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Ah, the signs of fall: the leaves are turning, the weather’s getting cooler, and the NHL shop catalog showed up in my mailbox recently. Since I’m in the market for a women’s as well as a kid’s jersey (DC Sports Chicklet quickly grew out of her old one), I was interested to see this season’s offerings from the NHL. Honestly, I don’t know why I was so excited. Here’s what we’ve got (I wasn’t going to besmirch the jersey with a Caps player’s name, and I couldn’t resist Avery).

The single overwhelming association of this convention for me was of an already sizable fanbase obliterating, with finality, any lingering belief of apathy toward hockey in this area.

When he skated in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for Acadie Bathurst, Mathieu Perreault often played the hero’s role. His reward for his heroics, say on the road in Val d’Or on a winter Saturday night? Little fanfare and an eighteen-hour bus ride home over black ice. Eighteen hours to get back home. On [...]

It seems to me that people who attend a season’s very first home exhibition game, on a Monday night, necessarily rank among those who most missed hockey over the summer. I was struck not only by the overall volume attending Monday night’s 2-1 Caps’ loss to Buffalo — the crowd was demonstrably larger than those of [...]