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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Knee-jerks, @ NYIsles, 11/26/06

26 November, 2006

The quick knee-jerks today will probably sound very familiar to those who listened to GMGM’s interview on the John Thompson show last week. One of his points was that the Caps need an offensive center and a solid defenseman. Last night’s game illustrated that very well, as the blue-line corp looked a little out-of-whack, and [...]

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Goal Oriented

26 November, 2006
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Ice Rink melts in Hot Springs

26 November, 2006

Sometimes the headlines write themselves. An outdoor ice rink in Hot Springs, Arkansas, was shut down on the season’s opening day on Friday … because it was melting. Brian Leonard, ice rink manager for the Hot Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, said about a half-hour after the rink opened, the ice had started to melt, [...]

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Knee-jerks: vs. Toronto — Bad Dog

25 November, 2006

I own three dogs, and if any of them behaved the way the Caps did tonight, well, they wouldn’t get any treats. Poor play all around. Two big factors tonight: The Caps, without amazing goaltending, are a sub-.500 team. It has been mentioned multiple times, but if the Caps don’t get spectacular play between the [...]

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Fay Can Fail — and Has

25 November, 2006

Just want to thank Dave Fay for not filing for a few days before the Atlanta game. No blog entries, nary a peep. The Post isn’t the only paper in D.C. guilty of poor coverage — though we should thank Fay and the Behind-The-Times for it’s previous random Semin-bashing. Fay also files for The Hockey [...]

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THN: There's a Science to Shootouts

24 November, 2006

In the cover story of the Nov. 21 THN, Ken Campbell examines the dos and don’ts of shootouts. THN analyzed 230 attempts in 28 shootouts from the season’s start through November 6. The piece’s most startling observation arrives early and is telling: “Few teams do anything more than pay cursory attention to the shootout.” Only [...]

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Update: SweaterGate

23 November, 2006

Insidehockey.com’s Jeremy Milks has authored what I believe is the best summary of SweaterGate — the NHL’s inexplicable and indefensible tomfoolery with its iconic fashion, to be debuted at this season’s All Star Game and then rolled out en masse beginning next season. Milks makes a vital and brilliant observation about the fallout from radically [...]

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Caps / Thrashers Several-Round Bout

23 November, 2006

The guys at HockeyFights.com have been working overtime and have already posted the end of last night’s game on YouTube (thanks for alerting us Eric). Just one OFB opinion — Brashear beat the Thanksgiving stuffing out of Vishnevski. OrderedChaos saw it live, and the beat-down is confirmed by the wonderful video below (as well as [...]

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Giving Thanks for the Passion of Don Cherry

23 November, 2006

Where would hockey be without Don Cherry? At OFB, we don’t like to think about that, and today we are thankful for Grapes, recently voted the 7th most important Canadian . . . in the history of that country. Because love him or hate him, there’s no denying his passion for the planet’s greatest game, [...]

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Takes from the Keen-Eyed Observer

22 November, 2006

OFB receives terrific feedback at times from individuals with privileged perches — true hockey insiders. One such friend of OFB (let’s call him the Keen-Eyed Observer) occasionally passes on some excellent observations on both the NHL and the CHL, and with his permission, we’re going to share some of them, while honoroing his request for [...]

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