19 March, 2010

Category Archives: Sidney Crosby

Lisa Hillary Sits Down with Ted Leonsis

13 March, 2010

In a two-part interview series Comcast Sportsnet’s Lisa Hillary visited with Capitals’ majority owner Ted Leonsis this week and honed in on some real meat and potatoes issues with him: his satisfaction level with where the Caps are in the league and locally, the participation of NHLer’s in the Olympics, past and future, his role [...]

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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, [...]

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Suddenly I Want To Grow a Mullet

3 March, 2010

You may have heard — in Pittsburgh last night, the hometown hero was anything but. Sidney Crosby, dagger driver into the hockey heart of America this past Sunday, was accorded a villian’s welcome at Mellon Arena before the Penguins’ 3-2 victory over Buffalo. Ryan Miller, meanwhile, the visiting goaltender, was showered with cheers.
Suddenly I want [...]

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Alex and Sid Take Their Emergent Allure to the Olympics

16 February, 2010

I no more know who’s going to prevail in the men’s Olympic hockey tournament that kicks off today than I do who’s going to win the Stanley Cup in June, but I do know this: four years from now, Alexander Ovechkin will be representing Russia again in the Sochi Winter Games, and I can’t imagine [...]

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I Smell an IMG Scheme

2 December, 2009

Near 8:00 Monday night we saw Alexander Ovechkin guided off the ice in Carolina by a team trainer and teammate Nicklas Backstrom, his head lowered, his injured leg unable to make contact with the ice, his body language broadcasting in neon a brutal battering. Upon the game’s conclusion, local media responded in a way never [...]

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Friday Schadenfreude: A Whole Lot of Losing up in Western Pa.

13 November, 2009

We interrupt our Caps’ coverage to bring you an update from the Land of Unregulated Mullets: the Pens are losing, a lot, lately. Last night the visiting Devils took the barber clippers to Sidney & Co., 4-1. Since Halloween, the Pens are 1-5, and last night’s lone tally against New Jersey represents the lone goal [...]

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