Joey Crabb is one of the new faces on the Washington Capitals this season. All week long at Caps training camp fans have been staring at him, trying to place his face. Most of the time, he goes unrecognized by fans until a die-hard Caps fan lets them on to the fact that Crabb is on the team.
Here is a cool little video from after Caps practice on Thursday where Crabb pretends he is Marcus Johansson's friend, and not a hockey player. He makes it past the fans with this strategy, but I wasn't fooled. I laughed as he escaped unbothered.
Check out the video, and then what happens when Crabb is recognized, it is quite funny. Joe also tells us what to eat if we want to play in the NHL. I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with Russell Fouts:
Back in March of 2012, Alexander Ovechkin collided with teammate Mike Knuble and was knocked out of practice. Knuble was fine and Ovechkin apparently just had the wind knocked out of him.
Well Alex was back at it again, this time colliding with teammate Marcus Johansson in a training camp scrimmage against the Caps ECHL affiliate Reading Royals on Tuesday. Ovechkin got hit in the mouth and lay on the ice bleeding after the hit. There were no serious injuries but it was a scary moment.
I know that several people didn't get to see the incident live, so I recreated it with Mojo the Dino and a shake weight that is Alex Ovechkin. This is just bizarre.
In the Caps loss to the Jets there was a play where Marjo was hit hard and he was really slow to get up. There was no penalty on the play and Johansson wobbled back to the bench and woozily went into the locker room. The hit was made by Mark Stuart and the league fined him the max fine $2,500 for going high on Marjo and smashing his head into the boards, knocking his helmet off.
Why did Green get a 3 game suspension and this guy got 0 games?
Luckily for the Caps, Marcus ended up coming back into the game later, but aside from wanting the NHL to review the hit, they didn't do anything about it on the ice. The hit happened in the first half of the first period, so the Caps had plenty of time.
Being relatively new to hockey, I'm not sure what the team should have done. Typically I think fighting is pretty stupid but on bad hits that knock out players it seems like that is what you do in hockey, especially if the refs don't call a penalty.
So did the Caps do nothing because it was an important game with playoff implications and they couldn't afford another penalty in a game where they had six. Are they planning to wait til Friday at Verizon Center to get the action started? I think something needs to be done...
