The Washington Capitals are up with a good start as they defeated the Boston Bruins in their season opener game Thursday night with a score of 4-1.
The Most Valuable Player of NHL for two times in a row, Alex Ovechkin, piloted the Capitals’ play that led to their victory. He had two goals and an assist during the game. His teammate, Jose Theodore, stopped 19 shots during the game that made it even harder for the Bruins to score.
Dennis Wideman, Bruins defenseman, said that Ovechkin is really the league’s superstar that works very hard and also hits strongly. He even compared Ovechkin to Rafael Nadal.
Other members of the team performed great during the play as well. Brooks Laich had two goals and an assist. Alexander Semin had two assists while Nicklas Backstrom had three.
The Capitals led the game during the second period as Semin had a drop pass to Ovechkin and made it right through Tim Thomas.
Ovechkin also said that the second goal on the second period was a big shoot. He also added that their defense was great during the play.
Bruins coach, Claude Julien, mentioned that they only had the worst condition for their best players during the game. He further said that they do not want to take away the credit from Ovechkin for doing great last time but there are still a lot of things to expect from their players if the condition turned out to be healthy for the Bruins.
Both teams won their own divisions during the previous season but did not further make it in the game because of their individual opponents. Boston did not grab the title last year after being defeated by Carolina while Washington was dumped by the last season’s champion the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Ovechkin just stated that their team wants to bounce back this time. They want to defeat everybody else and become the best team this season.
Julien just ended the night by saying that after their defeat, Bruins will even got better and that the Capitals and other teams should look after that.

PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Phillies has defeated the Houston Astros on Wednesday night with a score of 10-3. This gave the Phillies their third straight NL East title. Brad Lidge was happy with the win although he was booted out and had an ovation when Scott Eyre retired the first two batters and just needed one pitch to finish it.
Lidge saw the towels waving as soon as the victory is almost at hand and he feels awesome. He just likes the crowd and it reminds him when people were also celebrating because of their perfect season last year.
Raul Ibanez also had the time of his life when he hit a career-high 34th homer while Jimmy Rollins made a double and triple for the team. The Phillies want to have a record on becoming the first repeat champions and want to pattern this winnings to the New York Yankees who have won the World Series in three straight years from 1998-2000.
All-Star second baseman Chase Utley asks the fans if they are having fun and said there will be more wins coming.
Kendrick with 3-1 hits two but makes four strike outs. Martinez had only four innings which allowed him to make three runs and six hits on his first appearance after recuperating from a neck strain in Atlanta last Sept. 19.
The Phillies used to be the laughingstock of the NL but since they began their winning streak celebrations are becoming common. Now that the weakest team in professional sports is having the time of their lives, they are thinking of building their own dynasty after winning the franchise’s second championship last October.
Pitcher J.A. Happ said he did not assume they will win again but they are expecting it and there is a difference between assuming and expectations. There will be more winnings when they return, he added.

PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Phillies has defeated the Houston Astros on Wednesday night with a score of 10-3. This gave the Phillies their third straight NL East title. Brad Lidge was happy with the win although he was booted out and had an ovation when Scott Eyre retired the first two batters and just needed one pitch to finish it.
Lidge saw the towels waving as soon as the victory is almost at hand and he feels awesome. He just likes the crowd and it reminds him when people were also celebrating because of their perfect season last year.
Raul Ibanez also had the time of his life when he hit a career-high 34th homer while Jimmy Rollins made a double and triple for the team. The Phillies want to have a record on becoming the first repeat champions and want to pattern this winnings to the New York Yankees who have won the World Series in three straight years from 1998-2000.
All-Star second baseman Chase Utley asks the fans if they are having fun and said there will be more wins coming.
Kendrick with 3-1 hits two but makes four strike outs. Martinez had only four innings which allowed him to make three runs and six hits on his first appearance after recuperating from a neck strain in Atlanta last Sept. 19.
The Phillies used to be the laughingstock of the NL but since they began their winning streak celebrations are becoming common. Now that the weakest team in professional sports is having the time of their lives, they are thinking of building their own dynasty after winning the franchise’s second championship last October.
Pitcher J.A. Happ said he did not assume they will win again but they are expecting it and there is a difference between assuming and expectations. There will be more winnings when they return, he added.