23 May, 2012

Category Archives: Washington the hockey town

Standing Up to Rock the Red

23 June, 2011

Remember in March when the Capitals announced that they were selling Standing Room Only (SRO) season tickets for next season? Well, I know someone who actually bought some.

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Seeking Help from Above

2 June, 2011

I’m a big fan of photo-ops that illustrate the impressive broadening of Washington’s passion for pucks. This particular image also seems to invite the discussion: Should we trouble a busy God these days with our postseason puck distress? Of course not. There are at least 5,000 matters more important before Him — wars and famine, [...]

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Bettman’s Southern Chickens, Coming Home To Roost

1 June, 2011

I want hockey, at its highest level, hosted only where it is loved — not where it’s the whim marketing experiment of an expansion-impulsive commissioner, but rather where it’s loved. It has to be this way, because hockey will ever encounter regional biases and prejudices and durable conflicts of culture; it is at its essence [...]

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Systemically Speaking, Where We Do Go from Here?

12 May, 2011

One of the most interesting questions our readership has asked over the past week relates to what kind of Capitals team we ought to see on the ice starting next fall. The vast majority of Bruce Boudreau’s tenure — the vast majority of his coaching career — has delivered a highly entertaining, highly winning brand [...]

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Reconstruction Time

5 May, 2011

As implosions go, by a perennially imploding franchise in spring, this may have been an all-timer. And you know where we stand: there should be serious repercussions. On an individual game basis, the scoreboard will suggest that this Caps-Bolts series was close and competitive. In reality, the Capitals were never in this series beyond the [...]

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Referendum Hockey Is Here

3 May, 2011

We are going to learn a great deal about the DNA of the Washington Capitals over the next 36 hours. Immediately before them is an enormous if suddenly unexpected task: attempting to gain, on the road, viability in a series everyone predicted them to win but in which tonight they face what is almost certainly [...]

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Hockey Town? Oh Yes

2 May, 2011

Reuters’ Jason Reed snapped this photo last night of the President in the moments surrounding his address to the nation. It’s lodged on the Atlantic’s web site and understandably is being distributed rather widely among Caps’ tweeps today. There was a great deal of red-clad celebrants outside the White House last night. There was also [...]

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OFB TV: Comcast Sportsnet’s Jill Sorenson on Washington Blooming in Pucks This Spring

28 April, 2011

We had a chance to visit with Jill Sorenson of Comcast Sportsnet recently and call her out for some Avery-like behavior during the media skate the Capitals held at season’s start. More importantly, Jill shared with us some first-hand accounts of how dramatically and beautifully Washington is hearting its Capitals this spring. And we extracted [...]

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A Warrior Moment To Remember for the Red Army

24 April, 2011

The Capitals may or may not go on to enjoy a prosperous and lengthy run in the 2011 NHL postseason. This morning, all we know for sure is that things are a heck of a lot better in late April 2011 than they were in late April of 2010. What’s certain however is that no [...]

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Chatting Game 5 with 106.7 the Fan

23 April, 2011

Friday night fun on the radio with this town’s most passionate and pro-Caps sports voice on the dial, Danny Rouhier of 106.7 the Fan. We preview game 5, noting the parallels of elimination opportunity last April here against Montreal; revel in the Reddening out of Washington this spring; and acknowledge a blogger’s challenge in covering [...]

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