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Category Archives: Calder Cup

Referendum Hockey Is Here

3 May, 2011

We are going to learn a great deal about the DNA of the Washington Capitals over the next 36 hours. Immediately before them is an enormous if suddenly unexpected task: attempting to gain, on the road, viability in a series everyone predicted them to win but in which tonight they face what is almost certainly [...]

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In Central Pa., the Calder Cup Is Three Miles High

28 July, 2010

Engineers and construction workers in hard hats, utility communicators and administrative staff, even cafeteria workers expressed a common line of inquiry near 1:30 Tuesday afternoon at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Operating Station in Harrisburg. Pa.: Is it here yet? There was a palpable buzz at the power plant early yesterday afternoon, for the Hershey [...]

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Ted, Shall We Have a Wager on Next Spring?

3 July, 2010

The owner isn’t thrilled with me. Infrequently but once in a while we squabble, always respectfully. He and I share a passion for seeing greatness on the ice here; we just might go about its architecture in different ways. I’d like to see the Capitals annually look a heck of a lot more like the [...]

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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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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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