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Category Archives: Hockey Rinks

100,000 for a Hockey Game? Maybe

28 January, 2010

Today brings word of an outdoor hockey game this December on the campus of the University of Michigan, between Red Berenson’s Wolverines and the Michigan State Spartans on December 11, in the Big House. Capacity? 106,000-plus. You have to imagine that this game’s organizers are going to market like mad to try and get 100,000 fannies in the [...]

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A Rink, a Team, and a Town Becoming One

12 October, 2008

It’s about time to begin awarding a game star to the home crowd at Verizon Center. The atmosphere there for hockey now has no rival within Washington’s sports landscape.
During his post-game show last night, WTOP’s Jonathon Warner, commenting on the atmosphere of Verizon Center for the Capitals’ home opener, told his listeners that Caps’ fans [...]

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A Rink, a Team, and a Town Becoming One

12 October, 2008

It’s about time to begin awarding a game star to the home crowd at Verizon Center. The atmosphere there for hockey now has no rival within Washington’s sports landscape.
During his post-game show last night, WTOP’s Jonathon Warner, commenting on the atmosphere of Verizon Center for the Capitals’ home opener, told his listeners that Caps’ fans [...]

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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 Reading, Hockey Towns, Oskar Osala, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (8)

The Hot Ticket in Town: Hockey

16 September, 2008

Monday night the Capitals hosted their fourth and final open house at Verizon Center. My colleague Gustafsson attended one last month, and he reported being struck then by the scarcity of available seats, particularly in the Phone Booth’s lower bowl. As in, few seats available down low for any game in the 2008-09 season. Monday’s [...]

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There's TGIF, Then There's Today

12 September, 2008

Welcome to the last business day without hockey in 2008. At the end of this weekend, feet will be back in boots, and stay there, inaugurating the 2008-09 hockey season. Many Washington Capitals veterans are already in town and skating out at Kettler, but the team’s rookies report for five days of instruction beginning this [...]

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Need Two for the Rookie Scrimmage? Be Online Next Thursday

28 August, 2008

Caps’ fans wanting to get into Kettler Capitals Iceplex for the September 18 scrimmage between the Caps’ and Flyers’ prospects that day will need to be online and at the Caps’ Web site next Thursday, September 4, when the team will issue free tickets required for admission. Per the team press release today on the [...]

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No More Black Jerseys (A Plea)

19 August, 2008

Now I’m not saying the Washington Capitals necessarily should choose our third jersey design ‚Äî granted, I’m partial to it, but I’m clearly biased as the one who Photoshopped it. But as Jibblescribbits (via Puck Daddy) points out, 12 black jerseys in the NHL is too damned many already, so hopefully the Caps will at [...]

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Windy City Winter Classic Confirmed

16 July, 2008

The NHL today confirmed what had long been suspected: that its next outdoor game would take place at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, on January 1, 2009.
The Original Six matchup between the Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings will be the 701st between the clubs –¬†the most¬†of¬†any¬†NHL clubs.
Back in May, when we wondered about the next iteration [...]

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Deep Frozen Thoughts at the Start of July

1 July, 2008

Recently we found out about the existence of Lee Twombly Pond in Falmouth, Maine. It’s claim to fame — aside from being astoundingly gorgeous — is its existence as “Northern New Engalnd’s only refrigerated outdoor skating surface.”
They actually Zamboni this outdoor sheet numerous times each winter day, weather permitting. The Pond House at the Pond [...]

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