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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Own a Jar of Hershey History

21 June, 2010

I have snow enthusiast friends about the region who today still have a snowball from each of our three blizzards from last winter tucked away in home freezers. (Captured and stored there most often by their small children.) Looking ahead at this week’s forecasted temperatures for D.C., I kinda wish I had blizzard remnants in [...]

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A Summer Wish List of Size and Snarl

21 June, 2010

The Flyers and Devils spent the weekend improving themselves. Gulp. The leadup to the NHL draft brings the greatest week of player movement on the calendar next to trade deadline comings and goings, and so this week we in Washington especially wonder: what does general manager George McPhee have up his sleeve? We know that neither [...]

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Interview With Alzner

18 June, 2010

On Wednesday, 106.7′s Overtime w/ Bill Rohland featured a Hershey Bear who’s sure to have a big impact in D.C. this season: Karl Alzner. According to Tarik:

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but McPhee pretty much said both John Carlson and Karl Alzner will be full-timers in Washington next season. “He’s shown us enough,” McPhee said of Alzner, who scored a huge goal in the first period of Monday’s Calder Cup-clinching win and was a rock on the blue line. “He could have been in the NHL last year. But the way our team was playing last year, we didn’t want to tinker with the chemistry too much and we thought he would be better off if we kept him playing. He’s a guy we expect to be in Washington.”

Listen to the audio here, if nothing else, to hear him explain how he looked like Wolverine for the team photo.

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Snapshots of a Blogger’s Season, 2009-10

18 June, 2010

[Hockey season's over. Herewith, 25 of my favorite, most personal moments covering hockey in Washington during the 2009-10 campaign, relayed in no particular order.] (25) Not one, not two, but three blizzards buried Washington in the heart of hockey season. Blizzard no. 2 took out my home’s power for fully three days, but my beer [...]

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Amid Euphoria, a Family Affair

16 June, 2010

I watched John Carlson skate around Giant Center ice in the early moments of his team’s Calder title celebration Monday night with a cell phone to his ear, his eyes scanning the stands, and in that moment I thought of another Captain America in skates, Jim Craig, 30 years earlier, and his iconic search for [...]

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A Great Time To Pop Open a Puck Soda

16 June, 2010

We’d all agree — little Matty Perreault had himself one heck of a hockey season. And at its conclusion, in glory, why shouldn’t he pop open a cold one — a Canadian cold one, of course — and savor it? Don’t mistake his holding up two fingers as acknowledgment of his playing a key role [...]

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Blogging in a Swirl and Swarm of Champions

15 June, 2010

This footage we shot last night won’t be entered in any filmfests any time soon, but that wasn’t the design. We simply hoped to capture the spirit and flavor of a remarkable moment, one we were beyond fortunate to have been invited to experience up close and personal.  

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A Dream Monday To Remember, Concluding Another Memorable Hockey Season

15 June, 2010

Turns out, it was rust on their game that undermined the Hershey Bears in the early going of the 2010 Calder Cup finals, when they dropped the first two games at home. By the time the finals started the Bears had played a grand total of just six games in 34 days. The longer this [...]

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This Hockey Organization Goes to 11 (Titles)

15 June, 2010
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Were Shakespeare a Washingtonian, He’d Ask, ‘What’s with This Hoops Name?’

14 June, 2010

The most striking aspect of Ted Leonsis’ early reign as owner of all things winter sports here is his professed surprise at so many Washingtonians expressing their dissatisfaction with the name of the basketball team. It is, the owner admits, agenda item no. 1 in their email urgings. Leonsis has expressed a startling tone deafness [...]

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