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Meet Washington’s Hanson Sisters
Earlier this season we schemed what we thought would be good fun for OFB’s Christmas card in 2009: outfit three of our favorite hockey lovers among local media — Comcast Sportsnet’s Tara Wheeler, Lisa Hillary, and Michelle Scalise &...
A Night for Great Skating, and Morrison’s Magnificent Marker
This week I have as part of my city-to-suburban-home commute a wonderful walk through some snowy suburban woods. I arrived at the woods late last night fresh off a thrilling and well played hockey game downtown, featuring two quality hockey clubs, a...
It’s Not Miller Time in Washington: Caps 5 / Sabres 2
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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 ...
Virginia, Is There a Santa Claus?
Not only has OrderedChaos opened himself to stalking, he has reminded Virginians that Maryland already has their Washington Capitals branded license plates. Fellow Virginians, we only have just over a week to reach the minimum required applications t...
Forgotten No Longer: The 1960 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Imagine setting out to document in film a historic sports achievement which by virtue of its time period offers only minimal archival footage. A great, great story to be told without much in the way of camera-eye evidence. Such was the dilemma-challe...
Let It Snow Like This, Once in a While, and Make Us Kids Again
Hello Washington blizzard my old friend, it was very good to see you again. Washington got walloped by Old Man Winter yesterday, on the final Saturday before Christmas, and no one was happier about it than yours truly. I confess, I’ve never bee...
Fastest to 50 Points in Team History: Caps 4 / Oilers 2
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A Mobile Comcast Sportsnet, Covering Hockey
It’s a Friday afternoon in early winter, and ominous clouds foretelling a historic snow storm are forming overhead. What are a pair of leading players for Comcast Sportsnet’s hockey team doing? Recording their thoughts out of the studio, ...
Snowpocalypse 2009
With our first serious winter weather since the Capitals released their Maryland license plates, here’s a photo of my snowbound car (with the license plate cleared of snow, of course!). The falling flakes in the foreground were reminiscent of o...
Road Woes and Missed Chances for the Caps
Maybe it was the road trip catching up to them, but one thing is for sure, the Washington Capitals certainly did not take advantage of the chances they had against the Vancouver Canucks. Nicklas Backstrom’s failed conversion of Ovi’s cent...
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...
Interview With Mike Gartner
Rob Kowal from NY Hockey Talk recently chatted with Mike Gartner about his days in the league. The interview was obviously slanted towards Gartner’s time with the Rangers, but he did talk about the Caps-Rangers series when the Rangers lost th...
Late-Night Gamewatch Duty Falls Upon the Young
One of the virtues of having undergraduate associates is that they can be assigned to monitor West Coast games while we old geezers hit the hay around period two for work in the morning. Take it away, night owls: 1st Period Andrew’s take: It i...
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...
Avalanche Snowed Under by Capitals: Caps 6 / Avs 1
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Sometimes Irreconciliable Differences Necessitate Divorce
Signing Michael Nylander in the summer of 2007 was wise and savvy and, you might recall, somewhat controversial. The previous season in New York with the Rangers, all Nylander achieved was 83 points in 79 games — his best NHL season ever. How c...
Hello Cap Space, Hello Alzner and Wilson
With the new found cap room, the Caps made a few moves today. ARLINGTON, Va. – The Washington Capitals have recalled defenseman Karl Alzner and center Kyle Wilson from the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL) and assigned center Mathie...
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...
Goaltending 3.0: Brett Leonhardt’s Ongoing Development as a Goaltender
The late-blooming pupil and his new mentor This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Capitals’ website production specialist Brett Leonhardt signing an amateur tryout contract, donning goalie pads and dressing in a Caps’ sweater, a...
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...
Game Over Green Returns: Caps 4 / Canes 3 OT
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Bloggers Bounce Questions off of Eddie O
The NHL yesterday hosted a bloggers-only conference call with NBC color guy Ed Olczyk, in conjunction with the league rolling out its on-site preparations at Fenway Park for the Winter Classic. We were fortunate enough to be invited to participate, a...
Step One to Southeast Deconstruction?
Here is a tweet that can be filed in the “grain of salt” category. It can also be filed in the “food for thought” category as well. Perhaps it represents the first step toward fixing the decade-long, ever-underwhelming trave...
Junior Seau Gets A Handle On Things
Tonight is the premier of the NHL Equipment Manager episode of Sports Jobs with Junior Seau on Versus (11:30 p.m., again at 2:00 a.m.). Seau accompanied the Capitals for their trip up to Boston to open the season. This first clip shows Seau strugglin...
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...
2 Game Break, 2 Goal Return for Ovi: Caps 3 / Bolts 0
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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...
