(By the way, yes this is my desktop topper! 🙂 Cool huh?) The Washington Capitals are celebrating Fan Appreciation by holding an essay contest and nothing screams a winner like WRITING how much you love Ovi or Mikey or Nicky or Brooksy in 250 word or less! Right?! Right. Because we do that EVERY DAY […]
Let’s be honest. I got the internship here at WUYS because I was the only person qualified. I mean, what kind of Craigslist ad asks if you’ve ever competed in figure skating and hockey? How many people can say that? The TV stations like to show my figure skating highlights a lot. It’s kind of […]
What? Do my eyes deceive me? Can this be true? Are the stars literally and figuratively lining up against me? *sigh* The NHL has bestowed the coveted ‘stars’ this week and Braden Holtby IS the first star of the week. I don’t even know if this has ever happened for The Capitals. Maybe decades ago when they had […]
Sidney Crosby skated today. Did you hear that? CROSBY SKATED! (You should see me dancing.) To celebrate, NHL.com made two entries into the Most Underwhelming Content of All Time contest. First, the video of Crosby skating [video]: And this headline graphic. Somehow I don’t think this covers it: This return to the ice may have […]
The Caps are disproving Dawn’s theory that they can’t win without Mike Green (8 in a row!), but she doesn’t mind. Mike, however, is bored. What to do if you can’t come of long-term injured reserve until March 22? Get a new job in the Caps PR department. Mike participated in Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” […]
Best. Sunday. Ever. All my boys played and did well today! The Caps are ‘Winning’ and not like Charlie Sheen. They gave the smack down to Derp face and Charlie’s true other brother Kaner Sunday to make it eight straight! But not without some cardiac arrest allowing Derpy to score with like 40 seconds left to send the damn thing […]
After “Pants-Gate” and no, Pants didn’t get in Letang’s pants, although she wishes and we’d all be super jealous while simultaneously cheering her on, Letang has been suspiciously flying under the radar as far as creating any drama. But he ranks 13th in the NHL with his time on the ice. Should we nick name him Vanilla Ice? Ice Ice Baby? And […]
The Blackhawks visited the White House this afternoon – it’s right down the road from here, but I was not invited. How rude. Luckily Kaner brought his ever-present FlipCam and doubtless got all kinds of state secrets on that thing. See the whole ceremony: Video. Honestly, does he have a contract with them? Malkin did […]
Okay, we’ve gotta talk about it: Zdeno Chara’s hit on Max Pacioretty. Pacioretty gave this interview with TSN saying flat out he thinks Chara intended to injure him. And now there may be a police investigation, as the ministry of Public Security has asked the Montreal Police to look into the incident. The NHL has […]
Hey all you Caps fans! Did I call it or what? Who’s on fire? Sasha Fierce is on fire! Who saved the game tonight against Tampa? Sasha Fierce tieing it with less than 7 minutes to go. My other Russian Machine nailed the coffin shut with a shootout goal. Who won the game in OT against Florida? […]
Evidently Travis Zajac has been watching the same Youtube videos we have where Kris get’s undressed by Deryk Engelland, his team-mate during a play fight. But this time, Letang not properly tieing down his jersey during an actual game dearly cost the Penguins. Zajac pops Letang in the face and they start grappling and realizes that Letang’s jersey isn’t strapped down and pulls it off him […]
Shut the front door. Even Charlie Sheen isn’t winning like the Blackhawks – 6 in a row with 25 goals scored in that stretch. I can’t not post these! For some reason, it makes me want to sing this: Also the Sharks are on a crazy tear, and that’ll get a post this weekend. They’ve […]
So busy… can’t stop working… WAIT. Jonathan Toews was named the NHL’s February Player of the month. Huzzah! FIRST STAR — JONATHAN TOEWS Toews led all scorers in February with 21 points (six goals, 15 assists) and posted a +13 rating as the Blackhawks (34-23-6) collected points in 10 of 13 games (8-3-2) and climbed […]
Holy heavenly bodies & mullets my prayers are answered! The other Mikey is baaaaack! After what I thought might be a career ending injury our resident legendary hottie Mike Modano played Saturday against Buffalo and tonight against another Foxy Friday alumni Double D TBG and as sad as it is to say, Detroit beat the crap out of LA 7-4. TBG only got […]
It turns out The Force is not strong in this one. It only works on Jonathan Toews. For all my attempted mind control, the Blackhawks won yesterday but so did all the teams I wanted to lose. Alas, two points are two points and it makes the win even more important. It certainly didn’t come […]
I love the playoff race. I love teams making a last, desperate stretch, like diving headfirst into home plate for that go-ahead run (to mix my sports metaphors). Most years, the defending Cup champ makes the playoffs (last 10 years = 1 miss: Carolina ’07). In ’08 and ’09, it was the same two teams […]
When it rains it pours. First Mike Green took that slapshot to the head and sat out with inner ear trauma. Then he got the flu. He was back into the lineup a game early (vs NYR) on Friday, only to get a hit up high from Derek Stepan just 6 minutes in. He did […]
So Patrick Kane likes his booze and his bunnies? What is wrong with that? I’ll wear a costume if it will get me a little bit of this and a little bit of that! Furbies rock! I don’t judge either. But if it starts interfering with your play, then maybe we need an intervention. Here […]
Oh boy. Alex Kovalev is back with the Penguins. Ray “I get s*** done” Shero acquired him from Ottawa for a conditional draft pick [link]. On top of James Neal and Matt Niskanen, Shero is running down the dream here. Today is Kovalev’s 38th birthday so I hope he wished for a playoff race. Kovalev […]
If one more sportscaster talks about Crosby and Malkin being out like they just decoded the news with their Enigma machine, I’m going to throw a shoe at my TV. WE KNOW. What you should be talking about is how freaking clutch some of our guys are coming up these days. Guys like Tyler Kennedy. […]