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Category Archives: The Big Deal

The Capitals' Top 10 Storylines for 2007-08

28 April, 2008

10. The Rebuild Is Over. Owner Leonsis uttered this proclamation during the preseason, later claiming that the season’s barometer for success would be qualifying for the postseason. Through the middle of November both seemed delusionally wishful thinking. But when the right guy arrived behind the bench, when the Caps’ skilled young core was encouraged to [...]

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At Kettler the Day After

23 April, 2008

You can cross one name off your list of free agent concerns for the Capitals this offseason — Head Coach Bruce Boudreau. Speaking with reporters at Kettler-Capitals Iceplex just moments after wrapping up a season-concluding meeting with the team this afternoon, the coach confirmed that he’d had discussions with General Manager George McPhee about a [...]

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Ovechkin Gets Cut

18 March, 2008

Ovechkin’s a cut above the rest on the ice. Now he’s cut a deal with his favorite tonsorial destination: The Hair Cuttery. It was in January of this year that Dan Steinberg broke the story of the NHL’s richest man and his hair. A while later, Majority Owner Ted Leonsis thought that [...]

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Optimism, Cynicism, and the Ovechkin Contract

29 January, 2008

So perhaps second only to the excitement surrounding the Capitals’ resurgence under Coach Boudreau is the buzz about Alex Ovechkin’s record-setting thirteen-year, $124 million contract. Many Capitals fans are thrilled that the team has shown such commitment to Ovechkin and to the fans; others are worried the deal, for various reasons, will come back to [...]

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Ovechkin and Green Get Schooled

17 January, 2008

The Washington Capitals’ Alexander Ovechkin and Mike Green paid a visit on Wednesday to Williamsburg Middle School in Arlington. Led by Capitals Assistant Coach Dean Evason, the two stars showed the excited students how to stick-handle, pass, and shoot, with a handful of lucky fans joining them for each of the lessons.
But first, Evason hosted [...]

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Ovechkin vs. Boras/Rosenhaus

14 January, 2008

Patrick Hruby’s always-entertaining Week in Review quiz this week features a fun essay question about AO’s new contract… his proposed answer is after the break.
Essay Question: Washington Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin agreed to a $124 million, 13-year contract extension, working out the details himself in negotiations with team owner Ted Leonsis and general manager George [...]

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Confusion in Canada

13 January, 2008

Every once in a while, I’m reminded of just how far we’ve come as a society. Indeed, the Canadian media alone provides us with significant advances in the field of humor on a daily basis; the Toronto Star is doing more than its share in this area. Exhibit one: Damien Cox’s writeup of [...]

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Telling, Isn't It?

13 January, 2008

Early this weekend I told the OFB team to more or less take Sunday off, as we’d need the space to provide links to the voluminous local column coverage of the richest athlete contract in Washington sports history. While our local MSM columnists don’t quite fancy hockey as a subject matter, in the sense that [...]

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"This Was Fun . . . What a Great Day To Be a Caps' Fan!"

11 January, 2008

That was the sentiment expressed by one of our readers early last evening, and it seems to us to capture Thursday’s wild ride and community-consuming euphoria rather perfectly and wonderfully.
Another way of characterizing the most common reaction shared with us: unbridled, unmitigated glee. Thursday’s news for Caps’ fans was, it seems to us, so much [...]

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Ted Leonsis Announces the Alexander Ovechkin Contract Extension

11 January, 2008
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