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Category Archives: Joe Finley

Failure’s Blame Stretches Far and Wide

1 December, 2011

Some random observations and notes-sharing from a remarkable last 72 hours: There’s standup, and then there’s what Gabby offered the Washington Post’s Tarik El Bashir Wednesday morning — actually agreeing with Capitals management that it was time for a change behind the bench. He actually told General Manager George McPhee, “You’re doing what you have [...]

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Big Joe, Making Big Gains on the Farm

30 October, 2010

Hershey Bears’ man about all manner of communications, John Walton, has penned a terrific read on Joe Finley for the AHL’s web site. On another quality Bears’ club Big Joe, who serves as a part-time OFB correspondent, has skated a +3 in four games this season, adding 10 PIMs for ornery measure, and even partnered [...]

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Best of the Blogs from Development Camp

19 July, 2010

Washington’s hockey bloggers, new and established, delivered some fantastic coverage of the just completed Capitals’ Development Camp. Here are some of our favorite files, with a last word from our new favorite blogger, Big Joe Finley. Rock The Red was able to generate interviews with campers Andy Miele, Braden Holtby, Joe Finley, Samuel Carrier, and [...]

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The Finley Files: In the Heat and Heart of the U.S. Capitol

17 July, 2010

Day 6: I skated in the first practice of the day where we focused on offensive zone faceoff forechecking, power play, and penalty kill. Having everyone on the same page for tomorrow’s scrimmage should tighten things up for us and allow us to convert on the man advantage. We split up into two groups at [...]

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The Finley Files: I’m a Tall Target in Paintball

16 July, 2010

Day 5: Today started with a 9 a.m. scrimmage at Kettler, which I believe is the earliest I have ever played since a Pee-Wee tournament back in Edina, Minn. Whatever the case the game went on. I think most of the guys would say the first period was a solid wake up call, and the [...]

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Gabby: Fights, in Moderation, Are a Part Even of Development Camps

15 July, 2010

Joe Finley’s slow dance yesterday with Anthony Pisano prompted me to ask Head Coach Bruce Boudreau for his thoughts about fights in a development camp, particularly in light of the news of the Chicago Blackhawks losing a camper this month for four months at the handiwork of their big young thumper, Kyle Beach.

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The Finley Files: Testing and Scrimmaging

15 July, 2010

This morning I was the bigger man and didn’t SLAM the door on Bruiser as he did the day before on me. I made quick work of a Denver Omlette, fruit with yogurt and a bagel, and headed to the rink for on-ice testing. On ice we were run through four different tests (S-test, top [...]

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The Finley Files: A Progress Report

15 July, 2010

Joe Finley has had an eventful development camp and his first scrimmage mirrored that. A high scoring, high energy and extremely physical game seems like the kind Joe will play throughout his career. After the scrimmage between white and red Joe sat down with our PucksandBooks to talk about his progress and what it is like to play against his teammates and friends.

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It Got a Little Feisty Out There Yesterday

15 July, 2010

Mike Rannells of the DC sports blog Fight for Old DC approached us just minutes after the conclusion of yesterday’s Development Camp scrimmage with this merry message: “Have I got some photos of Finley’s fight you guys will like.” Number 59 was just a few feet away at that moment, overheard Mike, and said, “Hey, [...]

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Caps Dev Camp First Scrimmage Slideshow

14 July, 2010
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