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Category Archives: Puck Sodas

Nurturing the Fashion Passion of HockeyWashington

25 August, 2008

What does Rock the Red mean to you today, well away from its inauguration and deployment during the 2007-08 season? What does it mean to the Capitals now? How should it be cultivated, nurtured, and deployed in 2008-09? Also: was it hooey and hokie or a heartfelt rallying cry for you? Do you want to [...]

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Ref, You Suck! Insulting Hockey's Men in Stripes

6 August, 2008

The hockey-less heat of August provides one welcome relief for the NHL fan: freedom from the often egregious and grotesque officiating of NHL referees. Though no stripe-clad man is currently jobbing the Capitals, we can still use this time to hone our taunting skills. Bellowing at refs is a long-standing tradition . . . and [...]

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Rush Rocks Red Rocks

29 June, 2008

This week I made a what I regarded as a sacred pilgrimage to see my favorite rock band. You could say that Rush’s Geddy Lee gave a star performance at Red Rocks this week, but as is the case with each event at the Rocks, the venue is always the evening’s first star. It was [...]

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Drinking with the Stars

20 June, 2008

That sounds like a much better show idea than Dancing with the Stars, doesn’t it? Contestants would party with an ever-changing cast of celebrities/athletes; each round of successful partying gets the contestant a bigger prize (and calcified liver). The final rounds intensify with Party Partners like Charlie Sheen or Tony Stark . . . er, [...]

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Sorenstam Swigs Swill

14 May, 2008

Annika Sorenstam recently announced her retirement from golf at age 37 at the end of this season. Despite winning just last weekend at the Michelob Ultra Open, she’s ready to call it a career. Perhaps moments like this had something to do with it: As pucksandbooks noted, whereas in hockey age 37 is getting up [...]

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They're Making a Hockeytown in Chi-town, Too

6 May, 2008

Business that brings me to Original Six cities is my favorite kind (save trips to Detroit), and I’m in Chicago this week. Weather is very much a weather vane in my life; among the 40 colleagues here with whom I met last week to discuss this trip, I was the only one who smiled at [...]

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Savoring the Historic Week That Was

7 April, 2008

Some time near 8:30 Friday night, Capitals’ fans, having spent weeks residing in a purgatory of indeterminate postseason fate, received an invitation from an seraphim angel named Radek Dvorak to enter an unearthly realm of ecstasy. At that moment in Raleigh, North Carolina, at 19:48 of period 2, while his team was playing for nothing [...]

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Blogger as Ex-Pat

22 November, 2007

The Irish are unfairly maligned as a drinking culture. In point of fact, they are a chugging one. Tonight was a Wednesday in a non-holiday week of work for the Irish, with a “football” match between England and Croatia televised. Every pub in Galway was packed, every pub table larded (blessed!) by a preponderance of [...]

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Breakfast Out of America

21 November, 2007

I am on holiday from bad hockey. My cousin Bill and I are visiting the land of our ancestry this week, the Emerald Isle. We are here to throw back a few pints and to see if Erin will go braless. Sport is gaining increasing importance in Irish culture. Games on the pitch, as elsewhere [...]

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"It's gonna make a hell of a mess."

13 November, 2007

Some, including us at OFB, say that nothing goes with hockey better than beer. Many will agree that nothing goes with a night of drinking than a good solid food to soak up that which may have been over-enjoyed. For many Canadians, Quebecers in particular, that food is poutine, a dish consisting of french fries [...]

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