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Category Archives: Washington Post

Matty Love from WaPost

22 September, 2010

He’s the story of Training Camp 2010 thus far, Mathieu Perreault, who’s in a highly competitive battle for an open center spot on this year’s Capitals’ roster. He’s auditioning against first-round draft picks, veteran free agents, and even a host of hockey observers in the media who to this day refuse to believe what Capitals’ [...]

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Portis-ing Pittsburgh

16 September, 2010

I’m indebted to the Post’s Dan Steinberg for uncovering this latest fashion twist for local sports’ fans: I did not Photoshop in the ‘Enlarge’ button. I think this ought to serve as uniform for Caps’ fans making the trip up to Pittsburgh for the Winter Classic on New Years’ weekend. Wear red of course at [...]

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Enforcement Endorsement

9 September, 2010

Earlier in the offseason, when the Caps acquired D.J. King from St. Louis, I offered some pretty piercing commentary on the necessity of that move. Specifically, I wrote: I thought about [Bradley's] health and welfare looking ahead, and what this trade most especially meant for that. Last season Bradley, a middleweight, was asked by the [...]

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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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Gabby Gabs Online, Bringing Frank and Insightful Perspective

11 May, 2010

Picking up again on the theme that time and distance from torment affords valuable and more meaningful perspective, today the Washington Post hosted an online chat with Capitals’ head coach Bruce Boudreau. A chat with Bruce is ever illuminating, but while following this morning’s exchange I couldn’t help but think that the coach benefitted greatly from having [...]

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More Leadership from Brooks Laich

29 April, 2010

We know you’re feeling as we do today, and we also know there’s not a whole lot available to assuage our collective agony, but try this: read this terrific tale about Brooks Laich’s Wednesday night/early Thursday morning. It goes like this: Mother and daughter are driving home out of the District distraught by the game 7 [...]

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Instant Classic Tweet

28 April, 2010
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A Lesson in Media Resource Mismanagement

19 April, 2010
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Mike Wise Wants Our Patience, and I Say Let’s Welcome Him to Our Great Puck Party

14 April, 2010

I was halfway through Mike Wise’s Tuesday column in the Post and ready to cross-check him in the throat with my prose, I was that disgusted with his allegations against no small number of Caps’ fans. His charge was fantastic in its conception: that some manner of hostile division, a discernible segregation, had settled in [...]

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