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Cowboys vs. Capitals on NBC
The Cowboys’ shutout of the ‘Skins during last night’s Sunday Night Football on NBC provided a number of Capitals references. Here are some tweets along those lines, via @nateewell: and this one via @Emfrank123: and another via @...
The Capitals and Alexander Semin Defer Judgment Day
Far sooner than I expected, the Capitals and Team Semin came to a contract agreement. I was of the opinion that Semin and his agent Mark Gandler would use the player’s performance in the second half of this season, and most especially this next...
Case Studies in Development Patience: Eric Fehr, Tomas Fleischmann, and Jeff Schultz
A quick lesson in hockey prospect development: be patient. Last May, as Capitals’ players packed up their gear after succumbing to the Penguins in seven games and headed home for the offseason, an awful lot of Caps’ fans rightly wondered ...
Does Washington Need a Watchdog?
Late Thursday afternoon we learned that Colorado Avalanche roughguy David Koci, having gone head-hunting behind the net on Mike Green in the Capitals’ 6-1 smackdown of the ‘Lanche Tuesday night, was more or less absolved of any wrong-doin...
Code of Conduct
Page 32 of Ross Bernstein’s The Code: “For the most part, fighters are there to keep the peace and protect their skill players. For teams to have success, they have to put the puck in the net, and that requires talented players who are us...
An Old Song Gets a New Beat
Last week Rush’s Neil Peart recorded a fresh take on the ‘Hockey Night in Canada’ theme song — ‘Canada’s second national anthem’ — which TSN purchased the rights to last year. The re-recording took pla...
OFB Undergraduates Unleashed — Home for the Holidays and Hockey
We asked our two undergraduate associates, Andrew Tomlinson and Alexander Perlmutter, both liberated from their respective universities for the holidays this week, to detail what this winter break would mean to them in terms of taking in pucks withou...
Two Tenants’ Varied Remembrances of an Owner Passed
The Wizards this week unveiled a memorial marker for Abe Pollin on their court at Verizon Center, as well as an in-kind acknowledgement of the owner on their jerseys. Pollin passed on November 24. The remembrances will remain with the club for th...
Mes Amis, Let Us Contract and Realign!
A few of our readers yesterday thought us advocates for General Sherman’s re-entry into, and reigniting of, Atlanta. Not true. We only want the rink there burned down. The good news is that were you to do that on a game night no one would get h...
Hot!Hot!Hot! . . . as in 120 Points-Worth!
The Capitals last season finished 50-24-8 for a team record 108 points. At 19-5-6 this morning, over 82 games they project out to 52-14-16, and a tidy 120 points. Serious Cup contender at such a stratosphere? We think so. That’s not to sugge...
Say Hello to a Series of Sixty Minutes of Quality Hockey
Three periods of complete hockey from this team that had gone conspicuously long this season without them now arrive nightly, in successive fashion. It wasn’t there to begin the roadtrip in Montreal, but the Caps got the win that night in a sho...
Top of the Tweet for the Week of December 5
We thought it might be fun and interesting to highlight Top Tweets from the Captials’ Twitter community we came across during the past week. And we’ll probably offer up a roundup of Top Tweets each week. This week was filled with talk of ...
Thanks to Dan Carcillo, My Kind of Saturday Night Massacre
Just when you thought Mike Duco had a lock on NHL Dummy of the Week, along skates Dan Carcillo, Neanderthal style, on Saturday night. As senseless and selfish acts go, it’s hard to fathom topping Carcillo’s dastardly deed against Matt Bra...
An Early Christmas Present for Caps’ Fans: December Agony in Philly
Quite near happy hour last night, a Friday happy hour, I learned that the Philadelphia Flyers, presently lodged in 10th place in the Eastern conference, fired their head coach, John Stevens. A popular preseason pick for the playing of hockey in June,...
