Monday Caps Clips: Perreault Produces
by J.P. on Oct 25, 2010 6:20 AM EDT
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- A look back at the past week. [Peerless]
- The Caps' blueline is currently being held together with bubble gum and duct tape, more or less. [WaPo]
- Neil Greenberg's running tally of year-to-date scoring chances does a lot of confirming what your eyes have told you, both about individual players and the team generally. Great stuff. [RMNB]
- Head over to Capitals Insider for a live video chat with Bruce Boudreau at 12:30. [CI]
- One question that he might be asked - where's that elusive 60-minute effort? [StC]
- Mathieu Perreault's debut was precisely what the doctor ordered... [OFB]
- ... and here's more on the business-end of MP85's recall. [OFB]
- A walk down Alan Maymory lane. [Capitals Outsider]
- Get to know Caps' scout Petri Skriko. [THN]
- Alex Ovechkin channels his inner Varly. [Reliable Source]
- Cody Eakin is nursing a knee injury. [Slap Shots]
- It appears as if Michael Nylander's season is done, which is really a shame for a guy who has gone through a lot these past few years. [Democrat and Chronicle]
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Nyls has always been a class act, and has been really humbled these last couple of years. If this is in fact the end, cheers to an outstanding NHL career.
by Cluster on Oct 25, 2010 7:18 AM EDT reply actions 20 recs
Nylander talked to some Swedish media.
The doctors say that there is no risk that I will end up being paralyzed so in a way I consider myself lucky. I can still move everything so that’s good.His family is living in Chicago and his wife are with him at the hospital to support him.
Links (in Swedish): Aftonbladet, Expressen.
by Malin A on Oct 25, 2010 8:36 AM EDT up reply actions 11 recs
A pro for sure. This is a hard way to end an excellent career.
"Now wait a minute. This is just purely a social call. You know, just two adults getting a stew on, man."
by The Ghost of Bebop on Oct 25, 2010 9:14 AM EDT up reply actions
That’s a pretty frightening injury, and I’m glad to see it’s not as bad as it could have been. Really a crappy way to end a career, especially given the last few years.
"Do you see my fist? It was fists like these that built quaint Canadian cities out of the harsh Canadian wilderness, etc. etc."
Not in Seattle anymore.
by SeattleCapsFan on Oct 25, 2010 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Was it my use of “always been”, or do you just not like the man? Maybe both? But nice job highlighting an isolated incident. Seems like a perfect time to discuss it given his current situation.
by Cluster on Oct 25, 2010 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
/.:.\
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
Can’t imagine what that makes you.
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
I’m sorry I posted 1’s and 0’s on the internet.
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
And that’s that.
"I’m happy to have contributed to this league, to have done something important in my career, I’m proud, but you always will think you still could’ve done more, but tonight tells I’ve done things well."
by Bald Pollack on Oct 25, 2010 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
The news about Nylander is just awful… here’s hoping he will get better completely, even if he never plays the game again. It seems like it could have been a lot worse than it was, and it is pretty bad…
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Oct 25, 2010 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Who was that Ball of Fire Sat night?
Matty P!
(pic from the second OFB link)
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
by bagace on Oct 25, 2010 9:44 AM EDT reply actions 7 recs
Gravity need not apply. He’s reaching escape velocity.
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by EmilyB on Oct 25, 2010 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Big things come in little packages?
"Do you see my fist? It was fists like these that built quaint Canadian cities out of the harsh Canadian wilderness, etc. etc."
Not in Seattle anymore.
by SeattleCapsFan on Oct 25, 2010 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions
He’s pulling 8 G’s in that turn.
If you've read this far...seek help.
by ThePeerless on Oct 25, 2010 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Is somebody going to ask BB if he knows what Corsi is now?
"Because the game is not just about fighting no more. " D.J. King
by bigeugene on Oct 25, 2010 9:50 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Per Leone
Well then…
Caps announce they’ve recalled Holtby, reassigned Sabourin to Hershey.
