Back from Vacation

Since the start of my vacation, alot has happened on the BEARS front. The biggest news of the offseason to date has to be the resigning of Alex Giroux. What a coupe for Doug Yingst and George McPhee to land Alex back in the organization. Also the BEARS added veteran goalie Jason Bacashihua to provide goaltending depth. The club also signed Andrew Joudrey to an AHL 1-year contract for the upcoming season. Stick with us here at Dupree in the Sin Bin for any other breaking news.

I will be headed north to the Walton Estate this weekend to take in an evening of poker and morning of golf with John Walton, Scott Stuccio, Grady Whitenburg, Pete Michaud and a few other East Division friends. Check back here over the weekend for updates on all the fun.

Going on Vacation!!

With Free Agent news all but grinding to a halt, I will be heading to the beach with the family for a week. If any news would arise, either BEARS or Caps related, check out John Walton's blog(http://www.johnwaltonhockey.com/) or Tim Leone at http://www.pennlive.com/. In a few weeks I will be heading north to Central PA to catch up with some of the voice's of the East Division for the Annual AHL/East Division Golf & Poker outing. Should be fun again this year. Talk to all of you in a few weeks.

Development Camp Another Success

The 2009 Caps Summer Development Camp has come to an end. The Caps rookie draft picks, free agents and second year guys have completed another weeks worth of workouts and scrimmages.

Todays scrimmage was played in front of a packed house at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex. For the second year in a row the main rink was "sold out". People were standing five and six people deep along the boards. The players have all metioned through various interviews this week, that they have been suprised by the amount of specatators showing up for the workouts. There is nothing like hockey in July.

All of the players will be heading home to take a few days off before getting back out in the weight room or on the ice to prepare for their upcoming seasons. Most assuradly these guys will be ready to go come training camp in September for the big club, or their Junior or college clubs. They can all however take away one thing from this week in suburban DC, Washington is a hockeytown that loves its team.