With the past week as laboratory, it's an apt time to broaden our lens a bit and remark on how fantastically hockey coverage is expanding and improving by virtue of a single social media application: Twitter. The two big-on-the-calendar events of the past seven days, indeed of the entire hockey season -- the NHL Draft and Wednesday's start of free agency -- were by virtue of this single communications tool blown wide open in insider access: every hockey fan with a hand-held suddenly had acces... Read Full Story
The Capitals this afternoon announced the return of July Development Camp to Kettler Capitals Complex. Many of the organization's best young talents will converge on the training complex July 13-18 to participate in workouts and scrimmages, all of which are free and open to the public.
Monday and Tuesday, July 13 and 14, will feature on-ice workout sessions at 10:00 a.m. and 2:30.
Wednesday and Thursday, July 15 and 16 will feature on-ice workout sessions at 10:00 and 11:15 and the... Read Full Story
So universally positive was the reaction to the Caps' signing of Mike Knuble yesterday that the Caps' media relations staff excerpt-blogged a wide sampling of high-profile hockey personality reactions to it, and passed along the link to the media early Wednesday evening.Who could blame them -- no one saw the Knuble signing coming, and everyone loved it. The media zeal for the signing was actually met and exceeded by hosanas sung on the official fan message boards on the team's web site, if yo... Read Full Story
Our buddy Murf at Homer McFanboy chatted with Washington Capitals Head Coach Bruce Boudreau at Wednesday's Earl Woods Memorial Pro Am. Read all about it as Boudreau waxes rhapsodic on getting to play with fellow Canadian Mike Weir while outshooting his teammates-for-the-day Jason Campbell and Antwaan Randle-El of the Washington Redskins. Read Full Story
The Washington Capitals made an unexpected and big splash on the opening day of free agency today, signing right wing Mike Knuble to a 2-year, $5.6 million deal. Knuble spent the past four seasons with the Flyers.
Two statistical feats stand out from Knuble's last four seasons in Philly: in three of those four years he played in all 82 regular season games. He's Iron Mike. But look, too, at his goal totals from those seasons: 34, 24, 29, and 27. Dating back to the 2002-03 seaso... Read Full Story
Normally, we need until the actual arrival of July 1 to see frenzied, post-draft player movement, but early Tuesday evening the sweater-changing ticker at TSN was in overdrive. Bouwmeester inked to a five-year deal by the Flames; Vancouver GM Mike Gillis jet-setted halfway around the world to meet personally with his Sedin twins, and to make a final pitch to them to return, with an agreement perhaps achieved; the Sens and Oil were on the precipice of a deal that would see the Oil send Andrew ... Read Full Story
Kind of.
The Hershey Bears and American Hockey League announced six guaranteed home dates with times and opponents to be determined. Clear your calendar for a trip to the land of chocolate to take in some sweet hockey.
Saturday, October 3
Saturday, October 31
Friday, November 13
Saturday, November 21
Sunday, December 27
Saturday, January 23
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Since OFB's very first visit to Hershey some three years ago we've been welcomed and supported in every way possible by the Bears. In fact, during the 2007-08 season, when we organized a fundraiser here to try and help the District's only public high school hockey team, Wilson High, remain on the ice, it was John Walton who took Daren Machesney's goalie stick, had the entire Bears' team sign it, and donated it to our benefit auction at Clyde's. So it came as no surprise that during the ... Read Full Story
Dear Isles' Fans:Welcome to the rescue dinghy. Really it's astounding what securing a no. 1 overall draft pick can do to assuage your agony. And not just any no.1 overall but a special player, a buzz youngster, like the one you secured Friday night in Montreal in John Tavares. It's not that today you've necessarily forgotten all that has ailed your team in recent years, which has been voluminous and grotesque. Additionally, we don't have a crystal ball, and so we don't yet know what John Tava... Read Full Story
