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  • Capitals search for answers

    Brian McNally

    Updated: 20 hr ago

    Caps have yet to re-sign Ribeiro and Hendricks Nine days after the Capitals saw their season come to an end yet again in a painful Game 7 Stanley Cup playoff loss, the search for answers has begun anew. A season that started with such uncertainty thanks to a looming NHL lockout looked...

  • The value of Caps free agent forward Matt Hendricks

    Brian McNally

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    There aren’t a ton of internal decisions for Capitals general manager George McPhee to make this summer. He has four unrestricted free agents pending July 5. Defenseman Tom Poti and forward Wojtek Wolski won’t be back for sure. We’re unclear on the status of forwards Matt Hendricks and...

  • Caps forward Wojtek Wolski signs with KHL club

    Brian McNally

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Capitals free agent forward Wojtek Wolski has signed a contract with Kontinental Hockey League club Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, the team announced on Monday. Wolski, 27, was not expected back in Washington, which took a flyer on the former first-round draft pick last summer for $600,000. But it...

  • The Baseball Page: May 19, 2013

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Nationals Report The Nationals aren't doing themselves any favors. In his last seven starts, ace pitcher Stephen Strasburg has allowed 21 runs. But because of shaky defense behind him, only 12 of those have been earned runs. So Washington is making Strasburg work extra hard to pitch into the...

  • Capitals forward Matt Hendricks on his future

    Brian McNally

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    The other prominent unrestricted free agent for the Capitals this summer is Matt Hendricks. The veteran winger has set himself up for the one big contract in his NHL career. Hendricks, 31, was plucked from the Colorado Avalanche organization before the 2010 season and quickly generated a...

  • Caps center Mike Ribeiro looks towards free agency

    Brian McNally

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    The Capitals don’t have many decisions to make this summer. When NHL free agency opens on July 5 the two key players they have headed to the open market are center Mike Ribeiro and winger Matt Hendricks. Ribeiro was acquired at the trade deadline last June to be the second-line center...

  • Another year and still no answers for Capitals

    Brian McNally

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Players can't explain latest loss in playoffs Some came to the podium one at a time, others stood off to the side attempting to answer the question that still puzzles them: Why can't the Capitals win in the Stanley Cup playoffs? For the sixth time in as many seasons Washington failed to...

  • Playoff loss is a bitter pill for Ovechkin

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Star shows frustration of another playoff loss Another season had come to an end for Alex Ovechkin, and once more he had a flight to the World Championships in Finland. The frustration was palpable after a 5-0 loss to the New York Rangers in Game 7 of an Eastern Conference first-round series...

  • Once again, no answers for devastated Caps

    Brian McNally

    Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

    The scene is all too familiar now. The long and tortured Stanley Cup playoff history of the Capitals means little to the current generation of players. None of them were born or raised here, after all. But the stinging defeats of recent years are taking an obvious toll. In the Alex Ovechkin...

  • Another taste of heartbreak for Capitals in Game 7 loss to Rangers

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Capitals get crushed in decisive Game 7 The heartbreak appears every spring as if on cue. By the middle of the second period of Monday's decisive Eastern Conference first-round Game 7 between the Capitals and New York Rangers, it was apparent the game would take its place on the long list of...


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