Capitals defenseman Jeff Schultz, who is having a career year in the plus/minus category, is 24 today. Schultz, of Calgary, Alberta, was drafted 27th overall in 2004 by the Capitals. At plus-37, he leads all defenseman in the league in that category this season. Also, with 3 goals and 14 assists, he is one point away from matching a career high in total points.

via David Coelho of Kensington, MD :

Alex Ovechkin just laid out Jaromir Jagr of the Czech Republic in their Olympic match-up. The hit led to a turnover, and a 2 on 1 break with Alex Semin setting up Evgeni Malkin for the game winner. The play is definitely the highlight of the Olympic Hockey Tournament so far, and featured a disappointing former Capital getting crushed by the new face of the franchise :
The videos have been removed from YouTube, but we found a Russian version :

The video below has been making the rounds on Hockey Sites, and although its focused on the Canadian Olympic Team, Mike Green makes a little cameo at the end.

via Bloge Salming and Down Goes Brown.

In this area, Kohls department stores carry plenty of Redskins and Ravens shirts, hats and jackets, and the Silver Spring store has practically an entire section of Terps stuff. I’ve also seen Nationals stuff there, and even random teams like the Texas Longhorns.
But no Caps stuff.
That all changed on my last trip. They actually had two – count ‘em – TWO – types of Capitals T-shirts.
One was a black T-shirt with the Capitals logo on the front and #8 Ovechkin on the back. The other was a pre-faded red Caps logo T-shirt (you know, the one that are meant to [...]

From HockeyFights.com : Quintin Laing vs. Cam Janssen

Janssen with the cheap late hit, and the fight victory.

Who can ask for more intense games to watch than those that the Caps have played recently? Down 4-1 on national television to the Penguins, only to win it in overtime, and down 5-2 going into the third period to Montreal and losing with 7 seconds left in overtime… This hockey is about as good as the regular season gets. Maybe not as good as a couple of years ago when the Caps had to win the majority of their final games to make the playoffs, but with a long winning streak on the line it is certainly interesting (let’s [...]

From a Capitals fan on YouTube:
My tribute to the biased NBC coverage of the 2/7/2010 Capitals Penguins game. The Caps ran their streak to 14 straight wins on the back of an Alexander Ovechkin hat trick – proving that NOBODY is his daddy!