Monthly Archives: July 2009

Perhaps you’ve seen this by now. It came to our attention as a tweet by Sean Leahy and a retweet by Japers’ Rink yesterday. It’s too good not to pass along. Here is the game trailer from 2K Sports’ NHL2K10. Continue reading →

The Washington Capitals have signed Milan Jurcina. According to Tarik, the big Slovakian blueliner will early $1.375 million next season in a one year deal, as set by the arbitration award. Continue reading →

Three years ago we discussed (okay, to be honest, poked some fun at) the owners of a hockey franchise registering a patent on the team name The Fighting Walleye. Well Spike, the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye mascot, debuted recently, adding a foam-bodied exclamation point to the Walleye hockey franchise. Continue reading →

In today’s Examiner, OFB comrade Dmitry Chesnokov offers an update on Capitals’ 2009 second-round pick Dmitri Orlov, one of the most interesting players at last week’s Development Camp. The upshot: he valued greatly his trip overseas to attend the camp, he … Continue reading →

For the uninitiated: Sidney Crosby has been living with Penguins owner Mario Lemieux since he entered the National Hockey League. As an 18-year-old rookie, The Kid’s choice to move in with his boss was a bit odd (why not bunk with teammates?); but to be fair, he idolized Lemieux, so indulge the excited teenager. Now, three years later, the captain of the team that just won the Stanley Cup is still living with the team’s owner?
Sure, Lemieux’s home is a sprawling estate, as evidenced by the photos of his Cup party that recently made the rounds (too painful to link to here, but you can find ’em if you search around). But c’mon, it’s not like Crosby can’t afford his own mansion or three — plenty big enough to accommodate family or friends if he doesn’t want to live alone. Perhaps, just perhaps, it’s time to stop living with his employer. Continue reading →

Just not too well: he’s a Penguin as of today. Tarik spoke with Johnson about an hour ago:
“I did wait a little while hoping something would pan out with Washington,” Johnson said of waiting three weeks before signing with another team. “But it wasn’t in the cards. It was just one of those odd man out situations again.”
Johnson, who is coming off hip surgery, now joins the Penguins with the expectation of being the No. 2 behind Marc-Andre Fleury.
In happier news, Mike Vogel sat down today with an incoming veteran, Mike Knuble, at Kettler: Continue reading →