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Category Archives: WJC

A Miracle Acknowledged by Today’s American Hockey Stars

22 February, 2010

Up in Hershey this past weekend our blogger colleague Eric McErlain of Off Wing Opinion  joined us in a patriotic questioning of the Hershey Bears’ John Carlson. Carlson of course etched his name in American hockey lore last month, sudden-death silencing Canadians in Saskatoon and delivering the American Under-20 team gold. With the arrival of [...]

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A Defense Pair’s Conflict of Colors

17 January, 2010

The best-laid plans . . .
At the start of this week I had ahead of me the prospect of one of the more appealing visits to Hershey, Pennsylvania, I believed I’d ever make. It was the return home to Hershey weekend for American hockey hero John Carlson. But as Joe Murphy’s law would have it, the [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, American Hockey League, Hershey Bears, Hockey Heroes, Hockey Legends, IIHF, John Carlson, Karl Alzner, Washington Capitals | Comments (1)

Images in the Immediacy of Global Triumph

10 January, 2010

Now this is the way to end a special week for the Washington Capitals and their prospects — party pics of a celebrating John Carlson and his gold medal-winning American teammates up in Saskatoon. The party was thrown by the players’ parents. Hockey fans in Washington and Hershey should delight in the week that was. [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Hershey Bears, Hockey Heroes, John Carlson, Prospects, USA Hockey, Washington Capitals | Comments (4)

Getting Defensive About the Defense

8 January, 2010

We unleashed our undergraduate reporters, Andrew Tomlinson and Alexander Perlmutter, on the Caps-Sens’ tilt last night, and they managed to chat up Flash and a few other Caps in the post-game, and listen in on Bruce Boudreau’s postgame thoughts. This morning they offer their take on a strong Caps’ performance Thursday night.

One of the most [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Bruce Boudreau, Dmitri Orlov, John Carlson, Jose Theodore, Marcus Johansson, Matt Bradley, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Ottawa Senators, Stefan Della Rovere, Tomas Fleischmann, Washington Capitals | Comments (0)

Ten-Minute Video Scrapbook of Gold Medal Glory

6 January, 2010
Also filed in American Hockey, Hockey Legends, IIHF, John Carlson, USA Hockey | Comments (3)

A Winter Tuesday Night for Washington Hockey Heroes

6 January, 2010

This has a nice ring to it: John Carlson, Canada-killer.
The atmosphere in Verizon Center Tuesday night was stupendous and surreal. And that was only partly because of the sudden announcement of Alexander Ovechkin as the Capitals’ 14th captain in team history.
My all-time favorite chant enjoyed a fresh re-birthing at the Phone Booth last night: USA! [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Entry Draft, George McPhee, Hershey Bears, Hockey Heroes, John Carlson, USA Hockey, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (14)

Not Quite the Confidence and Swagger Associated with a Five-Time Champ

5 January, 2010
Also filed in American Hockey, IIHF, USA Hockey | Comments (12)

Avert Your Eyes Away from Fresh Media Malfeasance

5 January, 2010

Nature Herself this week is condemning local media, freezing hard and fast our Canal and urging us to recreate outside, far away from media’s maelstrom of malfeasance. Once again, burgundy and gold incompetence is being feted and celebrated by the local press. Our hockey team’s captain was traded a week ago and hardly any of [...]

Also filed in Chris Clark, Hershey Bears, Hockey Reading, Hockey Towns, Hockey Weather, John Carlson, Mathieu Perreault, Media, Mike Green, Morning cup-a-joe, NHL Network, National Hockey League, Washington Capitals, Washington the Hockey Town | Comments (6)

Gold Medal Rematch

4 January, 2010

I have a strong hunch that Verizon Center’s media room televisions will be showing a lot of hockey tomorrow night, seeing as how the U.S. defeated Sweden 5-2 last night at the World Junior Championships, setting up a rematch showdown with Canada at 8:00 Tuesday.
I think there’s a Canuck broadcaster in town I need to extend [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Comcast SportsNet, Lisa Hillary, USA Hockey, Washington Capitals | Comments (0)

An Instant Classic at the WJC

1 January, 2010

As if the Federal Aviation Administration didn’t have enough on its plate these days, last night nearly two dozen American jets collided with a fleet of Air Canada 747s in Canadian air space. No wait, those were American teenagers wearing Red, White, and Blur hockey sweaters on an ice sheet in Saskatoon, and skating in [...]

Also filed in American Hockey, Entry Draft, John Carlson, Lisa Hillary, Taylor Hall, USA Hockey | Comments (1)

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