Making Sense of Mike Duco’s Penalty Madness on the Scoresheet
Reader Patrick sent us this query this morning, and it’s interesting enough that we thought we’d share it with all OFB readers, as well as address it having received some very helpful clarification from the Caps: “Last night in ...
Dumbing Down Hockey Mike Duco Style
Prior to Thursday night, I had no idea who Mike Duco was. Going forward, I’m not sure I’m going to hear much about him that’s flattering. It was the Florida Panthers’ Mike Duco, making his second appearance in an NHL sweater, ...
I Smell an IMG Scheme
Near 8:00 Monday night we saw Alexander Ovechkin guided off the ice in Carolina by a team trainer and teammate Nicklas Backstrom, his head lowered, his injured leg unable to make contact with the ice, his body language broadcasting in neon a brutal b...
My Kingdom for a Knee Sprain
All of us watching last night, in those first two to three seconds that Alexander Ovechkin remained prone on the RBC Center ice, likely reacted in similar fashion: it’s the Russian Machine, it doesn’t break down like the bodies of other a...
Late-Game Wilting: Surmising Its Causes and Cures
At the one-quarter mark of the season, a glaring character flaw has perniciously and persistently permeated the Capitals’ young season: the team weakens as the game goes along. Leads are often acquired early and disconcertingly — alarming...
The Legacy of a Favored Child: Abe Pollin’s Basketball and Hockey Teams
Parents take pains to shower — equally — their children with love. Children must be so loved. Woe is the child who feels slighted with respect to the love of mom and dad. An owner of two professional sports teams — say in profess...
A Forgotten Miracle Comes to Artistic Life
For hockey fans, it’s like a Christmas present received a month early: Andrew Sherburne and Tommy Haines, makers of the 2008 documentary ‘Pond Hockey,’ have reapplied their filmmaking skills and love of hockey to another puck proje...
Injuries Are Tough, but No Crying Allowed
We need a little levity after last night’s third-period collapse in Ottawa. Artwork by Jon Feere ©2009 On Frozen Blog. All Rights Reserved.. ...
The Habs Spoil a Wonderful Family Reunion
It was very much a family affair at Verizon Center on Friday night. The Red Army family endured a rare evening of frustration and torment from the home team’s missed opportunity after missed opportunity, culminating with the Capitals’ 3-...
Imagine an NHL Without Detroit . . . It Could Happen
I watched Wednesday night’s Detroit-Dallas game on the NHL Network within a morbid context. On my commute home last night I read ‘Detroit: A City on the Brink,’ published last month in The Week magazine. I recommend it as must-read...
A Warrior’s Will Wins It
“Tremendous intensity to this game, right from the start,” Versus’ Joe Micheletti informed viewers. I remind: once upon a time this was a Patrick division rivalry game. And the intensity was not unlike what we saw twice earlier on ...
Gabby Gets 100: Caps 4 / Rags 2
With tonight’s win, Head coach Bruce Boudreau leaves tonight’s game with a 100-45-19 record in 164 career games behind the Capitals’ bench. He is the fifth Capitals head coach to win 100 games and the fastest to reach that milestone. He is...
Caps Recall Neuvirth and Beagle
Per Tarik: Goalie Jose Theodore has returned to Washington for personal reasons, and the Caps have recalled Michal Neuvirth and Jay Beagle ahead of tonight’s game against the Rangers. ...
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Bonzai on Semin: Good Things Are Coming, Keep Waiting
Put Peter Bondra in the pro-Alex Semin camp. I had a chance to chat with #12 during Friday night’s 3-1 win over the Wild, and when I asked him how he’d go about coaching the enigmatic winger, how he’d address Semin’s conspicu...
A Welcomed New Link Between Washington and Hershey
This past weekend marked a broadcast first for hockey in Washington: the execution of virtual real-time audio swaps between Federal News Radio 1500, the local radio carrier of the Caps, and John Walton’s calls of the Hershey Bears, which Washin...
