19 March, 2010

Category Archives: Hockey Reading

Soldier My Soldier! — Put Yourself in This Puckhead’s Snowshoes

10 February, 2010

The next time a sophist alleges Washington’s being home to second-rate puckheads, point his web browser at this WashingtonCapsBlog account of one individual’s resolute determination to make it to Verizon Center for Sunday’s Capitals-Penguins game.  The upshot of the lavishly detailed and vividly illustrated narrative is this: frozen to the bone in his power-outaged home [...]

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Avert Your Eyes Away from Fresh Media Malfeasance

5 January, 2010

Nature Herself this week is condemning local media, freezing hard and fast our Canal and urging us to recreate outside, far away from media’s maelstrom of malfeasance. Once again, burgundy and gold incompetence is being feted and celebrated by the local press. Our hockey team’s captain was traded a week ago and hardly any of [...]

Also filed in Chris Clark, Hershey Bears, Hockey Towns, Hockey Weather, John Carlson, Mathieu Perreault, Media, Mike Green, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL Network, National Hockey League, WJC, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (6)

Code of Conduct

16 December, 2009

Page 32 of Ross Bernstein’s The Code:
“For the most part, fighters are there to keep the peace and protect their skill players. For teams to have success, they have to put the puck in the net, and that requires talented players who are usually smaller and faster than the other guys. In order for the [...]

Also filed in Anaheim Ducks, Fighting, Mike Green, National Hockey League, Old Time Hockey, Ross Bernstein, Washington Capitals | Comments (10)

Top of the Tweet for the Week of December 5

6 December, 2009

We thought it might be fun and interesting to highlight Top Tweets from the Captials’ Twitter community we came across during the past week. And we’ll probably offer up a roundup of Top Tweets each week. This week was filled with talk of Ovi’s hit and style of play, the Philadelphia massacre, some vague indiscretion [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, American Hockey League, Bengt Gustafsson, Chris Bourque, Corey Masisak, Dan Steinberg, Dmitry Chesnokov, George McPhee, Hockey Wit, John Walton, Media, Mike Vogel, Nate Ewell, National Hockey League, New media, Twitter, Washington Capitals | Comments (3)

Tales of Heroism from Hershey

29 September, 2008

Be wary of skipping past the comments to our files. For one thing, we think we are regularly on the receiving end of some of the most thoughtful and insightful comments of any hockey blog. For another, there are moments when the sentiments of readers’ hockey hearts are more deserving of publishing than our own [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Calder Cup, Hardcore Hockey Fans, Hershey Bears, Hockey Heroes, Hockey Moms, Hockey Rinks, Hockey Towns, Oskar Osala, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (8)

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 [...]

Also filed in Anton Gustafsson, Corey Masisak, Internet, Media, Print, Prospects, Washington Capitals, Washington Times | Comments (7)

Pictures and Prose Comprising a Lovesong to Our Game

19 August, 2008

Have you ever wanted to convey all the passion in your hockey heart for the game you cherish to a buddy who just doesn’t get it, and felt meager to the task? Well Andrew Podnieks’ A Canadian Saturday Night: Hockey and the Culture of a Country is both poignant expression of his very hockey heart [...]

Also filed in Hockey, Hockey Art | Comments (2)

A Book Worth Saving for Your Reading List

7 June, 2008

[Admin note: Frustrated with her husband's snail-pace reading speed, Mrs. Gustafsson stole the following book from him, read it, and provided this review -- before Gustafsson would have made it past the second chapter.]
The summer season is rapidly approaching and many travelers will be compiling a list of books to read while on vacation. The [...]

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Search No More for a Great Hockey Read This Summer: Stephen Brunt Finds the Essence of Bobby Orr

28 May, 2008

Perhaps half or more of contemporary hockey fans never saw the incomparable Bobby Orr perform, and with this in mind, we’re indebted to Stephen Brunt and his literary landscape-altering effort Searching for Bobby Orr (Triumph Books, 2007).
A Canadian sports journalist, a hockey fan and one of Bobby Orr most particularly, Brunt in his book catapults [...]

Also filed in Boston Bruins, Hockey Art, Hockey Heroes | Comments (2)

On Beaches, Backyard Grilling, Deck Beers, and the Pre-Eminent Value of the THN Draft Guide

26 May, 2008

There’s wide variety to the recreation we employ on summer’s first (and long) weekend. Families pack the car and head for the beach. Those remaining at home often host the season’s opening backyard barbeque. Still others take in a ballgame with the kids or garden or dive into summer reading in a hammock. My time-honored [...]

Also filed in DraftGeek, Hardcore Hockey Fans, Hockey, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals | Comments (4)

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