"I’m happy to have contributed to this league, to have done something important in my career, I’m proud, but you always will think you still could’ve done more, but tonight tells I’ve done things well."
Eakin injury
Hopefully, it’s minor, but always better to sit and not take any risks. Leave it to the opposing team’s beat writer to give us an idea about the injury, since I hadn’t seen any indication from the SC side about the nature of the injury other than they didn’t think it was serious.
And we’re so busy talking about Holtby that there’s this
cmasisak22 #Caps d-men Green and Poti are practicing. Alzner and Carlson are not.
"It's always good to have vikings."
Hopefully they’re just getting some time off to rest – both have put in huge minutes lately, and Carlson has definitely been nursing something.
I was saying this over the weekend, that I usually hate long breaks in between games but this 3 day gap couldn’t have come at a better time. Rest some guys, get other guys healthy…good stuff.
If anyone needs me, I'll be at Kettler.
Amen to that.
"Do you see my fist? It was fists like these that built quaint Canadian cities out of the harsh Canadian wilderness, etc. etc."
Not in Seattle anymore.
by SeattleCapsFan on Oct 25, 2010 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Katie Carrera tweet
Brooks Laich and Jay Beagle are wearing black d-men jerseys this morning. Perhaps because John Carlson and Karl Alzner aren’t on the ice?
The Artist Formerly Known as CP2Devil.
Links guy at Five For Howling.
Corey M. Tweet
Tom Poti’s day is done less than 10 minutes into the official start or practice for the #Caps.
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Links guy at Five For Howling.
Do we actually know what’s wrong with him?
"Do you see my fist? It was fists like these that built quaint Canadian cities out of the harsh Canadian wilderness, etc. etc."
Not in Seattle anymore.
by SeattleCapsFan on Oct 25, 2010 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Has to be groin. It’s lower body, he missed time and then played and is missing again.
"It's always good to have vikings."
And the team doesn’t want him talking about it, according to Poti.
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
Imagine that. NHL team’s paranoia when it comes to injuries always makes me chuckle.
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by Carl Putnam on Oct 25, 2010 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions
First rule of Groin Club: Don’t talk about Groin Club.
'Cause the end of what it was is what it is right now...
by D'ohboy on Oct 25, 2010 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
@cmasisak22:
#Caps forward lines: 8-19-22, 26-85-28, 25-14-16, 17-39-10-90. Jay Beagle and HHBL are in black jerseys.
I’m guessing Hendricks was put on the second line for “grit”, since BL is playing D today. Corey also said Alzner had a personal day off; no mention as to why JC wasn’t there.
No mention of Beagle. Hopefully Brads is (really) back.
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
I’m guessing he’s on the 2nd line because Laich is playing defense, as is Beagle.
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by Carl Putnam on Oct 25, 2010 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Think Carlson was nursing something minor (looked like it). So hopefully 74 just resting up. Maybe same for Alzner, getting a day of rest due to the long break.
"Because the game is not just about fighting no more. " D.J. King
Carlson didn’t skate Saturday morning either and from the looks of Saturday night (and Corey’s reporting), it appears he has a leg injury.
Beagle, similar to Laich, was playing D today given the lack of D for practice. I assume Beagle is headed to Hershey if they decide they have enough forwards for this trip, given it looks like they will need to recall a dman for tomorrow’s practice and travel.
Have to admit, I do like Highway Hero…
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Oct 25, 2010 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Certainly more fitting.
Lockout talk makes me want to go out and choke an old lady - Elliotte Friedman
by Rob Parker on Oct 25, 2010 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hoverused Hnickname
"Semin had two goals this year, Perreault comes in and he gets three."
by jordanDC on Oct 25, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Update on Alzner, per Corey, per BB: Alzner traveled to Vancouver b/c his grandfather passed away, but BB expects him to play on Wed.
Update on Green, per Corey, per BB: BB expects Green to be available for full-time duty on Wed.
Update on MJ90, per Corey: he injury his hip in the 2nd period vs Boston, but kept playing on adrenaline. Got stiff/sore afterwards, hopes to play on Wed.
