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Category Archives: OFB Interviews

Fairfax's Collin McKinney Sees Life Through Hockey

6 October, 2008

[Part I of II ] In the moments leading up to my meeting Collin McKinney, 42, of Fairfax, I readied myself for a seriously sad encounter. There are newsworthy triumphs and tragedies in life every day, and all I knew of McKinney was that he was a huge hockey fan and that he’d endured a [...]

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The All-English Interview of Dmitry Kugryshev

20 September, 2008

At the start of Rookie Camp this week, after about six or seven questions had been asked and translated for him, 2008 second-round draft pick Dmitry Kugryshev confessed that he understood them all as they were asked in English, which made everyone in the press corps laugh. It was also very impressive — Kugryshev has [...]

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The Caps' Newest Russian: "When Washington selected me at the draft I think I jumped to the ceiling at home being so happy"

1 August, 2008

With the ever intrepid assistance of our SovetskySport friend Dmitry Chesnokov, we were able to deliver some questions to the newest Russian in the Capitals’ organization, right wing prospect Dmitri Kugryshev. Drafted by the Capitals with the 58th overall pick in this past June’s Entry Draft, Kugryshev will join the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec [...]

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Two Young Swedes Compared

23 March, 2008

A Hockeysfuture staffer on Saturday offered a comparison between 2008 draft-eligible Anton Gustafsson, son of former Caps’ great Bengt, and 2006 first-rounder Patrik Berglund (no. 25 to St. Louis). Hockey sense: Equal Speed: Equal Technical skills: Berglund Offensive game: Berglund Defensive game: Gustafsson Two-way game: Gustafsson Shooting: Equal Playmaking: Equal Leadership: Equal Physical game: Gustafsson [...]

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Quintin Laing, Human Jersey Wall

25 January, 2008

Thursday night at Verizon Center was our first opportunity to catch up with Quintin Laing after his human sacrifice performance Monday night in Pittsburgh. Recall that in leading the Caps’ kill of a Pens’ 5-on-3 man advantage in sudden death OT then, en route to the Caps’ shootout victory,¬†Laing threw his body seemingly at each [...]

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Watching Hockey with Peter the Great

10 January, 2008

It was a thrill for me to run into Peter Bondra in the Verizon Center press box Wednesday night, not only because this represented the first time I’d seen him since he’d retired from hockey but because I was so curious about his new role as General Manager for the Slovakian national team, which will [...]

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Mathieu Perreault: Lightning in a (8-oz.) Bottle

14 July, 2007

Thirty minutes prior to Friday night’s Rookie Camp scrimmage Drummondville, Quebec native Matheiu Perreault could be seen standing behind the players’ benches, not yet in gear, twirling his hockey stick with a puck seemingly taped to his blade. I say seemingly because over the course of four or five minutes the puck never ever moved [...]

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10 Questions for a Full-Time NHL Scout, Part II

30 March, 2007

[The following continues a conversation with NHL Scout started Thursday, March 29, 2007] In Part II of my dialogue with NHLScout, I examine the contemporary American hockey development landscape, particularly with respect to college hockey, as this is his primary scouting territory. I sought to get a portrait of the college game’s increasing infusion of [...]

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10 Questions for a Full-Time NHL Scout

29 March, 2007

If you were to compile a list of the most intriguing and alluring professions (outside of being a highly paid pro athlete), what might be called “dream jobs,” you might include a ski instructor at Vail, a photographer for Hugh Heffner, perhaps a road test driver for Porsche. My list would include being paid to [...]

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10 Questions for Ross Bernstein, Hockey Author and Fighting Expert

20 February, 2007

Here’s hockey plasma for you: as a freshman at the University of Minnesota in the late 1980s, Ross Bernstein attempted to walk on to the Golden Gopher hockey team, and failing, channeled his puck passion into serving as the team mascot, Goldy the Gopher. The experience formed the basis of his 1992 book Gopher Hockey [...]

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