{"id":274316,"date":"2025-11-06T03:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274316\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T03:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:11:11","slug":"john-carlson-walks-his-doggie-a-barking-brandon-duhaime-on-all-fours-into-the-tunnel-before-blues-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274316\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carlson walks his \u2018Doggie,\u2019 a barking Brandon Duhaime on all fours, into the tunnel before Blues game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals\u2019 vibes aren\u2019t great<\/a>, so Brandon Duhaime went to the next level \u2014 or I guess, a lower level \u2014 to get the team out of their early-season funk.<\/p>\n

The Capitals\u2019 checking line forward, nicknamed \u201cDoggie,\u201d got on all fours and barked like a dog as he entered the tunnel ahead of the team\u2019s game against the St. Louis Blues. John Carlson trailed behind, with his stick in Duhaime\u2019s collar, as if he were walking his dog.<\/p>\n

\u201cHold him back!\u201d one player shouted.<\/p>\n

Duhaime barked at least a dozen times and even managed to hop a few times, hurling his entire body into the air like an excited junkyard dog.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, Doggie!\u201d Tom Wilson cheered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell!\u201d Alex Ovechkin said, amused.<\/p>\n

Duhaime, of course, earned his nickname \u201cDoggie\u201d during his first season as a Capital after beginning to bark in the locker room, and I suppose other places, too. The reason was that Duhaime, like the internet meme, has that dawg in him<\/a>. He would also bark for other players who did tough things, such as fighting, blocking shots, or throwing big hits.<\/p>\n

Duhaime even showed his feral side during the playoffs when he began eating the lineup card<\/a> after announcing the starters in the locker room.<\/p>\n

Well done, Brandon. You certainly know how to bring some bite to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals\u2019 vibes aren\u2019t great, so Brandon Duhaime went to the next level \u2014 or I guess,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-274316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}