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Category Archives: Ron Weber

Impact Callup: John Walton Named Capitals’ Radio Voice

9 August, 2011

I trace my passion for puck in Washington back to the 1970s, and Ron Weber’s radio calls of Caps’ games on WTOP. Radio men in hockey back then — most particularly in this region of the world — had a novel responsibility to be the eyes and ears for hockey fans unable to be inside [...]

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The Capitals’ Organization Completes a Hat Trick of Broadcast Triumph This Season

28 January, 2011

Big-time congratulations are in order to the Hershey Bears’ John Walton, who called his 1,000th American League game last night in Hershey’s 4-3 win over Springfield at Giant Center. Thursday’s game was a reschedule from Wednesday night, when thundersnow struck the central PA community just as it did D.C.’s. It’s been a hat trick of [...]

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Giving Thanks for Being in the Nation’s Hockey Capital

24 November, 2010

In the spirit of the season, I offer a list of 10 things I’m thankful for while commissioned in the Red Army this fall. (10) The Moxie of Matt Hendricks. The longshot training camp candidate won a checking line center’s job with solid play and especially an ethos of holding Caps’ opponents accountable for their [...]

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The Hall Calls a Rightful Inductee

9 November, 2010

Last night the originating voice of the Washington Capitals, Ron Weber, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as the 2010 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award recipient. If any individual affiliated with the Caps belongs in Hockey’s Hall, it’s Weber. Beginning with the Caps’ inaugural season in 1974, Weber over the course of the following [...]

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Must-See TV of a Radio Hall of Famer

5 June, 2010

It was a momentous week for the original voice of the Washington Capitals, Ron Weber — he got the call, from his broadcast peers, that he’d earned designation as best of the best, 2010′s Foster Hewitt Award winner. So he’ll head up to Toronto in November to be inducted into the broadcaster’s wing at the [...]

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A Rightful Call to the Hall

1 June, 2010

Tremendous news today — original radio play-by-play voice for pro hockey in Washington, Ron Weber, will receive the 2010 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in November as part of the NHL’s Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. When the Washington Capitals joined the NHL as an expansion team in 1974, Weber, then the Baltimore Clippers’ play-by-play announcer, was hired [...]

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Hockey’s Greatest Heritage Arrives, at Last, in Washington, in Spring

15 April, 2010

All week long I’ve listened to inventive and fanciful forecasts of the Caps struggling with, and perhaps even bowing out to, the Habs in round one. Color me unpersuaded. The Habs last offseason were assembled by Bob Gainey much as a stew is — without regard for presentation and with the hope that all tastes [...]

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Walton with Weber

27 March, 2010

Ron Weber recently traveled north to Giant Center for a Bears game. Weber joined John Walton in the booth during an intermission for a few minutes of great radio. We enjoyed two giants of hockey broadcasting sharing stories and laughs while celebrating the here and now of the best run organization in hockey. We hope [...]

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A Bit of Caps’ History Witnesses the History-Making Present

7 March, 2010

A terrific authority on 35 seasons of Capitals hockey — a man who has seen every one of them — is the team’s very first radio broadcaster, Ron Weber. He was in attendance along with some high-profile Capitals’ alumni Saturday night to help commemorate 35 seasons of pro hockey in D.C. The celebration comes at [...]

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A Warm Voice from ’84 Makes a Reminiscing Return

1 February, 2010

It was wonderful seeing Ron Weber seated way up high in Verizon Center Sunday afternoon, headset on, mouth moving before a radio microphone with a sheet of ice below him. He joined Jonathon Warner during Federal News Radio’s Capitals’ pre-game program, and he had clutched in his hands a copy of the gamesheet from February [...]

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