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Washington Caps Training Camp Pictures

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Folks,

I'm a loyal wings fan, growing up in Flint and moving to DC for work. The caps have grown on me over the last several years (Before Ovechkin was part of the team). I've made weekly trips to the Verizon center for going to the NHL games. I decided to purchase season tickets for this year and that includes seeing my Wings come to DC.

I also went to opening day of training camp with my new Canon XSI DSLR armed with a set of high end zoom lens. Below is a link of the pics I put up online. Feel free to check out the pics. I took about 300 pics that day but posted up some of the better ones. If any of you want the full size pics, shoot me a PM with your email address and i'll send you a higher resolution pic. One thing you'll notice, in which i'm not sure if it's ever been mentioned, but Ovechkin ALWAYS plays with these yellow/neon yellow laces on his skates while everyone else will have black or white. There's an awesome close-up of ovie's skates. (yes, he was standing 2 feet away from me)

http://picasaweb.google.com/bfguns/Washing...lsTrainingCamp#

feedback is apprecieated! :hehe:

enjoy!

Brian

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40 views and no one posted a comment? bahumbug! :huh:;)

That's pretty neat that you got a chance to do that. I haven't seen any hockey teams in training camp, but I have seen the Chargers do their training camp a couple of times out here in San Diego.

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Folks,

I'm a loyal wings fan, growing up in Flint and moving to DC for work. The caps have grown on me over the last several years (Before Ovechkin was part of the team). I've made weekly trips to the Verizon center for going to the NHL games. I decided to purchase season tickets for this year and that includes seeing my Wings come to DC.

I also went to opening day of training camp with my new Canon XSI DSLR armed with a set of high end zoom lens. Below is a link of the pics I put up online. Feel free to check out the pics. I took about 300 pics that day but posted up some of the better ones. If any of you want the full size pics, shoot me a PM with your email address and i'll send you a higher resolution pic. One thing you'll notice, in which i'm not sure if it's ever been mentioned, but Ovechkin ALWAYS plays with these yellow/neon yellow laces on his skates while everyone else will have black or white. There's an awesome close-up of ovie's skates. (yes, he was standing 2 feet away from me)

http://picasaweb.google.com/bfguns/Washing...lsTrainingCamp#

feedback is apprecieated! :hehe:

enjoy!

Brian

loved the picture's bud. glad you got one of Feds, i wasn't seeing any of him as I was looking through them and was wondering if he was even there at training camp then he showed up in a picture. i've grown to be a fan of the Caps too and have my Federov Caps jersey. thanks for sharing. :thumbup:

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You got some SWEET pics I must say. If you have any of Feds and OV together let me know.

No Feds and Ovie pics. They had their training by diff groups. 3 diff groups of about 18-20 players and prospects. Hopefully when the games start, i'll be able to snap up some more pics. Isnt OV and Backstrom good enough? ;)

-B

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:lol: at the picture with the player lying on the ice like he's just been shot.

That's Ovechkin! lol! Coach made the players skate around the goalie nets for about maybe 10 mins non-stop. Each time the players skated around the net, he would pull the goalie net towards the center about 5 feet each time. That's why in some of the pictures, you see the players lined up while skating. Looked like some kind of time trials for the winter olympic skating events. :)

I went to a private party today with the Caps. (Thursday night) They held a private event at six flags. just about all of the top players were there signing autographs and talking to the fans, riding on the roller coasters with fans. I got a bunch of new pictures. Wait until you see the pic of Ovie on a roller coaster. He walked up, sat down in the first row of the coaster, and had a little kid sit next to him.. then whoosh! off they went. When they returned, the face on Ovie is worth a million bucks. All in all, I got autographs from Mike Green, Backstrom. Nylander, Laich, Semin, Feds, Kozlov, theodore (that dude loves to wear All-Star shoes, black.) Even better was when i taught Ovie the sign for "8". I'm hard of hearing and thought "hmm instead of everyone saying "good luck, blah blah kick their ass, go caps!", i decided to try a diff approach and I got his attention for a little bit. It was awesome. :D

Keep an eye out for more pics soon....

Oh yeah, i hope the Caps maim the Flyers in friday's pre-season matchup. :D

-B

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Great pics! I've got a good camera but I tell you what, at times I think about going all out and buying an amazing one.

Any pics of Fleischmann? The 'one that got away'. ;)

I'll go through my pictures again. I can probably just go and upload them all.

As for the camera, get a good one. I picked up a Canon Rebel XSI with the standard lens kit and whenever I have the need to use some high profile zoom lens, i rent them. 2.8fstop 70-200 mm lens, 26 bucks for a weekend rental. Sure beats plunking down 1200 bucks for the same lens.

stay tuned for pics...

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