Update on RAHJC, per Katie, per BB: he was given a little extra time to heal what’s ailing him.
Update on SV1, per Corey, per BB: He’s gonna be off the ice for a couple of days
LET'S GO CAPS!!!
He’s gonna be off the ice for a couple of days
We all know what that means by now.
"Because the game is not just about fighting no more. " D.J. King
by bigeugene on Oct 25, 2010 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
When did Corey start using “HHBL?” And can anyone explain to me why he deserves the HH?
Lockout talk makes me want to go out and choke an old lady - Elliotte Friedman
Seriously. He’s a nice guy and all, but no one on this team deserves a “Hero” moniker for anything they’ve done on NHL ice.
You had me at no problem.
Did the HHBL tag start here?
Lockout talk makes me want to go out and choke an old lady - Elliotte Friedman
Don’t know. I suspect it started with the changed tire. Which makes him an automotive hero, or perhaps a good samaritan.
You had me at no problem.
It started before the tire. I can’t give you an exact date, but it was definitely way before the end of the season. I think (and this is just me digging around in the dusty confines of memory) that it was part of the whole “Brooks Laich still practicing” thing.
I think that nickname got some (inter)national traction, too. Maybe Friedman picked it up for a while?
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
by Hang a Laingtern on Your Problems on Oct 25, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Caleb Herbert
Off to a solid start in the USHL and now named to USA Hockey’s roster for the Junior Challenge link
by sk84fun_dc on Oct 25, 2010 12:36 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
awesome! Can’t wait for him to get to Duluth.
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So....Gordo
Why’s he sitting? Disciplinary reasons? Trade in the works? Hurt? Steroid investigation?
I don’t get it…
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Considering his injury history, any pain or stiffness he experiences will probably end up with him sitting; we have players who can take his place on the 4th line at no expense.
It could even be just a bit of back stiffness completely unrelated to the back problems he would most likely sit. No need to take that chance.
I think that’s the mantra for the team’s injuries right now. We’ve seen how much the regular season really matters, why risk a players long-term health when u can just sit him for a few games even few weeks and become 100% again.
Soon the Championship with be ours, all ours!
But if that’s what you’re doing, why not admit it? Is there really any need to be coy about it?
John Carlson - Glory follows him.
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DCist is boo-hoo’ing extra hard over the OV comments. I haven’t read the GQ article, but I don’t see where he called DC fans “fairweather.” Are they taking that just from the quote on D.C. being “a quiet, calm family town”?
Ah, Nate just linked the whole article, and I see it here:
The third and most passionate kind, however, is the Washington fan. Fair-weather, for sure: The capital wasn’t much of a hockey town until Ovechkin came along.
Ovi doesn’t call Washington fans “fairweather,” the author (Michael Idov) does.
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
Right, and I probably should have made that more clear (the DCist editor(s) as well). I assumed since he says ‘Ovechkin’ later in the quote it would be obvious…but it’s really not. Especially if the DCist editor doesn’t include that portion of the quote.
aaand looks like the DCist article makes that clear now. ("the fact that the profile’s author called D.C. fans “fairweather, for sure”) Nevermind entirely.
He’s piling on Varly’s comments about American girls for starters. Steinberg also has some comments. Honestly, what he does off the ice isn’t my concern as long as it doesn’t affect what he does on the ice (and isn’t illegal, etc – I haven’t read the article either), but the profile doesn’t come accross as terribly complimentary.
"It's always good to have vikings."
I don’t give a flying fuck if Ovi is having crazy Russian orgies every night of the week during the off-season. I do, however, think it’s pretty absurd of him to exhibit this sort of behavior in front of a reporter for a major publication. Is that a double standard? Probably. But this isn’t bar talk about how Ovechkin likes women, and it’s not even jokes about sex before games; this is actually putting on a Goddamn show. It’s not just “off the ice” behavior. It’s his private life, yes, but it stops being private when you do it in front of a reporter (knowingly! It’s not paparazzi camped outside his restaurant!). This reflects on the team, and I think it does both it and himself a disservice.
