Off Wing Opinion

First off, we'll start with some more blogger love, this time from Canada. From the folks at OFB;

It was an exciting night up in the press box, as the producers for

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pm by Joe Dumas and is filed under Hockey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

After 4 days off, the Caps travel to Florida, facing off against the Panthers. That mean's we're back to pre-game writeups, starting with the rantings and ravings of The Peerless Prognosticator. Today's guest, Gary Bettman channeling Robin Williams. There are no words, you have to read it for yourself.

Japers' Rink has their usual pre-game notes and links. Both teams hover near the bottom of the standings, and for both teams, that needs to change....fast.

They say that misery loves company, and while you know precisely how miserable the Caps have been on most nights this fall, you may not have noticed that they're only two points behind the Panthers (with two games in hand) in the Southeast standings. How's that for company?

Both teams need to swing their momentum back to the positive side, and they should come out slugging, looking for that win to get back on track. Anything less and maybe they don't deserve to make the playoffs.

Tarik has a good article in the Post today concerning the injury problems that are preventing the Caps from putting up decent offensive numbers so far this season. Although doing poorly, the players still seem to have faith in Coach Hanlon. "All of us feel guilty that we're at where we're at, because we've got a good coach, a players' coach," Kolzig said. "He's preaching the right message, we're just not delivering." With Poti and Clark back, and just Semin out, it's time to start delivering.

Following that article up, On Frozen Blog has a poll going on how many points the Caps need in their next 10 games to have a respectable position in the standings. The 3 choices are 8 pts, 10 or more, or 12 or more. 6 wins, or 5 and a couple of OT losses out of ten games seems reasonable, and almost necessary at this point. That's why it's no surprise that as I write this over half the voters have gone with at least 12 points. With 8 of the games against Southeast rivals, this is a crucial stretch for the Caps, and they need to get some points and climb back into the hunt in their division. With all these 4 point games coming up, they need to get things done.

And over at Dump 'n Chase Mike Vogel has the inside scoop on the first episode of the new XM Radio's NHL HomeIce show Hockey Confidential. The first guest is Washington's own Olaf Kolzig. I know I'll be calling the old man and suggesting he put his XM to good use. The first airing of Monday at 11 pm might be a little late, but with it being re-aired 6 times next week, I'll be home to hear it with him.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 3:52 pm by Joe Dumas and is filed under Hockey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Today the blogs are buzzing over tonight's game between the Capitals and the Senators, wondering if the Caps can stop their slide with an upset victory over the league-leading Sens. It will be interesting to see what the Caps can do.

We'll start off with a rousing pre-game speech by The Peerless Prognosticator. Part of it goes as such;

Now... hockey club is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, checks as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for ESPN don

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 3:27 pm by Joe Dumas and is filed under Hockey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.