Terry Murray coached Dale Hunter in Washington and knows one thing for sure about the Hunter era. The Capitals had better be prepared to work as Hunter tries to turn around the underachieving squad, whose Saturday overtime win improved their record to 1-2 in the Hunter regime. They can even that record up with a win Monday night against first-place Florida.
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Craig Custance joined ESPN in September 2011 as an NHL reporter for ESPN the Magazine, ESPN Insider and ESPN.com. A graduate of Michigan State University, he lived for nearly a decade in Georgia working for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where he spent time covering the late Atlanta Thrashers. He was the only Thrashers beat writer to get the team to the playoffs.
From 2008-11 he was the national hockey writer for the Sporting News, writing regularly in print and online. A member of the PHWA, he's a proud voter for the major NHL awards and can occasionally defend his selections.
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