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Category Archives: Nate Ewell

OFB TV: Running on Empty Against the Sharks

9 February, 2011

Elisabeth talks about how Tuesday’s 2-0 loss to the San Jose Sharks may have been the result of an emotional let down and how there seemed to be a lack of energy.

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The Best Friend a Hockey Blogger Could Have

8 February, 2011

Being on the new media beat for hockey here the past five years has meant exchanging warm hellos to others with an extraordinary passion for our great game during the long calendar of the hockey year, and above everything else for me, it has meant making extraordinary friendships. There is no easier person to befriend [...]

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Hockey’s Hardest Working Man, Not on Skates (Part 2)

20 January, 2011

After his tenure at Michigan State was complete, Ewell moved into the sport and league he had always wanted to be a part of, the NHL. The Vice President of the Washington Capitals called him and offered him a position in the Capitals’ Public Relations department. Despite finally making it to league he had always wanted to be a part of though, Ewell’s experience was not what someone would call perfect. Not only was the team one of the older ones in the league, but there were some guys Ewell thought were very tough to work with. Of every experience over his year and a half with the team, Ewell remembers one incident that encapsulated his whole time there.

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The Hardest Working Man, Not on Skates (Part 1)

18 January, 2011

Leaning forward in his tailored brown striped suit, Nate Ewell runs through a final check of his Blackberry. His end seat in the press box is still surrounded by vacant folding chairs as the Verizon Center press box has yet to fill with members of the print, radio and television media. Ewell has climbed through the Caps media ranks and is the now the team’s Vice President of Communications. While he gets to travel with some of the biggest athletes in hockey and certainly enjoys what he does, it doesn’t mean his job is not stressful. Often times, he can be so busy he forgets to do some of the menial tasks in life, including one time forgetting to eat.

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Debut of the Ewell Cup

22 September, 2010

There were actually two sets of fierce competition out of the ice at KCI yesterday. The Duchesne Cup was decided during Tuesday’s lunch hour, but that was followed by the main event: the inaugural Ewell Cup, named for the host of the annual media skate, Capitals’ Vice President of Communications, Nate Ewell. WNST’s Ed Frankovic [...]

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From Two Intrepid New Media Reporters, a Marvelous Look Inside a Bittersweet Hockey Season

11 September, 2010

It was a privilege and a thrill for me to be a part of the audience at Sirius XM’s D.C. studio last night for the debut of ‘The Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season,’ a stunning achievement in very new media by Gemma Hooley and Chris Nelson. Gemma and Chris — two of the most devoted [...]

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Instant Classic Tweet

28 April, 2010
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Morning After Tweets

8 April, 2010
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Rapidly Improved Team: D-I Newcomer RIT in the Frozen Four

30 March, 2010

RIT made its stunning run as a 4 seed by upending Denver and New Hampshire this past weekend, becoming just the fourth 4 seed to make it to the Frozen Four. Guess how students and supporters celebrated at a Rochester watering hole while watching the upsets? By eating free chicken wings.

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Here’s a Bit of a Trend

25 March, 2010
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