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Capitals Ticket Increase
2008-08-26 21:27:00 Since I moved to the Washington DC area several years ago, I have attended the Washington Capitals-Pittsburgh Penguins games whenever possible. There are thousands of other Pittsburgh transplants living in the area, so I have even arranged to buy group tickets through the Capitals for these games. For Capitals fans out there who aren?t happy about this arrangement of having Penguins fans buy tickets (that of course help pay the salaries of Mike Green, Alex Ovechkin and Cristobel Huet, I mean, Jose Theodore), you?ll be glad to know that there are generally a couple of token Caps fans as part of our group.Anyway, a few weeks ago, I contacted my Caps? ticket representative about purchasing tickets for the Penguins-Capitals games for the 2008-2009 season. Unlike the past few years, where we would receive discounted tickets for purchasing in bulk, this is not the case anymore. Apparently, the Penguins games as well as several other games during the season (I believe the Philadelphia ...
By: Sean's Ramblings
A Capital Day in the District
2008-05-09 21:09:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Approaching the John A. Wilson building on a sunny Tuesday morning, I reflected on the once-unlikely event about to occur. Official recognition by the Washington D.C. of its hockey team would have been unthinkable not too long ago. The way the Capitals started this season, positive recognition seemed ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Washington Capitals Week
2008-05-05 21:23:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Per the press release from the Washington Capitals: Washington Capitals chairman and majority owner Ted Leonsis will receive a ceremonial resolution from the D.C. City Council on May 6. Councilmember Jack Evans will present Leonsis and the Capitals with the resolution during the council legislative meeting, which is scheduled ...
By: On Frozen Blog
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 ...
By: On Frozen Blog
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 ...
By: On Frozen Blog
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 ...
By: On Frozen Blog
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 ...
By: On Frozen Blog
?? our blogosphere is bigger and better than their blogosphere ??
2008-04-20 10:00:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - You read OFB, Off Wing, Japers’ Rink, The Peerless, and more. Are you reading the blog by Ted Leonsis? I’m not talking about Ted’s Take… I’m talking about his blog on USA Today, Inside the Owner’s Box. There have been some absolute gems. Here ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Caps / Flyers Post Game 1 Interviews
2008-04-12 21:15:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryfx1kCkaJI Game Highlights (because you can’t tire of watching it): 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 ...
By: On Frozen Blog
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 ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Game-Day Chats To Chew on
2008-04-11 22:27:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - ?Both big papers this afternoon hosted helpful time-killing/nerves-distracting- chat sessions — the Post with Caps’ beat reporter Tarik El Bashir and the Times with Ted. There was terrific give-and-take banter in both; we urge you to check them out in their entirety. The owner, on his youthful recreational hockey background: ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Plenty to Chat About Today
2008-04-11 17:39:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Washington Post writer Tarik El-Bashir will host a live Q&A session at 2 p.m today, bringing the latest on the Caps’ preparations for tonight’s game. Tarik’s article today on the Capitals’ international appeal is a good read. Capitals owner Ted Leonsis will be chatting live on The Washington Times‘ ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Tens of Thousands More Are Tuning in
2008-04-04 19:55:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Tuesday night’s Comcast broadcast of the Caps and ‘Canes drew a 1.6 share, or approximately 37,000 households — microscopic and meager by, say, football or race car standards but easily the best of the season for the Caps. Last night’s game against Tampa earned a 2.2 rating. Something, ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Ted vs. Old Media
2008-03-21 15:03:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenbog.com/ - Duck-billed Platypus- courtesy of library.thinkquest.org As a regular reader of many of the Washington Post’s discussions, I always take note when hockey is mentioned. It came up in Marc Fisher’s discussion yesterday: Arlington, VA: It appears that you have angered Mr. Leonsis. Here are a few select quotes from ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Ted on WaPo Live
2008-03-04 19:02:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Ted Leonsis will be on Washington Post Live on Comcast SportsNet today at 5pm. They are hoping to devote an entire segment with him along with your emails. Pass all questions along to wpl@comcastsportsnet.com. Washington Post Live can be seen every weekday live at 5pm and replayed most nights at ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Bloggers, Readers, and Pro Hockey Teams Banding Together for Wilson High
2008-02-15 14:29:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - We hinted at wanting to do something for the District’s Wilson High School hockey team when we learned about their extraordinary story last month. To sum up: Wilson is the District’s only public high school with a varsity hockey team. It was, until last year, guided by an impassioned ...
