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Category Archives: Washington the Hockey Town

The TV Numbers Don’t Lie

13 February, 2010

Word late this week arrived of just what all this stylized winning by Washington’s hockey team translates to: Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic delivered the highest-rated Washington Capitals game in network history for its coverage of the team’s game in Montreal on Wednesday night. The game earned an average household rating of 5.8 in the Washington [...]

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Dare We Think about Shoveling Canal Snow Too?

10 February, 2010

This email arrived from the Montgomery Gazette this afternoon:
From: Donaghue, Erin <edonaghue@gazette.net>
To: pucksandbooks@onfrozenblog.com
Sent: Wed Feb 10
Subject: question from the Gazette
Hi pucksandbooks, this is Erin Donaghue writing with the Gazette in Montgomery County. We’re trying to set up a photo for sometime this weekend of hockey along the C&O Canal, and your name came up when [...]

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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 [...]

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We Threw a Blizzard Party, and Rob Rossi Got Left Out in the Cold

9 February, 2010

A wailing wall ought to be erected to accommodate all the whining from Pittsburgh’s press and message board puckheads: Rob Rossi, a hockey writer for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, is the latest to take up the we’re so aggrieved cause, on his blog on Monday, in a diatribe against the NHL’s decision to contest Sunday’s [...]

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Coverage Pressure from the Family Dining Table

8 February, 2010

Comcast Sportsnet’s Russ Thaler has used his blog at times to detail his family’s growing puck passion, and he does so again today with ‘Thaler’s Thoughts: Snow Caps Making Memories.’ In it Thaler likens the memories he’s forging taking his three sons, Max, Nate and Will, to Caps’ games with those he holds dear from [...]

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Musings of a Snow Refugee

7 February, 2010

Never has a hockey rink seemed as warm as entering Verizon Center did to me this morning. Like so many thousands around our region, I’ve been without power in my home since late Friday night. I got to see all of the Capitals’ victory over Atlanta, and not long into the Comcast post-game the fatal and [...]

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All It Takes Is 12 Wins in a Row

5 February, 2010

How do you get your hockey team to be featured prominently on the front page of the Washington Post? Win 12 in a row AND have a player reach 500 career points.
We asked the Capitals this morning if they could tally up the number of A1 instances for the team with the Washington Post, and [...]

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A History Lesson for Student Bloggers

3 February, 2010

When I began watching the Washington Capitals in 2007 I never expected that I would see them break a franchise record for consecutive wins. In fact, quite honestly, when I arrived as a freshman at American University from Michigan I wasn’t sure I’d see any good hockey out of this Caps’ team while an undergraduate! Man was I wrong; [...]

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Alan May Makes Radio Waves

2 February, 2010

In his enforcer’s treatment of Comcast Sportsnet Capitals’ commentator Alan May today, Greg Wyshynski begins with a powerful and, in our judgment, accurate overview of the big-picture media climate for hockey in the nation’s capital:
“There is a persecution complex the size of the National Mall that hovers around the Washington Capitals when it comes to [...]

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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 [...]

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