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Category Archives: Former Coaches & Players

"Can't-Miss" Carpenter's Legend Lives On

13 August, 2009

I recently came across a post on Mental Floss (home of the great Don Cherry quiz) titled “Where Are They Now? High School Kids Immortalized By Sports Illustrated” and skimmed it. Then I came to #7.

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Buzz From Boswell

19 February, 2009

In Tom Boswell’s discussion on washingtonpost.com today, he had nothing but effusive praise for a certain #8.

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Jamie Heward Update

2 January, 2009

Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Jamie Heward has been released from a Washington D.C. hospital and is traveling back to Tampa today. Heward suffered a concussion during the third period of last night’s game against the Washington Capitals.

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Rewriting History

1 January, 2009

Rick Tocchet played for the Caps in 2007? I bet even Tocchet didn’t know that.

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A Former Talking Head Talks Tough After a Tough Loss

11 November, 2008

There were columns in yesterday’s local papers about Olie. (Largely uninteresting.) Last night there was a packed Verizon Center press box, many there who normally wouldn’t be, to chronicle the homecoming. But by 8:30 last night I’d had my fill of the storyline. For me it had become a cliche. I wanted something fresh to [...]

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A Sort of Homecoming

10 November, 2008

The final five minutes of this eight-and-a-half-minute reminiscence of Hall of Fame netminder Eddie Giacomin are devoted to Giacomin’s heart-wrenching departure, at age 36, from the only NHL team he’d known, the New York Rangers, to Detroit. If on this odd afternoon of very mixed emotions you find striking parallels between Giacomin’s circumstances some 30 [...]

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Fairfax's Collin McKinney Sees Life Through Hockey

6 October, 2008

[Part I of II ] In the moments leading up to my meeting Collin McKinney, 42, of Fairfax, I readied myself for a seriously sad encounter. There are newsworthy triumphs and tragedies in life every day, and all I knew of McKinney was that he was a huge hockey fan and that he’d endured a [...]

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Fairfax's Collin McKinney Sees Life Through Hockey

6 October, 2008

[Part I of II ] In the moments leading up to my meeting Collin McKinney, 42, of Fairfax, I readied myself for a seriously sad encounter. There are newsworthy triumphs and tragedies in life every day, and all I knew of McKinney was that he was a huge hockey fan and that he’d endured a [...]

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The Selling of a Six Pack to a Southerner

3 October, 2008

A brand new colleague in my office, Victoria, not yet six weeks in her new gig, hails from Gulfport, Mississippi. She’s a young twenty-something, bright and engaging, and while college on the West Coast and two brief employment stints in D.C. have well dulled her Mississippi drawl, it’s still abundantly clear that she’s a seriously [...]

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A Name No Longer Mentioned

24 September, 2008

One player’s name certainly is emerging from training camp’s first week — by virtue of its omission. That of Olaf Kolzig. You don’t hear it mentioned among the press, by fans in the Kettler stands, certainly not by Capitals’ players or coaches. Everybody seems to have moved on from the April agony and the summer [...]

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