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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Honor Tag

22 February, 2007

pucksandbooks: “Hundreds over the years have stopped me in my Jeep at shopping mall and ice rink parking lots, or with beaming smile inquiries at red light intersections, all with comments about the significance of my tags or the impact the Miracle had on them. Regularly I hear about where people were then. More recently [...]

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Good Fences (and Rinks?) Make Good Neighbors

21 February, 2007

There is an old adage that says “Good fences make good neighbors.” Does this also apply to backyard ice rinks? Be sure to visit James Mirtle’s blog for the rest of the pictures, including the “John Deere Ice Resurfacing Machine.”

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10 Questions for Ross Bernstein, Hockey Author and Fighting Expert

20 February, 2007

Here’s hockey plasma for you: as a freshman at the University of Minnesota in the late 1980s, Ross Bernstein attempted to walk on to the Golden Gopher hockey team, and failing, channeled his puck passion into serving as the team mascot, Goldy the Gopher. The experience formed the basis of his 1992 book Gopher Hockey [...]

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"Sleeping Giants of the East"

20 February, 2007

Not so long ago, the Capitals were in the heat of a playoff run. As February brought a deep freeze to the Washington area, so it also seems to have deep-sixed the Capitals’ playoff hopes. Doom and gloom has set in among a number of the Caps’ faithful . . . but all is not [...]

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Washington Post Live

19 February, 2007

Per Dan Steinberg’s Sports Bog, the Washington Post and ComcastSportsNet will . . . “. . . collaborate on a new daily sports talk show, which will debut Monday, March 19. Washington Post Live will be a high-energy, interactive sports roundtable covering the stories, trends and topics in the news and on the minds of [...]

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Morning Cup-a-Joe (2/18/07)

18 February, 2007

Postcard from a practice facility: It’s the middle of a February Saturday morning, with one sheet of ice at Kettler Capitals Iceplex packed with youngsters sectioned off in group skating instruction classes. The other sheet is freshly made and quiet, with pockets of pucks positioned near the far boards of the players’ benches. Through the [...]

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The Ever-Growing Jagr Backlash

17 February, 2007

Greg Wyshynski’s latest offering at The Fourth Period is about a former player that Capitals fans love to hate, Jaromir Jagr. We even touched on it several months ago. He calls Jagr a “tremendously gifted athlete whose talent is overshadowed by a loathsome demeanor, on the ice and off” and believes it cost him the [...]

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Old-time Hockey — Toronto St. Michael's Majors

16 February, 2007

[With Winter's overdue arrival in DC, I was inspired to finally finish this story about my Great White North trip.] On a grey and rainy October day, Old-time Hockey was alive and well. No luxury suites, no fans chatting on mobile phones, no millionaire players, no laser shows… just a blood-and-guts no-frills hockey game. I [...]

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A Farewell to Other Athletes' Arms

15 February, 2007

I learned something startling this week — that a Washington Post blogger-reporter feels uncomfortable around the athletes in the Washington Capitals’ locker room. Let me first say that Dan Steinberg’s experiences and perceptions are obviously his own, and as such are not for me to second-guess or judge. Secondly, if anybody from the Post ought [...]

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Wiggie on Ovechkin

15 February, 2007

Leading up to Sunday’s national televised contest on NBC between the Caps and Pens, the hype machine is gearing up for abnormal Caps coverage. The NHL’s website is no exception with Larry Wiggie’s column a must read, if nothing more than for the player and management quotes. “He’s Pavel Bure in Mark Messier’s body,” said [...]

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