20 Days Washington Capitals Comment

The Capitals' penalty kill helped propel them to a Game 1 win Thursday night.

The Capitals went down two men in the middle of the second period for 56 seconds and had close to four minutes of time on the penalty kill, but they killed it off. Minutes later the Caps scored twice in 46 seconds. "Anytime you kill a five-on-three, especially in playoffs, the momentum goes the other way, for sure," said Jason Chimera, who scored the team's third goal. "If they get a goal, they're feeling it. If we get a kill, obviously the crowd gets into it or we get into it. Everyone's pumped up. It's a good way to create momentum for us."

First off, a happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone. Don't forget to wear the green today!

Grab your cup of coffee!

Contracts are starting to fly off the shelfs now. Desharnais (4-yr ext), Ekman-Larsson (6-yr ext), Colin McDonald (2-yr ext). Now these make sense to me. More to come? Hopefully in both contracts and sense.

Doozy of a game in TO last night. 5-4 Jets victory in a shootout. I'm sure the Leaf fans aren't too happy but they came back from a 3-goal deficit to gain a point. And they got Lupul back.

Put a cap in the Caps, they're done!

When Jason Chimera leads your team in SOG, you know you are in for a long night.

The Bruins are scary again. They will be tough to contain.

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3 Months Washington Capitals Comment

Jason Chimera returned to action on Tuesday February 26.

3 Months Washington Capitals Comment

Jason Chimera wasn't able to complete Monday's practice due to an undisclosed injury.

"Nothing major," Capitals GM George McPhee said of Chimera. "Should be fine. Just being careful." Consider Chimera questionable for Tuesday's game.

3 Months Washington Capitals Comment

Jason Chimera didn't last long on Washington's top line Tuesday night, but coach Adam Oates put him back with Alex Ovechkin and Mike Ribeiro during Wednesday's practice.

"We showed him some stuff, just little things. In a sense there's a little more responsibility because you are playing against [the opponent's] best players," Oates said while talking about the discussion he had with Chimera. "You're going to play against their best lines and we need you to be reliable there. If you are, great. I love what he brings, that's really the message." The Capitals winger logged just 5:43 of ice time in Tuesday's 6-5 overtime win over Florida, while posting a minus-3 rating. Chimera has no goals and six assists in 13 games this season, but he should be motivated now to snap out of his funk.

6 Months Washington Capitals Comment

Jason Chimera is trying not to invest too much emotion in the latest round of CBA talks.

ƒ?oI donƒ?Tt get too up anymore,ƒ?? Chimera said. ƒ?oI rode the roller coaster for a long time and kind of just said I donƒ?Tt want to anymore.ƒ?? That's probably a good strategy because at the moment anything is possible when it comes to the CBA negotiations.

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