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Category Archives: Shinny

My Inner Viking, Roused by the Arrival of Mr. Deep Freeze

14 December, 2010

The mercury must fall below 20 before I entertain any notion of donning a touque, and gloves (a real rarity) — my inner Viking won’t have it otherwise. We aren’t there yet this week, though Washington’s air early this a.m. was ripe with winter bite. Also, the region’s first appreciable trace of snow arrived (in [...]

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A Classic Access Surprise

22 November, 2010

I’ve got to be honest — for the past five or six months, it’s almost hurt more than excited me to talk about the 2011 Winter Classic. I knew chances were that the team that got me to fall in love with hockey just a year ago was going to be playing in the biggest [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Brooks Laich, National Hockey League, New media, OFB, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, Winter Classic 2011 | Comments (0)

Debut of the Ewell Cup

22 September, 2010

There were actually two sets of fierce competition out of the ice at KCI yesterday. The Duchesne Cup was decided during Tuesday’s lunch hour, but that was followed by the main event: the inaugural Ewell Cup, named for the host of the annual media skate, Capitals’ Vice President of Communications, Nate Ewell. WNST’s Ed Frankovic [...]

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Where Brooks Laich Gets Reminded About Hockey History, Roots

17 September, 2010

It’s rare that hockey players answer questions in poetry, not prose.

But sometimes you get lucky. I asked Brooks Laich on Thursday to name the coolest place he’s ever visited that’s associated with hockey history. It could be anything – a rink, a bar reminiscent of Toe Blake’s Tavern, the place where Wayne Gretzky lost his baby teeth . . . and he began waxing poetic for me.

Also filed in Brooks Laich, Kettler Capitals Iceplex, NHL, Washington Capitals, Winter Classic 2011 | Comments (3)

Discovery Above 12,000 Feet Elevation: The Beautiful Blue Who Should Be Skated

18 August, 2010

I have seen hockey’s Heaven on Earth, just barely on Earth, and it’s a basin-oasis of blue in a barren land of rugged granite gray nestled within a glacier at about 14,000 feet of Rocky Mountain elevation. It’s too striking to be a mere mountain pond, too modest in acreage to be a great lake. [...]

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Snapshots of a Blogger’s Season, 2009-10

18 June, 2010

[Hockey season's over. Herewith, 25 of my favorite, most personal moments covering hockey in Washington during the 2009-10 campaign, relayed in no particular order.] (25) Not one, not two, but three blizzards buried Washington in the heart of hockey season. Blizzard no. 2 took out my home’s power for fully three days, but my beer [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Bruce Boudreau, Hershey Bears, Hockey Towns, John Carlson, John Walton, Lisa Hillary, Mathieu Perreault, Media, National Hockey League, OFB Interviews, Tara Wheeler, Tim Leone, Washington Capitals | Comments (2)

Hugs Instead of Handshakes

25 April, 2010

Apologies for being a bit AWOL this weekend; I had a wonderful off-ice intrusion of real life: a remarkable gathering of high school brothers — we don’t call one another classmates, for reasons I’m about to detail — for our 25th reunion at our school campus in Bethesda this weekend. We had a guy fly [...]

Also filed in Dale Hunter, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, NHL playoffs, Puck Sodas, Verizon Center, Washington Capitals | Comments (11)

How Hockey Blogging Introduces You to Heroes

8 March, 2010

Two moments last week, both occurring off the ice, reminded me of the greatness of our game, and my particular great fortune in being located where I am in covering it. I arrived in Hershey last Thursday morning with the simplest of objectives: snapping a few pictures of the Bears’ annual outdoor practice. Mostly I [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Hockey Heroes, John Walton, Kurt Kehl, Media, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Nicklas Backstrom, Washington Capitals | Comments (6)

Soul-Stirring Sentiments on Shinny

5 March, 2010

John Walton, the radio voice of the Hershey Bears, standing and shivering with other media at an outdoor Hershey Bears’ practice yesterday morning, looked out upon the frigid proceedings and said, “This is good for the soul.” I couldn’t agree more. As reward for playing hooky from work and driving up to Hershey on Thursday, [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Hershey Bears, John Walton, Prospects, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

Canal Update: Tempting Conditions

14 February, 2010

A first-hand report of conditions down at the C&O Canal arrived this afternoon via comments to my query file of earlier in the week, Dare We Think About Shoveling Canal Snow Too? Reader Josh reports: “Drove by earlier today; Canal is (mostly) clear. Still a few small spots with some . . . slush, I [...]

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