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Postgame: Stars 4, Capitals 3, SO 10.03.09
Firing early and often, the Capitals staked themselves to a 2-0 lead after the first 40 minutes of play on Monday against the Dallas Stars. |
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Postgame: Capitals 5, Lightning 4 10.03.05
Tonight’s 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning won’t earn the Washington Capitals any style points, but the Caps will happily pocket the pair of standings points they earned and move on. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Sabres 1 10.03.04
Both the Capitals and the Sabres (who played and lost in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night) looked a little rusty and out of synch in the early going of Wednesday’s game, Washington’s first after the conclusion of the Olympic break. |
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Postgame: Blues 4, Capitals 3, SO 10.02.14
The Caps finished off a three-game road trip with a 4-3 shootout loss to the Blues in St. Louis on Saturday. |
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Postgame: Senators 6, Capitals 5 10.02.12
On Thursday night in Ottawa, the Capitals continued their habit of giving up the game’s first goal and coming back from a multiple-goal deficit. |
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Postgame: Canadiens 6, Capitals 5, OT 10.02.11
It says a lot about these 2009-10 Washington Capitals that on the night their franchise-record winning streak came to a halt at 14 games, they still managed to come away from the game with a point. |
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Postgame: Capitals 5, Penguins 4, OT 10.02.08
The Washington Capitals are now owners of the longest winning streak in the NHL since the Pittsburgh Penguins set the record with 17 straight in 1992-93. |
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Recap: Capitals 5, Thrashers 2 10.02.07
The Washington Capitals are getting great goaltending and explosive offense. |
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Postgame: Capitals 6, Rangers 5 10.02.05
Wins are like goals; they don’t ask “how?” They ask “how many?” Washington won’t get style points for Thursday’s 6-5 victory over the Rangers in New York, but the Capitals don’t care. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Bruins 1 10.02.04
On Tuesday night in Boston, the Caps skated off with their second 4-1 win in as many visits to Beantown this season. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Lightning 2 10.02.02
Washington eked out a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday afternoon at Verizon Center to extend its winning streak to 10. The spree matches the longest run in franchise history, a 10-game streak from Jan. 27-Feb. 18, 1984. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Panthers 1 10.01.31
The Washington Capitals did not play their best game on Friday against the Florida Panthers, but some strong goaltending from Michal Neuvirth and another 20 minutes of third-period dominance were enough to push the Caps to a 4-1 win over the Cats. |
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Postgame: Capitals 5, Ducks 1 10.01.29
Heading into the third period of Wednesday’s struggle with the Anaheim Ducks, the Caps were in a 1-1 draw. Both teams had played the night before, Washington winning and the Ducks losing. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Coyotes 2 10.01.25
Washington closed out a perfect week and extended its winning streak to six games with a hard-fought 4-2 win over the scrappy Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night. |
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Postgame: Capitals 6, Penguins 3 10.01.22
It was just another regular season game in mid-January. But it was also against the defending Stanley Cup champions. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Red Wings 2 10.01.20
Making his third consecutive start for the first time in more than two months, Caps goaltender Jose Theodore started and finished three consecutive games for the first time in more than three months. |
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Postgame: Capitals 5, Flyers 3 10.01.18
From the opening face-off, today’s Caps-Flyers tilt had the feel of a playoff contest. |
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Recap: Lightning 7, Capitals 4 10.01.13
Alex Ovechkin was the center of attention without scoring a goal. |
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Postgame: Capitals 8, Thrashers 1 10.01.10
Throughout the 2009-10 season, the Capitals have been one of the league’s best first-period teams. |
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Postgame: Capitals 5, Senators 2 10.01.08
Coming into Thursday night’s game in Washington, Ottawa had one win in games it trailed after the second period. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Canadiens 2 10.01.07
The No. 14 was prominent for the Capitals in their first home game of calendar 2010 and their first game of the second half of the 2009-10. |
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Postgame: Kings 2, Capitals 1 10.01.04
With two lengthy practices on Thursday and Friday prior to Saturday’s game against the Kings in Los Angeles, the Capitals worked on their systems and they worked on their special teams play. |
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Recap: Hurricanes 6, Capitals 3 09.12.29
When the top team in the Eastern Conference and the worst one got together, the result was, unsurprisingly, a high-scoring blowout. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Devils 1 09.12.27
Tonight marked the fourth time this season the Caps and Devils went head-to-head. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Oilers 2 09.12.20
The Capitals have lost a few games in which they’ve held a lead this season, but they’ve also shown the resilience needed to rebound from deficits. |
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Recap: Capitals 6, Avalanche 1 09.12.16
