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In addition any roster changes they make this summer, the Capitals are expected to tweak their coaching staff as well. Washington has granted Tim Hunter permission to interview elsewhere, and it is unlikely that he will return to the Capitals … Continue reading →

Like most awards in professional sports, the NHL awards are often the subject of debate and, at times, controversy, as fans and media alike weigh in on who should or should not have won each trophy once the ballots have been cast and the hardware handed out. Of all of the awards, however, few seem to draw as much focus and generate as much conversation as the Hart Trophy. The Hart Trophy is awarded annually to "the player judged to be the most valuable to his team" - criteria which may seem fairly straightforward but which can be (and often is) interpreted slightly differently as being the League's best player... of course if that were the case, it would beg the question of why the NHL would hand out two awards that mean the same thing, since the Ted Lindsay Award (nee Lester B. Pearson Award) is given to the League's most outstanding player, but that's a separate issue. Regardless of how one views the Hart Trophy, 2013 was one of those rare years in which a case could actually be made for each of the three finalists to win (to say nothing of at least one or two others who didn't make the cut) - in large part because of the 48-game sample, which provided less time for the the top guys to separate themselves from the pack. This season it came down to a battle of the top draft picks, pitting Alex Ovechkin against some very tough competition in Sidney Crosby and John Tavares for the trophy. 2013 Rink Wrap: Alex Ovechkin Despite missing the last 12 games of the regular season with a broken jaw, Crosby was without question the best player in the NHL this season (when he played), putting up huge numbers in just 36 games and elevating the respective games of his linemates - neither of whom played at nearly the same level after he got injured. Meanwhile Tavares drove the Islanders' playoff push with a point-per-game pace, including some impressive road numbers en route to one of the League's best records away from home and the first postseason berth for the Islanders in six years. Which brings us to the third finalist - and eventual winner - Alex Ovechkin. Ovechkin's 2013 resume is fairly impressive in its own right and more than enough to justify his Hart Trophy win, particularly if one takes the words "most valuable to his team" literally... and yet his win still set off a fair amount of complaining about why he didn't deserve it (or worse, why his win means the Hart Trophy criteria is somehow flawed). So what's the case for Ovechkin's third career Hart Trophy win? For starters, his offensive numbers were simply phenomenal. In this lockout-shortened season, Ovechkin finished the year with 32 goals in 48 games, equaling his production from the entire 2010-11 season (consisting of 79 games) and falling six goals short of last year's total (which he scored in 78 games). Those 32 goals topped the League, besting reigning Richard Trophy winner and division rival Steven Stamkos by three; half of them came on the power play, also a League-leading total that was six more than anyone else in the NHL this season and the most he's scored since the 2008-09 season. With 24 assists to go along with all of the goals, he finished the year with 56 points, good enough for third-best in the NHL and tying him with fellow Hart finalist Crosby. For Ovechkin, the midpoint of the season signaled a complete turnaround (at both an individual and team level), as he went on a tear over the second half to help guide the Caps to the playoffs for the sixth straight year. An amazing 23 of his 32 goals and 36 of his 56 points were accumulated in the final 24 games of the season, a torrid (albeit somewhat unsustainable) pace that changed his season - and that of the Caps - from highly disappointing to highly promising. By the end of the season Ovechkin had scored just over 21% of the team's total goals and either scored or assisted on 37.5% of them It went well beyond just the sheer volume of offense from #8, as his production

The American Hockey League’s Hershey Bears named Mike Haviland the 24th coach in franchise history Tuesday. Haviland, 45, was among the finalists for the Capitals’ coaching job last summer that ultimately went to Adam Oates. The New Jersey native has 14 … Continue reading →

HERSHEY, Pa. – The Hershey Bears announced today that Mike Haviland has been named the 24th head coach in the history of the Hockey Club. The announcement was made at a formal press conference by Bears President/GM Doug Yingst. Haviland, 45, n...

