Brett Leonhardt woke up Friday morning as a website producer for the Washington Capitals. By the afternoon, Leonhardt was the backup goalie for the Capitals. Leonhardt was needed to fill in since starting goalie Jose Theodore got injured and Simeon Varlamov, the player who would have usually been the replacement backup goalie, wouldn’t have been at the arena on time to serve as the backup.
For those of us who are sports website producers, this is the ultimate dream. Just to make it official — if any professional sports team needs an emergency replacement, I am available. I don’t really care …read more

I really wish hockey scoreboards only had one digit, that way when the Capitals won 10-2 against the Bruins, it would read 0-2, but really it would be 10-2. That would be kind of funny. Also, the Bruins scored 10 freaking goals. Alex Ovechkin had a hat trick in the third period, the Caps had six goals total in the first section. Ovechkin finished with five points, and surprisingly, only a +/- of 3. In what I can assume is the only other hockey news, Sidney Crosby will be back soon.