Good news from Caps Land today, kids. The team has announced its radio deal for the 2007-08 season with Bonneville International Corporation. SportsTalk 980 is now in the rear view mirror as far as radio affiliates go, and the signal will be much stronger this season.
For those of us living a bit outside of [...]
Twenty-five years ago today, the Washington Capitals named David Poile as their general manager. Poile’s appointment came just three days after the Caps informed interim general manager Roger Crozier that he would not be leading the team into the 1982-83 season.
Crozier’s departure was announced in a 4 p.m. press release on a Friday afternoon. At [...]
I’m told that even though forwards Tomas Fleischmann and Jakub Klepis have yet to sign contracts for the 2007-08 season, they will be coming to training camp and will be participating in drills and the daily routine even if they do not come to terms with the team between now and then.
Also, we had a [...]
Last week a story about ex-Maple Leaf Jim Pappin’s 1967 Stanley Cup ring surfaced, along with the ring itself. A treasure hunter with a metal detector found Pappin’s ring in the Gulf of Mexico. Today brings news that the story has reached a happy ending. Pappin’s ring is going back to him, and the the [...]
About a week and a half from now, the walls of the Kettler Capitals Iceplex will be filled with the sounds of pucks hitting boards and skates cutting ice. The Caps today released the schedule for the team’s upcoming rookie camp and training camp, and the first skates hit the ice on the morning of [...]
The good folks on XM Radio’s hockey channel (channel 204) will be hosting a full hour of Capitals discussion starting at 4 p.m. this afternoon when Washington general manager George McPhee joins them live on the air. Tune in if you can. I may try to sneak down to the parking lot and listen in [...]
The Caps came to terms with restricted free agent defenseman John Erskine today, signing him to a two-year deal. Erskine, who signed a contract as an unrestricted free agent with Washington last season on the eve of training camp, played 29 games with the Capitals in 2006-07. He registered a goal, seven points (a career [...]
Anyone who has attended an AHL hockey game at the old Hersheypark Arena or the spiffy new Giant Center won’t be surprised in the least by the news my friend Tim Leone reports on page A-1 of Friday’s edition of The [Harrisburg] Patriot-News. Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal has ranked Harrisburg-Hershey as the second [...]
I grew up mostly in Chicago, so Jim Pappin always seemed like a Blackhawk to me. He had his best years in a Hawks sweater, skating on the famed MPH line with Pit Martin and Dennis Hull. Although he started his career with the Maple Leafs and later went off to wear the gaudy California [...]
So much for Toronto defenseman Pavel Kubina being headed to Chicago in an impending deal (’twas an e4, if you’re scoring at home). Today’s Chicago Tribune scotches that deal and pretty much anything else involving the Blackhawks right now.
There was a nice piece in the Dallas Morning News yesterday on Stars captain Brenden Morrow. His [...]
