Daniel Briere is getting over his groin adhesions; for this guy, the problems are just starting. Oh, the life of Daniel “Danny” Briere – it’s just one injury after another these days, isn’t it? If you’re a fantasy manager, you were stoked to see Briere finally bac...

With the trade deadline looming, no team wants to get burned the way the Oilers did when they overpaid for 19 games of Sergei Samsonov’s service in 2006. The trade deadline (it’s Wednesday, so mark your calendar) can be great for fantasy teams, since sometimes a player just needs a chang...

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....

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...

Heute ist “Presidents Day” in den USA, was wiederum nichts anderes ist, als eine Feier zum Geburtstag von George Washington (jeden dritten Montag im Februar). Präziser: aus Anlaß des Geburtstages von George Washington werden – ja nach Bundesstaaten – auch weitere Präsidenten geehr...

The Penguins and Capitals square off again tonight and this growing rivalry may have just the kind of storyline the NHL needs to get some buzz going—an old world Russian blood feud. The two teams already have a crap load of star power, as they feature the top three scorers in the league, but t...

Not that the Washington Capitals need an alibi, but is it too much to put this entire three-game funk on the atrocity of NHL all-star balloting? Feeling intense disrespect from fans, unable to rock the vote, much less the red, they have now scored an anemic three goals in nine periods at Verizon Cen...