So Long Agent Zero

The Washington Wizards traded Gilbert Arenas to the Orlando Magic Friday night in a major 3 way deal between Washington, Orlando, and Phoenix, in exchange, the less than stellar Wizards received F Rashard Lewis. The trade may not have helped the Wizards in terms of skill, but the trade got a franchise crushing and immature player in Gilbert Arenas of their backs. Rashard Lewis is 31 years old, averages 12,2 ppg, 4.2 rpg, and 1.2 apg. Gilbert was apologetic to the city of Washington for his carless prank last year, when he brought a loaded gun into the Wizard's locker room. Gilbert is now acting humble for a new opportunity to be a part of a successful franchise.

Back on Track?

The Washington capitals recent 8 game losing streak finally came to an end Sunday where the caps triumphed in a battle of North American capitals against Ottawa. The caps entered the streak atop the NHL with a 18-6-2 record sitting pretty in the Southeast division. However, the caps came out of the streak 18-12-4, 10th in the NHL, and 3rd in their division. Many questions surrounded the franchise and particularly the head coach Bruce Boudreau. Many people thought that Boudreau would be fired. Boudreau and the caps lost their games against: Dallas 2-1, Atlanta 3-1, Toronto 5-4 (SO), Florida 3-0, Colorado 3-2, New York Rangers an embarrassment of 7-0, Anaheim 2-1 (OT), and Boston 3-2. Big name stars such as Alex Ovechkin, Alex Semin, Nicklas Backstrom, and Mike Green performed horrifically with a combined less than 10 points. The caps were outscored during the stretch 28 to 11, they averaged 1.375 goals per game, last year they averaged over 3.5. The caps have turned it around lately, with a 3-2 hard fought win in Ottawa, and just recently a prevail over New Jersey 5-1, with the 3rd and 4th line gritty guys making a significant difference. The caps face the "streaking" Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday where the stars will have to step up in order to win 3 in a row, and turn the franchise around in the right direction.

Caps Face Dallas

The Capitals face The Dallas Stars in a crucial east-west showdown tonight. Both teams are relying on their hot forwards and goalies in Brad Richards and Kari Lethonen, (Dallas) and Alexander Semin and Semyon Varlamov. (Washington)

Racking Up the Wins

The Washington Capitals, and their young stars have won their past 6 games with authority. The win streak started 2 weeks ago against the Calgary Flames. The caps won against the Flames 7-2, with a 6 goal offensive outburst in the second period. Later in the week, The Caps played lazily late in the game, but still managed to come out on top against Toronto in a shootout 5-4. The caps kept the streak alive against Boston, in a hard fought close game that the Caps triumphed in, 5 to 3. Next game, the Caps improved their overtime record to 5 and 0, beating Philadelphia by a score of 3-2. Then, the Caps ventured to Madison Square Garden, where they outplayed, and beat the New York Rangers. Just recently, the Caps topped a division rival, the Tampa Bay Lightning in a lead-turning game by a score of 6 to 3. In the caps 6 game stretch, Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, and Nicklas Backstrom have been tremendous, with 38 combined points in the past 6 games. The Caps play the Sabres tomorrow night, and they look to make it 7 in a row.

Breakdown in Dallas

The Dallas Cowboys are off to a shocking 1 and 7 start this season, 2nd worst in franchise history and Dallas has finally made some changes. Former head coach Wade Phillips was fired today after Green Bay's rout of Dallas last night, 45 to 7, Offensive coordinator Jason Garrett took over for Phillips. A upsetting defeat, as Dallas expected to bounce back last night, instead things are just getting worse for the Cowboys. In the beginning of the season owner Jerry Jones, fans, and the players of the Cowboys had expectations for Dallas to play in the super bowl at Cowboy Stadium this year, but Dallas has almost been eliminated from the playoffs halfway through the season already.

A Stone Wall

Tonight the Capitals run into a red hot goalie in Tim Thomas as he and the Bruins look to go 3-0 against the Caps this year. In 2008 Thomas won the Vezina Trophy as the leagues best goalie. However, last year, he struggled and gave up his starting role to young and rising goalie, Tukka Rask. This year Thomas is performing absolutely outstanding this year with 7 wins, 0 losses, a GAA of 0.72, and a save percentage of .980, he leads the league in all 3 categories. Both teams are on win streaks, so I hope it will be a good game, I will be there selling programs in the first period. Go Caps!!

Wall Vs. Turner

Tuesday night, John Wall and the Wizards topped Evan Turner and the 76'ers 116-115 in an overtime thriller. Wall recorded great stats with 29 points and 13 assists, Andray Blatche also pitched in with 23 points and 8 rebounds in the first win of the year for the Wizards, who are 1 and 2. Wall and Turner, the top two draft picks this past year faced off for the first intriguing matchup out of many to come in their careers. Turner started on the bench for the sixers, but still racked up 27 minutes, also he only tallied 9 points.

Hershey Bears

On saturday my hockey team played one of the best teams in the world, the hershey jr. bears AAA select team, then we stayed in the chocolate town to watch the Hershey bears play the AHL Pittsburgh Penguins, if I were George McPhee (who was in attendance) I would not be too pleased. Because of Semyon Varlamov's injury starting Hershey goalie, Braden Holtby was called up to back up Michael Neuvirth for the caps. This left Danny Sabourin in net for the bears, Sabourin struggled early going 4 saves out of 7 shots he got pulled before the halfway mark in the first period. The bears did score first but would never recover from Sabourin's crucial mistakes. They lost to Pittsburgh 6 to 2. The players for the bears all looked sloppy by whiffing shots, making unintelligent passes, and not skating hard. Overall the effort by the Caps AHL partners was way below expectations and did empress few.

World Series Picks

I know it is a little late, but I'm taking Rangers in 7 despite the 0-2 lead with the Giants ahead. For MVP i'm taking Josh Hamilton even though he is hitless so far.

Here We Go Again

Last night, the Wizards lost to the Magic 112-83 in the season debut and highly anticipated rookie debut for star shooting/point guard John Wall. The Wizards, coming off a less than stellar 26 wins and 56 losses last year, are at it again so far with a blowout beginning of the season. Wall, held his ground last night, but did not put up stellar numbers with 14 points and 9 assists. Although it is the beginning of the season the Wizards need a win on Saturday against the 2 and 0 Atlanta Hawks.

Get r Dunn

Adam Dunn stays, at least for now. I'm glad as I think he will hit 40 homers this year and that isn't easy to replace in the Nats lineup.