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Monthly Archives: January 2007

"The Ghost" to Crosby: Please Leave

26 January, 2007

One of our favourite words at OFB is Schadenfreude: “enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others.” Our latest enjoyment comes from Dallas, where everything is bigger, but not Sidney Crosby. According to Martin Leclerc at Le Journal de Montreal, Crosby attended a private party booked for the All-Star game at a Dallas nightclub called Ghost [...]

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The OFB Top 20 Prospects

25 January, 2007

Prospect rankings are necessarily subjective and by design no more than a snapshot in time. And yet January, delivering the pro and college hockey seasons’ midpoints, as well as the completion of the World Junior Championships, seems the right time to weigh in on the progress Caps’ prospects seemingly have made since the end of [...]

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Lays Fuels Goals

25 January, 2007
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Christine Simpson Gets Ovechkin His Lays

25 January, 2007
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Caps Go After Niedermeyer (and Otter)

24 January, 2007

Consistent critics of pro hockey ticket prices, we also praise well-conceived and meaningful discount schemes, and the Caps have a new one. Targeting the poorest among us (college kids), the Caps this week announced that for the remainder of the season those in possession of a valid college ID can get into the team’s remaining [...]

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Morning Cup-a-Joe (1/24/07)

24 January, 2007

From an actual NHL press release: “The lighter, drier uniforms generated 9% less wind drag in wind tunnel tests at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” Its arenas notably emptier than a year ago, its television ratings in the toilet, its marquee star of the next generation uncertain where his home rink will be come July, [...]

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Ovechkin on the Rebuild

24 January, 2007

Alex Ovechkin took a break from rebuilding the Caps to help build a house. Ovechkin, along with other NHL All-Stars and alumni, joined the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity outside the American Airlines Center to frame a house with a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Michael McDonald of Philly Hockey Report is covering the All-Star [...]

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OFB at the Roundtable

23 January, 2007

Eric McErlain at Off Wing Opinion moderated a roundtable discussion on how the Washington Capitals have progressed so far this season. Along with DCSportsChick and Japers’ Rink, Eric was kind enough to involve the four of us at OFB. We invite you to read the transcript here.

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Joe Drop-em-and-Go, Australia's Secretary of Defense?

23 January, 2007

Word from Down Under that Prime Minister John Howard is going to extreme lengths to establish a sense of fierceness to his cabinet: “NEW Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has ruled out fundamental changes to the Coalition’s industrial laws but left the door open to “technical” adjustments . . . After impressing John Howard with [...]

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Update: Project Pennsylvania Moving Vans

23 January, 2007

No fewer than three fresh items of delicious print media to acknowledge for Schadenfreude-minded Caps’ fans as it relates to Mullet Insolvency and Homelessness. The first, which runs in this morning’s Pittsburgh Tribune Review, is headlined “Lemieux ‘very disappointed’ over arena talks.” Some salient excerpts: “Penguins co-owner Ronald Burkle met for almost two hours [last] [...]

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