Junior's Reading And Viewing List: January 20 - 23, 2010

Last Update - January 23, 2010 at 11:53 PM EST

As we head toward the last week of January 2010, here are some good things to check out from the last few days. It's the 'Reading And Viewing List' for January 20 through January 23, 2010.


January 23, 2010

Postgame Notebook: Capitals 4, Coyotes 2
Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

A Sixer – Washington closed out a perfect week and extended its winning streak to six games with a hard-fought 4-2 win over the scrappy Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night. The Caps have had three winning streaks of half a dozen games in length this season, a claim no other NHL team can make...


Caps365: Capitals Coach Boudreau speaks to media after win
over Coyotes

CSN: Phoenix Coyotes at Washington Capitals game highlights

Right click on video to choose full screen option.

Watching Hershey Hockey with Mr. Hockey
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

Keeping stats for a hockey team may not seem like much of a glamor job, but it has its perks. For instance, being in the Giant Center press box when Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe, makes an unexpected visit. That’s precisely what happened for Hershey Bears’ stats helper Jess Mikula late last month, one Sunday evening before the Bears hosted the Norfolk Admirals...

The Wit And Wisdom Of Ted Nugent
By mdome at Classic Rock

To ‘celebrate’ The Motor City Motormouth’s recent outburst, calling US president Obama a ‘commie’, we thought it was time to put together 10 choice quotes from the man (The Nuge, that is, not Barack). So, here they are...

The Caps Go For A "Perfect Week" Tonight At Verizon Center
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan at Mark's Musings

I didn't post a recap of the Caps 6-3 Win On Thursday at "The Igloo" in Pittsburgh over the rival flightless birds, however unless for some bizarre reason this is the only place you get your NHL news you know it was a close, good game through 40 minutes...
*Note from Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes: This is a must read for Washington Capitals fans. Another great blog post by Mark
- a.k.a. Usually Frustrated Caps Fan.

Ovechkin is a Soldier, Semin Wants to Play Against Backstrom, and Malkin Has a Hankering for Some Borscht and Goals
Posted by tuvanhillbilly at Japers' Rink

After the Capitals/Penguins game, Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Semin and Evgeni Malkin all talked with Sovetsky Sport reporter Pavel Lysenkov. Before the Caps left Mellon arena, the trio had a friendly meeting,...

Caps Seek Six-Pack
Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...Two nights after punishing the Penguins in Pittsburgh, the triumphant Capitals come home to host another formidable foe. Washington entertains the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night at Verizon Center in the lone meeting between the two teams this season...

January 22, 2010

Pittsburgh fans and Ovechkin
By Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog

I think it's pretty well-documented that Caps fans have a certain fascination with Sidney Crosby, from the Pacifier handouts to the signs and jerseys to the photoshopped posters to the urinal-cake art to even more t-shirts, etc...

Sittin' at the End of the Bar
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

...-- There is a widely-accepted narrative that the Caps lack the defense and goaltending to go deep into the playoffs. The Caps are currently allowing 2.78 goals per game. Last year’s Stanley Cup champions? 2.84 for the season...

Washington Was All About Hockey on This January Thursday Night
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

In somewhat unexpected fashion, hockey sure seemed to blow up around town yesterday. Late Thursday morning Dan Steinberg began generating a great volume of great dispatches from Pittsburgh. You should read every single one of them. His Post colleague Tarik via Twitter reported never before encountering so massive a media following for a regular season hockey game. Corey Masisak was on site in the Igloo helping out Comcast...

January 21, 2010

Postgame Notebook: Capitals 6, Penguins 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Seventy in Fifty – It was just another regular season game in mid-January. But it was also against the defending Stanley Cup champions. And it was against the team that ousted Washington from the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring.

The Caps came to play tonight, and it showed. They came out hard and strong, and worked their way past a few speed bumps on their way to an impressive 6-3 win over the Penguins...

Conan O'Brien And Jay Leno 'Tonight Show' Feud Goes Superhero
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Freshly ousted "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien's connection to comic books by way of a certain Cimmerian warrior is rather obvious, but did you know that he also...

