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Category Archives: Oskar Osala

No Monsters’ Ball at Giant Center

21 February, 2010

The Hershey Bears found themselves in an exceptionally unusual position before Saturday night’s game against Lake Erie: confronting the possibility of an actual losing streak. On Friday night the Bears traveled to Adirondack and lost a 2-0 lead, succumbing to the Phantoms 5-3. Hershey, however, doesn’t lose a lot. The Bears last lost consecutive games just before [...]

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A 'Buzz' Prospect Debuts

11 December, 2008

[Admin. note: With this file OFB proudly welcomes American University journalism student Andrew Tomlinson into the blogging fold. Andrew has been covering the Caps this season for AU's student paper The Eagle, for which he serves as multi-media editor, and his work has been acknowledged by both the Caps and ESPN. Look for notable and enjoyable [...]

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Tales of Heroism from Hershey

29 September, 2008

Be wary of skipping past the comments to our files. For one thing, we think we are regularly on the receiving end of some of the most thoughtful and insightful comments of any hockey blog. For another, there are moments when the sentiments of readers’ hockey hearts are more deserving of publishing than our own [...]

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Friday Night Services in a Hockey Cathedral

27 September, 2008

Prior to Friday, I’d made one lone visit to Hersheypark Arena, and stripped to its event-less essence then, it nonetheless made such an impression on me that I felt compelled to research it and write up my admiration (‘An Eternal Home for the Hockey Heart‘). At the time I was riddled with regret at my [...]

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Something Big Is Already Built

19 September, 2008

In a very real sense, the Ballston Massacre yesterday represented the culmination of the Capitals’ rebuild. Last September, Capitals’ owner Ted Leonsis decreed that the rebuild was over, asserting that his young team was primed for playoff contention. But being rebuilt as both Leonsis and General Manager George McPhee targeted 5 years ago, I believe, [...]

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Rookie Camp: Day 1 Photos

15 September, 2008

Unofficial OFB photographer Chanuck was out at Kettler again yesterday to check on the progress of the rookies. See for yourself:

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Capitals Prospects Profiles on NHL.com

26 August, 2008

We’re all waiting, patiently but impatiently, for the start of rookie camp in less than three weeks. NHL.com whets our appetites with these profiles of the Washington Capitals‘ impressive stable of youngsters chomping at the proverbial bit, including Karl Alzner (perhaps the most likely addition to the October roster), Semen Varlamov, and Oskar Osala:
Osala, who [...]

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Ahead, a Promising Harvest on the Farm

15 July, 2008

Development camps such as that recently completed by the Capitals have a way of imbuing DraftGeeks and even the more balanced of hockey fan with horizons of heightened optimism. Always it seems there are a handful of young standouts there, among them compelling stories of no-name collegians or free agents making next-season names for themselves. [...]

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2008 Development Camp Final Scrimmage Live Blog

12 July, 2008

Join us at 10:00am today when we will join Eric McErlain of the Sporting News and the AOL Fanhouse and Chris Poisal, Public Relations Assistant for the Hershey Bears, for some live blogging of the action. If you cannot make it out to Kettler, join us right here with your Saturday morning cup-a-joe.

Also filed in Development Camp, Francois Bouchard, Hershey Bears, Internet, Josh Godfrey, Karl Alzner, Keith Seabrook, Mathieu Perreault, Michal Neuvirth, OFB, Sasha Pokulok, Simeon Varlamov, Washington Capitals | Comments (7)

Postcards from Summer Development Camp, Day 1

8 July, 2008

In March and April, when the Washington Capitals were engaged in a torrid, must-win-every-night, city-consuming adventure-run to a Southeast division title, 20-year-old Oskar Osala was four thousand miles and seven hours’ worth of time zones away, in his native Finland . . . glued to every minute of it.
“I had channels that I could watch [...]

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