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Welcome to the most exciting time of the year, folks. The playoffs, a place I did not believe I'd be blogging from this season. The eighth-seeded Capitals - they of a salary cap era worst goal differential (minus-37) for a team that qualified for the postseason -- will take on the the first-seeded New York…

When you look at the success of the 2023-24 Washington Capitals, the fingerprints of the 2023 Calder Cup championship Hershey Bears team are all over it. Three of the Bears' top four centers last season -- Connor McMichael, Hendrix Lapierre, and Michael Sgarbossa -- finished the year in Washington as longtime stars Nicklas Backstrom (injury)…

All first-round games to be available regionally on Monumental Sports Network

The Washington Capitals held their first full practice of the 2024 postseason on Friday morning. Game One of the team's first-round series against the New York Rangers isn't slated until Sunday afternoon so the Capitals don't have to make the trip up to New York just yet. Head coach Spencer Carbery had his team run…

The Washington Capitals played for huge stakes on Tuesday and a big local audience tuned in. According to a Monumental Sports Network press release, the Capitals-Flyers game was the "most watched single-game regular season broadcast" since the network rebranded from NBC Sports Washington and the most watched Capitals game on either NBCSWSH or Monumental since…

The Washington Capitals lost a heartbreaker to the Buffalo Sabres that could cost them the whole season. The lights are dimming. The Caps controlled the first period all the way up until Zach Benson tapped in Jeff Skinner's shot. Alex Tuch had a bit too much space from Connor McMichael to make it 2-0 in…

Rasmus Sandin missed the past two Capitals games with a reported head injury he suffered late in the team's loss to the Ottawa Senators on Sunday. Head coach Spencer initially expressed some hope that Sandin may be able to return to action before the end of the regular season. He shut down that hope after…

The Detroit Red Wings and Washington Capitals will cap off their season series on Tuesday night in what has been billed as both teams' most important game of the season. The shift in playoff qualification odds for either side is massive with a regulation win and a regulation loss could almost doom each to an…

Lindgren stops 42, Ovechkin reaches 30 goals for 18th season as Caps halt skid

The Washington Capitals won the biggest game of the season so far, ending a six-game losing streak and defeating fellow playoff-challengers, the Detroit Red Wings. The Capitals looked abysmal for more than 3o minutes, but a rally late in the second period ended with Dylan Strome hitting the net. Before that period was up, Alex…