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Category Archives: Winter Classic

When Animals in Orange Attack

6 January, 2012

Last month I intimated that the reconstitution of the Patrick division represented something very special for Capitals fans. But by very special I didn’t mean always uplifting. Dateline, Philadelphia, January 5, 2012. Three Philadelphia Flyers fans are wanted by Philadelphia police for their role in beating two New York Rangers fans in the immediate aftermath [...]

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An Exchange with the Red Wings Blogosphere

16 March, 2011

In the interest of hockey, making fun of ourselves, and just promoting good diplomatic relations up north, OFB was pretty stoked when one of Detroit’s hockey blogs, The Production Line, reached out last week and suggested doing a Q&A between the two blogs in honor of the Caps/Red Wings showdown on Wednesday. TPL is run [...]

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Mathieu Perreault Suffers Bloody Nose for Good Cause in Classic Win

2 January, 2011

It was, above all, an everyman’s Winter Classic in 2011. A game touted as Sid vs. Ovie was instead dominated by a player who had yet to truly find his offensive stride this year. Eric Fehr had only 13 points on the season coming into tonight’s game. But in the torrential downpour at Heinz Field, [...]

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Day 1 Guide at Heinz Field: The Ice, the Players, and the New Start Time

31 December, 2010

Mike Green said after the Caps skated Friday afternoon (by 5 pm, it was still in the 50′s) that he probably skated in weather this warm before as a kid, but never with his full gear on for a full practice. “It was different — it was getting hot out there,” he said. “It was [...]

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Gearing Up for the Winter Classic

31 December, 2010

Comcast’s Corey Masisak offered an informative and should-be-read piece on NHL.com recently about the equipment-preparation side of the Winter Classic. We wanted to add in a few details from a conversation OFB had with the Capitals’ head equipment manager, Brock Myles. The Winter Classic, after all, represents a remarkable challenge for the Capitals’ equipment staff: [...]

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Winter Classic 2011: A Mother’s Dream Is Realized

29 December, 2010

Two years ago, John Carlson’s mother, Angela, teared up watching Patrick Kane take the ice for the Chicago Blackhawks in the Winter Classic. John and Kane had the same billeted family when they were playing hockey in London, and Angela remembered reflecting on how excited Kane’s parents must be to watch their son play in the Classic.

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Heinz Field Will Never Look Better Than This

6 December, 2010

Via the Capitals Insider, here is the rendering of Heinz Field for New Year’s Day as released by the NHL.

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A Hundred Grand in the Big House — for Hockey!

19 October, 2010

It’s not news when 100,000-plus pack into the Big House on an autumn Saturday on the campus of the University of Michigan — that’s standard support for Wolverine football. But this December 11 Michigan will face arch rival Michigan State in hockey there, and 105, 585 tickets have already been sold! Obviously, that would be [...]

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Washington Capitals’ New Threads Debut Today

2 October, 2010

Washington Capitals’ New Threads: Vote now!

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Less than Classic Marketing Instincts

4 August, 2010

A consumer of NHL hockey for more than three decades, I’ve never once imagined it a clever and effective marketing idea to take NHLers, place them out on a football field, and have them fire pucks through the goalposts and toss footballs around to promote an outdoor hockey game, and yet that’s precisely what the [...]

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