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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Let It Snow Like This, Once in a While, and Make Us Kids Again

20 December, 2009

Hello Washington blizzard my old friend, it was very good to see you again. Washington got walloped by Old Man Winter yesterday, on the final Saturday before Christmas, and no one was happier about it than yours truly. I confess, I’ve never been able to empathize with the snow haters in the region. I mean, [...]

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Fastest to 50 Points in Team History: Caps 4 / Oilers 2

20 December, 2009
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A Mobile Comcast Sportsnet, Covering Hockey

19 December, 2009

It’s a Friday afternoon in early winter, and ominous clouds foretelling a historic snow storm are forming overhead. What are a pair of leading players for Comcast Sportsnet’s hockey team doing? Recording their thoughts out of the studio, remotely, at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Gardens ice rink. It’s Lisa Hillary reflecting in preview [...]

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Snowpocalypse 2009

19 December, 2009

With our first serious snow since the Capitals released their Maryland license plates, here’s a photo of my snowbound car (with the license plate cleared of snow, of course!). The falling snow was reminiscent of our banner, so I had to post it.

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Road Woes and Missed Chances for the Caps

19 December, 2009

Maybe it was the road trip catching up to them, but one thing is for sure, the Washington Capitals certainly did not take advantage of the chances they had against the Vancouver Canucks. Nicklas Backstrom’s failed conversion of Ovi’s centering pass in the early going foreshadowed a night of just coming up short. And of [...]

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Does Washington Need a Watchdog?

18 December, 2009

Time and again we’ve listened patiently to the game’s critics of enforcement and fighting suggest that were the league merely to rigorously sanction instances of egregious violence, there’d be no need for skating predators and pain merchants. So what are we to do with the league’s blind eye toward Koci? Shrug and wait for the next skilled Capital crumpled upon the ice from thuggery, apparently. Or should we?

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Interview With Mike Gartner

17 December, 2009

Rob Kowal from NY Hockey Talk recently chatted with Mike Gartner about his days in the league. The interview was obviously slanted towards Gartner’s time with the Rangers, but he did talk about the Caps-Rangers series when the Rangers lost the first round of the ’91 playoffs against his former team. He also shared an interesting story about his limo ride to the Cap Centre after he was drafted.

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These Bears Aren’t From Hershey

16 December, 2009

I was going to write a long post about the recent Don Cherry fiasco and Canadians’ response to it, but decided instead to post a video of bears playing hockey, since there were some similarities to last night’s game. Notably, the bears are better players than David Koci.

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Late-Night Gamewatch Duty Falls Upon the Young

16 December, 2009

One of the virtues of having undergraduate associates is that they can be assigned to monitor West Coast games while we old geezers hit the hay around period two for work in the morning. Take it away, night owls: 1st Period Andrew’s take: It is hard to make a definitive decision for or against the [...]

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Code of Conduct

16 December, 2009

Page 32 of Ross Bernstein’s The Code: “For the most part, fighters are there to keep the peace and protect their skill players. For teams to have success, they have to put the puck in the net, and that requires talented players who are usually smaller and faster than the other guys. In order for [...]

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