Alexander Ovechkin will be sitting out of the Washington Capitals lineup for the weekend as he recuperates from an upper body injury which he suffered during the overtime loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets last Sunday.

He still leads the league with 14 goals in 14 games and also has nine assists.
I’m sure the Caps, and their fans, are trying not to panic too much but they lost to the New Jersey Devils this past weekend and are now 1-4-0 without Ovie (since the 2005-2006 season).
It was bound to happen, though.  Almost every player has suffered some sort of injury in …read more

Alexander Ovechkin is undeniably one of the best (if not the best) hockey player in the NHL right now.  I’m sure there are a lot of young aspiring athletes who look up to him and, fortunately, Ovie has decided to share some of the trade secrets he uses to improve his game – sex.

Russian interviewer, Sophie Shevardnadze, asked him “How do you prepare for the game? Is it true that you can’t have sex before the match?” and he answered “sex really helps, actually.”  So she followed up by asking “is that before or after the match?” and he said …read more

After cleaning up at the 2009 NHL Awards last night, it was announced that Washington Capitals star, Alexander Ovechkin, would be appearing on the cover of NHL 2K10.  Raise your hand if you are surprised after the year he’s had.  No hands?  Yeah, that’s what I thought.

The game will be released this fall for Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation 2 and PC.  Aside from that, there aren’t many details about the game floating around although I can pretty much promise that it will be about hockey…
image: 2K Sports

It was a big night for Washington Capitals superstar, Alexander Ovechkin, who walked away with the Hart, Lester B. Pearson (second straight year) and Maurice “Rocket” Richard (again, second straight year) trophies.  This comes after he revealed that he has been having a great time in Las Vegas where he had won $500 at the blackjack tables. 
Of course, he also had a fantastic season, finishing with 56 goals which is 10 better than any other player in the league.   Ever humble, Ovechkin said: "I’m proud of my country. It’s always nice to be No. 1."
While he was accepting …read more

It was the game many of us were looking forward to (and hoping for) ever since it was announced that the Washington Capitals would square off against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2009 Eastern Conference semifinals.  The series has been fiery hot and I was sure that Game 7 was going to sizzle but all I got was fizzle.

To say that I was shocked by tonight’s game would be an understatement.  I wanted the Penguins to win but not like this.  I wanted it to be gritty and tough but, instead, the Pens dominated that Caps but I will concede …read more

The Washington Capitals have forced a series to Game 7 for the second time during this current playoff season after winning last night in overtime against the Pittsburgh Penguins.  It was a very intense game and I loved every second of it.  
I know that a lot of critics and commentators had discounted the Caps but I knew better – I may not be a fan of the team but I do knew that Alexander Ovechkin was going to fight to stay in the playoffs and, regardless of what he says, that drive is intensified by his rivalry with Sidney …read more

The Washington Capitals are just one game away from being eliminated by the Pittsburgh Penguins.  Could the much-hype matchup between Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin come to an end in Game 6?

Incredibly, though, the Pens will have to admit that they are ahead due, in part, to some “assistance” they’ve received from the Capitals themselves.  Tonight’s overtime win was courtesy of a goal that was deflected into the back of the net by Capitals defenceman, Tom Poti.  I’m sure Evgeni Malkin couldn’t predict that Poti would be the one to help him score the goal but no one was complaining.  …read more

The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals in overtime and they can thank Kris Letang for scoring the game-winning goal.  Just like the Boston/Carolina series, the game was pretty intense and ended up going to overtime when the scoring stalled at 2-2.

As you would expect in a series with some serious talent, there were some great goals scored last night.  Alexander Ovechkin scored a crazy goal after he grabbed a bad bounce off the glass, clunked along toward the net (I can’t even described how weirdly he was skating) and then launched the puck into the net (and it looked …read more

The second matchup in the Washington Capitals/Pittsburgh Penguins series almost caused me to lose consciousness.  This game was so incredible that it was practically hard to breathe.  Let’s face it, people are tuning in to these games to see whether Sidney Crosby or Alexander Ovechkin is going to emerge as the star and, tonight, they both shone brightly.

There’s so little more that I could have asked from tonight’s game.  It was an intensely battled match and I was positively stunned to see both Crosby and Ovechkin finish the night with a hat trick.
Crosby scored first, again, but it didn’t lead …read more

Hockey fans everywhere were anxiously awaiting the start of this highly anticipated matchup – Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin battling out in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.  It doesn’t get a lot better than that.  Fortunately, the boys didn’t let us down.

The Washington Capitals hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins this afternoon and it was a hard-fought game but, in the end, it was Washington that skated away with a 3-2 victory.
Crosby started the scoring early in the first period but the Caps scored twice, including a goal from Ovechkin, to put them ahead by one going into the second.  After that, it …read more