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Category Archives: Peter Bondra

The End of the Magical 1998 Run to the Finals

17 June, 2008

We recently reminisced about the ten-year anniversary of a golden moment: when Joe Juneau’s goal propelled the Washington Capitals to their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance. Today, Steinz looks back on D.C. Sports Bog to the day the run ended with excerpts from the Post‘s coverage 10 years ago. It’s a good read and, lest [...]

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Ain't No Party Like a 'Vechkin Party

15 June, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Alexander Ovechkin is a machine. On the ice and off he constantly gives his all, to the delight of Capitals fans and lovers of hockey everywhere. Yet even Ovechkin looked a bit tired on Friday night at the party in his honor at chic D.C. restaurant Teatro Goldoni. Given his recent schedule, that’s no [...]

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Washington Capitals 1998 Playoffs Montage

4 June, 2008
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The Lethal Mr. Brooks

15 March, 2008

The Capitals’ communications team Saturday morning passed along some eye-opening data for Brooks Laich, who didn’t have a two-goal game in his first 214 NHL games but has three in his last nine outings. Laich has 10 goals and 12 points in the Capitals’ last 12 games, and now ranks third on the team with [...]

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Buzz Trades, a Big Game, a Big-Buzz Atmosphere Stream of Consciousness

27 February, 2008

Was in the then MCI Center the night of March 13, 2001 — also deadline day — when earlier in the day GMGM dealt Zednik and Bulis and a pick to Montreal for Zubrus and Linden, and the mood in last night’s rink felt larger and more significant . . . that dealmaking carried a [...]

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In-Game Knee-Jerks & Notes: Caps-Isles, 2/20

21 February, 2008

I’m not one to traffic much in the off-ice affairs of star athletes, at least not in published fashion, but with local media’s over-the-top coverage today of Alex’s overseas ingenue, there was for me a slight sense of light and welcome distraction from the day-in, day-out drain of the team’s postseason pursuit. Another positive spin [...]

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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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THN's Top Ten

19 November, 2007

In celebration of their 60th anniversary, The Hockey News took a look at the top ten players for each team over the past sixty years. Here is how THN contributer Peter Kerzel (who also wrote this year’s Caps’ preview for the THN Annual Yearbook) saw Washington’s Top Ten: Peter Bondra Rod Langway Olaf Kolzig Mike [...]

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Poll: Bondra and the Hall of Fame

1 November, 2007

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Reminiscence and Appreciation: Peter the Great

1 November, 2007

Even in the prime of his career, there was a fairly pervasive sense that Peter Bondra, today the holder of six Washington Capitals’ offensive records, was never a member of the NHL’s elite class of superstar. Or even if he was one. He was. Truly, he was one of sports’ most anonymous superstars of the [...]

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