I’ve been down with the Easterns Motors commercials since way back in the day, like dang, two freaking years ago when LBS was just in its infancy. I guess one of the benefits of satellite TV is getting to see all the local commercials outside your region that you have no clue about. (BTW, what...

Daniel Briere is getting over his groin adhesions; for this guy, the problems are just starting. Oh, the life of Daniel “Danny” Briere – it’s just one injury after another these days, isn’t it? If you’re a fantasy manager, you were stoked to see Briere finally bac...

The normally hoops-n-hip-hop-obsessed Complex magazine has jumped on board the NHL bandwagon as an alternative to the financial and cultural wreck known as the NBA. Two of the mag's top 5 reasons to start watching hockey instead of hoops are, basically, Alex Ovechkin. "For all its faults, the NBA ha...

The first instance I had of roaming about the bowels of Verizon Center with media credentials on a visit by Sidney Crosby, in his rookie season, I took advantage of the opportunity, and actually put a couple of questions to him in the visitors' locker room. They were questions about the longstanding...

One of the many story lines coming out of Sunday's victory over the Penguins was the fiery rivalry between Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. For the first time the rivalry between the two became physical. Along with their rivalry Bruce Boudreau also discussed the Caps's rivalries with the two Pe...

A number of interesting topics are addressed in Alexander Ovechkin's latest interview with Pavel Lysenkov and SovetskySport , which took place last night after Ovechkin had addressed North American media and will be published tomorrow. Our friend Dmitry Chesnokov passed along a transl...

Even though it's hard to get excited about the Nationals these days, Dan Steinberg always seems to find something worthwhile.  One of his latest missives from spring training is about Ross Detwiler, a left-handed pitcher from Missouri.  Detwiler, as it turns out, is a hockey fan. ...

It was terrifically interesting for me to learn of the latest outrage associated with Verizon Center's ice this past weekend, as Hershey's Giant Center, where I was watching hockey, hosted some manner of wrestling event there most of Saturday, and the changeover to hockey wasn't completed until 3 ho...

We promise not to go on any Christian Bale-type rants when we dispense hockey advice. While the NHL trade deadline is just under a month away, fantasy leagues all over are getting to the point where rosters have to be frozen. If you find you’re lacking in a specific category, we’re here ...

Partly because the rest of the Washington sporting landscape is so bleak from a competitive standpoint, our favorite question is being asked these days in conspicuous volume: just how far along has Washington come in its appreciation for hockey -- is Washington in fact becoming a hockey to...