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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Reinforcements for the Farm

25 April, 2008

Word out of Hershey: both Josh Godfrey and Karl Alzner have joined the Bears. Alzner will not play in tonight’s game 5 at Wilkes Barre-Scranton, as he’s sidelined by the flu, but he could dress in game 6 tomorrow back at Giant Center if Hershey can get a win tonight. The Bears trail the Penguins [...]

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Frozen Moments, in Red

25 April, 2008

Yes, the dull ache from the season’s end remains. But as we head into the weekend, I hope you enjoy these moments in red — photos from the Washington Capitals’ playoff run that remind us it was an incredible ride.

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Another Blogger's Poor-Ice Perspective

24 April, 2008

Our friend and fav blogger Peerless was at Tuesday night’s game 7, and he shared with us this morning his observations about the conditions inside the Phone Booth: “In game seven, sitting where I was, the goal crease at the end the Caps shoot at twice was a lake. There was standing water in the [...]

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An Unfathomable Scandal Sends the Home Team Packing for the Summer

24 April, 2008

The great Bob McDonald was singing the national anthem near 7:00 Tuesday night in a darkened Verizon Center when, standing high above the playing surface in the press box, I noticed something most peculiar: two uniformed Verizon Center maintenance workers were, to Bob’s immediate left, on their knees, trying to remain inconspicuous, a bucket stationed [...]

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A Note of Optimism on a Day of Defeat

23 April, 2008

The 2007-08 hockey season has, in the last 24 hours, ended for the Caps, and an enormous number of you have delivered messages of appreciation for our little ‘ole blog. Know that we take all of them to heart. Know also that we regard about 12,800 of you as co-authors in spirit. One reflection in [...]

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Ice Sheet Capades Continued

23 April, 2008

Corey on his blog has this grotesquely troubling quote from Flyers’ center Daniel Briere: “Another thing that favored us was the condition of the ice,” he said. “It was so bad that it was tough for guys like Semin, Backstrom and Ovechkin to get anything going, the ice was so bad. That was another thing [...]

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At Kettler the Day After

23 April, 2008

You can cross one name off your list of free agent concerns for the Capitals this offseason — Head Coach Bruce Boudreau. Speaking with reporters at Kettler-Capitals Iceplex just moments after wrapping up a season-concluding meeting with the team this afternoon, the coach confirmed that he’d had discussions with General Manager George McPhee about a [...]

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A Foul Finish to a Stunner of a Season

23 April, 2008

I dreaded the elevator ride down to the Capitals’ dressing room at 10:07 p.m. last night. Jubilation, as we in HockeyWashington certainly learned this spring, is a damned fun thing to chronicle and consume, and for the first time it seemed in all of 2008, I had to cover jubilation’s juxtaposition — gut-wrenching, sudden and [...]

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Proud to be a Caps Fan

22 April, 2008

Here is a great photo from the Washington Capitals’ Image of the Day.

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The Men with Tonight's Whistles

22 April, 2008

Paul Devorski and Don Koharski. You didn’t really think it would be easy tonight, did you? Koharski, incidentally, worked the Caps-Flyers’ game 7¬†of 1988.

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