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Category Archives: Kevin Kaminski

In an Autumn of Challenge, I’m Counting Special Blessings This Thanksgiving

23 November, 2011

I thought I knew what a really bad clock was — the one that counted down the Capitals’ demise in game 7 here against the Pens a couple of springs back. Not a terrific reckoning of time to be sure that night. But no way that moment in time had anything on the really bad [...]

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Killer Chronicle: A Weekend of Fun On and Off the Ice in D.C.

21 September, 2011

Probably about two  months ago, reading something on this blog, I first learned of the first-ever Capitals Alumni game. I fly into town this week to participate, and I’ve been looking forward to Friday night pretty much all summer. As soon as I learned about the game I knew that wanted to come right away, [...]

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Killer’s Kids in Caps’ Swag

1 April, 2011

I’ve long imagined that the daughters of former Cap Kevin ‘Killer’ Kaminski have ever enjoyed a great deal of courtesy and respect from the boys at school — were it otherwise, they could simply tell their antagonists, ‘My dad’s a Killer, and we’ve fight tapes back home to prove it.’ Speaking of those fight tapes, [...]

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A Killer Video

15 March, 2011

Via the Washington Capitals’ Game Entertainment Crew, here is the Killer video from Sunday’s game.

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OFB TV: Catching Up With a Killer

14 March, 2011

The Washington, D.C. area was lucky enough to have Kevin “Killer” Kaminski attend the Caps game against the Chicago Blackhawks. We at OFB were even luckier to get a chance to talk with him after the game. Tara Wheeler got the honor to ask him about his NHL playing career, what his most memorable highlight was and whether or not today’s hockey players are as tough as the ones from his era. Check out the video to hear the whole conversation.

Also filed in National Hockey League, NHL, OFB TV, Tara Wheeler, Video Clips, Washington Capitals | Comments (2)

How I Came To Befriend a Killer

11 March, 2011

In October 2006, when we started OFB, I decided that the very first figure from the Capitals’ past I wanted to interview was Kevin ‘Killer’ Kaminski. My interest was partly out of respect and affection — no Capitals’ player I’d watched since 1974 matched Killer pound for pound in guts and courage. But I was [...]

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Killer Comes Home

7 March, 2011

Discovery has its Shark Week; at OFB this week we’ll be celebrating and chronicling the brief but oh so memorable Caps’ career of Kevin ‘Killer’ Kaminski. Cause Killer’s coming home — he’s coming into town this weekend to take in the Caps-Hawks’ game on Sunday, his first visit to D.C. since his playing career ended [...]

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Filling a Prescription for Old Time Hockey for a Friend

13 October, 2010

I met Mike and Marleen at Matchbox during Monday night’s pregame. I had a business dinner to attend and couldn’t spend the evening inside the rink in Chinatown with my two favorite puckheads, who’d flown in from Portland, Maine, that afternoon. They’d arrived to take in this week’s hockey dates Monday and Wednesday nights at [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Hockey Heroes, Morning cup-a-joe, Portland Pirates, Washington Capitals | Comments (3)

Here’s Hoping Canadians Become Gold Medal Fans Again

28 February, 2010

Two, maybe three days a year max, I “hate” Canada — when U.S. national hockey teams face those of Canada. I put hate in quotes because I’m incapable of deep-seated antipathy toward my neighbors to the North. It’s a beautiful country filled with beautiful people, and it is the true home of hockey. Canada is [...]

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Down 2-0 to a Bitter Foe, Killer Resolve Is Required to Battle Back and Triumph

28 October, 2009

High up in Verizon Center Tuesday night I felt as if I had a guardian angel-devil on my shoulder, named Killer, monitoring with me the matchup with one of the Caps’ fiercest rivals. In big games against our most hated enemies, when the breaks aren’t going our way, often I think back to Capitals’ heroics [...]

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