Check this one out from Mark Cuban’s blog.

Flame on.

Another reason to chuckle at the so-called experts.

Here is a good blog post from Puckhead’s Thoughts. It is an emotional time.

Here is a good blog post from Puckhead’s Thoughts. It is an emotional time. This morning when I woke up and signed on, I had a bunch of emails from Caps fans. Some were sent to me between the second and third period intermission. I wish I could republish some of the comments but that would be bad form. I always wonder why some fans will be so harsh in email to me during a game. I am on your side. I bleed along side you. I share your joy and pain. It is incredible to see the venom and anger and angst that some fans will heap on us when we are down 3 to 1 in an important game. It is even sadder when we rally and play such a great third period and win the game 5 to 3. And then we don

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What a weird three game road trip.

 We only played two outstanding periods of hockey out of nine. We won two games and came back with four of six possible points. We have to be honest. We are lucky and fortunate. We have work to do to prepare for next week where we do it all over again playing three games on the road. We need to be humble and realistic and play much better hockey the next six games. I thought the team showed its heart and commitment to each other in the 3rd period last night. Seeing Alex Ovechkin flying all over the ice the entire game, netting two goals and claiming his 60th, was amazing. Also his pass to Backstrom on the ultimate game winner was sweet as well. I am also proud of Nicklas Backstrom. As I noted after the Pens game "he will win 100 games for us in his career with the Caps". Those two goals were huge for us and for his confidence. Now we need to bottle up the way we played in the first period against Nashville and the third period against Atlanta for the remaining six games. On a side note, I am friends with the owners of the Atlanta Thrashers. They are very committed owners. They love the game and they are very classy folks. We talk a lot and have deep empathy for each other. Their team got out to a bad start this season and had to make a coaching change and then they started to play quite well. We then went into our slump and Atlanta beat us pretty badly during Thanksgiving week. I remember a couple of the Thrashers players going on TV and commenting about our team; its prospects; how our team was playing to get its coach fired; players offering their opinions to our players through the media, etc. etc. I remember thinking to myself that this was not the respectful thing to do as a player. The season is a marathon. We play each other so many times per season that we have a natural rivalry. One of our key leaders confided in me and said, "Let’s see how the season ends. Hockey has a natural way of serving up some humble pie." Well, we are in the playoff race and Atlanta has won twice in the last seventeen games. It shows why we as a team and as players must always be respectful to the game and to each other. In this division, we play each other many times. I believe in being humble, having empathy and being positive. I hope our players took note of how words about competitors can come back to haunt them. We should and will always take the high road. We will never comment on another team, its prospects or its state of play.

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Thanks for the shout out. There is always room for great journalism. That is what generates the clicks, loyalty and ongoing engagement. However, I do think putting things in context is what journalists should be doing more and more of these days as news is available everywhere and for free. Context and content activates discussion and user-generated posts and people returning for more community.

Thanks for the shout out. There is always room for great journalism. That is what generates the clicks, loyalty and ongoing engagement. However, I do think putting things in context is what journalists should be doing more and more of these days as news is available everywhere and for free. Context and content activates discussion and user-generated posts and people returning for more community. I decided to post my "Ten Point Plan to Reinvent the Newspaper Business" because I am often times hard on their management and decided to be positive and pro-active. Besides, newspapers are always telling other businesses how to run their affairs. Thought I would just return the favor.