Ladies and gentlemen, the season is almost upon us. Just one more month till October and all the glory that comes with it! And no, I don’t mean baseball. With the start of the NHL season, the AHL season will get underway as well and with it, the Hershey Bears will embark on their journey to three-peat as Calder Cup Champions.
Live in Red has put together a petition in an attempt to get Comcast SportsNet Washington to broadcast a few “showcase” games for the Bears after the excitement in broadcasting the Calder Cup finals last June. Right now we have over 430 signatures on the petition and are driving to get 500 by the end of the week. We’ll be finalizing the petition and submitting it at the beginning of next week to allow to potential discussions and adequate planning time for Comcast. We’ve received a lot of suggestions for games to suggest and other options (including submitting the petition to MASN, which we will do as well – they have two channels and show primarily baseball which will be done by October.)
So we have a poll below for six potential games to show. These were selected for a few…
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A recent debate has heated up amongst NHL clubs and media personnel about the role of the ‘blogger’ in the grand scheme of media coverage. A good friend of mine and former William & Mary star high jumper Cam Shriver pointed this series of events out and it got me thinking about my point of view on the issue.
Bloggers are necessary for the continued evolution of media coverage of all professional and collegiate sports, not just hockey. Hear me out on the rational.
How often have you gotten back from a hockey game to wake up the next morning to check out the game story on Yahoo! Sports (the sports part, not Puck Daddy)? And then you look on a different news portal like… ESPN.com? Same story. Many news portals – both print and electronic – utilize the vast and professional Associated Press network. The articles are great and all, but it’s the same on every portal. Sure, the Washington Post and other local vendors cover our local sports in more detail and you get a variety of stories on those outlets, but as TBD.com so eloquently puts…
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Is the image of Sidney Crosby scoring the game winning overtime goal over the United States in the gold medal game at Vancouver going to be the final image of an NHLer representing his country at the Olympic Games? Nicholas Cotsonika of Yahoo! Sports wrote an opinion article yesterday regarding the ‘Vancouver Evaluation’ meeting that the NHL brass had with the franchise owners.
It seems as though a majority of those involved with the NHL (fans, supporters, media) want the NHL to break for the Sochi games in 2014. In fact, some of the NHL owners support it as well. But it seems that the NHL’s head honcho does not feel the same. But he won’t say it publicly - yet.
“We started something that we thought was right, and we haven’t said no,” Bettman said. “And again, anybody who suggests that we’ve made a decision or that I’m anti-Olympics doesn’t get it.”
We get it, Gary. You’re not anti-Olympics. You want Olympic hockey to have huge success, high ratings, and really boost the image of hockey internationally to help your brand. You just want it to happen without your NHL assets – for free.Eric Duhatschek of…
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So you’ve heard about ol’ Albert across town, right? The overpaid, out of shape, crying drama queen thinks he should get his playing time after new Redskins coach Mike Shanahan put the big man on 2nd and 3rd string duty in the game against Baltimore this past weekend.
If you missed any of the drama, SportingNews.com summarized it well here.
Haynesworth hasn’t seen eye-to-eye with Shanahan since the coach was hired Jan. 5. It started with the new coaching staff’s desire to change the Redskins’ defensive scheme from a 4-3 front to a 3-4 system. That meant Haynesworth would move from defensive tackle to nose tackle, a change he mostly has resisted.
In protest, Haynesworth skipped all of the Redskins’ spring practices and workouts and then the June minicamp, incurring $10,000 in fines. That prompted rumors that Washington GM Bruce Allen might trade Haynesworth, and Haynesworth’s boycott also drew harsh criticism from retired Redskins players.
The soap opera continued July 29, when Haynesworth failed his first conditioning test. After taking several more days off, Haynesworth, in fear of being placed on the physically unable to perform list, reattempted and passed the test Aug. 7.
And just as Haynesworth was
Over the past couple of seasons, hockey fans in DC, Virginia & Maryland, myself included, have had the opportunity to be there for the birth of a hockey town. And I never thought I would get the chance to witness that firsthand again. My plan was to move to DC after I graduated university, get a job that would afford me a decent apartment and the opportunity to ride the red line into Chinatown on game nights with the rest of the Caps faithful. Anyone who has ever really lived knows things don’t always turn out as planned…
The first Caps game I ever attended was in December of 2007. Bruce Boudreau had been behind the bench for the Caps for less than a month, the team was still floundering somewhere in the bottom of the conference. My brother and I joined my friend Jen for a student rush night (RIP) game. We bought tickets three hours before puck-drop for twenty-five bucks a piece, sitting a section over from “the loud guy” I now know as Goat, twelve rows from the ice. We took the time before the game to make a few purchases. My brother bought himself an…
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With open season on unrestricted free agents fast approaching already come and gone, a lot has been made about whether or not the Capitals are in need of a free agent acquisition and, if so, what position and who. Over the next week or so month, we’ll be studying each skater position, with a look to who we picked up, who we’ve got, who’s easy to keep, and who might be worth shopping. This round-up includes only players who have a contract with the Capitals as of publish date. Unsigned prospects, with the exception of the 2010 draft class, are not included.
The last round features the guys running the middle of the ice.
I will once again direct your attention to the 2010 Entry Draft, where we have a couple of acquisitions to the pool.
Evgeny Kuznetsov was selected 26th overall. Every Capitals blog has had a story on him since then. He only had to do one thing to make me love him forever: he liked the cupcakes I baked. Thanks to Caps Snaps & RMNB for sharing that. What a day to skip out of camp early to go apartment shopping.
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