The Washington Capitals were happy with an easy win, but they didn't leave Colorado in a good mood. |
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Postgame: Maple Leafs 6, Capitals 3 09.12.13
Four weeks ago tonight, the Capitals jumped out to an early 2-0 lead over the Devils in New Jersey, going up by a pair in the sixth minute of the first. |
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Postgame: Sabres 3, Capitals 0 09.12.10
Washington’s bid for a seventh straight win fell by the wayside in western New York on Wednesday night when the Caps suffered a 3-0 shutout loss at the hands of the Sabres. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Lightning 0 09.12.08
For anyone out there who wasted pixels and/or ink and papyrus imploring Alex Ovchkin to change the way he plays in the wake of his recent two-game NHL suspension, you should probably go and find another cause célébre. |
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Postgame: Capitals 8, Flyers 2 09.12.06
Knowing the Flyers were playing their first game under new head coach Peter Laviolette and had not scored a goal in more than 160 minutes going into Saturday night’s game against Washington, the Caps figured they had to meet the early Philly push. |
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Postgame: Capitals 6, Panthers 2 09.12.04
The Panthers hit town in the wee hours of Thursday, weary from a 6-5 home ice shootout win over Colorado that put an end to a five-game winless skid. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Hurricanes 2 09.12.01
In the midst of a stretch in which they play 13 of 17 games on the road, the Caps need to keep collecting a steady diet of points away from Verizon Center. |
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Postgame: Capitals 2, Sabres 0 09.11.26
Tonight’s game between the Caps and Sabres pitted a pair of teams that have been at or near the top of their division all season, but have been winless in their last three. |
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Postgame: Senators 4, Capitals 3, OT 09.11.24
We’re 24 games into the 2009-10 season now, and one thing has been constant. The Washington Capitals have held a lead in the second period or later in all 24 games. |
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Postgame: Maple Leafs 2, Capitals 1, SO 09.11.22
A night after taking a 3-2 home ice defeat at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens, the Capitals headed north of the border for a Saturday night game against the Maple Leafs in Toronto. |
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Recap: Canadiens 3, Capitals 2 09.11.21
The Montreal Canadiens were leading by a goal late in the game, ready to pull off a road upset of the Washington Capitals. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Rangers 2 09.11.18
Before the opening face-off of Tuesday’s clash between the Capitals and the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden, the story was the return of Washington superstar Alex Ovechkin after missing six straight games with an injury, more contests than he had missed in his first four seasons combined. |
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Postgame: Devils 5, Capitals 2 09.11.15
The two hottest teams in the Eastern Conference hooked up on a dreary Saturday night in Newark. The Washington Capitals, winners of four straight and owners of a 10-1-3 mark in their last 14 games visited the New Jersey Devils, winners of seven straight games and holders of a 13-2 mark in their previous 15 contests. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Wild 1 09.11.14
With the Capitals playing the front end of back-to-back games and the Wild playing the back side of consecutive contests, home-standing Washington came away with a 3-1 win over Minnesota at Verizon Center on Friday night. The win is Washington’s fourth in a row; the Caps are now 10-1-3 in their last 14 games. |
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Postgame: Capitals 5, Islanders 4, SO 09.11.12
In a contest that threatened to be longer than an American League baseball game, the Caps forged a 5-4 shootout win over the plucky New York Islanders. |
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Postgame: Capitals 7, Panthers 4 09.11.08
Mathieu Perreault had just four shifts totaling 2:02 in the second period of Saturday’s game against the Florida Panthers. So when he took the ice for his first shift of the third period, he was fresh. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Panthers 1 09.11.07
The Caps halted a three-game winless streak with one of their best overall efforts of the season against the Panthers in Florida on Friday. |
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Backstrom Volunteers with The Salvation Army 09.11.05
Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom joined Mix 107.3’s Chilli Amar, Bridgestone Tires’ Gary Dexter and Comcast SportsNet’s Lisa Hillary in The Salvation Army’s Grate Patrol program on Monday, Nov. 2. Backstrom, Amar, Dexter and Hillary delivered chicken noodle soup, bread, hot chocolate and cookies to the homeless in eight locations in Washington, D.C. With the temperature changing the Grate Patrol van also had sweatshirts to give the homeless to help with the cooler weather. |
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Postgame: Devils 3, Capitals 2 09.11.05
Coming into Wednesday night’s game, the Devils had managed just two power play goals in 27 man-advantage opportunities during their previous eight games. |
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Postgame: Blue Jackets 5, Capitals 4, OT 09.11.03
lthough the Caps were without their best player and trailed 2-1 entering the third period of tonight’s game, they came from behind to take a 3-2 lead and rallied once more later for a 4-3 advantage in Sunday's game against the Blue Jackets at Verizon Center. |
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Postgame: Islanders 4, Capitals 3, OT 09.10.31
