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Sports Central
April 21, 2006
Charlynn Smith |
Alexander the Great First-year hockey player Alexander Ovechkin's name always came up second. Now, the story is very different. His name is now one that hockey fans will not soon forget.   |
Sports Central
June 22, 2004
Tyler Norwood |
NHL - Capitals Shopping Top Pick? Since winning the rights to the first overall pick, there's been speculation Capitals GM George McPhee might shop the pick for a package of young players. |
Sports Central
May 20, 2009
Andrew Jones |
Why This is the Year for Sid the Kid Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin have two things Alexander Ovechkin doesn't have: each other and a much more engrained sense of team play. |
Sports Central
April 20, 2009
Mike Chen |
The Washington Capitals' Tough Lesson The Capitals started the playoffs with Stanley Cup dreams. After a few days and two games, the Washington players are looking at themselves and wondering what's happened to their team. |
Sports Central
May 9, 2011
Mike Chen |
Caps' Stunning Loss is More Than Ovechkin, Boudreau The problem for the Capitals is that regular season success, while enjoyable and certainly better than losing, just isn't enough anymore, and it will take another year to see if certain players have turned the corner. |
Sports Central
April 18, 2011
Mike Chen |
Ovechkin Showing New Side to His Game If the Washington Capitals make it to the Eastern Conference Final and beyond, there's a lot of different aspects of their game to cite. |
Sports Central
March 9, 2015
Mike Chen |
Capitals Primed to Be NHL's Redemption Tale If you're looking for a feel-good story as we hit the NHL's stretch run, look no further than the Washington Capitals. |
Sports Central
March 5, 2010
Mike Chen |
What Now, NHL? It's difficult to sustain the level of momentum the NHL experienced from the Vancouver games. Just about everything went right. |
Sports Central
May 9, 2006
Mark Chalifoux |
Making Sense of a Tragedy There's nothing better than playoff hockey -- or is there? |
Sports Central
January 10, 2006
Mike Chen |
The NHL's Halfway Home A look at NHL teams, talent and business. |
Sports Central
June 26, 2013
Mike Chen |
Lessons Learned From a Shortened Season Chances are, you've all but forgotten the Great NHL Lockout of 2012. and it seems like little-to-no momentum has been lost by the NHL. The season started with uncertainty and anger and ended with record-breaking TV ratings and a thrilling two months of playoffs. |
Sports Central
January 12, 2005
Mike Chen |
The Four-Month Itch Okay, I admit it. I really, really, ridiculously miss the NHL. |
Sports Central
October 7, 2015
Marc James |
NHL Preview: Which Teams Are in Line For the Crown? Ice hockey is the kind of sport that is pretty generous when it comes to surprising even the most weathered fans, and it's safe to say that this year will be no different in this regard. |
Sports Central
November 7, 2011
Mike Chen |
Breaking Down NHL Attendance Woes Amid the big stories in the early NHL season -- both positive (Toronto Maple Leafs) and negative (Columbus Blue Jackets) -- there have also been grumblings about low attendance numbers for some markets. |
Sports Central
April 17, 2008
Sean Crowe |
Why the NHL is Dead The question is, how do we bring it back to life? |
Sports Central
October 5, 2005
Mike Chen |
Five Reasons to Watch the NHL In case you didn't hear about it (and Martha Burk is doing her best to make sure that you do), the NHL is back from its lockout of stupidity and looking to break the ice with fans new and old. |
Sports Central
July 6, 2005
Mark Chalifoux |
Why Hockey Needs a Hero One man's thoughts on how to rescue the NHL. |
Sports Central
September 30, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
The Hockey Cynic's Guide to the NHL East A look at the teams in the NHL East for the upcoming hockey season. |
AskMen.com
Johnny Testa |
Breakaway Tips From Alexander Ovechkin One of the best players in the National Hockey League offers some tips on how to successfully score on a breakaway. |
Sports Central
December 10, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
Learning to Love the Shootout The shootout is here to stay in the NHL. |
Sports Central
July 24, 2005
Mike Chen |
A New Era: Crosby Joins Baby Penguins How new young players Crosby, Malkin and Fleury may contribute to rebuilding the Pittsburgh Penguins. |
Sports Central
April 23, 2008
Jeff DiNunzio |
Why the NHL is Dead: A Response Sean Crowe maintains that the NHL is dead and asks, "how do we bring it back to life?" Well, how about we start by really answering that question? |
Sports Central
January 25, 2005
Mark Chalifoux |
The NHL Lockout Stinks At the start of the lockout, which has now lasted over 130 days, I was in the camp that the game needed to be fixed and that if it took the whole season to fix it, then so be it. |
Sports Central
October 23, 2006
Charlynn Smith |
The NHL is Back This is the year hockey will shine again in the world of sports, and here are the reasons why. |
Sports Central
May 26, 2008
Andrew Jones |
The Top 10 Cities For Hockey Fans These ten cities have winter and great hockey to watch. |
Sports Central
September 25, 2004
Mike Chen |
What Do Hockey Fans Do Now? Play some hockey. Play some virtual hockey. Watch your other local teams. Or, do none of the above and join millions of sports fans and ignore the fact that the NHL lockout is happening. |
Sports Illustrated
December 13, 2001
Kostya Kennedy |
Don't get down on Jagr Who's the winner of the Jagr trade? Did the Pens become worse, or is Jagr not a team player so they're better off without him? And the Caps don't look like contenders to me. What about Jagr? He's making millions, but has he lost his touch? |
