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It?s Time To Realign and Bring Back the Heat Among Hated Rivals
2008-06-09 11:55:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I have six principles guiding a much-needed, rigorous realignment of NHL teams for the 2009-10 season. They are: (1) There is widespread support among general managers, owners, players, media, the presidential candidates, and hockey fans to have the Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby rivalry, such as ...
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A Tradition That Ought To Lose Its Legs
2008-06-05 15:49:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I’m octpoi-ed out. Have had it with those Motor City slimers and the slime tosses of them. They wash up on our frozen shores whenever the Wings make a nice run, and sometimes before, and it’s an outdated tradition that is best retired. They’re about the ugliest of sea ...
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Melrose Mullet Migration?
2008-05-30 18:51:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Barry MelroseWant to coach the Tampa Bay Lightning? Slick back your hair, throw on a suit, and you’re good to go. According to Damian Cox of The Star, it seems Barry Melrose and his mullet have been lured from the broadcast booth to behind the bench, replacing current Lightning ...
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The NHL in Kansas City This Autumn
2008-05-30 18:42:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - A pre-sale is occurring right now (through 10:00 p.m. Central) for the first NHL game at Kansas City’s Sprint Center arena. Of course, it’s a pre-season game on September 22 between the Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues, so it’s not like KC is getting its own ...
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Missing a Mismatch in May
2008-05-27 15:54:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Bettman made us wait a week for this mismatch? How is it that so broad a spectrum of press had so difficult a time recognizing the glaring discrepancies between these two teams? “Fooled by youth” is one explanation. In the pressure cooker of a Cup Finals, the Penguins ...
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On Beaches, Backyard Grilling, Deck Beers, and the Pre-Eminent Value of the
2008-05-26 14:50:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - There’s wide variety to the recreation we employ on summer’s first (and long) weekend. Families pack the car and head for the beach. Those remaining at home often host the season’s opening backyard barbeque. Still others take in a ballgame with the kids or garden or dive into ...
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Bettman?s State of the Hockey Union
2008-05-25 17:50:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - As is tradition, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman addressed the media late yesterday afternoon in the lead-up to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. The commissioner has used this forum in the past to offer a quasi state of the game assessment, and yesterday was no different. James ...
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Bettman?s State of the Hockey Union
2008-05-25 17:50:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - As is tradition, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman addressed the media late yesterday afternoon in the lead-up to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. The commissioner has used this forum in the past to offer a quasi state of the game assessment, and yesterday was no different. James ...
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44 Reasons to Watch the Stanley Cup Finals
2008-05-23 19:43:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - ESPN’s Page 2 presents 44 reasons to watch the Cup finals, including the funny-because-it’s-true (”Not one word about Roger Clemens or Spygate”), the snarky (”Brian Engblom’s hair”), and the dead-on correct (”Unlike in the NBA Finals, the last minute of a Stanley Cup finals game doesn’t take 45 ...
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44 Reasons to Watch the Stanley Cup Finals
2008-05-23 19:43:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - ESPN’s Page 2 presents 44 reasons to watch the Cup finals, including the funny-because-it’s-true (”Not one word about Roger Clemens or Spygate”), the snarky (”Brian Engblom’s hair”), and the dead-on correct (”Unlike in the NBA Finals, the last minute of a Stanley Cup finals game doesn’t take 45 ...
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Bear Sightings to Continue for Another Year or Two
2008-05-22 17:29:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - The Washington Capitals and the Hershey Bears have jointly announced that the affiliation agreement between the two clubs have been extended through the 2009-10 season with an option for the 2010-11 season. Previously affiliated for seven seasons from 1977 to 1984, this next season will be the fourth in ...
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A VO Gig as an Omen?
2008-05-21 15:38:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Those of you who have been curious enough to follow the many links on the sidebar and footer of the blog may know of another venture of mine. In addition to this blog, a mortgage-paying day job, and a family (with two children under 5), I also ...
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A VO Gig as an Omen?
2008-05-21 15:38:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Those of you who have been curious enough to follow the many links on the sidebar and footer of the blog may know of another venture of mine. In addition to this blog, a mortgage-paying day job, and a family (with two children under 5), I also ...
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Our Peeps
2008-05-20 18:30:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - We are protecting the screen name, the message board url, and everything else that could lead to the identity of the author of this sentiment, posted about the arrival of the Stanley Cup finals this weekend. “I will be using my 8-month-old son (and his bed time) as an ...
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Our Peeps
2008-05-20 18:30:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - We are protecting the screen name, the message board url, and everything else that could lead to the identity of the author of this sentiment, posted about the arrival of the Stanley Cup finals this weekend. “I will be using my 8-month-old son (and his bed time) as an ...
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Does Hockey Really Need TV?