Della Rovere: "You have to play on the edge,
but you can't go over it"
By Stephen Pepper at Japers' Rink

Selected by the Washington Capitals at the tail end of the 2008 draft in Ottawa (204th overall to be exact), and developing into a real agitator with leadership qualities, and a bit of a scoring touch, winger Stefan Della Rovere may have been the last of the unplucked gems that summer,...

So I Heard There Was a Hockey Game Tonight?
By Hockey Mom at Musings Of A Hockey Mom

Yep, only one of the biggest, most-hyped regular season match ups between two of the most bitter rivals in the NHL. The Capitals visit Mellon Arena and the much-disliked Pittsburgh Penguins tonight for the first meeting of the season...

The Bluechip Options in Net Are Numerous
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

Though unable to track down John Carlson in Hershey last weekend I managed to see Braden Holtby start both weekend home games in the Bears’ net. I’d never seen Holtby perform in person, and I was well aware of the mega-buzz he’d been generating the last two hockey seasons, and so I was thrilled at the chance to get to see him...

Thursday Caps Clips: Caps @ Penguins Game Day
Posted by J.P. at Japers' Rink

...● For those of you in town, we expect to see you at the Japers' Rink/Puck Daddy viewing party at Bailey's tonight. For those of you who aren't, make sure to stop by CSN Washington's online chat - hosted by Corey Masisak - during the game...

Todd Rundgren: A Wizard Reborn In London
By mdome at Classic Rock

Todd Rundgren will make a dozen costume changes when he showcases the celebrated album A Wizard, A True Star in London next month – and he’ll do them all on stage!...

Caps Finally Face Penguins
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington heads to Western Pennsylvania for its first meeting of the season with the Penguins on Thursday at the Igloo. Last spring, the Capitals and Pittsburgh hooked up in one of the most memorable playoff series in recent memory. The first six games of that series gave fans some of the most dramatic postseason hockey in Washington’s franchise history,...

January 20, 2010

An epic Lysenkov's interview with Ovechkin
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Great Pavel Lysenkov is at his best again, a humongous interview with Ovechkin at SovSport.ru.

If you don't know yet, he did "Alex Ovechkin's love Story", about Sasha and Katja, the most read post about Ovechkin on this blog...

Name Dropping - My Whereabouts
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take

I am not gate crashing. I have an invite and will be at the White House today with the President and First Lady...

January Prospects Update: Forwards
Posted by David M. Getz at Japers' Rink

Yesterday we provided you with a mid-season look at how some of the Capitals' goaltending and defense prospect were faring; today we give you an update on their forwards. The pedigree here isn't quite as high - you won't find a forward who can match the pedigree or buzz surrounding...

Theo Saves the Day as Caps Squeak Past Red Wings
By Hockey Mom at Musings Of A Hockey Mom

For the better part of last night's hockey game, the Washington Capitals got schooled by the former Stanley Cup champion Red Wings. They were outshot and outhustled, missing too many opportunities to crash the net and to clear the puck out of Jose Theodore's grill. But luckily for the home team, Theo...

Frampton’s Churchillian Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

Peter Frampton – the man who accidentally ruined rock with Frampton Comes Alive – is to release an autobiographical album at the end of April.

The new album is called Thank You Mr. Churchill...

High Voltage Festival Update
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Bachman & Turner, Uriah Heep and Pendragon have all been added to the bill of Classic Rock’s High Voltage Festival...

Sabbath Master Tapes Up For Auction
By mdome at Classic Rock

An original set of master tapes for the third Black Sabbath album Master Of Reality is currently being auctioned on eBay...

Gabriel, Slash Donate Songs For Haiti Relief
By mdome at Classic Rock

Peter Gabriel and Slash have both contributed previously unreleased music to help raise funds for Haiti, following the recent earthquake devastation...

Quo Vadis, Varlamov?
By tuvanhillbilly at Japers' Rink

The twitter world was, for lack of a better word, all atwitter last night when, following a rousing Caps win over Detroit, local CSN announcer Lisa Hillary reported that Washington goaltender Semyon Varlamov would not be participating in the Vancouver Olympics due to...

A TWO-point night: Caps 3 - Red Wings 2
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Can you give all three stars to one guy?

Well, even if you can’t, no star in this game shined more brightly than Jose Theodore, who almost single-handedly pilfered a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings tonight that the Caps, frankly, had no business winning...