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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Rockin’ the Road in Red

22 January, 2010

Have you noticed, as we have, the conspicuous presence of Caps’ fans attired in red in enemy rinks during televised road games? It’s been most noticeable to us in the front row immediately behind the Caps’ bench during the telecasts, seemingly for every road game this season. The owner on his blog this afternoon happened [...]

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Washington Was All About Hockey on This January Thursday Night

22 January, 2010

In somewhat unexpected fashion, hockey sure seemed to blow up around town yesterday. Late Thursday morning Dan Steinberg began generating a great volume of great dispatches from Pittsburgh. You should read every single one of them. His Post colleague Tarik via Twitter reported never before encountering so massive a media following for a regular season [...]

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Two Points from a Playoff Atmosphere: Caps 6 / Pens 3

21 January, 2010
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Thoughts on Our Natural Enemy

21 January, 2010

Across much hockey media today there permeates the view that tonight’s Caps’ game in Pittsburgh affords the visitors an opportunity for revenge for last season’s seven-game defeat in the Eastern conference semifinals. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Examiner’s Brian McNally gets it right in his file this morning:  “The Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins will [...]

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The Bluechip Options in Net Are Numerous

21 January, 2010

Though unable to track down John Carlson in Hershey last weekend I managed to see Braden Holtby start both weekend home games in the Bears’ net. I’d never seen Holtby perform in person, and I was well aware of the mega-buzz he’d been generating the last two hockey seasons, and so I was thrilled at [...]

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The Positive Side of Mike Wise

20 January, 2010

Dan Steinberg left this comment on my earlier post, and I thought it was worth highlighting.

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Message to Mike: This Is Hockey

20 January, 2010

In Mike Wise’s infamous Jan. 11 Washington Post “And With All Due Respect, It’s Hockey” discussion, he warned us that a column on the Caps was coming this week. Sure enough, this morning we were treated to a column that told Caps fans nothing they didn’t already know: GMGM is the key to a winning team. Yet we should be grateful for anything written about the Caps from the Washington Post sports columnists, since most of them don’t seem to know that there’s an actual winning team in town. Out of the Post’s ten sports columnists, only Wise and John Feinstein have actually written about the Caps this season (granted, some of them only write about fishing, horse racing, or Gilbert Arenas). If nothing else, we’ll see a few columns from others around playoff time, as usual. God, I miss the Washington Times’ sports section.

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Good Teams Win Lucky When They’re Not Good

20 January, 2010

In the early 1980s, as the Washington Capitals matured from doormat to strong Patrick division challenger to the dynastic Islanders, it wasn’t uncommon for them to skate in dominant fashion against established and elite teams and come up short. I thought about those Capitals’ teams on Tuesday night, as the 2010 Capitals, the East’s elite, [...]

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Wings Clipped: Caps 3 / Red Wings 2

19 January, 2010
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What To Expect When the Winged Wheelers Roll into Washington

19 January, 2010

Being from Detroit I have a some fluency with what is happening this season to Motown’s Winged Wheelers. The back-to-back defending Western Conference champions have had their share of struggles, but they are not a team to overlook. Despite their struggles the Wings remain just as potent a threat sans Marian Hossa, Johan Franzen, and [...]

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