The Washignton Capitals Win 14th Game in a Row!

Yesterday, the sports world was justifiably focused on the Super Bowl game in which the New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17.

But, in the nation's capital, under some 30 inches of snow, just a short while after former Bill Clinton administration spokesperson Dee Dee Myers spoke in a roundtable discussion on "Meet the Press," the Washington Capitals won their 14th game in a row with a come-from-behind victory over the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins by a 5-4 margin in an overtime game at the Verizon Center in downtown DC.

The Capitals were helped by their star player Alex Ovechkin who scored a hat trick for the Caps. Ovechkin will be playing for Team Russia during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, which start on Friday.

Mike Knuble added the game-winning goal in overtime to complete the comeback.

The Caps now head on a three-game road trip starting with a game on Wednesday night against the Montreal Canadiens, which will be televised on the CSN-DC cable network in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia.

The team's next home game is against the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 4 (my 40th birthday). The last time that the Lightning were in town, it took them two hours to get to their team hotel in downtown DC from Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., (a trip that would normally take a half hour) due to the first winter blast that struck the nation's capital.

In a CSN poll, 69 percent of Caps' fans indicated that the team will sweep their three game road trip which concludes in St. Louis. But, that is kind of like asking Newt Gingrich what he thinks of President Barack Obama's performance in the White House so far. I think the most challenging game for the team will be the second road game against the Ottawa Senators.

SIDENOTE: My alma mater, Radford University, won its home game with High Point University at the Dedmon Center in Radford, Va., yesterday by a 77-63 margin. The game was originally scheduled for Sat., but it was postponed due to snow. The final score of the game was not reported by ESPN on its scroll last night, so I had to look it up at radford.edu
We presume this was because the game was rescheduled. For the Highlanders, Blake Smith of Charlotte, NC, lead the team with 15 points, followed by star center Art Parakhowski's (of Belarus) 12 points. Joey Lynch-Flor from Fairfax, Va., scored 10 points as did my favorite Highlander Gorkem Sonmez from Turkey (my late father's country).
Two other Turkish NCAA men's basketball players Deniz Kilicli of West Virginia University, and Dogus Balbay from the University of Texas will play on ESPN tonight. The WVU Moutaineers face the Villanova Wildcats and Texas faces.......aaah, we forgot the other team....whoops! The double-header starts at 7:00 pm, eatern time.
But, I know the Radford Highlanders will next face Charleston Southern from Charleston, SC, in Radford on Thursday night. The game tips at 7:30 p.m.