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Boys are Back

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It was great to see so many fans out at Kettler Capitals Iceplex yesterday.

We all saw a fun and fast game between our rookie team and the Flyers rookie team.

The good guys won 4-3 and it was fun to see so many of our pros back at the game rooting our rookies on. That is a great Caps tradition.

I saw Alex Ovechkin yesterday. He looks tight, tough and ready. He was smiling and he seems happy about being back with his friends and teammates. He is just a joy to be around. He lifts the energy level of any room he enters.

Camp is closed today as the pros take physicals but on Saturday you can come out and get reintroduced to the team. See you then and there. Go Caps!

Rookie Camp is Fun

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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.

An Important Effort

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This summit about making “hockey players for life” is an important one for us for sure. It is noble and we need to make the game affordable and available to everyone, everywhere.

We are blessed that we work and play at Kettler Capitals Iceplex, and that we donate more than 1,000 hours of ice time to our community annually.

We, as a league and as leaders, also need to bring teaching skills and communications to the young people of the world via the media that they feel comfortable with. Hockey Night in Canada, and television in general is key in helping to continue to build the game. However, being the best, coolest, and most interactive sport and making our game available in a format and technology that young adults live on, is most important.

I am proud that the league is doing so much development in wireless, on iPhone-like apps, on the iPad and on other new formats such as 3D.

The physical world and availability is key, but augmenting bricks with clicks is equally as important to this next generation of player.

It is a new world. We must excel in the physical world and the cyber world to maintain the mind share and passion of the next generation!

Lincoln Holdings Update

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From time to time the media reports on Lincoln Holdings, our sports partnership, and for multiple reasons facts get garbled and misunderstood. So here is a quick update and primer on Lincoln Holdings. I am hopeful that the media will internalize this information and report accurately on our ownership structure and asset base in the future.

Lincoln Holdings is a sports partnership made up of many of the area’s leading business people. We are a diverse and close-knit group of friends that love the community and love the competition of sports.

Lincoln Holdings owns 100% of the Washington Capitals and the Washington Mystics. We acquired these assets from Washington Sports and Entertainment. We own and operate these two teams and we are tenants in the Verizon Center. We also operate the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Ballston, VA, where the Capitals are housed. The Mystics are headquartered in the Verizon Center itself.

Lincoln Holdings partnership includes the following partners alongside of me as I am the Majority Owner of Lincoln Holdings: Raul Fernandez, Dr. Jeong Kim, Jack Davies, Mark Lerner, Dick Patrick, George Stamas, Rick Kay, Richard Fairbank, Sheila Johnson and Michelle Freeman. I believe we have the most diverse ownership group in sports.

Lincoln Holdings also owns about 44% of Washington Sports and Entertainment LP. WSELP – as it is known - is Mr. Pollin’s sports partnership that owns and operates the Washington Wizards, the Verizon Center and the local Ticketmaster franchise. We are silent and minority partners in WSELP and we also own future ownership rights to the majority ownership position of WSELP.

Dick Patrick is President of the Washington Capitals and our Governor at the NHL level. Sheila Johnson is President and our managing partner of the Washington Mystics. She also represents us at the WNBA level.

I hope this sets the record straight.