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
by Hang a Laingtern on Your Problems on Oct 25, 2010 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
He interviews differently in the Russian press. Maybe he forgot that GQ isn’t the Russian press.
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If he behaves differently with members of the Russian media because they’re willing to cut him slack when it comes to reporting stuff like this, then it’s incumbent on him to remember which reporter belongs to which media outfit. And I’m not sure that mitigates his behavior.
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
by Hang a Laingtern on Your Problems on Oct 25, 2010 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I would think he’d be more guarded w/ Russian press, actually. They’re much more prone to the yellow journalist tendencies, the paparazzi-type stuff that American media – at least the big boys like the Post and the NY Times – shies away from.
And re: his comments about American women? Meh. It’s no secret Americans are among the heaviest people in the world, and the fact is that hockey fans (and sports fans in general) aren’t exactly svelte as a group. If that’s who you see every day you’re going to assume all American women are that way.
If anyone needs me, I'll be at Kettler.
Oh, I couldn’t care less what he says about American women. As you say, it’s not exactly a lie. It’s the exhibitionist behavior that gets me.
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
by Hang a Laingtern on Your Problems on Oct 25, 2010 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, I’m tired to the Russians cutting down American women in the media. Be tactful, they make up a large group of the fan base.
(Yes, I know about the avatar hounding - just pretend mine is invisible.)
It’s kind of silly because it has more to do with the place and the crowd one runs with so to speak. Those Russian boys need to spend time in a more cosmopolitan place such as LA or NYC.
When I first moved to NYC I swear I had never seen so many tall, excruciatingly-thing women. Models of course—I found out later. And there is a whole clubbing subculture that I was not into personally, but I had friends who were.
And in NYC weight and looks mattered. Dressing fashionably matters. Money mattered. For me that’s the cultural difference: large, cosmopolitan city versus small suburban city. I dressed much more upscale when I went out in NYC than I do here. I’m happy here in my jeans and Caps teeshirt sans makeup.
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 25, 2010 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Manhattanites have another thing going for them – they don’t drive, they walk.
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
Not in those Manolo shoes they don’t. They take a taxi. Or better yet they call a car and driver. Me I schlepped to the subway.
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 25, 2010 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ve never felt those pressures in NYC, always feel at home there.
(and I refuse to wear black in NY)
(Yes, I know about the avatar hounding - just pretend mine is invisible.)
You were a stronger person than I was! But I drew the line at the heels. Seriously though I love NYC, past and present.
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 26, 2010 7:27 AM EDT up reply actions
I can’t imagine a young-hipster hockey player from Russia is going to say the women of his motherland, one of which he is dating, aren’t the most beautiful women in the world.
America is the world’s measuring stick in many ways
Soon the Championship with be ours, all ours!
Okay, I just read SteinBog’s excerpt. The one chickie, Lera, is Valeria Sokolova and she’s the girl he’s been spending time with here in DC. I don’t have a good answer for the other chickie, so I will also go with the ::shrug ::
Also, tighten your seatbelts – Ovi’s gonna take HBO clubbing. Egad.
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I would have to think that Ovie is smart enough to not do certain things on HBO. If he doesn’t feel the need to restrain himself, I would hope one of his teammates would say something to him. But Ovie seems to get that he needs to act more restrained in America. Hopefully in the future he learns that includes in front of American press, in any location.
Ovi comes across as, basically, a hedonisic pig in the GQ article. I’m not surprised that he’s a pig, but I am surprised that he basically put on a show for GQ. (I mean, hollering at women out of car windows?)
Somewhere, Max Talbot is smiling.
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At the same time, don’t forget that he grew up in a different culture and in a tough neighborhood apparently. Guys hollering at girls from car windows or walking by is quite common in my country as well. Not only that but staring at a girl walking by is very common also. For the most part, men don’t expect a response when they do this type of thing and most women in fact just ignore them but there are some women that do enjoy that kind of attention.
