20 March, 2010

Category Archives: Hockey Weather

Outdoor Practice Fun in Hershey

4 March, 2010

If you’ve played a single season of beer league hockey, you’re familiar with the scene: gear bags resting by cars in a rink parking lot, the beer leaguers tipping back a cold one together after a skate. It was a bit early in the day for beer at 10:00 this morning when cars belonging to [...]

Also filed in Hockey Towns, John Walton, Media, Michal Neuvirth, OFB, Tim Leone, Washington Capitals, hockey blogging | Comments (3)

Canal Update: Tempting Conditions

14 February, 2010

A first-hand report of conditions down at the C&O Canal arrived this afternoon via comments to my query file of earlier in the week, Dare We Think About Shoveling Canal Snow Too?
Reader Josh reports:
“Drove by earlier today; Canal is (mostly) clear. Still a few small spots with some . . . slush, I guess, but [...]

Also filed in Canal skating, Hockey, Hockey Rituals, Ice, Pond Hockey, Shinny, Washington the shinny town | Comments (8)

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 [...]

Also filed in Hockey Reading, Hockey Towns, Media, Verizon Center, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town, hockey blogging | Comments (2)

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 [...]

Also filed in Blogging, Hockey Towns, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (14)

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 [...]

Also filed in Bruce Boudreau, Hockey Towns, Mullets, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (6)

SnowBomb II on Its Way

3 February, 2010

Another Snowbomb is headed our way, timed to white-out another Washington weekend:
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
245 PM EST WED FEB 3 2010
…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING [...]

Also filed in Media, NBC, National Hockey League, Pittsburgh Penguins, TV, Washington Capitals | Comments (17)

Rewinding to the Warmth of Cooler Times

16 January, 2010

A week ago today so many in our region rushed out onto frozen ponds, creeks and canals, in pursuit of participating in hockey in its purest form. The novelty and splendor led many to capture much of last weekend’s shinny on digital cameras, and pass along the special moments to us this past week. We [...]

Also filed in Hockey, Hockey Art, Hockey Rituals, Ice, OFB, Old Time Hockey, Pond Hockey, Shinny, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (2)

Frozen Fun on the C&O Canal

9 January, 2010

It was a Saturday for shinny under a bright but beautifully cold sun — a week’s worth of freezing temps delivered postcard conditions for free-form hockey on the C&O Canal today, and I had the pleasure of sharing the experience with Off Wing Opinion’s Eric McErlain — his first-ever outdoor skate. If you take a [...]

Also filed in Canal skating, Ice, Pond Hockey, Shinny, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (13)

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 Reading, Hockey Towns, 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)

Winter Classic III: Hits and Misses

2 January, 2010

There’s a 108 percent chance of the Capitals participating in the 2011 Winter Classic, unless you believe that the NHL would like to see another dump-and-chase exhibition seriously limited in its offensive prowess competency. Through two periods Saturday the novice hockey viewer at home could have been forgiven for believing that teams were penalized for shooting [...]

Also filed in Bobby Orr, Boston Bruins, Morning cup-a-joe, NBC, National Hockey League, Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals, Winter Classic | Comments (10)

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