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Caps beat Isles 2-1 (SO), Take Division Lead (Probably)

On April 4, 2013, In Game Recap, By Peter Hassett

Photo credit: Patrick McDermott

The Washington Capitals emerged from the trade deadline a more dangerous team. Facing the New York Islanders in a pivotal game, they didn’t muster much offense, but they mustered enough.

A sleepy start allowed the Caps an early lead, but the Isles surged in the third and tied it up in the waning minutes. Thanks to some superior work in the Holtbestiary, the Caps made it to OT and all the way to the shootout.

SHOOTOUT MADNESS, HERE WE GO: Hendricks failed to paralyze. Nielsen couldn’t find the five hole. Ovechkin scored backhand. Boyes deked Holtby but lost the puck. Ribs got poked. Tavares denied. CAPS WIN! TAKE THE SOUTHEAST DIVISION LEAD!

Caps beat Islanders 2-1 (Shootout)

Relive Caps vs Islanders in Six-Second Snippets

On March 26, 2013, In Video, By Peter Hassett

Back when we started this whole hockey-blogging folly, Twitter ran on steam and Internet video was reserved for senators and people who owned horses. Now it’s 2013, and my very funny friend Steven Freitas is livevlogging entire hockey games from his sweet-ass seats in Verizon Center. Using Vine, an app that grabs and publishes video in 6-second snippets, Freitas shared his POV of the Washington Capital’s tragic 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders.

It’s a totally novel and immersive way to share experiences, and if that is too buzzwordy for you, buckle up, because Vine is going to be shifting paradigms and leveraging user-generated content to create new vectors for lean-back, two-screen experiences. Yeah. I just did that.

Seriously: these videos are pretty cool, and while it’s a shame they come from a loss, I think you should check it out. It’ll only take you 42 seconds, but it’s a bit resource-intensive. And oh yeah: follow @SteveFreitas!

Tagged with: New York Islanders • Stevem Freitas • Verizon Center • Vine • Washington Capitals

Islanders beat Caps 3-2: Did the Whole Season Get Lost Between Mike Green’s Skates?

On March 26, 2013, In Game Recap, By Peter Hassett

Photo credit: Patrick McDermott

As the Washington Capitals returned home to face the New York Islanders, they were likely pondering the 6 points out of a total 8 they earned on their recent road trip. That pondering may have led to some absent-minded play in the first period, but the Caps recovered in the second to put forward one of their strongest possession games of the season. But possession was exactly what Mike Green didn’t have when his goof-up allowed the GWG for John Tavares.

Islanders beat Caps 3-2.

Tagged with: Alex Ovechkin • Dmitry Orlov • John Carlson • Josh Bailey • Michael Grabner • Mike Ribeiro • New York Islanders • Washington Capitals

Hot-heads and High Sticks: Isles beat Caps 5-2

On March 9, 2013, In Game Recap, By Peter Hassett

Totally not a picture of Grubauer btw. (Photo credit: Bruce Bennett)

The Washington Capitals had a great chance to jump up the Southeast Division in Saturday’s game at the New York Islanders. For awhile it looked like the Caps could do it, but then two rotten, late-game penalties by Mike Ribeiro and Jeff Schultz put it out of reach. A great opportunity, squandered.

Isles beat Caps 5-2.

Tagged with: Alex Ovechkin • John Erskine • Mathieu Perreault • New York Islanders • Washington Capitals

New York Islanders Pregame: Fishsticks! (PuckBuddys Preview)

On March 8, 2013, In Pregame, By Doug Johnson

Photo credit: Jim McIsaac/Getty Images

[Ed note: PuckBuddy, and hockey's own Hemingway, Jason Rogers, is back to praise where it's earned and taunt where it's needed. Tweeter him now.]

Morning Skate: Don’t look now, but the Caps have won five of their last six, and eight of eleven over the last month. The good guys from DC sit within spitting distance of – dare I say it? – the playoffs. The Capitals, like a port-a-potty with a wayward push, have begun rolling downhill.

This Saturday afternoon, like a matinee at the movies, the Caps’ opponent will be a poorly directed, over-budget flop starring nobody. Yes, the Gortons Fishermen roll back into their harbor fresh from Long Island (Excuse me: Stron-Gisland) to welcome the Caps, and if Uncle Ted has any sense he’ll scotch-guard the locker room.

Tagged with: Eric Fehr • John Carlson • New York Islanders • Puckbuddys • Steve Olesky

Rollercoaster! Caps beat Isles 5-4 (SO)

On March 13, 2012, In Game Recap, By Peter Hassett

Photo credit: Bruce Bennett

The Washington Capitals began their epic road trip with a stop on the Long Island and its New York Islanders. The game saw the worst and best of the Caps, but it ended the right way.

