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Category Archives: Verizon Center

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, Ted Leonsis, Washington Capitals, playoff hockey | Comments (1)

Hugs Instead of Handshakes

25 April, 2010

Apologies for being a bit AWOL this weekend; I had a wonderful off-ice intrusion of real life: a remarkable gathering of high school brothers — we don’t call one another classmates, for reasons I’m about to detail — for our 25th reunion at our school campus in Bethesda this weekend. We had a guy fly [...]

Also filed in Dale Hunter, Hockey Dads, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL playoffs, National Hockey League, Puck Sodas, Shinny, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (11)

It’s an Honor Roll Weekend, and We’ve Extraordinary Honorees Wearing Our Crest

10 April, 2010

Hockey, the ultimate team sport, has become conspicuously individualized this weekend in Washington. And that’s fine. We’re still in the silly season that’s prelude to the postseason, when games have meager meaning for your 120-point Washington Capitals, and it’s a big deal for Alexander Ovechkin to score 50 goals, again, for Nicklas Backstrom to earn [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Hockey Heroes, Mike Green, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Nicklas Backstrom, President's Trophy, Washington Capitals | Comments (8)

Boos Held at Bay, More Anxiety in Net

31 March, 2010

The topic of home crowd boos emerged over the past couple of days, particularly on local sports talk radio, as they were belched with some decibels during Sunday’s underwhelming effort against Calgary. And with just a couple of minutes left in Tuesday night’s first period, and the host Capitals already trailing the Ottawa Senators 3-1, [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Bruce Boudreau, Jason Chimera, Jose Theodore, Mathieu Perreault, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Ottawa Senators, Washington Capitals | Comments (15)

Home Is Where the Hockey Heart Occasionally Becomes Too Content

13 March, 2010

Hockey coaches don’t like playing long stretches of games at home, fearing that complacency will set in among their players. The Capitals on Friday night, with another rejiggered lineup, and skating the final game of a five-game homestand and their second game against the Lightning in about a week, looked like a team in need [...]

Also filed in Eastern Conference, Eric Belanger, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, President's Trophy, Southeast Division, Tampa Bay Lightning, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (2)

There’s an Institutional Fight to These ‘Canes

11 March, 2010

A near 100-point team, hosting a hopeless, 60-point team, ought to win comfortably, no? Not when the underdog is the Carolina Hurricanes and the favored adversary is the Caps. The ‘Canes, no matter the month in the calendar, no matter how low the stakes, skate up in the proverbial grill against the Caps just about [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Bruce Boudreau, Carolina Hurricanes, Jose Theodore, Mike Green, Morning cup-a-joe, Southeast Division, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

A Star in Net at the Other End

9 March, 2010

No team has any business beating these Washington Capitals when they pump 52 shots on net, literally doubling the shots tally of the opponent, as the Caps did last night in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Dallas Stars, but hockey has a last line of defense, and on Monday night at Verizon Center Marty [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Bruce Boudreau, Dallas Stars, Eric Belanger, John Carlson, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Semyon Varlamov, Washington Capitals | Comments (3)

Soldier My Soldier! — Put Yourself in This Puckhead’s Snowshoes

10 February, 2010

The next time a sophist alleges Washington’s being home to second-rate puckheads, point his web browser at this WashingtonCapsBlog account of one individual’s resolute determination to make it to Verizon Center for Sunday’s Capitals-Penguins game.  The upshot of the lavishly detailed and vividly illustrated narrative is this: frozen to the bone in his power-outaged home [...]

Also filed in Hockey Reading, Hockey Towns, Hockey Weather, Media, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town, hockey blogging | Comments (2)

The Arrival of ‘Obama Ice’

2 February, 2010

You may have noticed while watching Sunday’s game that world-class skaters had difficulty skating, frequently falling without contact; that the puck persistently insisted on sticking to its position on the playing surface, despite sticks’ efforts to move it; and that play overall was distinctly uninspiring. Such is the hockey game that follows rather near a [...]

Also filed in Blogging, Comcast SportsNet, Ice, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, New media, Southeast Division, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (9)

Washington Needs a Night To Honor Its New Hockey Hero

8 January, 2010

(An Open Letter to the Owner) Mr. Leonsis, I saw you briefly in the victorious locker room at Verizon Center last night, so I know that you saw and heard what I did when the in-game entertainment crew shared with the Red Army footage of John Carlson’s gold-medal-winning goal for the United States from Tuesday [...]

Also filed in Hershey Bears, Hockey Heroes, John Carlson, John Walton, National Hockey League, Ted Leonsis, Washington Capitals | Comments (11)

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