08 February, 2012

Category Archives: Matt Bradley

Toss Me a Hoodie, for Hockey’s Here at Last

16 September, 2011

Across the Mid-Atlantic winds of change seemed to sweep away summer last night. Vacationing on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, I took the dog for a walk this morning in layers of clothing, attire I hadn’t needed since early last spring. It felt good to be so bundled up. As recently as yesterday afternoon I wasn’t so [...]

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Ex-Cap Matt Bradley Goes on Air, Calls Out Caps Culture

17 August, 2011

Matt Bradley is now a Florida Panther, but yesterday he went on sports radio in Ottawa and reflected rather thoughtfully, and rather provocatively, on his time in Washington, and most especially with respect to reasons why the Caps may have come up short each and every spring. The nearly 20-minute interview on the Team 1200 [...]

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Hard Hat-Wearing Brads Turns the Tide

21 February, 2011

Bradley fights against Pittsburgh.

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More Caps-Pens: Backstrom on Coming to Ovie’s Defense: “I Was Just Trying to Back Up My Boy There”

7 February, 2011

In addition to Andrew’s excellent game write-up of the Caps 3-0 shutout of Pittsburgh yesterday (in the first of the city’s doubleheader of  losses) , I wanted to add a few quick notes from talking to Nicklas Backstrom and Matt Bradley after the win. Backstrom was the first guy to make it to Matt Cooke [...]

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Readers React: On Thoroughbreds Being Asked To Be Clydesdales

31 January, 2011

I’m highly suspicious of the likelihood that the actual jockey for the great Secretariat, Ron Turcotte, is an OFB reader; nonetheless, a commenter identifying himself as such had over the weekend what I regarded as the best reflection related to my Saturday morning cup-a-joe, which dropped the gloves on this stinker of a Caps’ season: [...]

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Caps Care Casino Night: Best Dressed, the Guy Who Beat Ovie in Bowling, and the Advice John Carlson Didn’t Take

11 January, 2011

Events like the Capitals’ Casino Night, which raises money for Washington Capitals Charities, are a chance for the guys to interact with their fans. Alex Ovechkin played Wii bowling. Jeff Schultz was a staple at Rock Band (literally a staple – the main move he made around the room was switching from drums to guitar).

It’s also a chance for reporters to ask serious questions about fashion, eating, and motherly advice. As always, the guys were good sports.

There were two main areas to the event – a foyer, where silent auction items were displayed (including a Crosby jersey–one bid was for 2 cents), and the ballroom itself, where the food (including a nitrogen ice cream bar), band, and most of the gambling was. Browsing the silent auction table left forward Tyler Sloan as our first unsuspecting victim.

“Which of you guys, [do] you think, has the biggest fashion budget?” I asked.

“Ovie probably spends the most money, or [Alexander] Semin,” Sloan said. “That doesn’t mean that he looks good.”

“There’s a big difference,” Matt Bradley explained later.

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, John Carlson, Tyler Sloan, Washington Capitals | Comments (3)

Matt Bradley, Always the Gentleman (Sorta)

16 December, 2010

Some memorable things happened in 1998. Google was founded. Windows 98 launched. James Cameron produced Titanic.  We were all swaying to Celine Dion (admit it). And Matt Bradley, playing in the OHL, won the William Hanley Award as the league’s most gentlemanly player (an award also won by Wayne Gretzky exactly two decades before). The [...]

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Found: Alexander Semin, the Hockey God

12 November, 2010

Want the biggest indication Semin’s game is changing? He stayed out of the penalty box on a night when the Capitals got called for five.

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Say Hello to Sixty Minutes of Quality Road Hockey

28 October, 2010

If you Tivo-ed last night’s 3-0 whitewashing of the Hurricanes in their home opener, hold onto it for a while. How elusive have three quality periods, stitched together in a single evening, proven for this hockey club since the start of last season? It wasn’t a game of precision offensive flow and flair — in [...]

Also filed in Carolina Hurricanes, Michal Neuvirth, Mike Green, National Hockey League, Nicklas Backstrom, Southeast Division, Washington Capitals | Comments (3)

The Caps’ Bradley: “This Year Is Kind of Do or Die”

14 September, 2010

Capitals forward Matt Bradley harbors no illusions about the pressures facing the Caps this season to go deeper in the playoffs after a disappointing few years of early postseason exits.

“I think this year is kind of do or die,” Bradley said at Kettler Monday. “We have to make something happen.”

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