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Category Archives: OFB in Russia

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 torches in [...]

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Where to Watch the Worlds

2 May, 2008

The 2007 edition of the World Championship Tournament found half of OFB watching the games live and in person. What about the other half? We, too, watched live — just not in person.
Like last year, we don’t believe that this year’s tournament will be on television, though we are hoping for a few games to [...]

Also filed in IIHF, Internet, NHL Network, TV, USA Hockey, World Championships | Comments (6)

To Russia (Hopefully) with Appreciation and Goodwill

14 February, 2008

Last spring Capitals’ owner Ted Leonsis bank-rolled an act of unprecedented goodwill for hockey, dispatching two of his communicators and two OFBers to Moscow to cover hockey’s World Championships, in which a number of Caps competed. This coming offseason, he’s poised to organize more goodwill for the game, and pursue a plan of the Caps [...]

Also filed in George McPhee, National Hockey League, Ted Leonsis, World Championships | Comments (4)

Smitten by the Siberian in Skates

17 September, 2007

Where was my friend Dmitry Chesnokov last night when I needed him most?†Near the start of†the 8:00 – 9:30 public skating session at†Cabin John Ice Rink†last night I was heart to heart†with a size 2, seriously English-challenged Siberian blonde bombshell whose beauty, had it been encountered by the Cold War-exiled in her home region, would [...]

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Young Glory Draped in Old Glory

21 June, 2007

In the middle of this past hockey season consensus was that the 2007 NHL Entry Draft would offer up another strong showing by American prospects — seven or eight of them were likely to be tabbed in the first round. This would follow by a year an Entry Draft in which fully 10 Americans went [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, College Hockey, DraftGeek, Entry Draft, USA Hockey, World Championships | Comments (2)

Moscow Bonus – Canada Gold

21 May, 2007

As we mentioned before our trip to Moscow, OFB would serve as the “DVD extras” to supplement the Caps’ official coverage of the IIHF World Championships, including photos and observations that didn’t make the cut for Caps’ site. Here’s the first in a series of those extras: photos of the Gold medal-winning Canadian team.

IIHF World [...]

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World Championship Widget

16 May, 2007

The following widget was the content distribution tool for the joint OFB / Washington Capitals coverage of the 2007 IIHF World Championship tournament in Russia.

Admin Note: The World Championship Widget became unavailable after the NHL mandated that all teams move their websites to NHL servers.

Also filed in IIHF, World Championships | Comments (0)

Ruminations on Russian Food, Drink and Rubles

15 May, 2007

MOSCOW . . . I mean, BETHESDA — Driving back home through Bethesda this morning, the smell of two “everything” bagels filling the car and the sun shining brightly, I was struck by how adaptable people can be. In a day or two, my DC routine will feel normal again. Yet sixteen hours ago I [...]

Also filed in IIHF, Puck Sodas, World Championships | Comments (4)

SkyBlog: A Few Words About a Thousand Pictures

14 May, 2007

Somewhere over Europe, at 30,000 feet –†As a traveler, I’m not much of a picture-taker. Instead, the images I form of a foreign culture and its distinguishing traits I collect from hours of interactions with its people. I seek out the animate as opposed to their monuments. Now that I think about it, a nation’s [...]

Also filed in IIHF, Mike Vogel, OFB, Spike Parker, World Championships | Comments (1)

Faraway, So Close

14 May, 2007

MOSCOW — Some reflections on the Russian hockey arena experience at the Worlds:
Let The Music Do The Talking
As expected, Stompin’ Tom Connors’ “The Hockey Song” is not on the standard Russian hockey arena playlist. The song did, however, make a brief appearance during Team Canada games as a play-stoppage snippet.
An extended dance mix of the [...]

Also filed in IIHF, Music, World Championships | Comments (1)

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