2008-05-20 13:32:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - By now, you’ve probably read accounts of hockey enjoying a significant spike in the sport’s television ratings recently. No doubt you also know of (and admire) hockey’s embrace of alternative media. That union has been a fusion of opportunism, technology, and desperation. Generally, it seems to be working. ...
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Does Hockey Really Need TV?
2008-05-20 13:32:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - By now, you’ve probably read accounts of hockey enjoying a significant spike in the sport’s television ratings recently. No doubt you also know of (and admire) hockey’s embrace of alternative media. That union has been a fusion of opportunism, technology, and desperation. Generally, it seems to be working. ...
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The Cost of Becoming Competitive
2008-05-16 13:45:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - NHLnumbers.com is an invaluable resource for monitoring the allotments of millions of dollars to NHL players, and judging your team’s standing in relation to the NHL’s salary cap. It also allows you to play armchair GM a bit during the offseason, and fantasy-negotiate with your team’s restricted and ...
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The Cost of Becoming Competitive
2008-05-16 13:45:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - NHLnumbers.com is an invaluable resource for monitoring the allotments of millions of dollars to NHL players, and judging your team’s standing in relation to the NHL’s salary cap. It also allows you to play armchair GM a bit during the offseason, and fantasy-negotiate with your team’s restricted and ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Searching for the Next Great Outdoor Game
2008-05-15 18:31:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Yankee Stadium may be out as the site for an outdoor NHL game next New Year’s Day, according to today’s USA Today. Both New York baseball teams are building new stadiums, and there’s an enormous amount of construction associated with those sites as well as others in the ...
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Searching for the Next Great Outdoor Game
2008-05-15 18:31:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Yankee Stadium may be out as the site for an outdoor NHL game next New Year’s Day, according to today’s USA Today. Both New York baseball teams are building new stadiums, and there’s an enormous amount of construction associated with those sites as well as others in the ...
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Rooting for Fire, Famine, and Pestilence on a Sheet of Ice
2008-05-10 12:52:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I was hoping for more hatred. I don’t have a dog in this Pittsburgh-Philthy affair, so naturally I’m rooting for a rink full of rottweilers and pit bulls on blades. Who haven’t been fed in a while. Let it be a bloody war of attrition, period after period ...
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With the 23rd Pick, The Washington Capitals Select ?
2008-05-06 21:36:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - The National Hockey League announced that the Washington Capitals will pick 23rd in the 2008 Entry Draft. From the press release: Washington has previously held the 23rd pick in the first round on two occasions. In 2006 the team selected goaltender Simeon Varlamov, and in 1995 the team ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Pittsburgh Wins; Ovechkin to NFL
2008-05-02 15:42:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Pittsburgh won on Thursday . . . no, not the Penguins, who were shut out by the Rangers, but Pittsburgh itself won the title of Sootiest City in the country, snatching the title from former champion Los Angeles. Click here to read more about it on CNN. The Friday ...
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Pittsburgh Wins; Ovechkin to NFL
2008-05-02 15:42:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Pittsburgh won on Thursday . . . no, not the Penguins, who were shut out by the Rangers, but Pittsburgh itself won the title of Sootiest City in the country, snatching the title from former champion Los Angeles. Click here to read more about it on CNN. The Friday ...
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Who Has More Hart?
2008-04-29 19:49:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - He is now officially a finalist: ARLINGTON, Va. ? The National Hockey League announced today that Washington left wing Alex Ovechkin is one of three finalists for the Hart Trophy, which is presented annually to the player judged most valuable to his team. Ovechkin joins Calgary?s Jarome Iginla and ...
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Who Has More Hart?
2008-04-29 19:49:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - He is now officially a finalist: ARLINGTON, Va. ? The National Hockey League announced today that Washington left wing Alex Ovechkin is one of three finalists for the Hart Trophy, which is presented annually to the player judged most valuable to his team. Ovechkin joins Calgary?s Jarome Iginla and ...
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Another Blogger?s Poor-Ice Perspective
2008-04-24 19:01:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Our friend and fav blogger Peerless was at Tuesday night’s game 7, and he shared with us this morning his observations about the conditions inside the Phone Booth: “In game seven, sitting where I was, the goal crease at the end the Caps shoot at twice was a lake. ...
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Another Blogger?s Poor-Ice Perspective
2008-04-24 19:01:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Our friend and fav blogger Peerless was at Tuesday night’s game 7, and he shared with us this morning his observations about the conditions inside the Phone Booth: “In game seven, sitting where I was, the goal crease at the end the Caps shoot at twice was a lake. ...
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A Foul Finish to a Stunner of a Season
2008-04-23 13:22:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I dreaded the elevator ride down to the Capitals’ dressing room at 10:07 p.m. last night. Jubilation, as we in HockeyWashington certainly learned this spring, is a damned fun thing to chronicle and consume, and for the first time it seemed in all of 2008, I had to ...
