Capitals Have Budget to Attract Free Agents
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The NHL free agent signing period begins Sunday at noon, and Capitals General Manager George McPhee is shopping with a bigger-than-usual budget.
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The Washington Capitals signed the former Rangers center Michael Nylander to a four-year, $19.5 million contract. Washington has been a last-place team on a low payroll since the lockout ended in 2005. The Capitals vowed to spend more this summer as they attempt to build a playoff team around Alex Ovechkin, who won the Calder Trophy as the leagueâs top rookie in 2006.
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Rookie Nicklas Backstrom has a career-high four assists, Viktor Kozlov scores two goals and the surging Capitals beat the Panthers, 5-3.
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Maybe the idea of financing a new stadium here for the relocated Montreal Expos seemed easy last month when the city received the news that Major League Baseball would send the team to the nation&#39;s capital.
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Washington Capitals goaltender Olaf Kolzig will be a minor league hockey coach during the NHL lockout.
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The beauty of the NHL salary cap is that every storm can be weathered. No matter how crazy things look, no matter how perplexing or troublesome or outright wacky, no team can assemble a roster that pays more than $44 million (up from $39 million last season) to the rank and file.
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Something about playing the Ottawa Senators brings out the best in the Washington Capitals.
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Drafted by a Capitals franchise with so little success, Alex Ovechkin arrived from Russia with much fanfare and has quickly become Washingtonâs pied piper of hockey.
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The Capitals will be joined on their road trip by 16 fathers, and one father-in-law, for this weekend's critical games against the Panthers and the Lightning.
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With most of the top players signed, sealed and delivered, teams continued to pick the bones of the NHL free agent market on Tuesday.
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Yessir, that was one whopper of an offer the players laid at the feet of National Hockey League owners last week in Toronto.
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National Hockey League teams appeared  united in their determination to solve the league's economic  problems as the NHL's lockout of players became official on  Thursday.
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Alexander Ovechkin had four goals and an assist to lead the Washington Capitals to an 8-6 win over the Senators last night in Ottawa.
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Washington went from worst to first in 2 1/2 months. Now the challenge facing the Capitals is staying there.
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Description: After months of stalemate and the loss of 400 games, players make a new offer to the National Hockey League involving acceptance of a 24 percent salary cut.
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If it were a perfect world -- for hockey fans, at least -- the Boston Bruins and the rest of the teams in the National Hockey League would be readying themselves for the start of another season. Alas, millionaires from both sides are still stuck in the boring -- and costly -- days of a lockout.
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While the stars take their time, midlevel free agents are starting to make deals.