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Russia Came, Russia Conquered, and Russia Was Very Well Covered
2008-05-20 15:14:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Congratulations not only to Team Russia for its performance at the Worlds but for the excellent coverage of the tournament by Sovetsky Sport, Russia?s largest newspaper. The Russian Hockey Federation was thrilled with SovetskySport?s coverage of the team at Worlds, so much so that they were the only print ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Russia Came, Russia Conquered, and Russia Was Very Well Covered
2008-05-20 15:14:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Congratulations not only to Team Russia for its performance at the Worlds but for the excellent coverage of the tournament by Sovetsky Sport, Russia?s largest newspaper. The Russian Hockey Federation was thrilled with SovetskySport?s coverage of the team at Worlds, so much so that they were the only print ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Golden Day for Russia
2008-05-19 03:44:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Team Russia Celebrates (Photo: DAVID BOILY/Getty Images) With a single shot, Ilya Kovalchuk silenced the home crowd and brought an end to the Russian national team’s 15-year championship drought. Russia took the gold over Canada today in a wild 5-4 OT victory. The Washington Capitals’ Russian contingent were by ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Golden Day for Russia
2008-05-19 03:44:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Team Russia Celebrates (Photo: DAVID BOILY/Getty Images) With a single shot, Ilya Kovalchuk silenced the home crowd and brought an end to the Russian national team’s 15-year championship drought. Russia took the gold over Canada today in a wild 5-4 OT victory. The Washington Capitals’ Russian contingent were by ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Going for Gold; Finland Shine Bronze
2008-05-18 06:00:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Five Washington Capitals will be sporting World Championship Medals at the end of the day. At 1 p.m. today, Russia and the Capitals line of Ovechkin, Fedorov, and Semin face defenseman Mike Green and company from Canada. Both teams are undefeated in the tournament with eight wins. At ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Going for Gold; Finland Shine Bronze
2008-05-18 06:00:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Five Washington Capitals will be sporting World Championship Medals at the end of the day. At 1 p.m. today, Russia and the Capitals line of Ovechkin, Fedorov, and Semin face defenseman Mike Green and company from Canada. Both teams are undefeated in the tournament with eight wins. At ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Hardware Hopes and World-Class Hockey Help Alleviate Some Local Heartache
2008-05-03 16:24:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Last week, in the throes of a sudden and sour end to the season, it was somewhat difficult to delineate just how successful a season the Capitals and their fans had enjoyed, wasn’t it? Lip service to a terrific run could be mouthed, but there was a pervasive ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Hardware Hopes and World-Class Hockey Help Alleviate Some Local Heartache
2008-05-03 16:24:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Last week, in the throes of a sudden and sour end to the season, it was somewhat difficult to delineate just how successful a season the Capitals and their fans had enjoyed, wasn’t it? Lip service to a terrific run could be mouthed, but there was a pervasive ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Worlds Go Retro
2008-04-30 14:30:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - This year’s IIHF World Championship Tournament is going old school, if only for one game. Fifteen of the sixteen participating teams will play one preliminary round game with retro sweaters. The sweater each country will wear was selected from what they considered to be a significant ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Worlds Go Retro
2008-04-30 14:30:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - This year’s IIHF World Championship Tournament is going old school, if only for one game. Fifteen of the sixteen participating teams will play one preliminary round game with retro sweaters. The sweater each country will wear was selected from what they considered to be a significant ...
By: On Frozen Blog
The Calm Before the Seventh Game Storm
2008-04-22 12:15:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Over a 75-minute period late Monday evening I fielded a dozen-plus phone calls from family, friends, and media, all waxing euphoric over an “It’s ordained in the heavens” sense that Tuesday night was to be all about partying for Caps’ fans. The euphoria is understandable. Where this Caps’ team ...
By: On Frozen Blog
The Calm Before the Seventh Game Storm
2008-04-22 12:15:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Over a 75-minute period late Monday evening I fielded a dozen-plus phone calls from family, friends, and media, all waxing euphoric over an “It’s ordained in the heavens” sense that Tuesday night was to be all about partying for Caps’ fans. The euphoria is understandable. Where this Caps’ team ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Is the Big ?Mo with the Team in Red?
