09 February, 2012

Category Archives: TV

An Offseason in Bullets (with, Hopefully Soon, Our Old Bullets Back)

6 September, 2010

Let’s say that like me you approached this offseason as an occasion to distance yourself from hockey a bit, to treat our sport’s summer developments with comparative indifference relative to recent years. First-round flameouts by Cup heavies can breed that. And enduring an all-time hot summer here made thoughts puck tougher to come by. No [...]

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The Summer of Fat Albert Brings Bad News for the Hockey Beat

25 August, 2010

At the very top of the hockey media hierarchy here there have been ominous departures this summer — Tarik El Bashir is pursuing new beats within the Post’s sports department, ones which won’t require anywhere near the travel commitments the hockey beat does, while Lisa Hillary is bolting to cover the Flyers for Comcast in [...]

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Proposals To Enliven the Dullness That Is the NHL Draft

27 June, 2010

In the opening moments of Versus’ coverage of the NHL Entry Draft Friday night male viewers were treated to an appearance by, and interview of, lovely Alyssa Milano, celebrity puckhead of the first order. The interview was fun and illuminating — the Milano family, we learned, loves its hockey. We didn’t see her again, and [...]

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Architect Mark French, Builder of More Hershey History

12 June, 2010

Holy reversal of ice fortunes, Batman! The Hershey Bears, given up for upset victim to the upstart expansion team from Texas a week ago, completed a three-game sweep on enemy ice in Austin in overtime last night, 2-1, Alexandre Giroux the hero, affording the Bears their happiest commute home of the season to date. And [...]

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Must-See TV Ad

11 June, 2010

It helps to know Russian to fully appreciate this Alexander Ovechkin-themed television spot for a sports drink, one that the blog Alex Ovetjkin first celebrated late last week. But its visual appeal is striking in all languages. There is a particularly endearing homage paid to Ovi’s ‘The Goal’ in it. Hockey, it’s said, is contested [...]

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A Novel OFB Interview: The Daily Line’s Jenn Sterger

2 June, 2010

Last week we received a really fun request from a producer at Versus: would we craft five questions to be asked of a popular on-air television personality, ‘The Daily Line’s’ Jenn Sterger? It’s the offseason, so why not have a little fun with the NHL’s American television broadcast partner. If you’re not a Daily Line viewer, Jenn [...]

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On Goalies and the Widened Reddening of the Region

19 April, 2010

Jose Theodore may yet redeem himself this postseason — perhaps as early as tonight, in game 3 — but his getting yanked yet again before the Capitals could complete a playoff-opening homestand is a highpoint in the horror that has been the hallmark of his career: staggering and mystifying inconsistency. Theodore was rock solid in [...]

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A Fine Sendoff to Mellon Arena

7 April, 2010

Controversy arrived very late in last night’s 6-3 Capitals’ triumph over the Pittsburgh Penguins, the final regular season contest between these teams in the Igloo. With just two-tenths of a second left in the game, Bruce Boudreau chose not to have Alexander Ovechkin take the center-ice draw and attempt to miraculously bat the dropped puck [...]

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Finding a Coveted Connection with Home Three Thousand Miles Away

25 March, 2010

I’m 2,700 miles from home, my business is finished for the day, and all I want in this world at 3:00 Pacific Coast Time on Wednesday is some manner of sports bar within walking distance of my Orange County, California, hotel, one that will afford me a plausible shot at watching the Capitals and Penguins [...]

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Big Letdown in the Big Apple (until Happy Hour)

21 March, 2010

Business travel delivered me to the Big Apple late this week, where I had a chance to visit the NHL Store on 6th Avenue. I’d been warned for a couple of years now to prepare to be underwhelmed by its inventory and overall impact on the NYC shopper, but the weather was spectacular for walking [...]

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