Saturday Caps Clips

by EmilyB on Sep 11, 2010 7:42 AM EDT in Caps Clips

Your savory Saturday brunch links:

Japers' Rink Radio has the weekend off. We'll return to the interwaves next week with lots o' rookie and training camp goodness.
There's a charity hockey game being played today at Kettler, to benefit Inova Blood Donor Services. Tickets are ten dollars, puck drops at four, and you'll be able to watch the coaching stylings of Jeff Schultz. [Charity Hockey Classic]
The ice at Kettler Capitals Iceplex is starting to look a little crowded with new arrivals every day. Yesterday, it was Mike Green and Braden Holtby. [Caps Insider, Caps365]
Holtby has a spiffy new Capitals mask. His spiffy new Hershey mask is pending. [Caps365, RMNB]
Those Saskatchewan boys, they like to drive. Braden details his journey to Caps camp. [Dump-n-Chase]
Fit and feisty. [OFB]
Eric Fehr has gone all Hollywood on us. But not before he tells us a little about his offseason. [Fehr Factor]
"Whither Ovie?" [Globe and Mail]
Things that come in threes: Coins in a fountain, progeny of copier leasing magnates, and Russians at Capitals' training camps. [RMNB]
The Boston Bruins are #3 in Corey's Eastern Conference countdown. Which means the top two teams are...Us and Them. [Masisak]
Looking at the 2010-2011 Montreal Canadiens. [KoL]
The Rink represents in a Southeast Conference bloggers' roundtable. [View From My Seats]
Taking you from Bradley to Backstrom in the Caps sweater countdown. [Rock the Red]
"Hockey Diaries: The Almost Season" premiered last night, and it was a great experience. [Flashy Glove Save]
Congratulations are in order for the Rink's own YvonLabresMoustache, who will be pushing the rock of Jeff Schultz knowledge up the hill marked "Washington Post comments" for the foreseeable future. [Box Seats]
Happy 44th birthday to Craig Billington.
Nine years ago today, LA Kings pro scouting director Ace Bailey and scout Mark Bavis boarded United Airlines Flight 175. Nine years later, their memories live on as thoroughbred Aces Mark will race in their honor at Belmont Park. [NHL.com]

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We’re the Ameritel Triplets, and we know quality copiers.

You had me at no problem.

by Ninjak on Sep 11, 2010 8:17 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Looking forward to your blogging, YLM! If anything, your journalism will be more accurate than Mr. Wise’s. Maybe they can just suspend him permanently and give you the job, no?

"If you want money go to the bank, if you want bread go to the bakery if you want goals go to the net." - #21

by snakegriffin on Sep 11, 2010 8:31 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

Congrats YLM.

This has nothing to do with you, but I’m kind of stunned at the 11-1 M/F ratio. Rob Dibble approves!

"This guy is an android. He's not human....Oh my goodness."

by Sam DC on Sep 11, 2010 8:37 AM EDT up reply actions

I agree with you, congrats to YLM. (YLM, you must be the blogger Ryan C., given that you’re a Terp alum and from MD. The other Caps fan bloggers are a Caps fan from VA who’s a UVa alum and a female from the DC area.)

Rocking the Red since 1975

by CapsFan75 on Sep 11, 2010 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions

Pretty sure YLM is the one with the Guinea Pig named Ralph Waldo Oinkvechkin.

"Don't mind WM...he's an all-around jerk."

by Whiter Mage on Sep 11, 2010 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Nine years ago today, LA Kings pro scouting director Ace Bailey and scout Mark Bavis boarded United Airlines Flight 175. Nine years later, their memories live on as thoroughbred Aces Mark will race in their honor at Belmont Park.

And Bruce Boudreau was planning to take that flight, but headed back a day early.

My blog and Twitter, featuring coverage of the winger that has now terrorized over 70 NHL goalies.

by red army line on Sep 11, 2010 8:34 AM EDT reply actions

Mikey in the CI piece:

“If we take these first 82 games to prepare ourselves I think we can go a long way, we just have to be smart.”

Interesting. This from a guy who, ahem, one might say lost his concentration at the end there. (Humongous playoffs brain fart?) Mikey being smart? As that old line in ‘Tin Cup’ went, “The word smart and him don’t often collide in the same sentence.”

Kidding! I’m kidding! I love watching Mikey play. Thrill a minute!

by Uncle C on Sep 11, 2010 8:46 AM EDT reply actions

RIP, Ace

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

by fat_daddyo on Sep 11, 2010 10:58 AM EDT reply actions

Eeh?

RIP Ace?

by SwedeTom on Sep 11, 2010 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Nine years ago today, LA Kings pro scouting director Ace Bailey and scout Mark Bavis boarded United Airlines Flight 175. Nine years later, their memories live on as thoroughbred Aces Mark will race in their honor at Belmont Park. [NHL.com]

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by winterion on Sep 11, 2010 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions

RMNB’s pic of Ovie and Nikita Kashirsky as kids is adorable. And I’m looking forward to finally seeing Kashirsky skate! Missed him in South Carolina last season.

Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
Donation info for SAVES FOR KIDS 2010!! Make a difference.

by RedBirdie on Sep 11, 2010 12:41 PM EDT reply actions

They now have it posted on the Alex Ovetjkin site as well. A prophetic pic in many ways, given that both kids ended up in America.

Rocking the Red since 1975

by CapsFan75 on Sep 11, 2010 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions

The Tyler Sloan Fan Club would like to thank Emily for the Sloan love in the Clips photo today. It was good seeing all the fellow rinkers at the Hockey Diaries premier last night, as well.

Founding member of the Tyler Sloan Fan Club

by terpgrrl on Sep 11, 2010 2:43 PM EDT reply actions

bummed I missed it! Had to change plans at the last minute :(

by RedBirdie on Sep 11, 2010 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions

ace bailey was one of my first favorite caps. there was a picture of him hanging outside the old capital club and the cap centre. ace was on his knees holding a broken stick that he had just shattered after the other team scored. here’s rob webber’s description of it.

“The most poignant picture of that first year — and most of the first eight — was of Ace Bailey,” said Ron Weber, who broadcast every Caps game until this season, when the team moved to MCI Center. “The Capitals had given up a late goal to lose — and he immediately smashed his stick over the crossbar of the goalpost. He skated a few strides, then sank down on the ice at the right wing circle. You couldn’t see his face. His whole body just sagged — and the shaft of his broken stick was still in his hand.”

remember, that team won 8 games. it’s not like they just go bounced from the playoffs. i was searching online to see if i could find it but found this burnside article which is a great read too.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?columnist=burnside_scott&id=2574764

Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...

by dcsportsfan1 on Sep 11, 2010 7:57 PM EDT reply actions