot of points…” Tom Wilson said on Twitter.
Oshie’s adorable children, Lyla and Leni, also had a tribute for Dad.
The Washington Capitals had the day off to frolic in California after defeating the San Jose Sharks 5-1, Thursday night.
That freedom produced one of the best selfies of the 2018-19 season.
TJ Oshie posted a photo of himself, John Carlson, Andre Burakovsky, Tom Wilson, and Nicklas Backstrom riding a helicopter.
“GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!” Oshie wrote in all caps. He appears to be the co-pilot.
