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.