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Well, I just happened to stumble on page
via Goggle Alerts to find out that On Frozen
Blog has been named a finalist in the Best Sports Blog category of the 2007 Weblog Awards. I’m sure I can speak for everyone at OFB in saying that we are honored to be selected a finalist, as there are SO MANY good blogs out there.
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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 Caps,” Lemke writes in this morning’s Times.
Once upon a time, the heart of the
uniform system madness-fiasco perpetrated by Reebok was the absence
on the part of the manufacturer of any sense that hockey, with its sweater, had always had a novel connection between player and fan. By that I mean, those colors arranged in a particular style, and housed in an Everyman’s comfort, were a novelty in all of sport, and cherished by generations ...
Alexander Ovechkin started a blog.
Howard Stern did at least one commendable thing
for his culture: every day he reminded us that
radio is the lowest form of all media. In D.C., we needn’t have had Stern to point this out; not when we have WTEM’s Steve Czaban.
(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 ...
Every wonder what professional ice hockey teams play
in New Zealand? How about Dubai? Where can you
catch a pro game next time you’re in Spain, or Bahrain, or mainly on the plain? Well a dedicated hockey fan named Sam has completed quite a project: a Google map of every professional hockey team’s ice rink in the world—over a thousand of them—including each team’s logo and a link to its homepage.
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Our heroes’ home playing surface is back in
the news. Of Saturday night’s Phone Booth sheet, our
good friend JP put it this way: “One could pour 4,000 Slurpees across an elementary school blacktop and it would probably provide as good a playing surface as the one at Verizon Center last night thanks to an afternoon Hoyas game.” The home team’s owner placed the Slurpee pump on idle on Monday, ...
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Earlier today, Alexander Ovechkin, accompanied by family and
an attorney, walked into the Washington Capitals’ team offices
in Arlington, Va., reviewed with counsel terms for a new contract with the club, and agreed to a six-year pact that will pay him $54 million. Tomorrow, this very report will run in one Moscow newspaper, SovetskySport.
Or “Spirit Squad” as it looks like they
will be officially called when they join the other
squads of the NHL.
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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.
Igor Arkhipov, an Atlanta-based correspondent for SovetskySport, met
up with Alexander Ovechkin after last night’s game. He
asked about the left winger’s future. This exchange will run in the Russian newspaper tomorrow: Do you plan on changing teams at the end of the season? Washington’s game looks hopeless.
Something very cool is happening at the Honda
Center in Aneheim. The FSN West feed on NHL
Center Ice is showing the LA Kings / Anaheim Ducks game. That’s normal. What isn’t is that there are no announcers. Just the sounds of the game and the crowd. Oh, and all the camera angles are from ice level with what they call “Rinkside View.”
By DC Sports Chick / I’m not one
for cheesecake, especially of the female persuasion, so I
can’t decide if this contest to decide Manitoba’s Hottest Hockey Mom is cool or creepy. Either way, I’m impressed that this woman had four kids and looks this good.
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Something momentous and stupendous happened to hockey on
Tuesday. By late Wednesday afternoon I was aware of
an unusual mainstream media preoccupation forming a phenomenon: they were, rather uniformly, rather nationally, saying nice things about our sport. Really nice things. Then came Wednesday’s 5:00 hour on ESPN.
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 trailblazer, Paul McKenzie — the type of coach who changes lives and improves his community.
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We’re in this interim between the draft and
the Capitals’ July Development Camp (mercifully, a period lasting
little more than two weeks), and with the arrival in town soon of so many recently drafted prospects, it seems an appropriate time to map out what I regard as a fair and accurate timetable for hockey fans to await the arrival of promising youth to the parent club.
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There’s been a good deal of online chatter
this week regarding third sweaters. Eighteen NHL teams will
introduce alternate jerseys this season, according to the Fan590’s Howard Berger. Icethetics and Puck Daddy have been monitoring the fashion situation as well. So we put the question to the Caps: Any chance a third sweater is in the near future? The answer is no. At least not this season.
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On Sunday, February 22, 2009, the Capitals matinee-host
the Pittsburgh Penguins at Verizon Center. That day will
commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, the greatest day in the history of hockey and the greatest day in the history of sports. Summertime question for you: what do you think of the idea of the Caps doing something radically different with their sweaters that day —
It seems that ice hockey is the next
online gaming venture for Gravity. Body Check Online has
hit the Korean gaming market; according to Gravity, the game’s creators: "Body Check Online is the first online hockey game in futuristic settings. Rather than adopting the complex rules and fixed uniforms of real life ice hockey games, the game highlights upgraded equipments [sic] and daring ...
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