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.

Win or Go Golfing

The Caps face Game 6 tonight in the Igloo. Do or die. I won't even be able to watch as I have the first session of several hockey tryouts. Kind of do or die for me too, but I don't get to go on vacation and play golf if I get cut. I'd be miserable for a bit and then resolve to work my butt off to make the top team next year.