Vi var lyckliga att ha haft tidigare Washington huvudstad Yvon Labre, och gamlan radiosände leka-vid-leker uttrycker Ron Weber inte endast för att delta i OFBS visning av ”raket”, men de tog artigt mikrofonen räcker in på bekläda av theatren till svaret ifrågasätter och ger lite en inblick som väl.
Här är en kort video med del av deras observationer.
OFB behas för att meddela deltagande av den legendariska lokalradion uttrycker Ron Weber och tidigare lock' stora Yvon Labre denna tisdagnatt för vårt avskärma av `raket' på den Avalon teatern. Ska legender för dessa lock' erbjuder oss deras inblickar in i filmen och karriären av raket Richard under enfilma Q & A.
Eric McErlain av OffWingOpinion publicerade a fruktansvärdt granska av `raket' denna förgångna vecka för Den sportsliga nyheterna. Eric skriver:
” . . . filmen får besegrar förkylning. . . kapaciteten att transportera dig som är tillbaka i tid till Montrealen av 40-tal och 50-tal, både på gatorna av staden och insidan det legendariska fora som stängde sig för bra baksida i 1996.
”Figurerar en av de mest stora utmaningarna för någon sportfilm ut a långt för att visa levande handling i ett believable sätt, och Raket acquits sig väl däri avkänning. Vid tiden som filmen avslutade mig, hoppas uppriktigt att det fanns man liga någonstans i Nordamerika som skulle l5At folkslekhockey som donning tappninglikformig och utrustning. Canen där är eventuellt en liga någonstans som ska låter dig leka utan en hjälm anymore?”,
Placerar är stillbilden som är tillgänglig för tisdag - sammanfoga oss för en minnesvärd natt på filmerna i företaget av Washington hockeyroyalty.
Today apparently is the day that more people will be married than any other in human history. I only recently learned this. My cousin and close friend Bill this week is in steamy Las Vegas. Had I known of the day’s significance earlier, likely I’d have arranged to travel with him there. But Bill’s a divorcee, so maybe we wouldn’t have been so lucky. Anyway, today’s appeal for lovers of course has everything to do with “Lucky 7sâ€?  it’s 7/7/07.
And this made me wonder: how many NHLers bear the lucky number on their sweaters? Turns out, not as many as you might think, and I was struck by their relative anonymity. As of this past season, these players wore no. 7: Niclas Wallin, Steve Matador, Paul Martin, Trent Hunter, Joe Corvo, Michel Ouellet, Ian White, Brent Seabrook, Johnny Boychuk, Derek Armstrong, Greg deVries, Keith Tkachuk, and Brendan Morrison. That’s it. The Caps do not have a no. 7 at present on their roster, nor can they: Yvon Labre got to it early and had it retired by the club.
The league does have a couple of 77s: Alexei Zhitnik, Chris Gratton, Travis Roche, and Tom Gilbert. Adam Oates certainly was the most accomplished Cap to wear that version of the number, as he’s been the only one to.
The paucity of the lucky numer’s selection is all the more striking when you consider the litany of famous athletes who’ve worn it: in hockey, the number’s been retired for Phil Esposito, Howie Morenz, Bill Barber, Rod Gilbert, Paul Coffey, and Labre. John Elway wore it. So did Mickey Mantle. So did Jeri Ryan, sort of.
Friday night the Capitals hosted their Draft Day Party / Uniform Unveiling at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex. For the “play-by-play” details of the event, check out the Caps’ official site. Here, I’ll share my own perspective (and photos: some pretty cool, one very cute, and a few kind of painful) of this thoroughly enjoyable evening.
My fiancee Adrienne and I popped into the locker room area for a quick look. I posted a few locker room photos from my visit in April, but the “card wall” is something I’d missed photographing on that first trip. The glass wall separating the player’s lounge from a hallway is covered in slightly-enlarged reproductions of classic Capitals hockey cards on both sides. Click the photo below for a larger version and pick out your favorites.
The team wisely paid homage to its past by introducing some big-name former Capitals. Yvon Labre, Rod Langway, Mike Gartner (his first appearance in DC since he left the team), Kelly Miller, and Sylvain Cote are in the photo below, left to right. Cote, attired in cargo shorts and sandals, goofed around a bit and struck a surfer dude pose just before this photo, much to the delight of the fans and former players.
Now for the video from the big screens prior to the unveiling. Some great Capitals moments in here, including the Juneau goal that sent the Caps to the Stanley Cup Finals. Adrienne (whom I’m gradually ushering into hockey fandom) observed regarding the old-school footage, “It’s so strange seeing them play without helmets!” I grew up watching Ron Duguay and Guy LaFleur, so I have a slightly different perspective on helmets, but I see her point. ÂÂ
The last minute or so of the video was looped as they cranked up the smoke machines; then the curtain dropped, revealing the new unis to enthusiastic applause from the 2,000-plus Capitals fans in attendance.
The Most Hard-Core Fan Award for the night clearly goes to Caps’ fan Jim Greene and his friend, who got permanent tattoos of the new logo Friday night.
[They] each received on-site tattoos of the Capitals new logo, something that served as entertainment to some and excitement to the pair who have been long-time Caps supporters. Greene, who cut a deal with Leonsis that if the team ever changed their logo, he would get a tattoo of it, was thrilled for the opportunity to take the Caps chairman and majority owner up on his word. Thankfully, the logo was something that he really enjoyed. [1]
Ink Junkeez Body Piercing & Tattoos of White Plains, Maryland, were there to do the honors. Ted Leonsis even came over to review his (indirect) handiwork. Here are some photos of  to repurpose a Neil Young song â€â€Ã‚ the needle and the damage done:
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If you’ve roamed the concourse of Verizon Center during a hockey game in the past 10 years, there’s a terrific chance you’ve passed a Capitals’ king holding court with team officials, press, season ticket holders, or just about anyone who’s had anything to do with youth hockey in greater Washington the past 30 years, and therefore has benefitted mightily from the efforts of Yvon Labre. It’s difficult to imagine an ex-athlete amassing a larger body of community involvement and commitment in our region since about 1980. My buddy Mike and I took in last night’s victory over Dallas with Labre, and in between discussions of walleye fishing in upper Ontario and Labre’s dances with the likes of Terry O’Reilly and Larry Robinson, we learned a good deal about the in-game nuances of NHL hockey  Yvon knew, for instance, that Alexander Ovechkin was dead to left on his penalty shot attempt the moment he saw the Stars’ big netminder Mike Smith come all the way out to the hash marks to challenge him.
At 7:10 last night I found myself perched next to what I thought was a bigshot; at 9:10 I was high-fiving with a new puck chum. Continue reading ›
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