By: On Frozen Blog
The Ashburn Diaries, Winter 2008
2008-01-30 15:44:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Like the Capitals recently, the Redskins find themselves in search of a successor coach. Any and all similarity of operations ends there. What is ensuing now in the Great Search is, predictably, high burlesque, a lavish local sports soap opera. The Capitals had both a qualified general manager and an appropriately removed-from-hockey-decisions owner involved in ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Washingtonians Helping Out Washington Hockey Players
2008-01-24 11:45:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - On Tuesday a Washington Post staffer emailed me the link to Jeff Nelson’s wonderful profile of the Wilson High School hockey program, which started and took root in recent years under Head Coach Paul McKenzie. McKenzie succumbed to pneumonia last year, and in his absence the Wilson program is ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Finding a Good Story in the Stands
2008-01-17 22:34:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - One good trumpeting of good journalism deserves another. In today’s Washington Times Bob Cohn profiles the spirit-raising efforts of two committed Caps’ fans, Sam Wolk and William Stillwell, aka Horn Guy and the Goat. Ted Leonsis on these fans: If one of them isn’t at the game, people send me emails. ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Ovechkin vs. Boras/Rosenhaus
2008-01-14 20:49:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Patrick Hruby’s always-entertaining Week in Review quiz this week features a fun essay question about AO’s new contract… his proposed answer is after the break. Essay Question: Washington Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin agreed to a $124 million, 13-year contract extension, working out the details himself in negotiations with team owner ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Ted Leonsis Announces the Alexander Ovechkin Contract Extension
2008-01-11 04:37:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9y9g8gqR0ME Copyright © 2008 On Frozen Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact email@onfrozenblog.com so we can take legal action.
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
Leonsis on Bloggers: ?They?ve Become a Legitimate Media Outlet?
2007-12-18 10:51:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - When it comes to new media and its coverage of the NHL, Ted Leonsis is both visionary and trailblazer, and so it should come as no surprise that his thinking on the matter is anything but static. When “Hockey Night in Canada” came to D.C. a couple of weeks back and profiled the ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Hockey Night in Canada on Bloggers
2007-12-02 02:36:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Our cousins to the north have taken notice of blogging’s impact on coverage of the NHL. Hockey Night in Canada was at the Phone Booth this past week taping a piece on Caps’ bloggers, and it aired tonight. Take a look at the results: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wrkx-IQsihk Copyright © 2007 On Frozen Blog. ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Suns for Some are Rising, for Others, Setting . . . According to Schedule
2007-12-01 08:36:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - A deeply unsettling reality is taking hold for the Capitals this season: they will not qualify for the playoffs; the “Five-year plan” for completion of a grounds-up rebuild is certain to take longer; Alexander Ovechkin is badly in need of a supporting cast; and absent a trade, Olie Kolzig’s career ...
By: On Frozen Blog
The Times Pays Tribute to the Capitals? ?Bloggers? Nation?
2007-10-23 13:30:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Washington Times’ sports business reporter Tim Lemke spent a number of weeks interviewing a number of the region’s hockey bloggers, his interest piqued by their prevalence in the Verizon Center press box for Caps’ games. “No team in professional sports offers as much unfettered access to bloggers as the ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Cox Customers Blacked Out
2007-10-12 20:35:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - The Washington Capitals just released the following statement regarding Comcast SportsNet Plus and Cox Communications. We regret and apologize for the inconvenience. We want as many people as possible to have access to Caps hockey. The Capitals are hopeful a resolution between Comcast corporate, Comcast SportsNet’s parent company, ...