2008-04-20 16:36:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Hockey’s most mysterious quality is momentum. It wavers at times — is obliterated, even — from shift to shift. Years ago I saw it change for the Caps from bad to beautiful with a single shift of chaos from Kevin Kaminski. A solitary act of incompetence by a ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Playoff Perspective in the Post
2008-04-18 19:14:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Jason La Canfora echoes Pucks’ assessment in today’s Washington Post: Rallying for three straight victories likely is too much to ask, too, but even in cold defeat this feels much more like a beginning than an end, a fresh-faced group experiencing growing pains en masse. Thursday night’s effort left the ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Languishing in the Learning Curve
2008-04-18 16:02:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - If you watched Game 4’s broadcast last night likely you saw Comcast illustrate the dramatic discrepancy in playoff experience between the Caps and Flyers: last night 14 Capitals were making their NHL playoff series debuts, just 6 for Philadelphia. The way the game was contested you’d never have ...
By: On Frozen Blog
In-Game Knee-Jerks & Notes: Caps-Isles, 2/19
2008-02-21 01:14:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I’m not one to traffic much in the off-ice affairs of star athletes, at least not in published fashion, but with local media’s over-the-top coverage today of Alex’s overseas ingenue, there was for me a slight sense of light and welcome distraction from the day-in, day-out drain of the team’s postseason ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Big Media Love for the Big Turnaround
2008-02-13 16:23:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - More on the theme of a widening universe of folks noticing these winning Caps: an overview of the Bruce Boudreau overhaul of the Caps’ offense from USA Today today and a profile of Alexander Ovechkin in today’s New York Times. In the USA Today account Brooks Laich offers an insightful ...
By: On Frozen Blog
The Branding of a Winner in Washington, the ?Good Hockey Market?
2008-02-12 15:24:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Little commented upon during this Capitals’ Renaissance is how many people around town are taking notice: Lots. Suddenly, the downtown rink is packed. The team’s new look is a red-hot hit with the home crowd. The sports section fronts of the city’s newspapers are each week ablaze in full-color hockey victory ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Good Thing Alexander Semin Isn?t a Pickpocket With These Hands
2008-01-16 17:06:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - If you are having problems with the video above, you can view this version from the NHL. Although, it does not have the number of replays as the above video. Copyright © 2008 On Frozen Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Five Keys to Postseason Qualification
2008-01-07 15:35:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - In inventorying the season’s first half with an eye toward what the Caps must do with their second to break through to the postseason, one must divide October through December into their own halves: Glen Hanlon’s and Bruce Boudreau’s. It’s a fair bet that we won’t see the likes ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Alexander Semin signed $9.2 million contract extension
2007-10-28 06:06:00 Alexander Semin signed a two-year contract extension with the Washington Capitals. The contract is worth $9.2 million. He had 48 goals and 48 assists in 132 career NHL games. He was picked in the first round of the 2002 draft. He signed a three-year contract with the Capitals in 2003 but he returned to Russia in 2004 ...
By: Pabaon Sports
Alexander Semin Signs 2-Year Contract Extension
2007-10-27 20:01:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Alexander Semin has signed a 2-year, $9.2 M contract extension with the Washington Capitals. The 23-year-old sniper’s new deal is excellent news for the team and fans alike; his absence from the lineup clearly impacted the team’s line combinations, particularly on the power play. Check out Mike Vogel’s blog for ...
By: On Frozen Blog
A Power Play in a Pumpkin Patch
2007-10-25 13:04:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Greg Wyshynski, Washington correspondent for The Fourth Period, is one of the most enjoyable and insightful folks in town with whom to take in a hockey game. Last week I had the pleasure of his company at the Islanders’ game, and in the midst of another failed Caps’ power ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Lunchpailin? It
2007-10-18 15:27:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the Caps dressing a productive and seriously puck-possessing top 6 set of forwards this season. Some of the machine parts have fallen off. A cranky ankle has shelved sublime sniper Alexander Semin for all but one game thus far. Worse, one ...
By: On Frozen Blog
10/5/07: Embracing Insomnia
2007-10-05 16:25:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I awoke at 4:30 this morning, two hours earlier than my alarm. I’m awake at the same time as Elliot Segal, and like Elliot today, my head is crammed full of thoughts about a new hockey season in Washington. I’m thinking about the visitors’ locker at Philips Arena just now, ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Another Sad Saga for Alexander Semin
2007-04-17 17:27:00 Mike Vogel today has the lowdown on the news that broke yesterday regarding Alexander Semin’s dismissal from the Russian National Team for the upcoming World Championships. The gist: Semin was to report to the Russian team yesterday at 4:00 p.m. local time, for a tournament whose preliminary play begins April 27. His flight delivered him ...
By: On Frozen Blog
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