To the Fans.

To the Fans of the Capitals,

First of all, I would like to thank you for all your support. You are the ones who make our organization go. I have played hockey for 25 years and last night may have been the worst loss I have ever been apart of. As you may have heard, I gave every player their two week notice, meaning in two weeks, they are out of their contracts if we do not renew it. I told everyone that if they do not want to be apart of the solution, I will find someone who will.

When I took this job, I knew that there would be lean moments, tough times. Did I ever imagine that it would be as low as last night? No. However, this is a challenge. This is my challenge. I took this job knowing there was a lot of work to be done. As last night indicated, there still is a lot of work to be done. I do not shy away from this. I have found often in my career and life that is moments like this that show the kind of person you are. We are going to right this ship.

I assure you the fans, we will improve this team. We are not going to back down from this adversity.

Once again, thank you for your support. Just by reading this, it shows that you care. I promise you, the person writing this blog cares just as much as you do and will do whatever it takes to improve your team.

Hull

It is 7am and I am getting up to get to the bus which leaves at 8am. The game is a bit earlier and we would like to have a nice lunch break a long the way, which is why we are leaving a bit earlier.

Todays trip cannot go by fast enough. Ever since Wednesday, I could not wait to play today. The game today gives us a chance to compete for a Championship. Today, we can potentially get ourselves in a one game season against Newcastle next week at home to advance to the semi-finals.

I am dying to get there and win this game. .........

Coventry week

As far as losing streaks go this is about as frustrating a streak as I have ever been apart of. Having watched the tape of Sunday's game we could have scored many times and had a big win. Give their goalie credit he made some big saves but so did ours. J.F. Perras was outstanding and deserves more support.

We are making fewer mistakes every week but that is not helping us on the scoreboard. It is time for us to move forward. It has been a very bad 3 weekends. The key is that we learn from our mistakes.

The team is going to be working very hard this week and we are going to learn that losing is not acceptable in Edinburgh. Will will do what it takes to right this ship.

I am very thankful for all of the fans support, you have been great. I am looking forward to seeing you against Coventry. Seems like a great night to send a message to the league.

Hi everyone, and welcome to our weekly blog which will feature player and team information both from myself and from the players themselves. As I mentioned in my press release on Monday, we were very upset with our results last week, however, we are hopeful that we can get healthy quickly and get two points against Nottingham on Sunday.

On the injury front, Jeff State has not practiced this week and is day-to-day. I hope he will be able to play Sunday. I expect both Luza and Bauba in the line-up. If State plays, it will be only the second time this season we have had a full team. That is something I am very much looking forward to.

Finally, I would like to thank all who made my parents visit to Scotland so special. I am sure they will be back.

See you all Sunday! Your support has been fantastic!


Doug