19 March, 2010

Category Archives: Verizon Center

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 [...]

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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 night. It [...]

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

Caps’ Fan to Kneeling, Proposing Sabres’ Fan: “I Do”

31 December, 2009

David Stearns, 25, a native of Buffalo and to this day a proud Buffalo Sabres’ fan, was not quite prepared for the fate that confronted him last June, at an NHL Awards watch party co-hosted in town by hockey bloggers Greg Wyshynski and Jon Press. It was there that he was introduced by a friend [...]

Also filed in Buffalo Sabres, Hershey's Gianty Center, Hockey Heartthrobs, John Walton, Puckheads in love, Washington Capitals | Comments (10)

A Night for Great Skating, and Morrison’s Magnificent Marker

24 December, 2009

This week I have as part of my city-to-suburban-home commute a wonderful walk through some snowy suburban woods. I arrived at the woods late last night fresh off a thrilling and well played hockey game downtown, featuring two quality hockey clubs, aware that much-need holiday leisure was setting in at last. It was a walk [...]

Also filed in Brendan Morrison, Bruce Boudreau, Buffalo Sabres, Hershey Bears, Video Clips, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (6)

Two Tenants’ Varied Remembrances of an Owner Passed

12 December, 2009

The Wizards this week unveiled a memorial marker for Abe Pollin on their court at Verizon Center, as well as an in-kind acknowledgement of the owner on their jerseys. Pollin passed on November 24. The remembrances will remain with the club for the remainder of the season.
I couldn’t help but notice last night that no such acknowledgment was in [...]

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Ted Leonsis Statement on Abe Pollin

24 November, 2009

Here is Ted Leonsis’ statement on the passing of Abe Pollin, released by the Washington Capitals.
Nov. 24, 2009
Ted Leonsis
Majority Owner
Lincoln Holdings
Statement on the passing of Abe Pollin
We are all saddened by the news of Mr. Pollin’s passing. We extend our deepest sympathies to Irene, Robert, Jimmy, the rest of the Pollin family and his many [...]

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