
INCH
profiles Caps' prospect Phil DeSimone a couple of weeks ago (really well-written, too)....
Karl Alzner:
oenophile, philanthropist.... In bizarro world,
Martin Brodeur wears
this and
Alex Ovechkin bitches about it.... Some blogger at MVN arbitrarily ranks the Caps' as
the League's 20th-best fan base. Agree/disagree?...
Kevin Allen has
pre-pre-season power rankings up and has the Caps at eighth (nice number) and drops an "Ovechkin as
Gordie Howe" comparison.... It looks like Hershey enforcer
Louis Robitaille is
off to Italy to continue his career (which, I suppose, would make him former Hershey enforcer Louis Robitaille). Robitaille played his only two NHL games for the Caps back in the 2005-06 season, registering no points and one fight and
had 350 PIMs for the Bears last season.... Thanks to Jimmy Jazz for
the über kind words.... Finally, THN's
list of its Top Fifty Players is out, and ripe for discussion:
- Sidney Crosby
- Alex Ovechkin
- Henrik Zetterburg
- Pavel Datsyuk
- Vincent Lecavalier
- Nicklas Lidstrom
- Roberto Luongo
- Jarome Iginla
- Evgeni Malkin
- Dany Heatley
- Chris Pronger
- Daniel Alfredsson
- Marian Gaborik
- Henrik Lundqvist
- Brendan Morrow
- Evgeni Nabokov
- Marian Hossa
- Ilya Kovalchuk
- Eric Staal
- Zdeno Chara
- Joe Thornton
- Dion Phaneuf
- Martin Brodeur
- J.-S. Giguere
- Martin St. Louis
- Scott Niedermayer
- Brian Rafalski
- Sergei Gonchar
- Marty Turco
- Ryan Getzlaf
- Andrei Markov
- Zach Parise
- Ales Hemsky
- Jason Spezza
- Vesa Toskala
- Rick Nash
- Joe Sakic
- Scott Gomez
- Ryan Miller
- Jonathan Toews
- Daniel Sedin
- Daniel Briere
- Anze Kopitar
- Miikka Kiprusoff
- Paul Statsny
- Shane Doan
- Derek Roy
- Marc Savard
- Mike Richards
- Patrick Kane
Do
Mike Green or
Nick Backstrom deserve to be on the list? Who's too high/low?