Archive for April, 2011

According to the eBay posting, Budweiser had a short-lived promotion, only in Canada, with NHL team logos on their beer bottles. Now, sans the beer, many of these bottles are showing up on eBay.

Tampa Bay Lightning Coach Guy Boucher got up close and personal with the media members at the Verizon Center on Friday, yet not one of them asked the question that was on everyone’s mind: What’s that thing on your face? Possibilities: A slice of pizza A teepee An exercise bike seat Things shaped like a triangle for 100, Alex. Groan. Here is what has previously been reported:

If you listen to Lightning Coach Guy Boucher, you’d think Tampa Bay’s 4-2 Game 1 victory Friday barely mattered. “They’re a more powerful team than us and some time or another it’s bound to show,” he said after the game. Let’s hope that day is Sunday at 7 for Game 2. Click on the box score for a larger version because these jokes are SO DAMN FUNNY. Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.

These Caps fans, who call themselves the Red Men, were spotted walking outside Verizon Center on Friday, passing out Caps stickers to fans. They say they’re only doing this for the playoffs but I’m sure someone will request that they make this a regular thing. I’m all for it, I suppose, only if they find some threads that are a little more loose-fitting. Follow us on Twitter and like our Facebook page.

Hockey writers often find themselves double checking the spelling of names, even ones that they’ve written many times. In fact, I’ve never spelled Coach Bruce’s last name without copying and pasting it from the media guide. Now, let’s see how well you know your Washington Capitals. You have one minute to spell the last names of the ten Capitals we list. They don’t need to be answered in order, but they do have to be spelled correctly. If you cheat, you’re a jerk. Now, go to Sporcle for today’s Capitals Spelling Bee.

Capitals goaltender Semyon Varlamov, of Samara, Russia, is 23 today. This also marks the third time us Caps fans have celebrated this.

Capitals fans often find themselves wondering why so many local department stores carry Redskins, Nationals, Ravens and Maryland Terps gear but barely have anything Caps-related. In the last year or so, some of those places have gotten better, like Kohls, but then I walked into Lids, one of those hat-only places at malls. Lids, too, used to have everything but Caps hats, but this time I was delighted to see an entire rack with several to choose from, including Winter Classic leftovers if you still want to reminisce via headware. Even better, at Lids, you can get a custom embroidery [...]

Slapshot was in attendance for the Annual White House Easter Egg Roll yesterday, and they have a full gallery up on the Capitals’ site. Apparently the Wizards’ mascot was there too, but nobody knew what it was.