18 March, 2010

Category Archives: Olaf Kolzig

Fun with Video on a Rainy Weekend

14 March, 2010

If ever there was a Blockbuster/NetFlix video weekend, it’s this one in D.C. — maybe five inches of rain Noah’s Ark-ing us across the region. Fortunately, hockey has no shortage of video material to amuse us by. Just this week, thanks to Puck Daddy, we learned of the existence of a marvelous line of clips [...]

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The End of an Era: Kolzig Quits

23 September, 2009

After a long and storied career, Olie Kolzig retired today.

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Kolzig Done?

28 January, 2009

Lightning backup Olie Kolzig will have surgery on Saturday to repair a ruptured distal biceps tendon in his left forearm.

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A Blanket For the Bolt

13 November, 2008

If you’ve never heard of Ravelry, you’re obviously not a knitter.  The site is an online community for lovers of all things yarn, and as such, attracts knitters and crocheters with common interests.  A common interest for forty-five Ravelry members is, of course, the Caps.  The Washington Capitals Fans group decided in April to craft [...]

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A Former Talking Head Talks Tough After a Tough Loss

11 November, 2008

There were columns in yesterday’s local papers about Olie. (Largely uninteresting.) Last night there was a packed Verizon Center press box, many there who normally wouldn’t be, to chronicle the homecoming. But by 8:30 last night I’d had my fill of the storyline. For me it had become a cliche. I wanted something fresh to [...]

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Knee-Jerks & Notes – Tampa Bay, 11/10

10 November, 2008

It’s been a while since we had some good ol’ Knee Jerks for a game, and between pucksandbooks and myself, we should be able to get at least one nugget of interest out there.  Or not.

Big crowd tonight, both in the stands and in the press box.
There’s a new contender for noise during the national [...]

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A Sort of Homecoming

10 November, 2008

The final five minutes of this eight-and-a-half-minute reminiscence of Hall of Fame netminder Eddie Giacomin are devoted to Giacomin’s heart-wrenching departure, at age 36, from the only NHL team he’d known, the New York Rangers, to Detroit. If on this odd afternoon of very mixed emotions you find striking parallels between Giacomin’s circumstances some [...]

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So . . . About That Goaltending

11 October, 2008

I wasn’t the most popular fella in these parts when, in the middle of summer, I offered the opinion that losing out on Cristobal Huet and settling for Jose Theodore didn’t exactly inspire dreams of circling around Verizon Center ice with Lord Stanley raised high. To be fair: the Caps pursued Huet with vigor, and [...]

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So . . . About That Goaltending

11 October, 2008

I wasn’t the most popular fella in these parts when, in the middle of summer, I offered the opinion that losing out on Cristobal Huet and settling for Jose Theodore didn’t exactly inspire dreams of circling around Verizon Center ice with Lord Stanley raised high. To be fair: the Caps pursued Huet with vigor, and [...]

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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 sudden [...]

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