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Category Archives: Ted Leonsis

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. [...]

Also filed in Blogging, Hockey, Hockey Weather, Hockey roadtrip, Morning cup-a-joe, New media, Pond Hockey, Shinny | Comments (6)

A Mountain of Honor

12 August, 2010

Never short on creativity, Yahoo’s Greg Wyshynski has greatly helped alleviate the doldrums of August with his Faces of Mt. Puckmore series on the Puck Daddy blog. Each NHL organization has four seminal faces represented, as chosen by bloggers for the team. My only raised eyebrow with the exercise is including all 30 NHL clubs [...]

Also filed in Blogging, Capitals greats from the past, Eric Belanger, Hockey trade, Japers Rink, National Hockey League, New media, Social media, Toronto Globe and Mail, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

Ted, Shall We Have a Wager on Next Spring?

3 July, 2010

The owner isn’t thrilled with me. Infrequently but once in a while we squabble, always respectfully. He and I share a passion for seeing greatness on the ice here; we just might go about its architecture in different ways. I’d like to see the Capitals annually look a heck of a lot more like the [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Calder Cup, Eastern Conference, Hershey Bears, National Hockey League, New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, playoff hockey | Comments (38)

Mining for Gems Deep in a Draft’s Bedrock

28 June, 2010

SI.com’s Allan Muir has offered a glowing assessment of the Capitals’ draft work in L.A. this past weekend. George McPhee bolstered his status as a procurer of top-end talent deep in round one, Muir claimed, and the team added skill guys of intrigue afterward. He termed the Caps’ class the “crop we may be talking about most [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Atlanta Thrashers, Blogging, Dmitry Chesnokov, Entry Draft, Florida Panthers, Gary Bettman, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, New media, Southeast Division, Tampa Bay Lightning, The Great Old Patrick Division, Washington Capitals | Comments (3)

Were Shakespeare a Washingtonian, He’d Ask, ‘What’s with This Hoops Name?’

14 June, 2010

The most striking aspect of Ted Leonsis’ early reign as owner of all things winter sports here is his professed surprise at so many Washingtonians expressing their dissatisfaction with the name of the basketball team. It is, the owner admits, agenda item no. 1 in their email urgings. Leonsis has expressed a startling tone deafness [...]

Also filed in Abe Pollin, American Hockey League, Calder Cup, Giant Center, Hershey Bears, Other sports, Washington Capitals, basketball, playoff hockey | Comments (1)

Hey, Suddenly, We’re a Sports Town

9 June, 2010

By Tuesday morning’s second cup of coffee I was growing irritated with all the hype about the kid pitcher. This wasn’t the Redskins at long last hiring a GM, or acquiring a quasi washed up QB from a division rival, this was serious Twitter is Overcapacity stuff. Our local sports media was overdosing in over-hype, [...]

Also filed in Baseball, Mike and Marleen, Morning cup-a-joe, New media, Other sports, Social media, Stephen Strasburg, Twitter, Washington Capitals, Washington Nationals, Washington Redskins, Washington the sports town | Comments (4)

A Tale of Two Thirty Minutes in Texas

8 June, 2010

All you needed to know about the state of things in game 3 of the Calder Cup finals during the first intermission last night was exhibited on the face Hershey Bears’ general manager Doug Yingst. Yingst was interviewed then by Harrisburg ABC TV affiliate’s Gregg Mace, and the GM had a colorless and pained complexion [...]

Also filed in American Hockey League, Calder Cup, Hershey Bears, John Walton, Verizon Center, Washington Capitals, playoff hockey | Comments (1)

A New Era in DC Sports Deserves a Proper Name

22 May, 2010

There is a distinctly regal air about Ted Leonsis these days. He possesses what might be called a Midas Touch for troubled sports franchises in these parts. Even as a minority owning, back-bench influencer for the Wizards, he injected a singular bit of buzz to the beleaguered club when he enticed Michael Jordan to D.C. [...]

Also filed in Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Other sports, Washington Bullets, Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (6)

Worlds-Weary, and Grumpy

21 May, 2010

Russia beat Canada at the Worlds in semifinal play yesterday. Ain’t that just swell? Don’t you just feel all warm and fuzzy for our Russians competing over there (wherever they are)? I only know about the result because I accidentally stumbled upon a story image of it late last night on line; when you’re a [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Hershey Bears, IIHF, John Walton, Morning cup-a-joe, Olympic hockey, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals, World Championships | Comments (5)

The Philadelphia Invasion — Taken Outdoors

6 April, 2010

Since late yesterday afternoon we’ve received numerous accounts of what WaPost’s Dan Steinberg has termed ‘The Philly Invasion’ on Opening Day at Nationals Stadium on Monday. One emailer told us that in her section of the stadium, packed with more than 100 seamheads, there weren’t 10 people rooting for the home team. Overall, this reader [...]

Also filed in Capital Centre, The Great Old Patrick Division, Washington Capitals, Washington Nationals | Comments (13)

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