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Category Archives: Bengt Gustafsson

A Wicked and Freak Injury and Its Potential Impact on a Promising Postseason

4 April, 2011

The prospect is very real that Dennis Wideman, the Capitals’ very best defenseman, won’t play hockey again this season. And that would be an enormous setback for a surging hockey club plausibly optimistic — if it somehow can regain some semblance of blueline health — about winning an underwhelming Eastern conference this spring. The injury [...]

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What Are Your 10 Best Caps’ Games of All Time?

1 April, 2010

The first thing you notice about the newly released 10 Greatest Capitals Games DVD collection is its Ovi-centric-ness: five of the ten games come from the Capitals’ past five seasons. There is, unfortunately, an unavoidably practical reason for this. Put bluntly, Ted Leonsis didn’t own the Capitals in the 1970s, ’80s, or most of the [...]

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Top of the Tweet for the Week of December 5

6 December, 2009

We thought it might be fun and interesting to highlight Top Tweets from the Captials’ Twitter community we came across during the past week. And we’ll probably offer up a roundup of Top Tweets each week. This week was filled with talk of Ovi’s hit and style of play, the Philadelphia massacre, some vague indiscretion [...]

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A New Era of Gustafsson Starts in Washington

15 September, 2008

Oh to be a hockey-indifferent girl in the Gustafsson household. Dad Bengt of course is a hockey legend, both as an NHL player and international coach. Son Anton is a first-round NHL draft pick, and following in father’s footsteps pursuing an NHL career with the Washington Capitals. Father and son, as you might imagine, talk [...]

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An End of Summer Letter to Comcast SportsNet

28 August, 2008

My Friends at Comcast SportsNet: On behalf of the entire OFB team, I want to express appreciation for your enthusiastic support of OFB and Washington’s hockey blogs, and convey my team’s anticipation for your coverage of the Caps in 2008-09. It’s our view that on a number of fronts SportsNet markedly upgraded the breadth and [...]

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Numbers Game

25 June, 2008

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A Look Back at Bengt

24 June, 2008

The Capitals’ first-round pick of Anton Gustafsson has given everyone a chance to take a look back at the career of his father, Bengt (or Bengt-?Öke as he is better known outside of the NHL). Dan Steinberg spent some time digging through the Post archives and unearthed a few gems. Here are a few samples: [...]

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Morning After Draft Reflections

21 June, 2008

In a draft heavy on talented rearguards, four of the first five selections¬†were on the blueline, and 12 went among the top 30 overall. I’m at pains to identify a real reach anywhere in round one. Certainly there were no Blake Wheeler brain-dead picks. A lot of teams helped their systems last night. Although . [...]

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A Family Affair in '08 First Round

21 June, 2008

In his very first interaction with Washington media, Anton Gustafsson Friday night was asked to compare his game with that of his father’s. “I think I’m better,” he said. “I’m a better skater, I have a better shot.” Capitals’ fans can only dream that the son is right, and if he is¬†they’re in for an [...]

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"Nej, tack"

30 April, 2008

With the World Championship tournament starting this weekend, Freelance writer and Off The Post author Risto Pakarinen has preview of Sweden and their coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson on the IIHF web site. Coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson was hailed as a hockey genius in 2006 when he took his team to both the Olympic and the World Championship [...]

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