Hope everyone enjoyed their Christmases (or in Jeff Halpern’s case, is enjoying their Hannukkah), as the Caps get back to the daily grind with a game against Buffalo. Let’s hope it’s better than the Devils game.
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Sure, sure, we had a beauty win over the Predators, snapping their 5-game winning streak and making all of us think it was 2009 again, what with goals from Ovechkin, Backstrom, and Semin. But that’s not important. What’s important is Brooks Laich in a Santa hat.

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There’s a game tonight against the Nashville Predators, but as exciting as it might be to see Rinne and Weber and Suter, there are far more important things to think about. It is Michael Rudolph Knuble’s 1000th game tonight and we need to be properly reverent.
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Looks like I spoke too soon, eh? I guess I should just be thankful I set myself up for a headline joke, much like the way Backstrom used to set up Ovechkin for the goal, which hasn’t happened in recent memory.
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Woof. The winter blues have really gotten to me. In the past week and a half I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve stayed up all night, I’ve stared into the abyss, and I’ve shouted “WHY??” at the heart of the world. But enough about finals. Let’s talk Capitals hockey, shall we?
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And so the first Dale Hunter game is in the books. It was a 2-1 loss to the Blues, which looks okay in comparison to the 7-1, 6-3, and 5-1 losses we’ve suffered recently, but I think this final is a function of the Blues not being very good rather than the Caps responding positively to 2 whole days of Hunter.
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