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Category Archives: Puck Daddy

It’s Pick ‘Em Time

6 October, 2010

It’s that time of year — prognostication aplenty for pucks. We’re doing our part. In an engaging forum organized by the D.C. Pro Sports Report this week we joined our puck chums JP, Rob Yunich, Dave Nichols and more in a roundtable to assess the season ahead for the Caps. And we’ll be doing more [...]

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Failing at the Unveiling

3 October, 2010

I’d be at pains to identify another NHL club who with respect to reissuing a quality facsimile of the sweater it wore for its first few decades of existence has as grave a difficulty at the endeavor as do the Washington Capitals. With every attempt, be it with Mike Gartner’s number retirement night or yesterday [...]

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Puck Daddy, at the Olympics: It Was Like ‘A Roman Orgy’

10 March, 2010

The story arrived on my eyes like a first centerfold does to the adolescent away at summer camp — an “emergency” shipment of condoms was headed to Vancouver during the second week of the Olympics. This after 7,000 Olympians had already been provided an initial cargo load of 100,000 prophylactics. At that moment I knew [...]

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Alan May Makes Radio Waves

2 February, 2010

In his enforcer’s treatment of Comcast Sportsnet Capitals’ commentator Alan May today, Greg Wyshynski begins with a powerful and, in our judgment, accurate overview of the big-picture media climate for hockey in the nation’s capital: “There is a persecution complex the size of the National Mall that hovers around the Washington Capitals when it comes [...]

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Onward and Upward for Miss Virginia, She of the Low GAA

25 November, 2008

Our good friend Puck Daddy has taken our local (cutiepie) girl goalie’s story to his rarefied realm, with video of her successfully staring down the Virginia Tech’s men’s team shooters at a recent practice. Good on you, PD. 

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Lost in Transition: Old Media Remains Three Strides Behind Dmitry Chesnokov

12 November, 2008

Once again we are indebted to Dmitry Chesnokov for bringing us news the mainstream media couldn’t. You may have heard: our Alexander Semin recently shared a few reflections on the Obama of our sport with Chesnokov, which appeared in the Russian newspaper SovetskySport. Now that the uproar has settled (a bit) over Semin’s truth-telling, it’s [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Dmitry Chesnokov, Media, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Pittsburgh Penguins, Print, Sovetsky Sport, Washington Capitals | Comments (15)

In Good Company

9 October, 2008

This week’s Sports Business Journal included their NHL Season Preview.¬† Along with the normal preview fare of “Turnaround Teams”, “5 issues to watch”, and a piece on the Capitals’ ticket and sponsorship sales, the Sports Business Journal looked at popular NHL-specific blogs.¬† They used BuzzManager from Sports Media Challenge “to identify popular NHL-specific blogs based [...]

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In Good Company

9 October, 2008

This week’s Sports Business Journal included their NHL Season Preview.¬† Along with the normal preview fare of “Turnaround Teams”, “5 issues to watch”, and a piece on the Capitals’ ticket and sponsorship sales, the Sports Business Journal looked at popular NHL-specific blogs.¬† They used BuzzManager from Sports Media Challenge “to identify popular NHL-specific blogs based [...]

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From the Mouths of Babes

3 September, 2008

Certain members of OFB are thrilled that the Capitals are starting auditions for the Spirit Squad today. My only hope is that the Spirit Squad has a blog, similar to the Nashville Predators Dancers and Goal Girls, or the Blue Crew’s audition blog. Where else could we gain insight into the challenging world of fan [...]

Also filed in Atlanta Thrashers, Nashville Predators, Puck Bunnies, Washington Capitals | Comments (8)

Charmed, I'm Sure

21 August, 2008

Given Puck Daddy’s recent obsession with Alyssa Milano’s touch clothing line, I figured it was time to take a look. I saw her MLB designs last year, and wasn’t hugely impressed. So when I initially heard about her NHL offerings, I wasn’t compelled to run over to the NHL Shop website and see what ridiculously [...]

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