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Category Archives: Mike Vogel

From Thrifty to Opulent in Three Seasons

28 July, 2008

Here’s how cheap owner Ted Leonsis is right now: He’s got a $60 million hockey team here in town. The salary cap for next season has been set at $56 million, but there’s no penalty for being over the cap by 10 percent in the summer so long as a team is under it a [...]

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Morning Cup-a-Spirit: This Bigotry Against Babes, I Won't Stand for It!

14 July, 2008

To read the reactions left only here related to the Caps’ plans, announced over the weekend, to introduce SpiritBabes to the team’s home games next season, you’d think management announced that Verizon Center was hosting 41 brothels next winter. It’s too warm in there for brothels anyway. Would that the peasants took up pitchforks and [...]

Also filed in OFB in Russia, Puck Bunnies, Verizon Center, Washington Capitals | Comments (22)

Morning After Draft Reflections

21 June, 2008

In a draft heavy on talented rearguards, four of the first five selections¬†were on the blueline, and 12 went among the top 30 overall. I’m at pains to identify a real reach anywhere in round one. Certainly there were no Blake Wheeler brain-dead picks. A lot of teams helped their systems last night. Although . [...]

Also filed in Bengt Gustafsson, DraftGeek, Entry Draft, Media, Morning cup-a-joe, Prospects, Washington Capitals | Comments (7)

Ain't No Party Like a 'Vechkin Party

15 June, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Alexander Ovechkin is a machine. On the ice and off he constantly gives his all, to the delight of Capitals fans and lovers of hockey everywhere. Yet even Ovechkin looked a bit tired on Friday night at the party in his honor at chic D.C. restaurant Teatro Goldoni. Given his recent schedule, that’s no [...]

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Cavalcade of Accolades Continues for Capitals

1 May, 2008

Awards and nominations keep coming for the Washington Capitals–and not just to those with the parent club. The Capitals’ 2007 first-round draft pick Karl Alzner has just earned some hardware as a member of the WHL Calgary Hitmen, named both the Western Hockey League’s player of the year and top defenseman: [Alzner] earned the WHL’s [...]

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Languishing in the Learning Curve

18 April, 2008

If you watched Game 4′s broadcast last night likely you saw Comcast illustrate the dramatic discrepancy in playoff experience between the Caps and Flyers: last night 14 Capitals were making their NHL playoff series debuts, just 6 for Philadelphia. The way the game was contested you’d never have known. Small solace this morning. But I [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Dave Steckel, Eric Fehr, Joe Finley, Karl Alzner, Milan Jurcina, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Philadelphia Flyers, Prospects, Washington Capitals | Comments (30)

Savoring the Historic Week That Was

7 April, 2008

Some time near 8:30 Friday night, Capitals’ fans, having spent weeks residing in a purgatory of indeterminate postseason fate, received an invitation from an seraphim angel named Radek Dvorak to enter an unearthly realm of ecstasy. At that moment in Raleigh, North Carolina, at 19:48 of period 2, while his team was playing for nothing [...]

Also filed in Carolina Hurricanes, Corey Masisak, Eastern Conference, Florida Panthers, Jonathan Warner, Media, Print, Puck Sodas, Radio, Schadenfreude, Tampa Bay Lightning, Tarik El-Bashir, TV, Washington Capitals | Comments (6)

Washington Capitals Vocabulary Lessons

5 March, 2008

Mike Vogel asks Capitals players about their favorite hockey terms, including gems like Grocery Stick, Gitch, and Schmelt. Get a few chuckles and learn some new words while you’re at it.

Also filed in Brooks Laich, Eric Fehr, John Erskine, Olaf Kolzig | Comments (0)

Buzz Trades, a Big Game, a Big-Buzz Atmosphere Stream of Consciousness

27 February, 2008

Was in the then MCI Center the night of March 13, 2001 — also deadline day — when earlier in the day GMGM dealt Zednik and Bulis and a pick to Montreal for Zubrus and Linden, and the mood in last night’s rink felt larger and more significant . . . that dealmaking carried a [...]

Also filed in Brooks Laich, Corey Masisak, Dainius Zubrus, Gary Bettman, Lindsay Czarniak, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL Trades, Olaf Kolzig, Peter Bondra, Print, Tarik El-Bashir, Washington Post, Washington Times | Comments (8)

Knee-Jerks & Notes: Caps-Habs, 1/31

1 February, 2008

The Caps met Montreal for the second time in three nights. Given that the early headline on NHL.com was “Habs Go for Home-and-Home Sweep,” the Caps had something to prove Thursday night. They also were seeking to avoid consecutive losses in regulation under Bruce Boudreau. Good crowd, good ice, two streaking teams, and a crammed [...]

Also filed in Hershey Bears, Knee-Jerk, Lisa Hillary, Olaf Kolzig | Comments (11)

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