Matt Geiser
Matt Geiser
Matt has been writing for Rant Sports since July 2011 as the featured columnist for the Washington Capitals. Matt is an avid Washington Capitals, Texas Rangers, and Philadelphia Eagles fan. Matt is currently a sophomore at the Pennsylvania State University and is majoring in Information Sciences and Technology.
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Washington Capitals Look To Reverse History
The Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins are headed to Game 7 in their first round series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Last year on their way to the Cup, the Bruins stared elimination in the eye three times in game 7′s, each time ending up on the right side of the handshake line after it [...]
Shanabanned: Nicklas Backstrom Receives One-Game Suspension
The Washington Capitals will have to make do without their first-line center Nicklas Backstrom in Game 4 of their first-round series against the Boston Bruins. Late Tuesday night the news broke that Backstrom would receive a one-game suspension that the NHL levied against him. Backstrom received a match penalty after the final whistle in Monday [...]
Mike Green Feels No Pressure To Score
The last time Mike Green scored a goal was when the price of gas was well under $4.00 and Bruce Boudreau was still employed by the Washington Capitals. That goal came on October 22, the seventh game of the Capitals season and the team was off to the best start in franchise history, 7-0-0. A [...]
Washington Capitals Turning Heads With Defense
Perhaps the Washington Capitals got the message when they crash and burned in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs last year. Or maybe they’ve finally bought into the message Dale Hunter has been pounding into them for the past four months. Whatever the reason is, the Capitals have become a shot-blocking, hard-hitting, space-taking [...]
Washington Capitals Even Series Against Boston Bruins
Yet again, 60 minutes weren’t enough for the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins to settle game 2 of their playoff series. Hell, it took over 80 minutes this time. In game 1 the Bruins won off of a Chris Kelly slap shot from the wall. This time around, however, it was Nicklas Backstrom that put [...]
Washington Capitals Drop Game 1 Against Boston Bruins
Sixty minutes weren’t enough for the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins in game 1 of their best of seven series. Regulation time ended with a score of 0-0, just how it started, and it was anyone’s game heading into the extra time. The Capitals looked like a new team in the extra time, coming out [...]
Braden Holtby To Make Stanley Cup Playoffs Debut
It is almost no surprise now that 22-year-old Braden Holtby will be getting the start in game 1 of the Washington Capitals vs. Boston Bruins first round series. Holtby was called back up to the NHL at the beginning of March when starting goalie Tomas Vokoun went down with an apparent groin injury. When Vokoun [...]
Playoffs Are Joel Ward’s Time To Shine
The 2011-2012 regular season did not go nearly how newly acquired Washington Capitals winger Joel Ward had anticipated. Since becoming a regular in the NHL in the 2008-2009 season, this year recorded career lows in ice time (12:26), goals (6), and assists (12). However, the main reason the Capitals signed him to a four-year, $12 [...]
Mike Knuble Tells ‘Young Guns’ To Do It Now
They have all been together now for a total of five seasons. In that span they have made the playoffs every year, with four Southeast Division titles. Altogether they have combined for 544 goals and 827 assists since joining forces at the beginning of the 2007-2008 season. However, there is one thing that the Washington [...]
Washington Capitals Set To Face Boston Bruins In First Round Of Stanley Cup Playoffs
After a convincing 4-1 win over the New York Rangers on Saturday evening, the Washington Capitals clinched the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference and a first round date with the defending Stanley Cup champions Boston Bruins. The Capitals and Bruins are set to face off on Thursday for Game 1 of the best-of-7 game [...]
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