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  • Rangers score late, hold on for wild Game 3 win over Capitals

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

    Rangers score late, hold on for wild win In their long, tortured Stanley Cup playoff history, the Capitals had never once won the first three games of a series. That remains true now, and any thoughts of quickly dispatching the New York Rangers this spring are gone. Six power-play...

  • Rangers 4, Caps 3: Five Observations

    Brian McNally

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    1. Let’s start with the penalties. There’s really no other place to begin in a Stanley Cup playoff game where one team takes six minor penalties. That is the ultimate death by a thousand cuts. Your top players are forced to help on penalty kill duty and that can sap their energy for later in...

  • Caps Game Night – 7:30 p.m. at Rangers (Game 3)

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

    EASTERN CONFERENCE QUARTERFINALS Capitals (2) vs. New York Rangers (0) Game » 3 When » Monday, May 6 Where » Verizon Center TV » Comcast SportsNet HD Radio » WJFK-FM 106.7; WFED-AM 1500 Stanley Cup playoff series are all about momentum. One team usually has it and the other...

  • Capitals take the show on the road

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Sun, May 5, 2013

    Caps ride momentum into games at New York A short optional skate was all the Capitals needed Sunday morning at Kettler Iceplex. They are the team up 2-0 on the New York Rangers, after all, in a first-round Stanley Cup playoff series. They are the team in control. Washington coach Adam Oates...

  • Caps 1, Rangers 0 (OT): Five observations

    Brian McNally

    Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

    1. The Capitals have seen their share of 2-0 playoff leads disappear over the years for long-time fans to ever feel comfortable. But give them this: They did what they had to do at home against the New York Rangers this week. Now, they head to Madison Square Garden on Monday with a 2-0 series...

  • Getting off to a great start

    Brian McNally

    Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

    Green scores in OT as Caps take 2-0 lead They had been stoned time and again by New York Rangers star goalie Henrik Lundqvist. For a long while, it just did not seem like the Capitals' day in Saturday's first-round Stanley Cup playoff game at Verizon Center. But when the power play stepped...

  • The Baseball Page: May 5, 2013

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Sat, May 4, 2013

    Nationals report Injuries a test to team's depth It isn't quite like 2012 yet for the Nationals. The first three months of last season featured a litany of injuries that the team shook off en route to 98 wins. Slugger Michael Morse was out until early June. Closer Drew Storen had elbow...

  • Caps defenseman Steve Oleksy takes a pass

    Brian McNally

    Published: Fri, May 3, 2013

    The Stanley Cup playoffs are all about the unexpected. Lower seeds shock higher seeds, goalies play out of their minds and a relatively unknown player always, always makes a major contribution. Caps defenseman Steve Oleksy was, generously, No. 12 on the organizational depth chart when the...

  • Caps 3, Rangers 1: Five Observations

    Brian McNally

    Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

    1. The Caps couldn’t have asked for a better start to their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the New York Rangers. They dominated play for the first 20 minutes, fell behind 1-0 anyway, but regrouped with three second-period goals to take control of an eventual 3-1 victory. That...

  • Three-goal second period keys Game 1 win for Capitals

    Brian McNally

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Ovechkin, Johansson, Chimera score for Caps They are seeing each other now for the fourth time in five years during the Stanley Cup playoffs. There are no real surprises between the Capitals and the Rangers anymore. A few faces may have changed on both sides and Washington no longer plays an...


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