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Category Archives: ECHL

The Bluechip Options in Net Are Numerous

21 January, 2010

Though unable to track down John Carlson in Hershey last weekend I managed to see Braden Holtby start both weekend home games in the Bears’ net. I’d never seen Holtby perform in person, and I was well aware of the mega-buzz he’d been generating the last two hockey seasons, and so I was thrilled at [...]

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Boudreau Biography Slated To Hit Bookstores Next Fall

31 October, 2008

Fantastically exciting news: Capitals’ Head Coach Bruce Boudreau will have his biography published next fall, and its author is one of the best hockey writers in the business, Tim Leone of the Patriot News. Dulles, Va.,-based Potomac Books is the publisher of the as-yet untitled bio.

“Washington Capitals head coach Bruce Boudreau has signed a deal [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Calder Cup, Hershey Bears, John Walton, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (4)

The Selling of a Six Pack to a Southerner

3 October, 2008

A brand new colleague in my office, Victoria, not yet six weeks in her new gig, hails from Gulfport, Mississippi. She’s a young twenty-something, bright and engaging, and while college on the West Coast and two brief employment stints in D.C. have well dulled her Mississippi drawl, it’s still abundantly clear that she’s a seriously [...]

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Hockey as a Desert Rose in Sin City

24 May, 2008

I was dreading my business trip to Las Vegas this past week. For starters, Monday’s temperature there was a hockey unfriendly 108 degrees. And please, spare me the “It’s a dry heat” defense. Pizza ovens harbor little humidity, and I don’t want to reside in those either. Mercifully, a cold front swept through some time [...]

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How About Some More Pro Hockey in Washington, the Hockeytown?

23 May, 2008

Could suburban Washington, D.C., become home to a minor pro hockey team in the not-too-distant future? Such a team would first need a home here, and in Montgomery County, Maryland, intrigue is swirling around a new arena feasibility study and county officials’ publicly stated support for construction of an 8,000-10,000-seat arena, likely located in Germantown.
Last [...]

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Bear Sightings to Continue for Another Year or Two

22 May, 2008

The Washington Capitals and the Hershey Bears have jointly announced that the affiliation agreement between the two clubs have been extended through the 2009-10 season with an option for the 2010-11 season.
Previously affiliated for seven seasons from 1977 to 1984, this next season will be the fourth in this most recent marriage. Currently, the [...]

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Hockey Rinks from South Dakota to South Africa

18 December, 2007

Ever wonder what professional ice hockey teams play in New Zealand? How about Dubai? Where can you catch a pro game next time you’re in Bahrain, or Spain, or mainly on the plain?
Well a dedicated French hockey fan named Sam has completed quite a project: a Google map of every professional hockey team’s ice rink [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, CHL, Central Hockey League, IIHF, National Hockey League | Comments (1)

Bears Assign Three

4 October, 2007

Hershey Bears President and GM Doug Yingst announced the reassignment of three players to the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays.† The three are forwards Steve Pinizzotto, Stephen Werner and defenseman Patrick McNeill.

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Capitals Continue to Swim with Stingrays

8 August, 2007

Per the Washington Capitals press release:
The Washington Capitals have renewed their affiliation agreement with the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL for the 2007-08 season, vice president and general manager George McPhee announced today.
“We are excited to have extended our affiliation with South Carolina as the Stingrays prepare to celebrate their 15th season,” McPhee said. [...]

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