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Pul-eez. He’s acting like any 25 year old guy with a ton of money would act like: a fucking a rock star. And don’t say that this is a product of Russian culture. Hasn’t anyone here ever seen what’s on American television? Jersey Shore? Rock of Love? The Bachelor? If Ovi suffers from anything, it’s that he doesn’t hide his life, or pretend to be something that he’s not. Do you honestly think he’s the only superstar athlete that acts that way?
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
It just seems to me, that MY life is supposed to be a year round concern for me. And that perhaps, just perhaps, the fact that a 25 year old multi-millionaire athlete spent part (or even all) of HIS summer vacation lusting after “telochki” in front of some guy from GQ is not something I should care about one-way-or-another. Maybe, as a fan, Alex Ovechkin’s summer isn’t my business even if somebody writes about it.
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Okay, I finally read the article. Saying he comes across as a pig is much too strong for me, and I’m a fifty something woman who sometimes shakes her head and even blushes just at some of the colorful and suggestive patter that goes on here on Japers’.
First, he doesn’t yell at the girls outside his car window while cruising with the author. He’s yelling boom to the author in the car about a pretty girl. I may not like it but I have known since the age of puberty that guys do that guy talk and it’s not the kind of talk they do with their girl friends. Whether high-falutin’ or crude, whether in Moscow or in some rural town in the US or in the hinterlands of rural Canada, this is typical behavior. And Ovi does everything at the top of his lungs according to his teammates.
For a while, we cruise down Tverskaya. Each time he sees a pretty girl walking by, Ovechkin shouts “BOOM!” at the top of his lungs.
It’s written mostly from the author’s viewpoint in a very GQ way—colorful and heavily suggestive with sexual undercurrents. The author sets the piece against the backdrop of Moscow in the 1990s, decadent, mafia ruled, and of unchecked capitalism, and this point-of-view sets the tone of the entire piece. His theme is that Ovi is a result of and embodies post-communist Russia. He thus portrays him as not a thug but as having
having "thug appeal. Fans love to see him hit….Dynamo was…never famous for producing bruisers, but Ovechkin’s brutish force makes sense: Russia is a bruiser kind of country now.
He characterizes his childhood as a kid who wasn’t use to the good things in life despite his family’s sport legacy. He cleverly ties the fact that Ovi only 8 and half years in school as luckily for him he was athletic, suggesting that he only has rudimentary education, when in fact it’s clear that in his early teens Ovi simply transitioned into his country’s version of a sports training machine. Doesn’t mean his schooling stopped. Moreover, every country including the US and Canada has its own version of a heavily regulated sports training machine.
Here the author is suggestive and sets himself up as a married old fart with bad memories of being a high school geek and who is watching a titillating show:
While the calves and the lamb cavort, I hug the boards for an hour and a half. The girls giggle. The whole tableau is a high school nightmare come to life. Finally deliverance arrives in the form of a crone entrusted with the task of closing down the rink for the night. She doesn’t recognize the hockey star and rudely shoos Ovechkin away, and it’s fun to watch him go totally meek when faced with the fury of a Russian babushka.
But where’s the actual sex. None. They were on the ice and then they were kicked out when the rink closed and off he went with the author. I had a flashback to the Playboy bunny scene in a recent episode of Mad Men, kind of a titillating but nothing raunchy in the story.
And the way he ended this anecdote, Ovi comes across to me as very young in a way I’m not sure the author intended—kind of a mama’s boy or a kid who respects his elders and obeys the rules.
The author sets up a kind of dual life in describing a rather subdued life here in Washington, one that is focused more on the NHL, the Caps, and winning. But I can’t really find anything insulting. Moscow is much more like New York City with it’s nightlife and attention on money. That’s so NOT DC.
I did find rather poignant Ovi’s observation about Malkin:
When I mention his feud with a fellow Russian and former roommate, Evgeni Malkin of the Penguins, Ovechkin visibly deflates and says he considers Malkin the winner: “He’s got the Stanley Cup, and I don’t.”
Let’s just hope that translates into determination come April.
