Ian’s Take: What Should The Capitals Do With Alex Semin?
As an artist, do you know what I love? Flash. No not, Tomas Fleischmann, you fool. I love flair. I love skill. I love sick moves and highlight reel goals. I love potential and thinking I have it all....
View ArticleWednesday Webhits: The Frost King’s Links Of The Week
This week we’ve got a the guys who take the most punishment on the ice (hits), a better save percentage using an adjustment for the penalty kill (which puts a certain Caps’ goalie in pretty good...
View ArticleBrooks Laich May Be “Pissed Off,” But the Capitals Are Coasting
Brooks Laich is right to be angry. His team has lost four of its last six games when it should be building momentum for the post-season. But I have to respectfully disagree with his argument; the...
View ArticleMike Green: “The Main Goal is the Stanley Cup”
Suffice to say, Mike Green was snakebit last year. The Caps defenseman dealt with freak injuries to the shoulder, knee, and hip and also managed to miss 26 of Washington’s final 28 games in the...
View ArticleHappy Halloween from RMNB and Our Readers
Sheepvechkin! (Illustration by Rachel Cohen) Today is Halloween, which for me means less than one month until my birthday! Yay! Oh wait — I mean, dressing up, eating candy, and looking like a tool. To...
View ArticleDo Not Overinflate (Comic)
Week two already! Let’s delve deeper into the relationship between Shinny and her boyfriend, an enthusiastic young man who is blissfully unaware of certain hockey protocol. For example: there are...
View ArticleRMNB’s Really Bad Stanley Cup Playoff Predictions
The Stanley Cup playoffs start today, and the Washington Capitals aren’t a part of it. While that sucks, life must go on. The good news is that the quarterfinal round is the best week or two of hockey...
View ArticleJeff Schultz Is a Stanley Cup Champion; Will He Get His Name Engraved on the...
Mr. Nasty meet Stanley. Stanley: Mr. Nasty. Early Saturday morning (east coast time), the Los Angeles Kings defeated the New York Rangers 3-2, winning their second Stanley Cup in three seasons. But...
View ArticleJeff Schultz’s Name Will Be Engraved on the Stanley Cup
We’ve got some breaking news. The Los Angeles Kings put in a special waiver to the NHL to get former Washington Capitals defenseman Jeff Schultz on the Stanley Cup. That waiver was approved. Friday...
View ArticleYes, That’s Jeff Schultz’s Name Engraved on the Stanley Cup
In June the Los Angeles Kings won their second championship in three years. We all forced ourselves to smile for Jeff Schultz, then we laughed our most miserable laughs when we saw Schultz’s day with...
View ArticleStanley Cup Creates Mass Hysteria at State Department
Photos: Tracey Bartel and Brad Bartel This morning, the Stanley Cup visited the State Department in honor of the historic State Luncheon with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Canadian Prime...
View ArticleEric Fehr Wins Stanley Cup With Pittsburgh Penguins
Photo: Jared Wickerham During the summer, Eric Fehr left the organization that drafted him in 2003 for its biggest rival. “I knew that come free agency day, when [the Penguins] came calling, I knew...
View ArticleEric Fehr Kisses Stanley Cup, Daughter Elle Cries While Sitting in It (Video)
Sunday night, former Capitals forward Eric Fehr won the Stanley Cup for the first time in his career as a member of the rival Pittsburgh Penguins. After a pig pile in front of Matt Murray’s net,...
View ArticleSteve Oleksy’s First Taste of Alcohol Was Out of the Stanley Cup
At the age of 30, Steve Oleksy admitted to just having his first taste of alcohol. The Penguins’ black ace sipped it out of the Stanley Cup, which was being held by one of the greatest players in the...
View ArticleEric Fehr Has His Day With the Stanley Cup, Brings It to Hometown of Winkler,...
Fehr poses with the Stanley Cup in the office of his Winnipeg home. (Photo: @keeperofthecup) In June, former Capitals forward Eric Fehr became a Stanley Cup champion for the first time after his new...
View ArticleSteve Oleksy has his day with the Stanley Cup, celebrates with Rick Mahorn...
Former Capitals and Hershey Bears defenseman Steve Oleksy had his day with the Stanley Cup, Monday. Oleksy brought the Stanley Cup to his hometown of Macomb, Michigan. Oleksy made stops to his hometown...
View ArticleFormer Cap Eric Fehr names new son after Stanley Cup
In case you’d forgotten that former Capitals forward Eric Fehr is now a Stanley Cup champion, he and wife Rachel are reminding you with the name of their adorable new son, Benjamin Stanley Fehr....
View ArticleYes, That’s Jeff Schultz’s Name Engraved on the Stanley Cup
In June the Los Angeles Kings won their second championship in three years. We all forced ourselves to smile for Jeff Schultz, then we laughed our most miserable laughs when we saw Schultz’s day with...
View ArticleStanley Cup Creates Mass Hysteria at State Department
Photos: Tracey Bartel and Brad Bartel This morning, the Stanley Cup visited the State Department in honor of the historic State Luncheon with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Canadian Prime...
View ArticleEric Fehr Wins Stanley Cup With Pittsburgh Penguins
Photo: Jared Wickerham During the summer, Eric Fehr left the organization that drafted him in 2003 for its biggest rival. “I knew that come free agency day, when [the Penguins] came calling, I knew...
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