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Category Archives: Dave Fay

Times' Dave Fay Headed to Hockey Writers Hall of Fame

29 May, 2007

At a time when newspaper editors across the country are demanding that reporters compromise their commitment to their beats with additional and time-consuming assignments, today Mike Vogel discovered the news that the Washington Times’ Dave Fay will receive the highest honor his profession can bestow, for his singular commitment to the Washington Capitals’ beat: he’s [...]

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Whining Now Has Company on the Beat

20 March, 2007

I’m an equal opportunity media critic, and this morning the Washington Times’ Dave Fay reminds me that the one thing worse than no hockey coverage is rank amateur analysis of the game by a media pro. “Wrong direction — Capitals keep getting worse, not better” indicates that not only did Fay get up on the [...]

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Quality Depth at the Washington Times

23 February, 2007

Great news on Dave Fay, the Caps’ beat reporter for the Washington Times: he’s recovering well, and his colleagues expect him to begin writing again on hockey soon, likely in the form of some analysis pieces. Dave has been a fixture on the Caps’ beat for the Times really since its inception, in the early [...]

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Morning cup-a-joe (1/18/07)

18 January, 2007

Tuesday night’s game account for the Washington Times yesterday was filed by Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun, filling in for the ailing Dave Fay. In it he pointed to tonight’s game in Carolina as a crossroads one, suggesting that a Caps’ loss may well spell the end of any viable postseason aspirations. My initial [...]

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Veteran Scribe Sidelined

16 January, 2007

The OFB Team sends best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery to the Washington Times’ Dave Fay, who is battling some health issues. Get well soon, Dave.

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The Mullets March on Washington

11 December, 2006

Last season, the NHL and the media covering it blanketed all four Capitals-Penguins’ games with coverage focused exclusively on superstar rookies Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. It was as if the other 42 athletes dressed for the games didn’t exist. One year later, the two hockey teams are receiving coverage in the leadup to tonight’s [...]

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Fay Can Fail — and Has

25 November, 2006

Just want to thank Dave Fay for not filing for a few days before the Atlanta game. No blog entries, nary a peep. The Post isn’t the only paper in D.C. guilty of poor coverage — though we should thank Fay and the Behind-The-Times for it’s previous random Semin-bashing. Fay also files for The Hockey [...]

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Meet Our Captain

21 November, 2006

A hockey captain should lead by example? How’s this, courtesy of Saturday’s Washington Times? Washington Capitals captain Chris Clark did not play last night, but it wasn’t because he didn’t try. Simply put, the team physicians wouldn’t clear him. Clark was hit in the mouth by a puck late in the third period of Wednesday’s [...]

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On Frozen Ombudsman for the Week of November 17

17 November, 2006

The week commenced catastrophically: on an ad hoc assignment to cover the Caps, WaPost’s Amy Shipley, seemingly in over her head, filed an ignorant and nonsensical game account from Miami Monday night. However, the week improved appreciably thereafter, culminating with Christmas-morning-wrapped-goodies-under-the-tree kind of news relating to a geriatric hockey hating television news anchor at WRC [...]

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Axis of Media Evil

6 October, 2006

Mr. Smith went to Washington to reform politics. Lodged in greater Washington, D.C., a barren outpost of hockey media silence thanks to the malicious disinterest of The Washington Post (henceforth referred to as The Compost), among others, I am venturing into cyberspace to broaden my hometown’s coverage of the planet’s greatest game, and especially of [...]

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