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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Travel Agents Need Not Apply: My R&R at the September Rink

22 September, 2008

Welcome to my vacation. This week I have friends recreating in Switzerland, Canada, and Virginia Beach. Meanwhile, I’m spending my week-long R&R at Kettler Capitals. No offense to my traditional vacation-traveling friends, but I think mine the most alluring, fulfilling, and restorative of getaways. And yes, most exotic. You could offer me a cruise, a [...]

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Sunday's Opening Camp Scrimmage: Fierce and Fast

21 September, 2008

Head Coach Bruce Boudreau sought an elevated sense of competition for this training camp’s scrimmages, in pursuit of which he inaugurated the Gaetan Duchesne Cup. The team that performs best in Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday’s scrimmages will win it. Today at noon was scrimmage 1, between groups B and C. It was evident from the [...]

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Ten Top Storylines for the Start of Training Camp 2008

20 September, 2008

(10) Gabby from the Get-go. Capitals players had plenty of time to come to grips with Bruce Boudreau’s system, what with his arriving from Hershey at Thanksgiving. In his 61 games in 2007-08, Boudreau went 20 games over .500 (37-17-7). Had that projected over the full season, the Caps not only would have won the [...]

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Training Camp Day One Cursory Musings

20 September, 2008

None other than Nicklas Backstrom was first on the ice this morning during the opening session of Day 1 of Capitals’ training camp. He skated for about 30 minutes before the Caps pulled him off, for precautionary purposes. A very helpful file for those of you planning on a visit to Kettler during camp: Rebecca [...]

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The All-English Interview of Dmitry Kugryshev

20 September, 2008

At the start of Rookie Camp this week, after about six or seven questions had been asked and translated for him, 2008 second-round draft pick Dmitry Kugryshev confessed that he understood them all as they were asked in English, which made everyone in the press corps laugh. It was also very impressive — Kugryshev has [...]

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Something Stinks in Sunrise

19 September, 2008

In honor of International Talk Like A Pirate day, I checked out YouTube to see if there were any good pirate-related hockey videos. Of course there were a number of videos featuring the Portland Pirates, but that wasn’t what I wanted. There were a few videos featuring the Scottish National League’s Sam the Bear and [...]

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Something Big Is Already Built

19 September, 2008

In a very real sense, the Ballston Massacre yesterday represented the culmination of the Capitals’ rebuild. Last September, Capitals’ owner Ted Leonsis decreed that the rebuild was over, asserting that his young team was primed for playoff contention. But being rebuilt as both Leonsis and General Manager George McPhee targeted 5 years ago, I believe, [...]

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Former Q League MVP: "By Far My Best Goal Ever"

19 September, 2008

The final goal scored in yesterday’s 7-0 mauling by the Caps over the Flyers wasn’t the most important one, but it certainly was the most dramatic. Capitals’ center Mathieu Perreault gathered the puck near the Flyers’ blueline and proceeded to shred the entirety of Philadelphia’s on-ice personnel. Also bested by Perreault, seemingly, were all Flyers [...]

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Live Blog: Caps / Flyers Rookie Game

18 September, 2008

The live blog will be active at 3pm. Please join us then via the interface below.

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OFB in Slate

18 September, 2008

We’ve been lucky enough to have been mentioned in several publications including Express and Washingtonian.¬† Imagine our suprise when we turned up in Slate.com, the daily web magazine “offering analysis and commentary about politics, news, and culture”. Bruce Reed took a look at Hockey’s Response to its Newfound Celebrity.¬† With Sarah Palin as the most [...]

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