With the Philadelphia’s 2-0 blanking of Pittsburgh yesterday, the Flyers moved to the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference and will face our Washington Capitals in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Opening round of playoff game begin on Wednesday, Game One of the Caps/Flyers is set for Friday.
Here is the entire schedule of the Washington/Philadelphia series, thanks to Tarik at the Washington Post.
Game 1 Fri., April 11 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington VERSUS
Game 2 Sun., April 13 2 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington NBC
Game 3 Tues., April 15 7 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia VERSUS
Game 4 Thurs., April 17 7 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia VERSUS
Game 5 Sat., April 19 1 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington NBC
Game 6 Mon., April 21 TBD Washington at Philadelphia VERSUS
Game 7 Tues., April 22 TBD Philadelphia at Washington
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Caps In Demand … If you heading tot he Washington Nationals game tonight, look for the Caps to be honored in pre-game ceremonies. Set to be present: HC Bruce Boudreau, G Cristobal Huet, and D Mike Green.
Congrats to Alex … On one of many awards likely coming his way, including the Hart Trophy. Ovechkin captured the Art Ross and Maurice Richard trophies for leading the NHL in goals scored and total points. Ovechkin was in a tight battle with Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin for point total, but finsihed ahead 112-106. The goal mark was never in contention, with Ovechkin scoring a career and team high 65 goals. His 65 goals also set an NHL record for most goals in a single season by a left wing. Atlanta’s Ilya Kovulchuk was second behind Ovechkin with 52 goals.
More on Ovie:
Ovechkin Captures Art Ross, Rocket Richard Trophies (hockeyfights.com)
Ovechkin finishes season with both scoring awards (CBC News)
Injury Update … From the Washington Post
Defenseman Jeff Schultz left Saturday’s game early in the second period because of an undisclosed injury and did not return, dealing another blow to a banged up blue line that is already without Shaone Morrisonn (week to week, upper body) and Brian Pothier (indefinitely, concussion). Team officials are not commenting on the nature or severity of Schultz’s injury other than to say he’ll be evaluated today. If he cannot play, they’ll be forced to recall a player from Hershey, likely prospect Sami Lepisto or veteran Josef Boumedienne.
Thom Lovverro of the Washington Times picks up praise for George McPhee, praise more than worthy as we wrote yesterday in our Thanks the Caps post. Loverro’s articles gives some excellent feedback into thee rebuild and its origins. Read it.
We’ve put this plan together and told people to be patient, and one day we will wake up and have a good team. I think that morning is tomorrow morning,” McPhee said after Saturday night’s game. “It feels great to be able to deliver something right now because we’ve been telling people it was going to happen and there were a lot of future promises, and it is nice to be able to stand here and say we just won the division.”
Added Leonsis: “We had a plan, we tried to execute it and stay with it and we can’t be satisfied because we haven’t won the Cup. But that’s the plan. When you do a lot of research, we saw we couldn’t be really, really good unless you were really, really bad and then build through the draft. We took our licks, and we were up front about it — we communicated it to everyone.
Here is your first Playoff Breakdown article from ESPN. And here is where we come into play Caps fans …
5. Home-ice advantage? What’s that? Who would ever imagine that visiting teams might actually fear going into the cavernous Verizon Center? Last season, the Caps couldn’t even sell out a game when Crosby came to town — and that was with thousands of Penguins fans in attendance. But the Verizon Center is a very different place these days. Everyone’s wearing red, it’s hot, sweaty and deafening — and that’s just in the press box. Does it work? The Caps have outscored opponents 24-7 over six straight home wins.
And the prediction by ESPN …
The Flyers have a lot more going for them than a lot of people think. Still, the juggernaut that is the Washington Capitals (did we mention we picked the Caps as our “Team Can Dream?”) will roll on. Capitals in six.
We here at DCPSR concur in whole!
Caps Fight song … Hey, that’s what they say. Go check it out.
Praise from Florida … Looks like the Caps are going to become a model on how to win. Need to get all the players on board, buying into the system, believing in the system, and playing hard night and night out.
“We just have to look at a team like the Washington Capitals,” Weiss said. “They’ve got every single guy on board, playing their system and playing hard every single game and they’ve done it the last couple of years even when they haven’t made the playoffs. And that’s what we’ve got to get to.”
So when is the last time you thought the capitals would be a model? Be honest.
And our Capitals brethren ….
- Vive le Huet! Or what do we know about Cristobal? (Alex Ovetjkin)
- The DC Sports Scene is Alive (WTOP)
- What the world needs now . . . (Bettman Hates Hockey)
- It’s All Set (In Ahjead of the Play)
- Alex Ovechkin: Say Hello To My Little Friend (On Frozen Blog)
- No surprises here… (Peerless Prognosticator)
- Bring On The Cup ’08 – Fearless Predictions Pt. 1 (Puckhead’s Thoughts)
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