With the Capitals down 4-3 late in Wednesday night's game against the Maple Leafs, Alexander Ovechkin wired a one-timed slap shot toward the Maple Leafs net. After the puck careened off goaltender ...

Eric Staal, his brother Jordan, and their Carolina Hurricanes teammates inflicted enough damage on the Toronto net Monday night, and that was for roughly 40 minutes. General manager Jim Rutherford ...

On January 27, 2011, Alexander Semin signed a one-year contract extension with the Washington Capitals. At the time the Capitals may have been hoping that they could have inked the talented winger to ...

Here are the top five prospects in order: 1. STEVE EMINGER, D, KITCHENER This very mature defenseman appeared in 17 NHL games ...

Bruce Boudreau has turned “accountability” into a cottage industry so far this season. Have a sub-par training camp, Marcus Johansson? Have a seat for the season opener. Same goes for you, Tomas ...

Semin makes first visit since leaving D.C. For the last six years, former Capitals right wing Alexander Semin was one of the game’s elite goal scorers. He was also part of the Young Guns — that group ...

Unlike the arguments surrounding Franson and Ovechkin, the previous subjects of this column, the Semin debate has never fully engaged his performance. It involves two sides talking past one another ...

Maybe the conversation would be different had the puck left Alexander Semin's stick -- where it found itself in the first period of Game 5 Friday night -- and somehow made its way behind Montreal ...

Coach Bruce Boudreau knows Alexander Semin, who had a goal and three assists in the Capitals’ 4-2 win over Phoenix Saturday, has been playing well recently. Boudreau told reporters after Saturday’s ...

Alexander Semin gets a lot of criticism for his playoff performance, and has been called out by teammates for his lack of effort. In September, ex-teammate Matt Bradley said that Semin "just doesn't ...

Free agency begins Wednesday in the NHL, and the Carolina Hurricanes will add a big name to the pool. And, in the Canes’ case, at a high cost. The Hurricanes on Tuesday placed Alexander Semin on ...

The Alexander Semin experiment has not worked in Montreal, and it seems to be on the verge of coming to an end. After being a healthy scratch for most of the Canadiens' first 28 games, the team placed ...