Washington Capitals and University Of Maryland Thoughts and Previews

   

Tonight the Washington Capitals travel to the lone star state to battle the Dallas Stars, game time 8:00 PM est, The Capitals coming off a wild Thursday night, home opener, winning in a shoot out victory over the Calgary Flames. Tonight Braden Holby will be back between the pipes for the red, despite a poor performance Thursday giving up 3 goals in the 1st period. I hope Holtby will be back in full form tonight, because Neuvirth played lights out Thursday stopping 2 shots in the shoot out against the Flames. The great 8 is back in Ovechkin form this season, Ovi had 2 goals Thursday and scored n the shoot out. Another player I am very excited about is Connor Carrick, who Thursday night got his first NHL goal against the heat, and on Tuesday night against the Blackhawks in Chi town we saw Mikhail Grabovski score 3 goals; who is currently leading the team in goals right now. Now the Offense has been able to score in the first two games but the defense has played very poorly, although Thursday night in the 2nd and 3rd period the defense looked much better, hopefully tonight the defense will step it up and be consistent the whole game. The Caps will not have Jack Hillen on the ice with them tonight after suffering an injury Thursday night from a nasty hit he took against the Flames. It should be an exciting one tonight in the Big D ( We Want Dallas!!!) I will be tweeting tonight during the game.

Noon Today the undefeated and now ranked # 25 Maryland Terrapins do battle with # 8 undefeated Florida State Seminoles in the sunshine state. Maryland who now under the 3rd full season of the Randy Edsall administration who last 2 seasons have been horrendous to watch, are now undefeated and ranked # 25! what a turnaround, Maryland biggest victory this year was a 37-0 demolishing over the University of West Virginia! that was the W that got them ranked # 25 historically though Maryland has not done well against the Seminoles though so we will see what happens today but I will be watching and I'm def excited for this one! if Maryland looses they will def lose their # 25 ranking but if they can pull of an upset here, or at least give the Seminoles a run for their money! than they might have a chance. Tomorrow I will be writing my thoughts on both games today!

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Capitals Win a Donnybrook in the home opener

Thursday night @ The Phone Booth in our nations capital, the great 8 and The Washington Capitals took the ice in their home opener against the Calgary Flames from the great white north. The Caps coming off a loss Tuesday in Chicago  to the defending champs had something to prove tonight in their home opener. The Caps for a decade straight have not been defeated @ home on opening night until last season.

The 1st period was a terrible performance both on the offense and the defense by the boys in red, Calgary struck first in 5:18 a goal by David Jones ( The fucking monkeys), then is got worse in 10:13 The Flames were burning again with a goal by Lee Stempnia, and then again in 16:22 the Flames burned one past Braden Holtby a shot by Jiri Hudler. The three goals led to a keeper change for the Caps out went Braden Holtby, and in went Michal Neuvirth. In addition Calgary's Lance Bouma put a nasty check on Jack Hillen knocking him out of the game with an injury, which led to a fight between Washington's Tom Wilson and Bouma, where Wilson pummeled him. That is how the 1st period went with the Caps trailing 3-0, I needed another Molson at this point.

The 2nd period got better (Thank God) in 7:30 Washington's rookie Connor Carrick scored a beautiful goal on Calgary, and all of a sudden there is life in Washington and the restless crowd at this point. Then in 9:05 this eternal Flame wasn't burning out, a goal for Calgary by Lance Bouma. Down 4-1, I'm thinking when is TNA Impact coming on? with the fate of Hulk Hogan, until the Great 8 put one in the net in 11:24, allright were back in it!, and Then again it was his greatness of eightness to strike again! with another goal!!! in 15:25, so at the end of the 2nd period its 4-3 and now we have a real donnybrook on our hands going into the third period.

The third period was a back and forth stalemate the Caps D and Neuvirth were clutch all period completely shutting down the Flames, and in 14:10 Nicklas Bakstrom struck with a goal to tie the game up 4-4, that's how it would end in the 3 rd period, going into overtime!! 5 more minutes and overtime ended in a stalemate!! which means shoot out(my favorite)!!!

In the shoot out Neuvirth was clutch, he successfully stopped both shots against him by Sven Baertschi, and Jiri Hudler. The Caps scored on both their shots first one by Mikhail Grabovsk, and The great 8 Ovechkin for the win! 2-0 in the shoot out, giving the Caps the W.  What a wild game, The Caps looked like a whole new team after Oates pulled Holtby for Neuvirth, the 3rd period the Caps defense looked good, and I was very impressed with the play by the rookie Connor Carrick it will be exciting to see how he progresses this season, I will write another entry tomorrow talking about the Caps game tomorrow night against the Dallas Stars, and the Maryland Florida state game. I will be tweeting tomorrow, during the Caps game and some of the Maryland game; see you tomorrow!!

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Washington Capitals Home Opener Preview!