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 25, 2010 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Agree with your review. It’s clear the author has an image that he trying to create for Ovi, an image no doubt fitting for GQ’s target audience. Like I said above, his actions are exactly what I’d expect for a 25 year old multi-millionaire, his only fault is not pretending to be something he’s not.
And the “Boom” term – maybe he’s just been following @BizNasty2point0?
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
Heh. Got to admit I’ve got “boom” ringing in my head. I bet he says “boom” about a lot of things.
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 25, 2010 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice recap, I completely agree with your summary/interpretation of the story.
"Do you see my fist? It was fists like these that built quaint Canadian cities out of the harsh Canadian wilderness, etc. etc."
Not in Seattle anymore.
by SeattleCapsFan on Oct 25, 2010 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I too agree, the whole thing took 3 minutes to read, but picking apart the unfair criticisms/comments of a couple of posters cost more time than I had today. And thanks for taking the time to do such a thorough explanation.
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Because other people (Steinberg, PD, etc) pull only the racy sounding parts of the story, that’s all we had to go on. I agree with the analysis of the article, and will go further to suggest that the author was doing a little psycholanalysis himself, where you feel a little sympathy for his description of Ovi’s life before hockey stardom.
"It's always good to have vikings."
I agree. And I think he was sympathetic to Ovimif a bit heavy-handed.
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 26, 2010 7:28 AM EDT up reply actions
to Ovi if
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 26, 2010 7:30 AM EDT up reply actions
And DCers as a whole have yet to prove that they’re not fairweather. This goes back to my whole dislike of the “Building America’s Hockey Capital” slogan…you need more than 2 years of sellout crowds to even start considering yourself a hockey town with rabid hockey fans.
"Do you see my fist? It was fists like these that built quaint Canadian cities out of the harsh Canadian wilderness, etc. etc."
Not in Seattle anymore.
by SeattleCapsFan on Oct 25, 2010 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t believe DC ever will be a hockey town. I don’t mind that. As long as the Caps are supported by tens of thousands in this region and beyond, it doesn’t matter to me that there are hundreds of thousands of others who can’t name any hockey player.
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by CapitalCentre on Oct 25, 2010 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
it all depends on how one defines “hockey town.” DC will never be a hockey town the way Montreal or Toronto is.
In fact I’m not sure one can say DC is a sports town when compared to other cities with major sports franchises, even during the heady days of a winning Redskins franchise. But the Caps have made hockey relevant in this area, and to me that is a major achievement.
When I have people who have never paid any attention to hockey come up and discuss it, however general in their observations and that they know the name Ovechkin and what he looks like, well, these moments say something quite profound to me.
We don’t have to be a hockey town in the sense that any place in Canada is. We just have to keep hockey relevant to this area, a task made easier by an ever recognizable, gap-toothed superstar, who committed long-term to this franchise.
Alright, confess-how many goals are you going to make this year?
"I'm not going to tell!"
Well can you at least guarantee fifty?
"No way. I have a different objective. To win."
by capsyoungguns on Oct 25, 2010 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Beagle to Hershey
Per Vogel.
"I’m happy to have contributed to this league, to have done something important in my career, I’m proud, but you always will think you still could’ve done more, but tonight tells I’ve done things well."
Bye bye Beags. You’re on a one-way next year so it won’t matter if you’re up or down. You’ll still get Paid.
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cmasisak22 Boyd Gordon on what was wrong: “Nothing, I was good. Just some time off. … That’s all there really is to it.”
/shrug
"It's always good to have vikings."
“I felt good today, that’s all there is to say,” Gordon said. “We’ll see what goes on this week. I don’t know what my timetable is.”
Sounds like an undisclosed injury to me.
"It's always good to have vikings."
What’s the source for that quote? I hadn’t seen it via twitter and didn’t see it in Vogel’s blog update…is it in one of the blog updates or articles by Katie or Corey?
Sorry, that’s from Katie’s latest update, and you’re right they’re contradictory. Which sounds like the first one is the company line and the second one not so much. I don’t get it; Gordon’s a fourth liner – if he’s hurt, what’s the problem?
