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Monthly Archives: June 2008

A Family Affair in '08 First Round

21 June, 2008

In his very first interaction with Washington media, Anton Gustafsson Friday night was asked to compare his game with that of his father’s. “I think I’m better,” he said. “I’m a better skater, I have a better shot.” Capitals’ fans can only dream that the son is right, and if he is¬†they’re in for an [...]

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Entry Draft Live Blog

20 June, 2008

Don’t want to refresh your favorite Caps blogs this evening to follow all the draft happenings? No worries, we’ve joined JP from Japers’ Rink and FanHouse, Eric from OffWing, FanHouse and The Sporting News, The Peerless Prognosticator and perhaps even Dmitry from SovetskySport for an evening of live blogging and expert analysis on everything from [...]

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First-Round Flops Over the Years

20 June, 2008

No team can get it right in round one every year, even drafting very high. And at times all teams get it really wrong then. A survey such as this is a powerful reminder of the crapshoot that is selecting 18-year-old hockey players. However, it is also an invitation for fans to react with, “What [...]

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Bates and the Batty Blogger

20 June, 2008

Back in February 2007, I wrote a post at my old blog about a woman who called herself “Michael Jordan’s Mistress” because she had one or two encounters with Jordan several years ago when she was living in North Carolina. (My dear friend WonL has a full explanation here of the situation.) This woman has [...]

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Drinking with the Stars

20 June, 2008

That sounds like a much better show idea than Dancing with the Stars, doesn’t it? Contestants would party with an ever-changing cast of celebrities/athletes; each round of successful partying gets the contestant a bigger prize (and calcified liver). The final rounds intensify with Party Partners like Charlie Sheen or Tony Stark . . . er, [...]

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If Only We Still Had Drive-in Theaters for This Summer Friday Night

20 June, 2008

Something felt a little bit special about this morning, no? That’s because hockey’s back, as Versus brings us live coverage of the NHL Entry Draft from 7:00 – 10:00 this evening. And the NHL Network will have a healthy helping of coverage as well. Just as soon as Versus signs off tonight the NHL Network [...]

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Yahoo Says, This Is Who Your Daddy Is

19 June, 2008

A message of warning to Citizenship and Immigration Canada: your borders this Friday will be breached, and the sensibilities of your fair people assaulted, as a maker of new media mischief invades the Great White North to cover the NHL Entry Draft this weekend. I’d urge a thorough interrogation of him at the border before [...]

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Origins of a DraftGeek

18 June, 2008

For those who live with hockey residing in the soul, every day carries some manner of frozen celebration, even in the dead of summer, but some days are better refrigerated than others. For me there are three or four genuinely dry-ice moments in the hockey calendar that are a given every year: the morning of [...]

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The End of the Magical 1998 Run to the Finals

17 June, 2008

We recently reminisced about the ten-year anniversary of a golden moment: when Joe Juneau’s goal propelled the Washington Capitals to their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance. Today, Steinz looks back on D.C. Sports Bog to the day the run ended with excerpts from the Post‘s coverage 10 years ago. It’s a good read and, lest [...]

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More Changing of the Star Guard in Washington

17 June, 2008

One evening last week I departed a suburban Maryland grocery store trailing a father and what appeared be his son, aged about seven. The youth was wearing a Gilbert Arenas Wizards’ jersey. Two news items from last week made me reflect on this situation: (1) that Arenas had opted out of the final year of [...]

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