Sports Central
November 9, 2004
Mark Chalifoux |
Bettman's Plan to Save the NHL "Whether or not we miss half a season or three-quarters of a season, or don't have a season at all -- that is not the issue from our standpoint," the national Hockey League commissioner said. "We need a deal that is the right deal to address the problems and let us go forward." |
Sports Central
June 9, 2006
Bob Ekstrom |
NHL's Saturday Night Special With the NHL yet to coronate a champion in an annual ritual more exhaustive than Mr. Trump's search for his next Apprentice, it is difficult to imagine that NHL seasons once wrapped up on May 10. |
Sports Central
February 19, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
The Bright Side of Armageddon I was wrong about the National Hockey League lockout. That's a hard pill for me to swallow, because I was convinced that this was all for the best |
Sports Central
May 18, 2010
Andrew Jones |
NHL Playoffs Review and Predictions The eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens shocked hockey fans throughout the world (even ones in Montreal) by defeating the heavily favored Washington Capitals in a seven-game series that saw the second consecutive Presidents' Trophy winner sent home before May began. |
Sports Central
January 10, 2012
Mike Chen |
Can Caps Find Their Way Under Hunter? The Caps started hot, then floundered, then really floundered, then finally seemed to find their footing under new coach Dale Hunter. For a team loaded with talent, there won't be any answers until we get to May. |
Sports Central
February 11, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
Hockey's Higher Calling Hockey is bigger than the NHL, and if the NHL should ever go down, it's not taking hockey with it. |
Sports Central
July 30, 2014
Mike Chen |
NHL Teams Facing an Identity Crisis In this year's NHL offseason, three teams are facing major crossroads. Two teams are perennial underachievers while another is taking a bold step forward. |
Sports Central
June 4, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
The Never-Ending Hockey Story I know the lockout is going to end because, alas, all things must end. If there isn't a settlement, the NHL might just fold. |
Sports Central
June 14, 2006
Zach Jones |
The Great Disappearing League Signs the NHL is in decline. |
Sports Central
June 11, 2008
Ross Lancaster |
A Novel Concept: Last Two Are Best This year, for probably the first time since the 2001 Finals between the Avalanche and Devils, the two best teams met for the Stanley Cup championship. |
Sports Central
February 12, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
How to Simply Fix the NHL The solution to professional hockey's problems isn't found in salary caps or luxury taxes or franchise players or "cost certainty." |
Sports Central
December 5, 2007
Jeff DiNunzio |
The Quarter Season NHL Review A summary of the first quarter of the 2007-2008 NHL season. |
Sports Central
May 3, 2010
Mike Chen |
A Tale of Two Presidents' Trophies Why the San Jose Sharks and Washington Capitals both lost to eighth seed teams. |
Sports Illustrated
May 2, 2002
Kostya Kennedy |
Fighting mad Violence in hockey paints fans into two corners... |
Sports Central
March 22, 2012
Mike Chen |
Injuries Muddy Stanley Cup Playoff Picture Where will this impact be felt? Enough teams have been bit by the injury bug that the epidemic of fallen star players reaches wide. |
AskMen.com
June 3, 2015
Alex Manley |
Phil Pritchard Interview What do you learn when you spend 27 years traveling with the Stanley Cup? |
Sports Central
October 25, 2004
Eric Poole |
Hockey Strike? What Strike? It's difficult to tell which is worse, the total absence of any progress toward ending the National Hockey League's work stoppage -- or the lack of outrage about it. |
Sports Central
July 16, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
Five Problems Hockey Can't Solve The author has a new book about the most disastrous ideas in the history of sports... Hockey should come to grips with the idea that the mythical casual fan will never buy into hockey... The MLB All-Star game effectively sedated the author... etc. |
Sports Central
September 21, 2010
Mike Chen |
Five Storylines For 2010-11 NHL Season NHL training camps have just gotten underway. Here are the top five storylines heading into the 2010-11 NHL season. |
Sports Central
May 11, 2009
Jonathan Hamelin |
Top Suprises of the NHL Playoffs Whether it be young players making a name for themselves or Game 7s, there have been a lot of things surprising about the NHL playoffs so far. Here is a look at some of them. |
Sports Central
October 19, 2005
Mike Chen |
NHL Back With a Bang, But Will it Survive? The NHL is back in a big way, and with enough momentum to make every sports league consider self-destruction for a year. But the NHL can fall back to earth quickly if it becomes complacent -- or worse, lazy. |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Jay Greene |
How This Diehard Fan Would Fix Hockey The sad truth of the lockout is that for the vast majority of American sports enthusiasts, it doesn't much matter. The National Hockey League may well lose the entire 2004-05 season, and most sports fans in this country won't even notice. |
Sports Central
June 5, 2004
Jonathan Moncrief |
NHL - Meet the Hart Trophy in St. Louis It appears as though hockey fans will have only three more chances to cheer in 2004 after Lord Stanley's Cup is paraded about - the NHL draft later this month, the World Cup of Hockey and the NHL Awards show, coming up June 10th in Toronto. |