 

Tonight @ 7:00PM Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals will be rocking the Phone Booth in our nations Capital, for the home opener against a team from the great white north; The Calgary Flames. Hopefully that means that allot of rowdy Canadian fans will be in the house tonight which always makes going to a cap allot more fun, and the Molson Golden will be flowing tonight especially for this writer as I watch the game tonight! Tonight the Capitals need to step it up on the defense, Tuesday night's game in Chicago we saw Mikhail Grabovski score 3 goals we will see how he fares tonight, and how the goal playing of Brandon Holtby holds up tonight, last season was the first 10 time in 10 years the Capitals lost their home opener, 4-2 to the Winnipeg Jets; hopefully the Caps tonight can make it 10 out of 11 years they win their home opener. We will see tonight and I can't wait I'll be on our twitter page tonight during the game, and will write about the game tomorrow with my thoughts about the game and all the fall out from it. Here is a link for the twitter page! see you tonight! and lets rock the Red!!

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Washington Capitals Open Night! by Dan McHugh

Tuesday night a show down in Chitown, Alex Ovechkin and the boys in Red rolled into the windy city to do battle with the 2013 Stanley Cup defending Champions the Chicago Blackhawks!  The atmosphere in the United Center was exciting! def a big time game atmosphere, and the game being on NBC sports network, and not on Comcast Sports net. It was Ovechkin in prime time, on the big stage! going up against Patrick Kane and the defending champs!  Anticpation for an exciting showdown in Chi Town!

4 Minutes into the game the Hawks struck first  Brandon Bollig getting one past Holtby, but then in 10:42 in the first it was Ovechkin getting a goal! off the power play, followed up by a goal by the Blachawks; Patrick Kane in 11:06 in the 1st period, first period was fast pace and hard hitting the Caps were loosing but batlling hard the whle period.

The 2nd period was a back and forth stalemate for the first 10 minutes, then a goal by Mikhail Grabovski for the Capitals, but the champs would strike back with a goal in 14:32 Brent Seabrook off the power play. The Caps at the end of the 2nd Period trailing 3-2, but still very much in this game.


The 3rd period, The Caps stike hard and fast with goal # 2 for the night for Grabovski 59 seconds into the period. Then in 5:16 it was Grabovski for his third goal of the night! off a power play, however that would be it for our boys in Red as the Hawks would go on to score 3 more goals for the Caps to fall 6-4 to the Blackhawks, in Chicago. Barndon Holtby would have 29 saves for the night, but gave up 6 goals. Coach Adam Oates said after the game that felt the Caps had to many turnovers tonight and its hard to win when you trunover the puck as much as they did tonight.

I think that Caps looked good tonight despite the loss, they battled the Champs hard in a 6-4 loss. However clearly they need to improve on defense you can't give up 6 goals in a game, no matter  how good your offense is and expect to win games, Def a shining light for the game was Mikhail Grabovski with 3 goals for the night, it will be exciting to see what more he does as the season progresses, I will write on tomorrow night's game against the Calgary Flames, gametime 7:00 PM! from the Phone Booth in our nations capital!

7/10/12

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7-10-12 DMV SportsWire Returns!!

An update!

Several years ago we had a vision to to start a sports podcast that covered Sports is the the DC Maryland and Virginia area. Well we have had so many setbacks, I take full responsibility for it. 7-10-12 we will l return with blogs, tweets, and hopefully our show. Our dream of covering sports in the DC area will not die! We will be back! Stay tuned!

Sunday: Ravens AFC Championship Report

Well here we are Sunday championship for the NFL, and the crown jewel team for the DMV area the Baltimore Ravens, are once again the AFC championship. Ray Lews, Ed Reed, and Joe Flacco along with the rest of the Purple and Black are rolling up to the frozen tundra in Foxbourough, MA to battle Bill Beliceat, Tom Brady, and the rest of the New England Patriots. The last time the Ravens played the Pats in the playoffs, the Ravens pulled an upset victory over the Pats in Foxbourough. The last time the Ravens were in the afc championship though they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers, we all remember the nasty hit that Willis Mcgahee took where he was knocked unconscious, This time the stories going into this are are Ed Reed calling out Joe Flacco this week, allot of people don't have confidence in Flacco that he can throw more than 20 times a game. My take is Joe Flacco is a 4 year quarterback who for 4 years in a row has made the playoffs, so people need to show Flacco some respect IMO, hes one of the best in the league right now. He is the best Ravens QB of all time, he has far surpassed Trent Dilfer who Dilfer himself, has said that Flacco is better than he ever was. Ravens football has always been won by solid defense, by Ray Lewis and, co!! shutting down Brady, and that beast Gronkowski (whos a monster) on the offense Flacco needs to not to make any mistakes, and get the ball to Ray Rice, and the line needs to black for Ray. The Pats are the best team in the league, and Tom Brady is the best QB in the game today. However They are not unbeatable even at Foxbourgh. If Tom Brady shows up and doesn't have an off day, then the Ravens D are wo question are gonna have there work cut out for the. The game starts at 3:00 pm, on CBS, from Gillette stadium in Foxbourough, MA!! lets see what happens will have a follow up tonight on my thoughts of the game.