09 February, 2012

Category Archives: Shinny

The Curse of Cute Hockey Strikes Again

30 April, 2011

It is a dangerous thing in playoff hockey, to be an expected winner and to be winning narrowly and to have golden opportunities to vanquish a weary underdog opponent but fail to do so. An underdog in hockey often gains game-altering vitality from a death row pardon. The Capitals were ahead of the Lightning 2-1 [...]

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Cool Print Treatments of Outdoor Hockey’s Enduring Appeal

1 February, 2011

“The truth is with fickle winter weather and a lack of hockey tradition, real Maryland pond players are as far apart as Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin’s front teeth,” observes Candus Thomson, in her gorgeously written January 30 Baltimore Sun feature on Maryland’s dedicated shinny skaters. We about the region in touques and hockey sweaters [...]

Also filed in Hockey Heroes, Hockey Towns, Media, Outdoor hockey, Print | Comments (7)

Endless Skating

21 January, 2011

Endless Summer’ is the title of a relatively memorable American surfing culture flick from the mid-1960s. A feature-length film premised on the video below might be aptly titled ‘Endless Skating.’ A tip of the touque to our pals Andrew and Tommy, makers of the documentary Pond Hockey, for alerting us to this spectacular video shot recently in Whistler, British Columbia. These perfect skating conditions were created by a thawing rain followed by a hard freeze — or kinda just what we experienced in D.C. this week leading up to a forecast for a frigid weekend.

Also filed in Andrew Sherburne, Outdoor hockey, Pond Hockey documentary, Tommy Haines, Washington Capitals | Comments (8)

Gone Skating

9 January, 2011

Extra strong Maxwell House and an extra helping of blueberries in the hot cakes this morning, for it is the best possible morning on my calendar: the winter weekend affording a Maryland pond hockey skate with my beer league buddies. See you in blissful soreness this evening, with photos. Update (7:05 p.m.): Am sore. But [...]

Also filed in Outdoor hockey, Sweaters, Washington the hockey town | Comments (10)

The Matty Diaries, Part II: A Hockey Mom Reacts to the Sight of Her NHL-Battered Son

1 January, 2011

[OFB Note: In installment II of the Matty Diaries our favorite shinny star takes us through the Winter Classic-threatening hit he endured at the shoulder of Carolina's Tim Glaeson last Sunday -- including the reaction to his badly battered appearance from his mother upon her arrival in Washington just days before traveling to Pittsburgh with [...]

Also filed in Carolina Hurricanes, Mathieu Perreault, National Hockey League, Pittsburgh Penguins, The Matty Diaries, Washington Capitals, Winter Classic 2011 | Comments (4)

Battered Matty, Ready for Winter Classic Duty

29 December, 2010

Most Capitals wore eyeblack for Wednesday’s outdoor practice at Chevy Chase Country Club, under a brilliantly crisp and clear winter afternoon sun, but Mathieu Perreault didn’t have to; he had unnatural eyeblack below both eyes from a badly broken nose. But as you can see from the smiles he beamed after the skate, a little [...]

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The Matty Diaries, Part I: Quest for a Reunion with Outdoor Hockey

28 December, 2010

[OFB note: We first learned of Mathieu Perreault's deep-rooted love affair with playing hockey outdoors when we interviewed him after an outdoor Hershey Bears' practice last season. Other Capitals share his passion for sure, but few find themselves in Matty's circumstances late in 2010: recently recalled by the Caps, auditioning game by game for retention [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Hershey Bears, Mathieu Perreault, The Matty Diaries, Washington Capitals, Winter Classic 2011 | Comments (13)

A Look for Shinny

24 December, 2010

Prior to their game against Pittsburgh last night the Capitals got into the fashion spirit of playing hockey outdoors by taking warmups in Winter Classic touques. Our camera honed in on Mathieu Perreault in particular, as the young center — perhaps an unlikely Winter Classic participant three weeks ago — looks a likely one one [...]

Also filed in Christmas shinny, John Carlson, Mathieu Perreault, Pittsburgh Penguins, The Matty Diaries, Washington Capitals, Winter Classic 2011 | Comments (2)

The Caps and Christmas Past

23 December, 2010

I wanted to know what Christmas mornings meant to the Caps in their youth, and specifically how much of a role their respective enthusiasm for hockey played in their requests of Santa, so I went around the locker room at Kettler yesterday after practice and asked. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised that Michal Neuvirth’s [...]

Also filed in Christmas shinny, D. J. King, Jay Beagle, Michal Neuvirth, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

Global un-Warming on the Potomac

15 December, 2010
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