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Category Archives: Hockey Hall of Fame

The Silent Indictment

23 July, 2007

I read no new Harry Potter this past weekend and instead familiarized myself with details about likely indictments in baseball (Barry Bonds) and basketball (NBA referee Tom Donaghy). In Saturday’s Washington Post, Dave Sheinen had a fascinating account of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s startling indifference to Bonds’ inevitable home run record. The commissioner [...]

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Dave Fay: A Hall of Famer Passes on

18 July, 2007

The hockey world in general, and the Washington D.C. area hockey community in particular, lost a great friend last night, as Washington Times hockey writer Dave Fay finally succumbed to a lengthy illness. Fay, a fixture on the Caps’ beat for the Times since the early 1980s, brought knowledge, insight, remarkable dedication, and a passion [...]

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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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Lord Stanley in a Combat Zone

2 May, 2007

For better or for worse, there are, commonly, comparisons between sports and war. The players “going to battle.” The game was “a war.” But in a far more positive development, for what is believed the first time in its 115 year history, Lord Stanley’s Cup traveled to the combat zone of Kandahar, Afghanistan, this week. [...]

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My Personal Mecca: The Hockey Hall of Fame

3 November, 2006

It is written that all able-bodied hockey fans must make a pilgrimage to The Hockey Hall of Fame in their lifetimes. Well, now it is written. Anyway, I finally got to achieve that goal last week in Toronto, and held the Grail itself. Yep, that’s me (right), friend Alex, and Lord Stanley’s Cup. I also [...]

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