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Earlier this week Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis<\/strong> was arguing why D.C. should host the 2024 Summer Olympics<\/a>1<\/sup> (DC Sports Bog, The Post<\/em>). I’m more interested in D.C. hosting the Winter Classic; the Caps are the scheduled home team<\/a>. My preferred option is Nationals Park<\/a> which is a mere mile from the U.S. Capitol. Seems obvious, but the NHL and Leonsis choose not to make the selection (or any other) concurrent with the 2015 Winter Classic announcement. I’ve said that was bad policy and now, barely 6 months out, the lack of a venue is mysterious, even more so given that Leonsis included Baltimore in a list of possibilities. That’d hardly be the kind of authentic D.C. experience<\/em> he boasted about during the Wizards run through the NBA Playoffs earlier this spring.<\/p>\n

So instead of worry about the Olympics and all that comes with it (debt) Leonsis needs to settle on a D.C. (or even Landover – FedEx Field) location for the Winter Classic.<\/p>\n

In other Caps news, I like the Barry Trotz hire<\/a> as head coach, but am wary of GM Brian MacLellan<\/strong> who was promoted from within. Hopefully, these two will stop looking for a free agent goalie in the hope it might find one that gets hot and instead address the need for a second line center and solid defensemen.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>Which coincidentally would be held 3 years before the agreement with the District on the Verizon Center would expire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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