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Monthly Archives: April 2007

U.S. Under-18ers Fall in Finals

22 April, 2007

Earlier today in Finland, the U.S. fell 6-5 to Russia in the finals of the World Under-18 tourney. It was the fourth consecutive year that the U.S. earned a medal at the Under-18s. USA Hockey also announced the addition of two names for its entry in the IIHF World Championships in Moscow beginning this week. [...]

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Miracle, Jennifer Aniston, and the New York Rangers

21 April, 2007

The headline will make sense momentarily . . . read on, MacDuff: First, David Amber posted an interview with Eddie Cahill on ESPN today. Cahill, a die-hard New York Rangers’ fan (though we won’t hold that against him), played Team USA goaltender Jim Craig in Disney’s Miracle. He also stars in CSI:NY as Detective Don [...]

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Here's Another Pretty Picture — Our Under-18ers Eliminating Canada Today

20 April, 2007

USA Hockey’s website has the delightful details. “For the second time in five days, the 2007 U.S. National Under-18 Team and Canada needed a shootout to determine a winner. Today, Team USA topped its rival to advance to the 2007 IIHF World Under-18 Championship. James vanRiemsdyk was credited with the shootout game-winner, and Team USA [...]

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On David Poile and His Poisonous Postseasons

20 April, 2007

Years ago I learned that David Poile had “Caps” tattooed on his nether region, and with that I swiftly discarded any disappointment I had with his tenure as general manager in D.C. He bled Caps’ Red, White, and Blue, engineered one of the greatest and, for the Caps, most important trades in NHL history, and [...]

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A Picture (of Prominent Pens Golfing) Is Worth a Thousand Cans of Iron City

20 April, 2007
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Recent Service Disruptions at OFB

20 April, 2007

On Frozen Blog would like to apologize for the recent service disruptions that have occurred in the last 24 to 36 hours. Our hosting provider, without prior notice, began migrating our data to a new server. From our hosting provider’s support team: We are migrating [your] data [to a new server], which is likely the [...]

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Spring's Sweetest Scent: Rotting Penguin Carcass

19 April, 2007

The Thursday post-work agenda is slobber-inducing: mosy on over to the Capitol Hill home of close friends and take in Game 5 on their straight-out-of-the-delivery-box-on-Wednesday, 46-inch hi-def television. I’m distinctly technology challenged, but I believe it boasts something like a million pixels. Tonight’s game will literally be its first program viewed. What a baptism! Given [...]

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Hershey's Kisses for the Bears: Calder Defenders 3, River Rats 2

19 April, 2007

Game 1′s no. 1 star: Mr. David Steckel. Freddie Cassivi was no slouch in net, either. Game 2 is tonight.

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Knee-jerks: Playoffs, 4/18/07

19 April, 2007

And the first team falls. In a game that may cost Atlanta general manager Don Waddell his job, the loaded-for-the-playoffs Thrashers showed some signs of life against the Rangers, but it was too little, too late, and they’re playing the blues in Blueland. Apparently, Keith Tkachuk’s first period goal was Atlanta’s first lead of the [...]

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Magic Beans

19 April, 2007

Next time a doom-and-gloomer Capitals fan cries out, “Why! Why didn’t the Capitals acquire [Veteran X]?” refer them to this cautionary tale about just-swept divisional rival the Atlanta Thrashers. The Thrashers are a team not dissimilar to the Capitals; one can only hope that the Caps’ management makes better decisions than the Thrashers’ did. Lest [...]

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