We are so honored and pleased to help in our small way. Military Night is always a huge success for us at the Washington Capitals. To make men and woman who serve our country smile makes our day’s work worthwhile. Read this article from the Department of Defense. Thanks to you all for all you do to keep us safe and free.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
So How Should I Feel About This?
Go to Google…. type in Washington Capitals and what do you see?
A nice batch of editorial listings all on the left hand side. All driving traffic to media sites. Those media sites then turn around and resell that traffic as advertising.
And then 8 paid listings on the right rail. All bid up by third parties, all using our trademark. In fact the bidding gets so high that we at the Washington Capitals CAN’T afford to buy the space.
Google sells the ads and makes money all using our trademark.
So we build the brand, we generate the interest from fans and everyone makes some dollars but us 
.Worse thing is many or most people think the ads on the right are generated by us. And they are not.
Is this “doing no evil?” by Google just saying…. this isn’t feeling good to me.
What Killed the Dinosaurs?
Check this one out. I love this kind of work.
Also check out the scientific research and then the Snagfilms film embed on dinosaurs as well.
A Mash Up
Make something fresh out of something stale.
Piracy? Originality? You decide. Or the courts may decide.
Sample this…. watch “Rip! A remix manifesto”. Stay relevant. Get your freak on via Snagfilms.com. Watch it this weekend. And make some noise…
Military Night
We are now 7 and 1 in Military Night games. Military Night is my favorite night during the regular season. We are honored to host the brass but we are more honored to host so many brave men and woman who serve our nation and keep us safe.
We won last night 5 to 4 in a sloppy- goofy but fun game. Here is a bunch of photos of our players during practice wearing their fatigues in uniform.
Our Coach is a gambler. He threw three of our new players into the pool and got their feet wet. Scotty Walker blew up scoring two goals and got the game winner. He smiled like no one’s business. Welcome all to DC.
We have a lot of depth now. We have so much talent, so many weapons, and so much “optionality”. This is the most talent we have ever had on one team heading into the playoffs. It is an exciting time to be a Caps fan.
18 games left to play. 94 points. 255 goals. Up by 14 points for the lead in the East. Up by 28 points for the lead in the division. Wings for everyone. A salute to the Military. Try to be happy.
Hero
He was last night.
He got a big hug from me.
That was brave, that was selfless, and that was what winners do for their team and team mates.
Thank you Nicklas Backstrom.
Click here for the replays. I love this one- it made me smile.
How Cool Is This?
Check out this fan’s guide. I thought this was so cool. What do you think? Go Caps!
We Now Have Many Substrata Realities…
We have the fans. They vote and they do their analysis on our deals. See Capitals Insider.
We have media. See this one.
We have bloggers. This was a great write up.
We have other team execs being quoted.
We have our own folks who actually make the deals.
It now gets all mashed up. Everyone has an opinion.
And you know what I think, right? “No one knows anything!!!”
We won’t know til we know.
Sit back and enjoy the ride. And remember try to be happy. You can do it.
Cringe Worthy
When I read articles like this one I just cringe.
There is a special place in hell reserved for officials that take charitable dollars meant to help people and re-purpose those dollars to buy weapons .Or to steal the dollars to feed their own greed.
I hope none of this is true but sadly, my bet is yes…it is all true.
A Good Day’s Work All Around
We won our first game back in Buffalo 3 to 1 last night.
We gain ground in the standings and we have 92 points with 19 games left to play. We now play 12 of 19 games at home to end the regular season.
A very smart exec in the NHL once told me “When your players go to compete in the Olympics they often times start to shut it down about a week before the tournament begins. They play the two and half weeks in the Olympics then they travel home and it takes almost a week to get back at it in the NHL. So be prepared. You may lose your best players for about a month”. I hope he isn’t right as our Olympians did look a step slow last night trying to regain their footing with their team mates.
I was relieved to get the two points on the road through the overhang of trade deadline day as well.
As we entered the trade deadline we truly articulated a plan.
First- “Do no harm.”Add to line up without moving young assets in the lineup for vet players for a short term return. I told you all about our plans on my blog to be transparent.
Do not take on long term contracts that will play havoc with our salary cap situation next off season.
Improve the team to get us ready for the playoffs. Throw out any stupid pills that may be hanging around .
We wanted to add 1st… Veteran help on defense, 2nd…a veteran center with size, 3rd… a gritty playoff tested winger.
I am pleased with how we threaded the needle and added 4 players to the lineup. Unfortunately, we did have to move Brain Pothier a long term vet player in our line up to Carolina. And we did have to include Oscar Osala a young prospect in our Hershey lineup in the trade for Joe Corvo.
We added Joe Corvo and we welcome back Milan Jurcina. That improves our defense.We added Eric Belanger a defensively oriented center man who is terrific in the faceoff circle.
And we added one of my favorite players Scotty Walker who is just a pros’ pro. A player who you hate playing against and playoff tested winger who is tough, gritty and plays best in big games.
I think we made the most trades in the league.
Time will tell if they help us or not but we stayed true to our plan and strategy. We added new oomph to the lineup and we won our first game back last night.
From my stand point it was a good day’s work. Thank you. Go Caps.