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Category Archives: Chicago Blackhawks

Out West Tonight, Let There Be Whale Choking

26 April, 2011

On this spectacular spring day in the nation’s capital I saw the sun rise as I awaited the opening of my gym. It was a deeply spiritual moment — I was mere hours removed from the final horn of a gloriously tormenting Penguins’ playoff defeat. But then I thought ahead to Tuesday’s remarkable television challenge: [...]

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First-round Ruminations

25 April, 2011

This morning I’m thinking of David Poile, for this morning, the former Caps’ GM is savoring his first playoff series win since he arrived in Nashville to guide the expansion Predators in 1998, and his first postseason triumph since the 1994 postseason with Washington. The Nashville Predators have known only Poile as their GM and [...]

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Beat Dat Beat: Caps 4 / Hawks 3 – OT

13 March, 2011
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Chicago: Case Study in Poor Cap Management

7 July, 2010

The NHL Awards have passed us by, the Stanley Cup has been hoisted by the Chicago Blackhawks and free agency is in full swing. Despite all the time that has passed, Washington Capitals fans are still left yearning from the far too early first round exit from this year’s playoffs. They are left thinking to themselves that could have been us, we do have a lot of the same qualities as the Blackhawks and yet we didn’t go all the way. After what the Hawks have had to do in the last few weeks, do Caps fans really wish they were in the same boat as Chicago though?

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Cup Check

28 May, 2010

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How It’s Gonna Shake Out in Round One

14 April, 2010

We asked our OFB Young Guns, Andrew and Alex, to piece together an overview of the first round of the NHL playoffs. It’s an overview not necessarily designed to wager on, but if you do, and if you win with these picks, remember us when next you see us at Clyde’s. Eastern Conference The Capitals [...]

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What Are Your 10 Best Caps’ Games of All Time?

1 April, 2010

The first thing you notice about the newly released 10 Greatest Capitals Games DVD collection is its Ovi-centric-ness: five of the ten games come from the Capitals’ past five seasons. There is, unfortunately, an unavoidably practical reason for this. Put bluntly, Ted Leonsis didn’t own the Capitals in the 1970s, ’80s, or most of the [...]

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Imagery from a Reader Roadtrip To Chitown

17 March, 2010

We are enthusiastic collectors of reader pics from summer vacations that Rock the Red, and in-season roadtrips that do likewise. OFB reader Chris made his first-ever visit to the great city of Chicago this past weekend, scored some prime seats for the big game, took in a little pre-St. Patty’s festivities within the Windy City’s [...]

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Then and Now: I Want My Innocent Ovi Back

16 March, 2010

It’s seared in my memory in a way virtually no other hockey moment, save the Miracle on Ice, is: the October 5, 2005, debut of Alexander Ovechkin in the NHL. Forty seconds into the new season’s opening game, on his very first NHL shift, Ovechkin slammed Columbus’ Radoslav Suchy so violently into the end boards [...]

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The Captain, Sitting Again

15 March, 2010

Per Capitals Insider, Capitals’ captain Alexander Ovechkin has been suspended for two games for his first period push Sunday of Blackhawks’ defenseman Brian Campbell. Sunday’s was Ovi’s third game misconduct of the 2009-10 season. Today’s verdict only further muddles the league’s incoherent and insufferably inconsistent enforcement measures.

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