"It's always good to have vikings."
I’m starting to get this fear that he’ll be tossed around as trade bait, and they want to downplay the fact that he’s had a lot of injuries. Even though other GMs surely know about his injury history, if he’s injured now and they’re trying to trade him they might be covering that up.
Probably not a realistic fear but it’s there.
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by sk84fun_dc on Oct 25, 2010 2:46 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs
two fractured vertebrae and he skated off on his own. incredible. so happy to hear the surgery was successful, and I hope he’s able to resume playing hockey.
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They play two more times in mid November. They will have played four times before Thanksgiving
If you've read this far...seek help.
Yeah, I know. Can’t they do a better job of spreading these games out? (Rhetorical, it has no answer.)
"It's always good to have vikings."
Last year it was late November before we saw even one SE team.
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Our first game against the Panthers isn’t until Dec 9th, and the other 5 are all in 2011, with a pair of Home-Away pairings (one of which is our last two games of the season).
LET'S GO CAPS!!!
And we’re playing Boston again next week. That’s three of four total meetings within the first month of the season.
"It's always good to have vikings."
IIRC, we saw the NJD on the same sort of basis last year. I’d love to let someone else have Boston right at the moment, to tell you the truth. They’ve handled the Caps pretty easily so far.
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If Neuvy hadn’t had that whatever-it-was, we might’ve had a better shot at winning that second game. Well, maybe.
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For whatever reason, you see an awful lot of cases in pro sports schedules where you’re playing most of you games in the other team’s city in one calendar year. (ie: we host the Rags twice in Spring 2011 for the 10-11 season, and would host them again twice in Fall 2011 for the 11-12 season).
Its possible that they do this to make tax filings simpler, since the players and coaches need to file returns in every state that they play in. Some localities have half baked laws that make it preferable from a scheduling standpoint to stack as many games as you can in a particular calendar year.
If you’re in a division with Nashville, you would prefer to play all your games for those two seasons at Nashville in one calendar year rather than playing three in one year, and three in the other year. It would save every player rostered on the visiting team $7,500.
I’m not sure that’s actually a consideration, but it may be part of the reason for the sometimes wacky schedule.
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by iwearstripes on Oct 25, 2010 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
It never dawned on me that players would have to file tax returns in every place they played on. (Or were you being slightly snarky?)
I just assumed that the player would only have to file taxes in the state where their NHL team was based. (And road trips would fall into the same category as business trips for us more ordinary folks.)
I figured bagace’s theory listed below had some merit.
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Vogs tweeted last week about having to file in 10 states last year. Unless your home state has an agreement with your work state (like here in the DMV), you have to file wherever you earn your income.
"I would feed them lefts until I was pretty much tired of doing it." - Alan May, JRR, 10.16.2010
Must admit I don’t really know how players’ incomes are reported. I’m not an accountant or a tax expert.
Do the players (and other employees, like Vogs) get W-2’s from each of the states/provinces in which they play or one overall W-2 for the whole tax year, from the team, assuming they played with one team?
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Great Gabby Quote from Dump 'n Chase
"I haven’t even looked at Minnesota. I will spend all my time today and [Tuesday] about Carolina. All morning and all afternoon Wednesday will be Minnesota. I think they play tonight, so we’ll get a chance to watch them on TV, just to see if there’s anything going with them.
"Friday and Saturday we’ll take on the mess that is going to be Canada."
Gotta love Gabby.
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If he had called Canada a “hot tranny mess” he probably would have earned tenure in my books.
'Cause the end of what it was is what it is right now...
by D'ohboy on Oct 25, 2010 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Urban Dictionary exists for a reason.
If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
by Hang a Laingtern on Your Problems on Oct 25, 2010 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I obviously have not done a good enough job of keeping up with my Christian Siriano news (or what’s going on in Project Runway.)
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probably the first time I’ve seen “hot tranny mess” on a hockey site. rec’ed.
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