23 May, 2012

Category Archives: National Hockey League

Ted Starkey Delivers the Chronicle of a Transition

15 August, 2011

We are thrilled to have had a chance to review a couple of drafts of a new book coming out early this autumn that affords a commendably wide-angled lens on the Washington Capitals’ organization, Transition Game: Story of the 2010-11 Washington Capitals, by the Washington Times’ Ted Starkey. The title is slightly deceiving insomuch as [...]

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Seeking Help from Above

2 June, 2011

I’m a big fan of photo-ops that illustrate the impressive broadening of Washington’s passion for pucks. This particular image also seems to invite the discussion: Should we trouble a busy God these days with our postseason puck distress? Of course not. There are at least 5,000 matters more important before Him — wars and famine, [...]

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Thin Skinned Down in the Sunshine State: Clever Bruins Smack Gets Silenced

21 May, 2011

My eternal problem with the Southeast division: There are no rivalries in it in any way approaching those we once enjoyed with our predecessor Patrick division, and subsequently, I can’t summon the hate. And in instances as with what a segment of Lightning fans in Tampa, led by a silly DJ there, carried off this [...]

Also filed in Boston Bruins, Greg Wyshynski, New media, NHL playoffs, Tampa Bay Lightning, The Great Old Patrick Division, Washington Capitals | Comments (8)

The First Shoe Has Fallen

19 May, 2011

An agreement to sell the National Hockey League’s Atlanta Thrashers to a Winnipeg group which plans to relocate the franchise to the Manitoba capital is done.

Sources confirmed tonight that preparations are being made for an announcement Tuesday, confirming the sale and transfer of the Thrashers to True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns and operates the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League and the MTS Centre arena, which would become the NHL team’s new home.

Also filed in Atlanta Thrashers, Gary Bettman, Much-needed relocation, Southeast Division, The Great Old Patrick Division, Winnipeg Jets | Comments (0)

A Community I’ll Never Forget

10 May, 2011

In three years I’ve had the opportunity to see three playoff runs, two series wins, dueling hat tricks, Game 7 heroics and had the opportunity to be apart of one of the best communities in sports. After three seasons of covering perhaps the most electric team hockey though, my time as a member of the OnFrozenBlog team has come to an end.

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A Bad Matchup Indeed — for New York

16 April, 2011

This Rangers club was supposed to be a bad matchup for these Capitals. Big up front, racsally around the net, opportunistic offensively, a good defensive club backstopped by a premiere netminder. Turns out, the Capitals are a very bad matchup for New York. Through two games in this opening round series it’s the Capitals playing [...]

Also filed in Dennis Wideman, Eastern Conference, Jason Arnott, Jason Chimera, John Carlson, John Erskine, Karl Alzner, Marcus Johansson, Michal Neuvirth, Morning cup-a-joe, New York Rangers, NHL playoffs, Washington Capitals | Comments (11)

NBC’s Consortium of Hockey Prognostications

15 April, 2011

WRC-NBC 4 put together a fun project for the Caps-Rangers series, soliciting the prognostications of a wide array of local hockey voices, with a commendably heavy emphasis on new media voices locally. The blog roll of participants included many of our favorites — Ted Starkey, JP from Japer’s Rink, Dave Nichols, Ed Frankovic, Adam Vingan [...]

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I’m Naming My Next Dog Lou Lamoriello

14 April, 2011

Seldom are overtime triumphs in the NHL postseason secured with slick, tick-tack-toe playmaking and virtuoso conversion. Most often, it’s a turnover in a lethal part of the ice, a bizarre deflection off a skate, maybe a bad line change leading to an odd man break that ushers in fast-forming mob scenes of euphoria in one [...]

Also filed in Alexander Semin, Bruce Boudreau, George McPhee, Jason Arnott, Michal Neuvirth, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, Sudden death hockey, Washington Capitals | Comments (9)

Maybe, Just Maybe, the Stars at Last Are Aligning

13 April, 2011

I know as well as anyone in this town what this morning is supposed to represent . . . and optimism isn’t encoded in it. These are the NHL playoffs after all, and our local entry in them is a legacy of part comic-relief, part tragedy, and a whole ‘lotta bad karma. The names change, [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Bruce Boudreau, Dennis Wideman, Eastern Conference, George McPhee, Jason Arnott, Marco Sturm, Morning cup-a-joe, New York Rangers, NHL playoffs, Washington Capitals | Comments (4)

Another Rematch with Another Old Rival

12 April, 2011

For the second time in three years the Washington Capitals open the NHL postseason against the New York Rangers, an old Patrick division rival. Of the first five playoff series Alexander Ovechkin and the rebuilt Caps since first qualifying for the postseason together in 2008, four have come against old Patrick foes.

Correspondingly, those bitter rivalries have been freshly renewed by the showdowns. That’s how hockey hatred is developed. In the sorta old days, you first had to best your Patrick foes in divisional play before advancing toward Eastern conference supremacy. There is a bit of that feeling to all these Patrick division springtime reunions, albeit spread out over a couple of seasons.

Also filed in Michal Neuvirth, New York Rangers, NHL playoffs, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals | Comments (3)

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