SovetskySport's Dmitry Chesnokov passed along an audio file of an interview he conducted this week with Capitals' Head Coach Bruce Boudreau. It was an illuminating exchange, with much of it focused on Alexander Semin's development as an NHLer. Chesnokov asked the coach to assign a numerical rating, ...

The normally hoops-n-hip-hop-obsessed Complex magazine has jumped on board the NHL bandwagon as an alternative to the financial and cultural wreck known as the NBA. Two of the mag's top 5 reasons to start watching hockey instead of hoops are, basically, Alex Ovechkin. "For all its faults, the NBA ha...

The first instance I had of roaming about the bowels of Verizon Center with media credentials on a visit by Sidney Crosby, in his rookie season, I took advantage of the opportunity, and actually put a couple of questions to him in the visitors' locker room. They were questions about the longstanding...

Friend of OFB Dmitry Chesnokov and his associate Dmitry Shumin chatted with Alex Semin, Sergei Fedorov, Sergei Gonchar, and Evgeni Malkin after Sunday's Capitals-Penguins tilt; they were gracious enough to provide a translated transcript: MALKIN A couple of words about the game.  In the second ...

One of the many story lines coming out of Sunday's victory over the Penguins was the fiery rivalry between Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. For the first time the rivalry between the two became physical. Along with their rivalry Bruce Boudreau also discussed the Caps's rivalries with the two Pe...

Just ask Daniel Alfredsson (left), who’s having a jaw-droppingly crappy week, if whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. It’s been a rough spell for Daniel Alfredsson, as first photos of him wearing a pink dress in Las Vegas find their way onto the inter-tubes, then his jaw goes boom....

Even though it's hard to get excited about the Nationals these days, Dan Steinberg always seems to find something worthwhile.  One of his latest missives from spring training is about Ross Detwiler, a left-handed pitcher from Missouri.  Detwiler, as it turns out, is a hockey fan. ...

If the Capitals play focused and disciplined and hard during their three home games this week against three beleagured opponents they will have a terrific opportunity to make up some serious ground on first-in-the-East Boston. Montreal, Colorado, and Pittsburgh -- all once-proud teams that have bee...

With last week's unseasonable warmth behind us and Winter returning to the District, let's check in with Patrick Loewen, the Capitals supporter who may very well stake the claim to northernmost latitude (50° 46' 60 N) in the Caps' fanbase . . . though any living farther north are encouraged to comm...

It was terrifically interesting for me to learn of the latest outrage associated with Verizon Center's ice this past weekend, as Hershey's Giant Center, where I was watching hockey, hosted some manner of wrestling event there most of Saturday, and the changeover to hockey wasn't completed until 3 ho...