Archive for May, 2011

Never one to cover anything serious, Capitals Outsider found itself searching high and low for offbeat content this offseason, only to come up empty. Then we came up with the bright idea of republishing old content to make it look like we were doing work. That only lasted for about a week. But then the lightbulb went off over our head and we came up with this:

Caps Outsider reader Que-ink is at it again, tackling another familiar face for Caps fans. Today she unveiled goaltender Michal Neuvirth’s portrait on the site Tegaki, where she’s drawn several other hockey players. Also check out Alex Semin. Que-ink is also willing to draw for you. Check out her very reasonable rates, a spectacular deal for the quality she provides.

While the Caps’ season ended a couple weeks ago, three of their prospects were still competing for the Memorial Cup of the Canadian Hockey League. Kootenay Ice’s Cody Eakin (C, drafted 85th overall in 2009), Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors’ Brett Flemming (D, drafted 145th overall in 2009) and Saint John Sea Dogs’ Stanislav Galiev (LW, drafted 86th overall in 2010) all advanced, with their teams, to the tournament that hosted the best of each major Canadian hockey league. Kootenay came as the Western Hockey League Champions, Saint John was the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Champions and while Mississauga lost [...]

Photo by Manda Kowalczyk (originally published Dec. 2010) Many Capitals fans have acquired quite a collection of bobbleheads over the past few years, and will be happy to hear that more are on the way. This past season, the Caps distributed Brooks Laich at the blood drive, Mike Knuble with the Caps Kids Club, and Alex Ovechkin in a Winter Classic uniform with the Holiday Pack. Semyon Varlamov came out for the March blood drive, and everyone in attendance for Fan Appreciation Day on April 6 received Nicklas Backstrom. Of the current Capitals, these fellas join Alexander Semin, John Carlson, Bruce Boudreau, [...]

(Originally posted Feb., 2011) It’s official folks. The Capitals cast for The Winter Classic 2011: The Movie has been picked. We last left you with a list of possible picks for each role but our brain-trust narrowed it down to one for each role. Now all we need is for someone to write the script, someone to call these actors and tell them they got the parts, and for Uncle Ted to finance the film so we can put it on snagfilms.com. Oh, and someone has got to cast the Penguins. Any volunteers?

Lately, several creative Caps fans and bloggers have opened their own Caps-centric online T-shirt stores. But we’ll get to those later because Capitals Outsider only endorses parody and sarcasm. So, we proudly present… a @nazarcruce production (with real T-shirt stores listed at the end.)

The New York Rangers announced in a news release Friday that winger Derek Boogaard died at the age of 28. The last goal of his career (one of three) came against the Capitals back in November, and it was a beauty. Here it is: The goal, courtesy of a Tyler Sloan turnover, broke a 234 game-drought for Boogaard. Washington won the game, 5-3. John Erskine wrote on Twitter: “Deepest sympathies to the Boogaard family. One of the toughest guys I’ve ever played with. You will be missed Boogie-man. Great memories.”

Third Period and Overtime of Game 4: Caps Stave Off Elimination Down 3-0 in the second round series in Tampa Bay, and down 3-2 in the third period of Game 4, the Washington Capitals avoided a humiliating playoff elimination to the 5th-seeded Lightning with a 4-3 overtime victory. The Caps can thank Michal Neuvirth, who robbed Marc-Andre Bergeron on the power play early in the third, then Martin St. Louis late in the period. With the minutes ticking down and the golf courses within view, defenseman John Carlson tied the game on the power play. Ten minutes into sudden death, [...]