American Express announced a nice and very innovative deal with Amazon. Click here for more info.
Using rewards points to buy products on Amazon is a big idea. Member points are the original virtual currency. This is a very important development for the e-commerce industry.
Here is a nice blog post about our COO at Monumental Sports and Entertainment, Dick Patrick.
Dick is our long-term President of the Washington Capitals. He is an owner with us and is also now COO of the entire company.
A good read indeed.
This was a great night and we face some tough decisions.
The public try-outs last night for a new Wizards announcer were fantastic.
We started with out 40 candidates.
We got it down to 16.
We are now down to five.
I must admit, I was shocked by the talents and passion and commitment of all the candidates. Thank you so much! I am most appreciative of your time and I hope you believe we treated this work and audition with dignity and respect. I was very focused and stayed the entire night working on this matter with our game operations team.
I also respect the media and bloggers that attended the entire session last night, too. You work hard and it is noticed. Thank you.
Click here to see a snapshot of the event and hear some big booming voices.
You should all come on out to rookie camp.
It is open and free and you can see glimpses of our future.
I went in early yesterday and met all the rookies after watching Sunday’s work.
I just walked in and shook everyone’s hand. It was such an impressive group of young men - all focused; all in shape; and all wanting to impress.
Frankly, we are loaded with great talent and I bet some of these players will make our team in the future. There are many NHL quality players on the ice.
Our present prospects are bright. Our future prospects are bright. I am happy.
A good read - a good look at the motivations of bloggers. I enjoyed this one and look forward to the future interviews.
One in three homes in the US.
Here is a good CNN clip regarding this issue and I am proud to support this charity. This is one of those creeping tough issues we as a nation have to face; make the public aware of; and combat the issue. Get involved. Be a good dad. Serve as a father figure, too, to those in need. Go to Fatherhood.org for more info.
When we were unabashed in our communications about the matter?
Of what we were doing? And why.
Here you go. Click here.
I also have noted about a hundred times that I am a small investor in SBNation, too.
I helped to kick off the blogosphere. I am proud of these facts.
And have been very transparent about it all.
I will also note that we have a full press room at all games now. The strategy seemed to work. Our pixels generated are perhaps amongst the most robust in the league. We embrace all bloggers. We embrace and invite all MSM and all hyphenates MSM-bloggers. We have a big tent. All are welcome as long as they follow the guidelines.
Ali? Marciano?
This is a clever idea and a fun film.
A heavyweight championship and a fantasy fight. Click here and see what I mean.
A good read from a great website. Click here. Very informative.
We are all getting too old.
One of our rookies tweeted “Kettler” is “dirty.”
Of course several fans emailed me right away to tell me to clean up the facility. And that I was slacking.
I, of course, jumped into action. Where is it dirty? What can we do to keep it polished up and clean? I will go walk through the building with my own punch list. Kettler is and must remain “world class.”
The comments got re-circulated onto the Washington Post Capitals Insider blog (by the way, I also have noticed some naked pix on that blog as well as pix of girls making out with girls - guess it must drive traffic?) and then a blogger emailed me asking how could we let Kettler get “dirty” and what was our plan to improve it?
Of course, we just learned that the rookie was using slang as in ”That was a filthy goal.” ”Kettler is dirty” I guess means Kettler is awesome and quite nice. 
Phew. Funny. This Internet thing. We all gotta get a handle on it, huh?
False alarm but I will still walk around the building to make sure it is really clean like you all deserve.