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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Brashear/Brookbank Beatdown

25 February, 2008

The blog photographers at Off Wing do not get the credit they deserve, and Eric’s team of photographers consistently captures images that in quality rival those of the top news organizations.

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Knee-jerks: vs. New Jersey Devils, 2/24/08

25 February, 2008

For a team like the Caps, who have a history of turning any opposing goaltender into a Vezina candidate for a night, it’s almost a nice change to be done in by the genuine article. All-Everything goaltender Martin Brodeur stood tall for his team, especially in the third period, and got the visitors the two [...]

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For the Bears, a Quick Mid-Weekend Meal and Laundry at Home

24 February, 2008

Saturday night’s Bears-Phantoms game at Giant Center was a sellout. “We could have sold 15,000 for this one,” John Walton told me a half hour before faceoff. The Bears are number one in the American League in attendance, averaging almost 8,500 per game — more than 700 fans more per game than second-best in attendance [...]

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Deep-in-a-Draft Gem

23 February, 2008

Here’s tidy work by a sixth-round draft pick: leading a development league in scoring. That’s what Caps’ prospect Mathieu Perreault is doing these days with Acadie Bathurst in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. All he did last season was win the Q’s MVP award. And another Caps’ prospect in the Q, Francois Bouchard, isn’t [...]

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Short Stay: Fehr, Lepisto Recalled

22 February, 2008

Two days after sending Forward Eric Fehr and Defenseman Sami Lepisto to Hershey, the Washington Capitals have recalled them.  From the press release: Lepisto, 23, made his NHL debut on Feb. 16 and played 14:16 before being assigned to Hershey on Feb. 20. He has played in 39 games for Hershey this year, posting 32 [...]

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Happy Miracle on Ice Day!

22 February, 2008

A wintry Friday it was 28 years ago today — a lot like today in D.C. A few of you, like us, and actually lived that fabulous Friday 28 years ago. But even if you didn’t, we’d like to know what that seminal day in American sporting history has come to mean to you. Share [...]

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Alexander Ovechkin's Historical Ride to 60

22 February, 2008

We received this video from the NHL via the fine folk at the media relations group at the Washington Capitals. No sense wasting our bandwidth when YouTube is out there, so we housed the video there.

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The Times on the Anthem "O!"

21 February, 2008

Bob Cohn’s article on the Page A1 of today’s print issue of The Washington Times revisits the “O” controversy, with a couple quotes from yours truly, as well as D.C. area athletes like Washington Capitals captain Chris Clark. While I’m admittedly biased, the article is a good read and I recommend checking it out. Longtime [...]

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Killer Comes Through for the Wilson High Cause

21 February, 2008

Former Hero-Cap Kevin Kaminski, now the Head Coach of the Youngstown Steel Hounds of the Central Hockey League, is out on the road this week with his team. They’ll play in Colorado Friday night then swing through Texas for two dates before returning to Ohio in the middle of¬†next week.¬†They’ll have some home dates the [...]

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In-Game Knee-Jerks & Notes: Caps-Isles, 2/20

21 February, 2008

I’m not one to traffic much in the off-ice affairs of star athletes, at least not in published fashion, but with local media’s over-the-top coverage today of Alex’s overseas ingenue, there was for me a slight sense of light and welcome distraction from the day-in, day-out drain of the team’s postseason pursuit. Another positive spin [...]

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