Daily Archives: January 18, 2010

Caps Back in First Place in East

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We now have 66 points which is good enough – for the moment – to rank us first in the Eastern Conference in terms of points. We are humbled but our expectations are quite high.

We beat Philly again yesterday 5-3. I think we have now taken 7 of 8 available points from them this season and we have scored 22 goals in four games. Philly is a great team with a great D corps so this set of achievements is impressive in my book.

We are rolling four lines now, all of them that are tough to play against and all can score. We are playing well on special teams too, all eight seconds last night on our one power play when we scored that is. :-) Really, we only drew one power play all night. What was up with that stat?

When we get reasonable to good goaltending, we are a very tough team to play against.

We now move on to Tuesday’s big game against the Red Wings.

We sell out every game. It will be a sea of red but for us this time not the Red Wings. Thank you Caps fans - you all rock! And you sure Unleashed the Fury at the game. The roof almost came off when Alex scored on his penalty shot.

Onward. If you are what your record says you are, we should feel pretty good for one moment.

Pause. Smile.

OK – back to being hyper nervous about every little detail. Go Caps!

Paul Baker Laid to Rest

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Check out Jimmy Lynn’s wonderful blog post regarding the services for Paul F. Baker this weekend. It was an honor to attend and to spend quality time with Paul’s family and so many great friends.

Paul will be missed. I couldn’t take my eyes off of the photo of Paul near the font of the church alter. He seemed to be staring at me with that fun gleam in his eye.

Jimmy - Let us know when you set up the scholarship fund. Lynn and I are in and will help. I promise to work with you and others and Steve and Jean Case to establish a real AOL reunion. We need to all meet and do it under much more joyous circumstances. RIP Paul.