Tit for tat. Cooley interviews Mike Green and Alex Ovechkin. Fun stuff.
Chris Cooley is a great guy, a great tight end and a very web savvy young media exec. Alex was wearing Chris’s game worn jersey as he kicked field goals at Fed Ex Field.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Our Unsung Hero Dick Patrick
Dick Patrick is our longtime President of the Washington Capitals. He is a successful business leader here in our community as well as a great husband and family man. I consider him a very close friend and confidante. He has no ego. He is low key and I was thrilled to see that he did this interview on the radio yesterday.
He actually reached out to me and brought me into the game of hockey as majority owner of the team. It was Dick who was most vocal about our rebuild. It was Dick who I give the credit to for extending the Ovechkin contract to 13 years. He pushed us all to make that aggressive move.
Dick is steady, mature, honest and has very high levels of personal integrity. He is also part of one of hockey’s royal family. He may seem low key but the passions for our team and the game boil at high levels within.
I am honored to be partners with Dick Patrick. Read this article.
I Looked Like Ringo
Watch this film. My best friend in NYC says that I looked liked Ringo when I was young. Too funny.
Brian Epstein was truly the fifth Beatle. He was a classy man, a man of taste and a man who managed the Beatles to become the #1 act of all time.
I am so proud to let you all watch great films like this one on SnagFilms. This is worth your while. Watch it this weekend.
What’s NOT to Laich?
Brooks goes mainstream and makes it into pop culture in Sports Illustrated. Is that a wry smile from Brooksie within?
Jump the Shark
That felt good. It was the first time since we have owned the team that the Caps beat the Sharks.
I liked the way we played aggressive and terrific team-oriented defense.
I thought Alex Semin had two tone setting shifts to start the game and he deserved that first goal. He was a load to handle last night.
Alex Ovechkin played like he always plays and was rewarded for driving hard to the net - twice – in less than a minute.
Mike Knuble is a grown up and plays the game the way it is supposed to be played. He is a joy to watch. Our grinders were grinding. Our D played big and made it difficult to enter our zone. Our goaltending was top notch. It was a very good and precise game for us.
Thanks and Thanks
I have received so many fantastic emails from our fans telling me how much fun they had at the Season Ticket Holders party at Six Flags. And by the looks of this video, our players had a gas as well. I am so happy that you all enjoyed a special night with our franchise.
And I also have received more than 200 positive emails regarding the Capitals Convention. While we have some tweaking to do to improve, that day was also memorable and received very high marks from our fans as well. The general consensus is that we MUST do the convention on an annual basis.
Sometimes some folks have deep trepidation regarding new developments and when we change something in our routine, the message boards get all abuzz and folks start to fret. And then send me really tough flame mails before we even conduct the sessions.
I remember reading some of the emails about our new jersey design for instance, and about the Red Rockers and about a long laundry list of things we wanted to introduce or change or modify hopefully for the better.
I am very appreciative to read supportive emails. It is a good way to learn and see what season ticket holders like and don’t like. It is also terrific to read about people’s personal experiences at these events. It honestly gives me goose bumps to see how we can make you so happy. Thank you for sharing good news about positive experiences. It makes my day. Go Caps!
Fantastic – Thank You
Here is a great review of SnagFilms. We are humbled. Thank you so much.
One For The Money – Two For The Show
Rock ‘n roll is the soundtrack of our generation. Enjoy learning about the birth of rock ‘n roll by watching this documentary. It is a great film about the development of the genre. I love films like this one. They take me back to a much simpler and nicer time. The music was good and revolutionary and the black and white TV clips were etched in my mind’s eye forever. Watch and enjoy.
If You Would Like to Go to a Caps Game…
…There are still tickets available.
With all this talk of selling out every game, we still have some single tickets available directly from us.
Read this article. You will understand what we are doing. We want to be fair to the marketplace and leave walk up tickets for everyone to be able to buy.
Also, some folks who have bought season tickets and can’t go to all of the games will sell their tickets on the official TicketExchange program.
We do have some tickets to sell - not many - but we would like to sell them so I am hopeful we can move these last few hundred tickets on a game by game basis. Thanks for your support as always.
Love Roller Coaster
Thank you Caps fans. Another great time was had by all. The roller coaster is an apt metaphor for our team and our season - ups, downs and ups!
The Caps Convention is done: Check. The Caps Season Ticket Holder Party is now in the books: Check. We have a few more special evenings lined up for our fans but it is time to get serious now and get back to work.
Thanks OFB for the pictures of a night well spent.
See you all on Thursday night as we play perhaps one of the best teams in the NHL. What a brutal schedule we have embraced to kick off the season playing Boston, Philly, Detroit, New York Rangers and now San Jose. Go Caps!