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Category Archives: The Sporting News

Caps vs. Canucks: Live Blogging at the Fanhouse

14 October, 2008

Eric McErlain of the Sporting News and the AOL Fanhouse is hosting a live blog of tonight’s game from the Verizon Center. I’m actually seated next to him, and Rebecca from A View from the Cheap Seats is right down press row a bit. Stop by our forum with your thoughts. Sadly, it’s already been [...]

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Caps vs. Canucks: Live Blogging at the Fanhouse

13 October, 2008

Eric McErlain of the Sporting News and the AOL Fanhouse is hosting a live blog of tonight’s game from the Verizon Center. I’m actually seated next to him, and Rebecca from A View from the Cheap Seats is right down press row a bit. Stop by our forum with your thoughts. Sadly, it’s already been [...]

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The State of the Washington Sports Union, August 2008

14 August, 2008

We who find succor and solace in the refrigerated mustiness of rinks do enjoy the occasional night out at the old ballyard, and last night, amid yet another stunner in this greatest-ever weather in the history of Washington Augusts, two hockey bloggers enjoyed that experience at Nationals Stadium. Despite the on-field product offered there. The [...]

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Let the Roaming of a Fierce Gang (Green) on Washington's Streets Commence

3 July, 2008

Just how important was Mike Green’s signing this week? Nearly as important as Alexander Ovechkin’s back in January.
Green isn’t just the Capitals’ no. 1 gun from the point — the slick-passing, even slicker skating, indispensable-in-the-new NHL engine from the back end.¬†He’s their Mohawked Mojo, their Titan of ‘Tude, the galvazer of Gang Green. He is [...]

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Sporting News NHL Player of the Year

20 May, 2008

The praises keep piling up for Alexander Ovechkin. He has been named the Sporting News NHL Player of the Year. In a landslide victory, Ovechkin received 250 of a possible 287 votes cast by players from around the league. Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin came in second with 18 votes.
In another vote by [...]

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An Offseason Snapshot of a Revolution's March Onward

13 May, 2008

The volume and variety of news pertaining to Olie Kolzig’s departure from the Capitals last week was instructive in these new media times. When we at OFB verified that Kolzig’s home was listed for sale last Wednesday, which wasn’t a particularly difficult endeavor (all manner of such information, including taxes paid on a particular residential [...]

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Dmitry Kapitonov, Trainer to Russian Skating Stars

8 March, 2008

More good media coming at us this weekend: Off Wing Opinion’s Eric McErlain this weekend published a Sporting News profile of Russian fitness guru Dmitry Kapitonov, whose most prominent client these days is one Alexander Ovechkin. It was Kapitonov who put some elite Russian NHLers through their offseason paces in St. Petersburg last summer.¬†Recently he [...]

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