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Monthly Archives: October 2007

The Times Pays Tribute to the Capitals' 'Bloggers' Nation'

23 October, 2007

Washington Times’ sports business reporter Tim Lemke spent a number of weeks interviewing a number of the region’s hockey bloggers, his interest piqued by their prevalence in the Verizon Center press box for Caps’ games. “No team in professional sports offers as much unfettered access to bloggers as the Caps,” Lemke writes in this morning’s [...]

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Versus Goes Viral

23 October, 2007

Perhaps Versus is feeling the heat from recent rumours that the NHL wants to return to ESPN. Perhaps they’ve had some hockey specials planned since the lockout. In any case, Versus has a special airing tonight and they’re worried about their ratings. In an effort to boost ratings, they’ve turned to Sinuate Media and a [...]

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Feeling a Bit Empty

22 October, 2007

Our own Empty Maybe gave us a real jolt last week — informing us of his need to part ways with OFB for the foreseeable future — and he shared this news with readers over the weekend. Truthfully, the remaining three of us were shellshocked. We’ve never known anything but the four of us in [...]

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Opening Night in ChocolateTown

21 October, 2007

11:45 a.m.: In the middle of this week I wondered about the appeal of spending this particular weekend in Hershey, coincidental to the Bears’ home opener. It’s never a bad idea to take in a Saturday night hockey game at Giant Center, and the moreso on Hershey’s home Opening Night. But I thought the gentle [...]

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Knee-jerk Reactions: vs. Pittsburgh, 10/20/07

20 October, 2007

Sigh. Guess that’s the only lead I can come up with after tonight’s game. The Caps played the body, played hard, but still look unorganized on the ice, and a hockey-savvy team from Pittsburgh worked Caps’ goaltender Brent Johnson out. No blaming anyone on this: the better team won. Boyd Gordon was a shot in [...]

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Freedom of (Hockey) Speech

20 October, 2007

Lucas Ackroyd of Hockey Adventure recently discussed the “controversy” surrounding Alexei Kovalev’s comments after the Canadiens’ 2-1 shootout loss to Florida. Kovalev opined, “It was just my idea that we could have taken a timeout, get organized, and get the right people on the ice. Maybe it could have been better.” Nothing earth-shattering there; but [...]

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Blogging by Bus

19 October, 2007

Tonight, the Hershey Bears are in Connecticut to play the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. They left yesterday afternoon to arrive by dinner time, allowing plenty of rest before the puck drops. Keep in mind, this is the AHL where you travel old school. You travel by bus. This trip is roughly a four hour ride — [...]

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Nineteen Years and Counting, and Walk Now for Autism

19 October, 2007

Terrific Olie Kolzig profile by Mike Vogel on the Caps’ site today, check it out here. Kolzig’s nineteen-year tenure with the club is an impressive show of dedication and loyalty — by both the player and the team — rarely seen in modern sports. In other Kolzig-related news, the Walk Now for Autism charity event [...]

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Frittering Away the Comeback Frenzy

19 October, 2007

Even in the post-lockout NHL, staring at a 2-0 deficit during the second intermission is daunting. Seated next to Gus, and having absorbed two periods of the Caps outshooting and outplaying the Isles but watching bounces bumfuzzle the Caps — cosmic justice for our rudely unmerited victory on the Island 10 days ago, I thought [...]

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Knee-jerk Reactions: vs. N.Y. Islanders, 10/18/07

19 October, 2007

The Islanders were up, and the Caps, well, it’s hard to say if they were up or down. Was it a bad game, or is this their real level? There seemed to be some sloppiness, and the late collapse is something Caps’ fans are used to from the past two seasons. I’m not a bandwagon [...]

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