Washington led twice in Friday’s game but it could not put away the plucky New York Islanders. The Isles came from behind twice and won a 4-3 decision from the Capitals on Mark Streit’s one-timer at the 53-second mark of overtime. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Thrashers 3 09.10.30
or the second straight Thursday night, the Washington Capitals cruised to a three-goal, second period lead against the Thrashers in Atlanta. |
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Postgame: Capitals 4, Flyers 2 09.10.28
Just over 18 months have elapsed since the Capitals and Flyers hooked up in a compelling and competitive seven-game playoff series during the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Islanders 2, OT 09.10.26
Washington has had difficulty holding late leads early in this young season – even leads of more than one goal – so it altered the script on Saturday night against the Islanders in New York. |
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Postgame: Capitals 5, Thrashers 4 09.10.23
In what has been a recurring (and somewhat troubling) pattern this season, the Capitals cruised to a 5-2 lead over Atlanta after 40 minutes and then held on for a 5-4 win. |
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Postgame: Capitals 3, Predators 2, SO 09.10.19
Alex Ovechkin scored two first period goals and then netted the only tally in the shootout as the Capitals squeaked out a 3-2 shootout triumph over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night at Verizon Center. |
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Postgame: Sharks 1, Capitals 4 09.10.16
Ted Leonsis has been the Capitals’ majority owner since the spring of 1999. He was a happy man in the Caps’ locker room tonight after his team finally delivered a 4-1 win over San Jose, its first win over the Sharks during the Leonsis era. |
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Postgame: Devils 3, Capitals 2, SO 09.10.13
Four Straight – Washington won its first two games of the 2009-10 season, but it remains winless since. The Caps came up on the short end of a 3-2 shootout setback against the Devils at Verizon Center on Monday night. |
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Postgame: Rangers 4, Capitals 3 09.10.09
For the second time in as many games, the Capitals trailed by a goal after two periods. For the second time in as many games, the Caps rallied to take a third-period lead. |
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Flyers take it in overtime 09.10.07
Danny Briere pounced on a loose puck and knocked in the rebound at 3:52 of overtime to keep the Philadelphia Flyers perfect and lift them to a 6-5 win over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night. |
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Postgame: Capitals 6, Leafs 4 09.10.05
The Washington Capitals roared out to an 18-1-1 record in their first 20 home games of the 2008-09 season. They generally won those games in similar fashion... |
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Strong Start: 4-1 vs. Bruins 09.10.02
The Capitals struggled through the first few minutes of Thursday’s season opener against the Bruins in Boston, but goaltender Jose Theodore was sharp between the pipes... |
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Penguins Eliminate Caps 09.05.14
So much for all of the hype about Sidney Crosby vs. Alex Ovechkin, Penguins vs. Capitals, Game 7. This second-round series ended with a thud, thanks to... |
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Caps Win Game Six in OT, Series Tied 09.05.12
In a thriller of a game with scoring going back and forth the Washington Capitals prevailed on an overtime blast from the point by Brooks Laich and tipped in by David Steckel. |
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Pens Take Game 5 in OT 09.05.10
Evgeni Malkin's power-play goal in overtime gave the Pens a 4-3 win over Washington in Game 5 and a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. |
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Caps Go Down in Game 4, Series Tied 09.05.09
Pittsburgh got five goals from five different players on its way to a 5-3 series-evening win over Washington in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. |
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Caps Fall in OT, Lead Series 2-1 09.05.07
Kris Letang's overtime goal gave the Pens a 3-2 win in Game 3 over the Caps on Wednesday, spoiling another stellar performance by goaltender Simeon Varlamov. |
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Star Struck; Caps Lead Series 2-0 09.05.05
Ovechkin broke open a tie game with a pair of goals less than 3 minutes apart in the third period Monday night, leading the Washington Capitals to a 4-3 victory over... |
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Caps Take Game 1 in a Flash 09.05.03
Tomas Fleischmann scored the game-winner early in the third and Simeon Varlamov made 34 saves to help the Caps to a 3-2 series-opening win vs. the Pens. |
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Caps Fall in Final Game of Season, 7-4 09.04.11
Florida scored two goals in a span of eight seconds late in the third period to break a 4-4 tie and send the Caps to a 7-4 loss in the final regular season game of 2008-09. |
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Caps Take Down Bolts, 4-2 09.04.09
Brooks Laich scored twice and Mike Green had a three-point night to make a winner of goalie Jose Theodore in his 500th NHL game as the Caps downed the Bolts. |
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Caps Playoff Schedule Announced 09.04.06
The Washington Capitals begin their quest for the Stanley Cup at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, when they host the New York Rangers in Game 1 of a best-of-seven series at Verizon Center to kick off the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs. |
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