By: On Frozen Blog
You Say You?re Searching for a Revolution?
2007-10-06 07:27:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - We’ve blogged for the past 365 days because we’ve found it a fun outlet for our passion for puck — and specifically, for our passion for puck in these parts. We acknowledge the perception that Washington isn’t a hockey town. But right now Washington is very much a hockey ...
By: On Frozen Blog
A Postcard from the Washington Capitals? Media Day 2007
2007-10-03 13:00:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Gustafsson and I attended Tuesday’s 2007 Capitals Media Day at the Verizon Center. After opening remarks by owner Ted Leonsis, an open session followed. Here are a few highlights: Pearls of Wisdom from Ron Weber I struck up a conversation with Capitals radio great Ron Weber. We were both gazing out ...
By: On Frozen Blog
More Blog Love from THN
2007-10-02 18:20:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Pete Kerzel’s preview of the Caps for the Hockey News’ 2007-08 Yearbook is rather dour — he sees them on the outside of the Eastern conference playoffs looking in, and emphasizes instead “incremental improvement is much more likely.” His file also has a ring of outdated-ness to it; he ...
By: On Frozen Blog
OFB Gets a THN Callout
2007-09-13 08:02:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Yes, the THN OFB mention this week is pretty cool, and yes, we’ll tip back a few self-congratulatory cold ones out at Bailey’s in Ballston this weekend, but training camp starts tomorrow! Moscow was a blast, but we’re thinking about the promise of the present this week. With his feature ...
By: On Frozen Blog
So Sayeth the Owner: The Future Is Now
2007-09-12 06:10:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - On Tuesday, Caps’ owner Ted Leonsis conducted a bit of a new season tour of media, and his message was static-free and stout: 2007-08 is the year for the organization and its fans to raise their expectations high — postseason high. “The rebuild is over,” Leonsis proclaimed to Joseph ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Washington Capital Frequencies - An Interview with Kurt Kehl
2007-09-06 16:02:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - The Washington Capitals recently signed on with a new radio partner, Bonneville International Corporation, to broadcast all 82 games for the 2007-08 season. As a former DJ I was curious about the deal’s details, and how it benefits the team and Caps fans. So I recently spoke with the ...
By: On Frozen Blog
The Phone Booth?s Big-Screen Makeover
2007-08-27 02:16:00 (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Here’s the latest on the Verizon Center’s new screens: Mitsubishi Electric is installing the first-ever indoor High Definition LED scoreboard, and it looks to be a doozy. According to LEDs Magazine, the Phone Booth’s four new screens will be 14′ 5″ high and 25′ 2″ wide (total screen area of 365 square feet each). ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Diary of a Dream Roadtrip: OFB as Foreign Correspondents (Part II)
2007-05-04 08:03:00 (continued from Thursday, 3 May, 2007) April 7: At the Blogger’s End of Season Soiree at Clyde’s all four of us meet James Mirtle of the Toronto Globe and Mail. Before we can finish shaking hands with him he asks us about “this Moscow gig . . . is this really happening?” We’re stunned, as collectively ...
By: On Frozen Blog
Ted Leonsis Thinks SEO is a Joke [del.icio.us]
2006-12-19 19:14:01 Ted Leonsis is a pioneer of the Internet and new media, a sports team owner, and an active philanthropist.
Webmasters are Waging WAR against Ted Leonsis
2006-12-17 19:11:01 Has Ted Leonsis slapped the SEO community in the face? Checkout this contest where they’ll prove that Ted Leonsis is not an SEO. So what, right? Well he wants to make it a big deal where he thinks it was such an accomplishment that he ranked for his own name. Ted Leonsis is Vice Chairman [...] |
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