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Category Archives: Hockey Towns

No Monsters’ Ball at Giant Center

21 February, 2010

The Hershey Bears found themselves in an exceptionally unusual position before Saturday night’s game against Lake Erie: confronting the possibility of an actual losing streak. On Friday night the Bears traveled to Adirondack and lost a 2-0 lead, succumbing to the Phantoms 5-3. Hershey, however, doesn’t lose a lot. The Bears last lost consecutive games just before [...]

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New Media Convergence on the Farm

19 February, 2010

This weekend OFB embarks on a roadtrip we’ve sought since our start — to Hershey, but hauling along with us a hearty contingent of D.C. hockey bloggers. We’ve long wanted to take our new media party up to Chocolatetown for a weekend and see if we could just blow the lid off the terrific puck [...]

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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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We Threw a Blizzard Party, and Rob Rossi Got Left Out in the Cold

9 February, 2010

A wailing wall ought to be erected to accommodate all the whining from Pittsburgh’s press and message board puckheads: Rob Rossi, a hockey writer for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, is the latest to take up the we’re so aggrieved cause, on his blog on Monday, in a diatribe against the NHL’s decision to contest Sunday’s [...]

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Musings of a Snow Refugee

7 February, 2010

Never has a hockey rink seemed as warm as entering Verizon Center did to me this morning. Like so many thousands around our region, I’ve been without power in my home since late Friday night. I got to see all of the Capitals’ victory over Atlanta, and not long into the Comcast post-game the fatal and [...]

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A Call to Remedying Action for the Red Army

30 January, 2010

No prolonged setup needed for this tale of terror: Hershey Bears’ fan Jason Hartle, afflicted with cerebral palsy, attended a Bears’ game at Giant Center back in December, returned home that night in his specially equipped van, only to awaken the next morning and discover it stolen. Police in his community have informed Jason’s family [...]

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Good Teams Win Lucky When They’re Not Good

20 January, 2010

In the early 1980s, as the Washington Capitals matured from doormat to strong Patrick division challenger to the dynastic Islanders, it wasn’t uncommon for them to skate in dominant fashion against established and elite teams and come up short. I thought about those Capitals’ teams on Tuesday night, as the 2010 Capitals, the East’s elite, [...]

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The Scene for Saturday Night Rivalry Hockey in Hershey

17 January, 2010

I got red carpet treatment at Giant Center Saturday night for the Hershey Bears’ in-state showdown with Wilkes Barre-Scranton. The Bears placed me in the television broadcast booth and seated me next to the team’s communications associate, Jess Mikula. Jess keeps track of hits and turnovers during home games and emails the data down to the Bears’ coaching staff between [...]

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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 [...]

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Let It Snow Like This, Once in a While, and Make Us Kids Again

20 December, 2009

Hello Washington blizzard my old friend, it was very good to see you again. Washington got walloped by Old Man Winter yesterday, on the final Saturday before Christmas, and no one was happier about it than yours truly. I confess, I’ve never been able to empathize with the snow haters in the region. I mean, [...]

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