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Category Archives: Corey Masisak

An Early Start to Strong Reporting

17 September, 2008

A tap of the e-stick to the Washington Times’ Corey Masisak, who’s out at Kettler every day this week and filing blog and print news stories daily. This is a terrific time to acquaint yourself with the Times’ revamped Web look, completed earlier this summer, within which you can find a voluminous catalogue of stories [...]

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Capitals Free Agency Discussions

30 June, 2008

Yeoman’s work by Corey Masisak at the Times, who has posted his discussions with the agents for Cristobal Huet and Brooks Laich with a promise to update his blog with more information/discussions as they happen. Check it out here.

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An Offseason Snapshot of a Revolution's March Onward

13 May, 2008

The volume and variety of news pertaining to Olie Kolzig’s departure from the Capitals last week was instructive in these new media times. When we at OFB verified that Kolzig’s home was listed for sale last Wednesday, which wasn’t a particularly difficult endeavor (all manner of such information, including taxes paid on a particular residential [...]

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A Final Day of Calm To Enjoy Before the Postseason Storm

10 April, 2008

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’ve savored these past five hockey-less days in D.C., immersing myself in a million metric tons of media, much of it local, pegged on themes like “the hottest team in hockey,” “a team of destiny,” “George McPhee, master architect,” the sum total of which is: Washington Capitals, media hogs [...]

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Savoring the Historic Week That Was

7 April, 2008

Some time near 8:30 Friday night, Capitals’ fans, having spent weeks residing in a purgatory of indeterminate postseason fate, received an invitation from an seraphim angel named Radek Dvorak to enter an unearthly realm of ecstasy. At that moment in Raleigh, North Carolina, at 19:48 of period 2, while his team was playing for nothing [...]

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Sunday Morning Literature Search

6 April, 2008

Brew an extra pot-a-joe this sunny-despite-the-rain Sunday morning and luxuriate in some outstanding coverage of Washington hockey history made at Verizon Center last night. ‘Coming All the Way Back,’ by Tarik El Bashir, The Washington Post ” . . . in front of a manic, red-drenched sellout crowd at Verizon Center, the Capitals seized the [...]

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Victory in the Lion's Den: A Moment To Savor

6 March, 2008

Tarik’s¬†Washington Post¬†game file¬†today leads with, “After scoring his second goal of the game, Alex Ovechkin skated toward the corner boards at HSBC Arena, waving his arms in the air, imploring the capacity crowd to increase the volume . . . They did — and he loved every second of it.” Over at the Times, Corey’s [...]

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Buzz Trades, a Big Game, a Big-Buzz Atmosphere Stream of Consciousness

27 February, 2008

Was in the then MCI Center the night of March 13, 2001 — also deadline day — when earlier in the day GMGM dealt Zednik and Bulis and a pick to Montreal for Zubrus and Linden, and the mood in last night’s rink felt larger and more significant . . . that dealmaking carried a [...]

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Youppi!: Mascot Extraordinaire

30 January, 2008

As I was reading Washington Times writer Corey Masisak’s blog today, I was surprised to read this: I went in a souvenir stand to see what people can buy. There are 10 – yes, 10 – player t-shirts including guys like Guillaume Latendresse, Carey Price (regardless of the fact that he is in the AHL [...]

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Bringing New Media Energy to the Old Beat

18 January, 2008

Know what else is a white-hot success in these hockey parts these days? Corey Masisak’s blog at the Washington Times, “In the Room.” His entry from late yesterday: “Not only are the Caps dealing with myriad injuries, it has spread to the media. I am officially listed as day-to-day with an upper body injury, but [...]

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