Category Archives: Playoffs

Your Caps-Lightning Game 7 Drinking Game

Posted on May 22, 2018 by

The Washington Capitals and the Tampa Bay Lightning square off Wednesday night in a one-game showdown to decide who gets a chance to play in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Lightning last won the ultimate prize in hockey in 2004. The … Continue reading →

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Sound + Vision

Posted on April 26, 2017 by

A Simple Life Hack For An Improved Caps-Pens Experience OK. We’re all filled with schpilkes about the upcoming death march series with the Penguins. Rightly so. And now, to add to the agita, we find ourselves without Joe B. and … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Tough Guys, and the Return of “Liable to Libel”

Posted on May 5, 2015 by

Tom Wilson – Asset, or Ass? Tom Wilson: the most incendiary youngster to hit Washington since William Jefferson Clinton, and bane of the New York zeitgeist. Wilson’s wrecking ball style of play, characterized by the kind of wanton disregard for … Continue reading →

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The Brouwer Play May Be Over, But Holtby is Rangers’ Bigger Worry

Posted on May 3, 2015 by

Souring on Brouwer   The hour for Brouwer on the power play has soured. Once, in the dark old days of an impotent Washington offense bereft of top-six talent, Troy Boy was a consistent bright spot, always to be counted … Continue reading →

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Caps Game 6 Defense Due to Dummies, Not Doom

Posted on April 26, 2015 by

Just in time for gay sev of the first round of playoffs, the PuckBuddys welcome back Jason Rogers: writer, world traveler, Sperm Whale and “Hockey’s Hemingway.” No really, that what it says at his Twitter page, which you should totally … Continue reading →

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Homo Homer

Posted on April 17, 2014 by

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want April. The cruelest month. Mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rain. How do we put this? There just wasn’t a whole lotta Captastical in “America’s Hockey Capital” this season…even … Continue reading →

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Playoff Clouds, Teal (and Silver!) Lining

Posted on June 15, 2013 by

With the Los Angeles Kings dispatched from the playoff picture, the burn of yet another San Jose Sharks playoff elimination at the hands of a team from SoCal has eased some. Enough, at least, to free my hands from covering … Continue reading →

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Bracket Troubles

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

I don’t do well at brackets. I have enough sense to stay away from the NCAA basketball bracket madness. I do torture myself though playing the NHL Stanley Cup bracket challenge. This year was particularly bad. I know the playoffs … Continue reading →

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Ranger Danger: Caps-NYR Game 2 Preview

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

Today’s abbreviated Game 2 Preview comes less than twenty-four hours after the Caps 3-1 victory over the Rangers in Game 1, and less than twenty-four hours before what is sure to be a systematic dismantling of the Rangers in Game … Continue reading →

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