A preview of the
Capitals.
Record: 2-1-0
Leading Scorer: Alexander Semin, 6 points (3 goals, 3
assists)
Last Game: 5-1 defeat of the Canucks at Washington, Monday.
Last Game against the Penguins: 4-2 loss at Washington, March 9.
Capitals Player We Would Bet Money On Scoring:
Really, how do you ever go against Alex Ovechkin (right)?
Ex-Penguins: Matt Bradley, RW.
Useless Capitals Trivia: Two one-time Penguins, Kevin
Hatcher and Yvon Labre, served as the Capitals' captain at one point in their
careers.
Best Capitals YouTube Video We Could Find: It's a
Capital feeling:
Notes:
-Goaltender Jose Theodore
is expected to start tonight for Washington.
No word yet if he's still looking for his water bottle he lost in the 2005-06
season while with Montreal:
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in.
EMPTY NETTER ASSISTS
Penguins
-
Sidney Crosby stinks.
-How many points do you think Crosby
will finish with?
Vote on it here.
-Why was Mike Zigomanis
so easy to pick up?
-Matt Cooke
is questionable for tonight.
-The rivalry between Crosby and Ovechkin
has been rather one-sided
in terms of wins and losses.
-Former Penguins forward Kris Beech
signed with a team in Sweden.
No word yet if the Penguins are considering bringing Mario Lemieux out of
retirement to overcome that loss.
Atlantic Division
-A funeral for late Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov
was
held yesterday.
Former Penguins forward Jaromir Jagr (
right)
was in attendance.
-Rangers defenseman Paul Mara
went off on Sabres forward
Patrick Kaleta last night.
-Islanders defenseman Brendan Witt
is fine after injuring
his head Monday.
-The Islanders
recalled forward Mitch Fritz from Bridgeport of the AHL.
-Flyers forward Simon Gagne seems to have bounced back from
his concussion problems last season.
He has three goals in three games so far
this season.
Northeast Division
-Alex Tanguay's debut at home with the Canadiens went well. His shootout goal gave
the Habs
a 4-3 win against the Bruins.
It was Montreal's
12 consecutive regular season win against their alleged rivals.
-Former Penguins goon Georges Laraque made his Canadiens
debut last night. He dropped the gloves with Boston's Shawn Thornton:
-Thomas Vanek had two goals and led the Sabres to
a 3-1 road
win against the Rangers.
The loss was the first of the season for the Rangers.
-The Maple Leafs want forward Ryan Hollweg
to stop being
stupid.
-Hollweg actually blamed Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo
for getting hit
from behind.
-Senators coach Craig Hartsburg said goaltender Martin
Gerber
needs to quit giving up bad goals.
Southeast Division
-Tampa
Bay's high-prices free
agents, including former Penguin Ryan Malone (
above, left),
aren't earning their paychecks as of yet.
-The Lightning
has not officially signed free agent
defensemen Marek Malik yet.
-Hurricanes forward Eric Staal
has been racking up mad ice
time.
-Carolina
goaltender Cam Ward
is good people.
-The Thrashers
are having problems with their power play.
Central Division
-Martin Havlat had a goal and an assist for the Blackhawks
in
a 4-1 defeat of the Coyotes.
It was Chicago's
first win of the season.
-The best way the Blackhawks can win back fans
is to win
games.
-Chicago
forward Jonathan Toews
is already showing why the Blackhawks made him a captain.
-The Blue Jackets put forward Jared Boll on injured reserve
due to "head/neck issues." To replace him, forward Nikita Filatov, the team's
2008 first-round pick,
was recalled from Syracuse
of the AHL.
-Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg
is dealing with a groin
injury.
-Detroit
defenseman Chris Chelios
claims he would've shoved Def Leppard's Joe Elliot for
putting the Stanley Cup upside down.
-Just what we need; Two 70-year-old men who haven't been
relevant since the 1980s beating each other up.
-Former Predators forward Alexander Radulov
talked about
possibly playing for the Predators again.
Northwest Division
-Mathieu Garon made 33 saves and helped the Oilers
edge the
rival Ducks, 3-2.
Anaheim is off
to an 0-4-0 start.
-Goaltender Andrew Raycroft
will make his debut with the
Avalanche.
-Folks in Denver
don't seem to as excited about the Avalanche
as they were in the old days.
-Minnesota
defenseman Marek Zidlicky
was put on injured reserve.
-Having dealt with Marian Hossa last season, Thrashers
general manager Don Waddell
knows what the Wild is going through with Marian
Gaborik.
Pacific Division
-Rookie forward Fabian Brunnstrom (
right) showed what all the hype
was about. The much ballyhooed rookie became the third player in league history
to record a hat trick and helped the Stars
top the Predators, 6-4.
-The other two players to pull off that feat
were Montreal
Canadiens Alex Smart (1948) and Real Cloutier (1979).
-New Kings coach Terry Murray is no stranger to California hockey.
He
used to be a member of the Oakland Seals.
-We'll go well out of our way to drop an Oakland Seals reference
in EN by the way.
-Ducks prospect Steve Kampfer, a defenseman at the University of Michigan
suffered a fractured skull and
neck after being attacked on campus Sunday.
Michigan
football player Mike Milano is a suspect in the attack and has been suspended
from the football team indefinitely.
Smythe Division
-The political ambitions of former Winnipeg Jets forward
Thomas Steen
have hit a road block.
(Photos: Ovechkin-Bruce
Bennett/Getty Images; Jagr-Nikolai Krivich/Associated Press; Malone-Reinhold Matay; Associated Press; Havlat-Brian
Kersey/Getty Images; Brunnstrom-Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Posted
Oct 16 2008, 06:35 AM
by
Seth Rorabaugh