Goaltending 3.0: Brett Leonhardt’s Ongoing Development as a Goaltender
The late-blooming pupil and his new mentor This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Capitals’ website production specialist Brett Leonhardt signing an amateur tryout contract, donning goalie...
View ArticleFrom the Author of Gabby, a First-Rate Take on New Media and Hockey
A reporter of Tim Leone’s accomplishments and stature doesn’t need any advice from me on how to tackle a story, but when he interviewed me last month about bloggers and their role in covering the Caps,...
View ArticlePuck Talk on D.C. Radio This Weekend
With transitional weather returned upon us, you have a better cause for sticking indoors near a radio this weekend than last for a bit, although you’d do well to begin each and every Saturday morning...
View ArticleGive Blood, Play Hockey – Saturday’s Charity Hockey Classic
Heading to Kettler on Sunday to catch the opening day of the Washington Capitals’ Rookie Camp? Why not stop by a day early for the Second Annual Charity Hockey Classic? The Charity Hockey Classic is an...
View ArticleDJ Stretch: Pumping Up the Volume of Verizon Center
There was something mischievously odd about the smirk on Brett Leonhardt’s face as he approached me in the Verizon Center pre-game press box a few weeks back. “Did you hear ‘Tom Sawyer’?” he asked me,...
View ArticleReason to Arise Early in Pittsburgh on New Years Eve
Some details have emerged about a Capitals-Penguins alumni game associated with this season’s Winter Classic at Heinz Field. First, the game will be played at 9:30 a.m. New Years Eve, on an auxiliary...
View ArticleThe A’s Grueling Grind, and a Carousel of Goalies
The Hershey Bears (39-21-1-4) dropped a shootout decision in Portland, Maine, last night. Let’s just hope their bus driver is fresher than the skaters he’ll convoy through week’s end. When John Walton...
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