Chocolate Fix 11/2/2011
Cody Eakin during Hershey's home opener. Photo by Kyle Mace If you missed it, some of the guys showed off their Halloween costumes and Kathryn made sure to share them. Cody Eakin got a call to DC and had his…
Chocolate Fix 10/26/2011
Dmitry Orlov celebrates with Keith Aucoin. Photo by Kyle Mace
If you missed my story on Hockey Fights Cancer, now is your chance to go read it.
Tim Leone on Dmitry Orlov’s first full season with the Bears. [PennLive]
The Old Barn Hockey Show is back with a new show for the week. [OBHS]
- Part 1 – They go right to John Walton to talk about the undefeated Caps.
- Part 2 – This one’s all about the Bears.
- Part 3 – Graham Mink joins to the show and more Bears/AHL talk.
The Bears make news in Fort Wayne, IN. [Journal Gazette]
AHL Hall of Famer and former Bears Willie Marshal is spending his days reading and writing poetry. [LDN]
Patrick McNeill (aka PMac) talks about what he has accomplished so far and some of his favorite things. [LDN]
Chocolate Fix 10/19/2011
Chris Bourque’s season has started off big. Photo by Kyle Mace.
Last week we pondered warm up music. For those of you unable to make the home opener, here is what was played:
- “Interlude” by Jay-Z
- “We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)” by Rihanna
- “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” by Coldplay
- “Levels” by Avicii
- “Rebellion” by Arcade Fire
The Old Barn is back with another edition [OBHS]
- Part 1 – Coverage of the home opener and Chris Bourque’s season thus far.
- Part 2 – NHL news around the league and of course a bunch of Caps talk.
- Part 3 – This was supposed to be a segment with Graham Mink, but he never called. Lots of fill instead.
The AHL recognizes Keith Aucoin’s 500th assist. [AHL]
Out of curiosity I did some math. For his career Aucoin has averaged .70 assists per game. In the last 5 seasons that average is .83 per game including playoffs. If you look at just his time in Hershey, he is an even 1.0 assist per game including playoffs.
Chocolate Fix 10/12/2011
Mattias Sjogren from Caps Development Camp 2011. Photo from RMNB/Chris Gordon.
This is the first Chocolate Fix of the 2011-2012 regular season! And what a way to start out the season. The first two games are on the road and the Bears come home with 2 wins. The first was against the defending Calder Cup champion Senators, and the second was against the Penguins. How nice is that?
Tomorrow look for a unique post to get you ready for the home opener, a unique post that I’m pretty sure you won’t find anywhere else.
Chocolate Fix 10/5/2011
A preview of the new third jersey from @TheHersheyBears
What do you think of the jersey? Let us know in the comments.
A little over a week ago the Bears started their training camp. At the end of the week Kyle and Brian had a photo wrap up of camp. Check it out here. We also had three preseason games to wrap it up. We were able to cover the home games which you can find here and here.
Chocolate Fix 9/28/2011
Coach French talks to the 2011 training camp. Photo by Brian Mills Coverage is ramping up as the Bears begin training camp this week. Today I am at the Giant Center taking in the action. Hopefully I will be able…
Chocolate Fix 9/21/2011
Chris Bourque photo by Andrew Harnik, The Washington Times
It may not be October yet, but hockey has started. The Caps opened their preseason last night with several Bears in the line up. Unfortunately, it was a 2-0 loss to the Preds which means there isn’t much in the way of highlights from Bears. Here is what I was able to dig up.
Head Coach Bruce Boudreau has some praise for Stanislav Galiev and Jay Beagle. [Caps video]
Beagle was a stand out. [Wash Times]
Sean Collins and others talk about the poor ice conditions. [Wash Times]
Former Bear and current Predator Tyler Sloan talks about the ice. [WaPo]
Collins talks about making the Caps roster. [Wash Examiner]
Patrick Wellar gets his first NHL game. [PennLive]
Chocolate Fix 9/14/2011
Philipp Grubauer - Photo credit: BridgetDS / RMNB Welcome to this week's Chocolate Fix. This is a busy week down in DC with the start of Rookie Camp. Be sure to check out all the Caps blogs to get the reports…
Chocolate Fix 9/7/2011
Photo from @thehersheybears twitter account The picture above is from last week. That's right folks, there is ice in the Giant Center. By now, the ice is probably painted as well. According to a video interview a couple years ago,…
Chocolate Fix 8/31/2011
Hello everyone and welcome to another Chocolate Fix. I'm back from vacation and ready for some hockey to start. It seems so close now. This is the last day of August which means training camps are only a short time…