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A Foul Finish to a Stunner of a Season
2008-04-23 13:22:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - I dreaded the elevator ride down to the Capitals’ dressing room at 10:07 p.m. last night. Jubilation, as we in HockeyWashington certainly learned this spring, is a damned fun thing to chronicle and consume, and for the first time it seemed in all of 2008, I had to ...
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The Men with Tonight?s Whistles
2008-04-22 21:24:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Paul Devorski and Don Koharski. You didn’t really think it would be easy tonight, did you? Koharski, incidentally, worked the Caps-Flyers’ game 7 of 1988. Copyright © 2008 On Frozen Blog. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news reader, the site ...
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The Men with Tonight?s Whistles
2008-04-22 21:24:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Paul Devorski and Don Koharski. You didn’t really think it would be easy tonight, did you? Koharski, incidentally, worked the Caps-Flyers’ game 7 of 1988. Copyright © 2008 On Frozen Blog. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news reader, the site ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Rock the Red Rabbit Foot for Luck
2008-04-21 16:25:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Copyright © 2008 On Frozen Blog. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news reader, the site you are looking at may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact contact us so we can take legal action.
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Thesis: New Pecking Order in Local Pro Sports
2008-04-21 15:33:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Monday night: Playoff hoops in a hoops city. LeBron. The Caps in the NHL’s opening postseason round. Guess who’s on Comcast SportsNet tonight and who’s banished to the broadcast basement of News Channel 8. Just sayin’. Copyright © 2008 On Frozen Blog. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are ...
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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 ...
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Open File: Survival Saturday in the Nation?s Capital
2008-04-19 18:59:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Backstrom Game 5 Goal - Photo by Kate McGovern/OffWing.comTaking Metro to a live hockey game downtown when its cars are air-conditioned is a novel experience for this new media man. Of course, inadvertently, Metro air conditions its cars at times in January and February, but you get my ...
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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 ...
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An Exhortation for the Red Nation
2008-04-17 16:13:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - This morning we are dispensing with all that is dour and dire. Where yesterday we saw disappointment and despair, today we see possibility and promise. (I drank very good wine last night.) Per Tarik, these are tonight’s lines for our warriors: Ovechkin-Fedorov-Kozlov Laich-Backstrom-Semin Cooke-Steckel-Bradley Brashear-Gordon-Fehr We would do well to remind ourselves of the mortality ...
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Proposed Papal Intercession
2008-04-16 19:10:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - From my 18th St. office in Northwest I walked a mere block to Pennsylvania Ave. a little before noon and caught Pope Benedict’s procession past tens of thousands of Washingtonians today. What magnificent weather for so moving a moment, and the turnout was staggering. I had a superb view ...
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The Love Guru
2008-04-15 01:42:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - There’s good news for Leafs fans. The Maple Leafs will be playing in June … in a new Mike Myers movie called The Love Guru. From a National Hockey League press release: In the comedy ?The Love Guru,? Pitka (Mike Myers in his first original character since Austin ...
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?Avery Rule? Now In Place
2008-04-14 21:11:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - From the league offices: NEW YORK/TORONTO (April 14, 2008) — National Hockey League Senior Executive Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell today issued the following advisory on the interpretation of Rule 75 - Unsportsmanlike Conduct: ”An unsportsmanlike conduct minor penalty (Rule 75) will be interpreted and ...
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A Return to Mortality
2008-04-14 16:25:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - In a league conspicuous for its parity, NHL hockey teams these days aren’t supposed to win 12 of 13 games, or 13 of 14 — and the moreso when something like the success of the entire season is compromised by a single additional loss during such a stretch. ...
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A Media Red-Out Marks the Playoff?s Opening Weekend
2008-04-13 16:38:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - It’s almost as if there’s a Red-Out of North American media in chronicling the Caps. Take a look at a selection of out-of-town electronic and print coverage just from this weekend: ‘Ovechkin: NHL fans’ Plan B,’ James Duthie, Ottawa Citizen: “Right now, the Washington Capitals are harder to resist than ...
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A Blogging Error of Postseason Inexperience
2008-04-12 15:47:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Seating Chart - Game 1I made a grievous mistake in judgment this week, and it adversely impacted OFB on perhaps this site’s most important day of existence. We worked closely and well with the Capitals’ media staff to try and position ourselves to continue to bring you the ...
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Green with Envy: Caps 5, Flyers 4
2008-04-12 03:35:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - “After slumbering through the opening 40 minutes, Ovechkin tore the roof off the Verizon Center, a sold-out rink that gives the Canadian arenas a run for their money where noise and excitement is concerned.” –National Post Copyright © 2008 On Frozen Blog. This feed is for personal non-commercial use only. ...
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