For the first time in this Stanley Cup Final series, a contest was decided without overtime. And, in the case of Game 3, it sure seemed over before the horn at the end of the third period. With goals from Daniel … Continue reading →

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Your savory breakfast links: Don't think we won't link to "Alex Ovechkin, Hart winner" posts all summer as long as they're there. Because we will. Here are some more. [Ted's Take, CP, Y! Sports] Ovi, just remember: laces out. (Alternatively, "So does that make Slapshot Snowflake?") [CBS DC] A look at how the team was built (is "mediocrely" a word?). [Peerless] Speaking of building, with the 23rd pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, the Caps select... the best available player? [Patriot-News (and many thanks to Tim Leone for including us in the piece)] The Caps will play a preseason game against Winnipeg for all the mac and cheese. Or something. [NHL] If Mike Ribeiro walks, might the Caps look to Danny Briere, Tuomo Ruutu or Shawn Horcoff to replace him? [CSNW] The Penguins' swift (albeit not early) exit from the playoffs was delightful and... familiar? [RMNB, which also has something worth a click on Joey, err, Aleister Ochvekin, err... just go read it] 2012-13 was a very fashionable year for the Reading Royals. [Caps Outsider] Finally, happy 49th birthday to Bob Rouse.

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“The space within becomes the reality of the building.”-- Frank Lloyd WrightBuilding the Washington Capitals roster for the 2012-2013 season did not start with the acquisition of Zach Hamill from Boston for Chris Bourque on May 26, 2012, but it was the first transaction of the 2012 off-season. Eighty-four transactions later (sources: Capitals media guide and other sources), the Caps 2012-2013 season was over.Some of those transactions were administrative, such as intra-organization transactions of the sort where a player is sent to or called up from the Hershey Bears. There were 30 of those reported in the 2012-2013 season. There were those transactions attached to injury management, placing or removing players from injured reserve. Those represent another eight reported transactions. Then there were the sort that comes down from the league – suspensions. There were two such reported transactions of that type. That leaves 44 transactions of the sort folks might think of with respect to roster management – trades, contract signings (free agents, roster players, signing draft picks), waiver transactions. On top of that were ten players selected in the 2012 NHL entry draft. One would think those picks were more or less “futures,” and to a great extent they are. But the 2012 entry draft as practiced by the Caps did have its own effects on the 2012-2013 season. But we will get to that. Let’s look at each of the groups of transactions.Free AgentsHere is the list of free agents signed by the Caps in the period beginning with the end of the 2011-2012 season and the end of the 2012-2013 season (click the picture for a larger image):Five of the players among those 10 signings played for the Caps in the 2012-2013 season. They had an aggregate cap cost of $2,773,653 (source: capgeek.com). One would have to say that on balance the Caps received value for those signings. Those five players played in 145 games and had an aggregate scoring line of 19-27-46, plus-32. For purposes of comparison, on an 82-game basis that is an 11-15-26, plus-18 scoring line for a “player” with a $1.569 million cap hit. The positive spin on that fact would be that Daniel Alfredsson finished his season with the Ottawa Senators with a scoring line of 10-16-26, plus-1, and had a cap hit of $4.875 million. The negative spin on this would be that none of the five players could be thought of as an impact player – a driver. Crabb and Wolski were disappointments (or “low risk,” if you prefer to think of them that way, given their cap hits). Hillen spent much of the season on injured reserve and was a third pair defenseman when in the lineup. Fehr shuttled among lines but was primarily a third or a fourth liner (nine Caps forwards averaged more even-strength ice time per game). Oleksy was among the best stories of the season, coming out of nowhere to get steady ice time and to make contributions, but there are no assurances that he is going to be getting a sweater on a nightly basis going forward.It is worth noting here that two players the Caps signed to unrestricted free agent deals in the last two seasons – Roman Hamrlik in 2011 and Joey Crabb in 2012 (combined cap hit: $4.450 million in 2012-2013) were waived during this past season. Hamrlik was claimed by the New York Rangers, while Crabb passed through waivers and was re-assigned to the Hershey Bears. He will not return for 2013-2014.On balance, one might conclude that the Caps played well in the shallow end of the pool. This is not a team that goes out in the deep water for a high-impact free agent. The salary cap limits the Caps’ ability to do that, what with their heavy commitments of cap room to roster players such as Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, and Mike Green (31.8 percent of the 2012-2013 cap). But even if it did not, it is not as if the Caps have derived great value from recent, more high-priced unrestricted free agent signings. Joel Ward is a nice complementary player, but a