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CAPS host rangers tonight @ 7pm. This will be a tough game even at home. We need to be very sharp to get in the win column on this one!

Washington Capitals - Preview: NY Rangers @ Washington - 01/03/2009

Good news on Jamie Heward after that scary moment at Verizon the night before last against the bolts! True class act! At his age in the later stages of his career I sincerely hope he has a full recovery quickly, unfortunately hes on a sorry team but it wasn't long ago we was one of CAPS NATION!!

Posted at 9:50 PM ET, 01/ 2/2009
Heward: Ovechkin is 'One of the Cleanest Players'

Jamie Heward met with the reporters earlier today when he arrived back in Tampa, which for anyone who saw him lying unconscious at Verizon Center yesterday is a great thing to hear. Thanks to Damian Cristodero of the St. Petersburg Times for passing Heward's quotes from the session along.

Heward, who is doing as well as anyone could hope, only found out today that it was Alex Oveckin who hit him.

"Once I found out it was Alex, he's in my opinion, he's probably one of the cleanest players in the NHL as far as being honest," Heward said. "He'll play hard on you, but now that I know it was him, I know it wasn't intentional. I played with him for two years. We were pretty tight when I played there. I totally agree, and I think it was an accident."

*Read more from Heward at both the St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune blogs.