does anyone else really not like the C-A-P-S CAPS CAPS CAPS chant? I refuse to do it pretty much 100% of the time. Where's Nootka? I havent seen him yet

BUMP.

eh, i am pretty indifferent to all chants.

btw, check out this awesome interview with Ovie

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puc...urn=nhl,180437

I was over at the HFboards.com forum and they have a massive thread on Crosby Vs. Ovechkin. Man the people who post there are absolute ******s. It's like friggin' NVG, save for a couple

so true. for years i've been hearing people tell me how good that site is - it's a mess.

anyway i will be popping in here from time to time. caps are my second team, after all.

Doesn't he get tickets for free? I thought he had access to the VIP box and everything

When I was younger he would just get tickets for free, wherever they were available. Sometimes I would sit club level, sometimes nosebleeds, and sometimes right next to the guy who would light up the goal lamp which was fun. When I got older, he decided that he just wanted to buy a couple of season tickets rather than doing the asking around thing. The organization offered to pick up the tab on those because he'd been with them for so long, and those are the ones he still has. I want to offer to just buy those off him instead of telling him to give them to me for specific games, because all types of other noobs try to ask him for ones to big games ,etc. My step mom started bothering him for tickets pretty much only during the playoffs which pissed me off, and my step sister got the tickets to a game during the Pens series then didn't show up until the 3rd period. I just want a couple for me, and my friend mainly.

This would piss me off so much.

How good are the seats? Pretty ballin?

haha nah dude, he works in the press box doing essentially nothing but announce penalties (used to do stats but the NHL took those over some time ago). He's a lawyer for his day job, he just gets paid a small-wage during home games, but loves hockey,and loves the people, so that's why he's stuck around. The sections are in the 400s (but not ridiculously high) and look straight down the center, so I like em. Right in between several beer stands and a bathroom too

Varly changed his name. His name is no longer Simeon, but rather Semyon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_V..._pronunciation

And he doesn't like American women:

lol, he is 21. leave him alone. he is in LOOOOOOVE.

I don't get it? how are you supposed to pronounce his name?

sem-YON var-LA-mov

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/cap...-guide-to.html

Theodore is #1 on the depth chart for goaltender. I suppose if you're paying him a lot of money then you may as well give him the job at first. At least give him the opportunity to play well before ****canning him for Varly

1 for 10 already,most likely.

LOL MICKEY D"s!!!!

I just remembered game 7 vs the Rangers last year and the one guy who sits to my left brought his friend to the game. After Fedorov scored that goal the arena was absolutely ****in nuts, and he was screaming how it was the first hockey game he'd ever been to and it was the absolute best sporting event he'd ever attended. Hockey is so great. That was such a great night, let's win it this year how about it?

Just checkin' in, getting excited for the friggin' season.

I'm changing my prediction: barring an unforseen injury Ovechkin's gonna put up 60 goals this year.

barring an unforseen development, i will be maintaining a capitals season blog, detailing their run towards lifting the Stanley Cup at the Verizon Center.

Don't know how I missed this thread. 3 days to rookie camp oh man I can't wait for the season to start.

Nice.

Just bought my tickets to Buff v. Caps the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I love getting back to DC for games.

Sylar, who do you cheer for when Caps play the slugs? Or do you just bury your head and hide your eyes?

http://capitals.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=498164


Definitely gonna be checking that out.