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Category Archives: Former Coaches & Players

The GeriHatricks: Very Young at Hockey Heart

31 March, 2008

When it comes to recreational hockey, boys will be boys — even if they’re 72 years old. That’s the theme enveloping the GeriHatricks’ Annual Senior Hockey Tournament, contested each March at the Gardens Ice House in Laurel, Md. This past weekend marked the 5th anniversary of the invitational tourney “for senior hockey players more than [...]

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I'm Keeping an Eye on Ottawa

30 March, 2008

I’m going to ask a question to which I know not the answer, but the question may be rhetorical in its preposterous premise: has an NHL team ever started a season 15-2 and failed to make the playoffs? (Of course not) (I’m thinking) The Ottawa Senators, who started the 2007-08 season 15-2, this morning are, [...]

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Killer Comes Through for the Wilson High Cause

21 February, 2008

Former Hero-Cap Kevin Kaminski, now the Head Coach of the Youngstown Steel Hounds of the Central Hockey League, is out on the road this week with his team. They’ll play in Colorado Friday night then swing through Texas for two dates before returning to Ohio in the middle of¬†next week.¬†They’ll have some home dates the [...]

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Watching Hockey with Peter the Great

10 January, 2008

It was a thrill for me to run into Peter Bondra in the Verizon Center press box Wednesday night, not only because this represented the first time I’d seen him since he’d retired from hockey but because I was so curious about his new role as General Manager for the Slovakian national team, which will [...]

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Five Keys to Postseason Qualification

7 January, 2008

In inventorying the season’s first half with an eye toward what the Caps must do with their second to break through to the postseason, one must divide October through December into their own halves: Glen Hanlon’s and Bruce Boudreau’s. It’s a fair bet that we won’t see the likes of a 6-14-1 run in 2008 [...]

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Swan Song for Chris Simon?

20 December, 2007

Tuesday night at the Avalon Theater I listened to Yvon Labre persuasively make the case that hockey’s once sordid past with respect to player violence had been replaced by an era of enlightenment. There is I think powerful evidence in support of that position: two- and three-hundred-penalty-minute games are long gone; roster spots for the [...]

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Suts a Duck

19 November, 2007

Per the Washington Capitals press release: The Washington Capitals have acquired a second-round choice in the 2009 Entry Draft from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for center Brian Sutherby, vice president and general manager George McPhee announced. Sutherby, 25, played five games for the Capitals this season and scored one goal. He had 61 points [...]

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Hockey Knight in Canada

17 November, 2007

NBC News Friday evening profiled ex-Cap Joe Juneau for his exemplary sense of community in Arctic Canada’s Kujuwak, Quebec, a remote Innuit outpost of isolation and frequent despair. If you aren’t a proud Caps’ fan by virtue of the team’s struggles on the ice these days, this feature will help reorient your pride. Hockey knight [...]

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Two No.1 Teams in the State of Ohio

8 November, 2007

Looks like fiery leadership behind the bench of the Central Hockey League’s Youngstown Steelhounds. Killer’s charges are out of the gate in fantastic fashion, unbeaten in regulation play through eight games and leading the CHL’s Northeast Division. We thought our readers, like us, needed a dose of good news at this point in the season.

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Reminiscence and Appreciation: Peter the Great

1 November, 2007

Even in the prime of his career, there was a fairly pervasive sense that Peter Bondra, today the holder of six Washington Capitals’ offensive records, was never a member of the NHL’s elite class of superstar. Or even if he was one. He was. Truly, he was one of sports’ most anonymous superstars of the [...]

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