Matt Moulson scored the game’s first goal, a fluke so dumbfounding I feel drunk trying to explain it. Matt Moulson scored a power play goal off of John Carlson. John Tavares notched another power play goal at the halfway point, but Dennis Wideman returned fire a few seconds later. Before a comeback could gain momentum, Tavares found the back of the net again. Before the end of the second, Alex Ovechkin caught a rebound and turned it into goal.

Scoarlov.

Alex Ovechkin took three stabs at a puck from descending distances before beating Nabokov and tying the game. Overtime was not OV time, so we needed a shootout to make a decision. Matt Hendricks is your shootout hero! Caps beat Isles 5-4 (SO).

Tagged with: Alex Ovechkin • Jay Beagle • John Tavares • Mike Knuble • New York Islanders • Washington Capitals

Spurned by Lady Luck: Matt Moulson’s Fluke Goal Beats Neuvirth

On March 13, 2012, In Video, By Ian Oland

“What is this doing here?”

Halfway through the first period of Tuesday’s Capitals-Islanders game, Matt Moulson sent a shot towards Michal Neuvirth‘s net. Neuvy got his blocker on it — sending the puck flying into the glass.

That should’ve been the end of that, but the puck bounced back over the net, as if being guided by Satan himself, and deflected off Neuvirth’s erogenous zone before going in the net.

Tagged with: Fluke Goal • John Tavares • Matt Moulson • Michal Neuvirth • New York Islanders • Washington Capitals

New York Islanders Pregame: They’re Still Horrible

On March 12, 2012, In Pregame, By Doug Johnson

Here’s Doug Johnson with your pregame report. Read PuckBuddys and then follow ‘em on Twitter.

“What Wha?” There are some things that just aren’t said aloud.

Example #1: Oprah is a Fraud. Yeah, she could buy the Nepalese army to storm my house, or hot-wire the RMNB site for combustion, just ’cause I said it. Yet it’s true. Oprah Winfrey is, as we speak, today and into the future, a total fraud.
Example #2: Our Politics are a Farce. Do we really need to gut this beast further to illustrate that point? Anyone who thinks our civic culture is robust, please hold your head underwater for five minutes. Questions?
Example #3: Caps…Leading the Southeast?! Eighth in the Eastern? And *shudder* five points behind Ottawa? I’m not sure when we signed up to write fiction, but apparently that is now.

Tagged with: New York Islanders • Puck Buddys

Video: Alex Ovechkin’s Vintage OTGWG Against the Islanders

On February 28, 2012, In Photos, Video, By Ian Oland

Photo credit: Bruce Bennett

It was an unlikely game. The Capitals dominated the Islanders for most of the hour, but were without a goal until Troy Brouwer finally beat Nabokov in the waning minutes of the third. Brouwer pulled through again in the final minute of regulation, and then we were treated to a sight we haven’t seen enough of lately.

Alex Ovechkin, who extended his Washington Capitals OTGWG franchise record to 11, carried the puck across neutral, skated to the center lane, used New York’s Travis Hamonic as a screen, and scored the game-winner through Nabokov’s five-hole. Video is below the jump.

Tagged with: Alex Ovechkin • New York Islanders • OTGWG • Washington Capitals

New York Islanders Pregame: Five Past Serious O’Clock

On February 28, 2012, In Pregame, By Doug Johnson

Photo credit: Mitchell Layton

The Pregame: Strap in, ladies, because here we go. Good news and bad news. And you know which doesn’t come with fancy French nibbles. Radishes for you.

Life Post-Deadline

Ugh, here’s the bad. Over the next five+ weeks, 20 nights, every one of you will be simmered into a jersey jelly of slimy aspic. Demi-glacé, oui? You get it: a trebling, molten slop of hope and desire and fear and torment, exactly as smelly as that sounds, and with no escape possible, all watching on the stovetop that is the Capitals’ next 20 games. Stupid French chefs.

Tagged with: New York Islanders • Puck Buddys • serious as a heart attack

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Caps beat Isles 2-1 (SO), Take Division Lead (Probably)

Relive Caps vs Islanders in Six-Second Snippets

Islanders beat Caps 3-2: Did the Whole Season Get Lost Between Mike Green’s Skates?

Hot-heads and High Sticks: Isles beat Caps 5-2

New York Islanders Pregame: Fishsticks! (PuckBuddys Preview)

Rollercoaster! Caps beat Isles 5-4 (SO)

Spurned by Lady Luck: Matt Moulson’s Fluke Goal Beats Neuvirth

New York Islanders Pregame: They’re Still Horrible

Video: Alex Ovechkin’s Vintage OTGWG Against the Islanders

New York Islanders Pregame: Five Past Serious O’Clock

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