Tag Archives: Washington Capitals

Snipe City: The dirty 30

Posted by on February 2, 2015

Welcome to Snipe City, a weekly column looking at hockey from 36 Crazyfists singer, Alaska native and huge hockey fan Brock Lindow. 36 Crazyfists’ new album, Time & Trauma, will be released on February 17th on Spinefarm Records. You can read about that here. Gretzky, Kurri, Bossy, Gartner… and now Number Eight, Alex Ovechkin. He has joined the NHL […]

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Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel Shares His Predictions For Remaining 2012 NHL Playoffs

Posted by on April 30, 2012

You most likely know Brian Slagel as the CEO and founder of Metal Blade Records. But what you might not know about him is that he’s a diehard hockey fan as well. Slagel has given Metal Insider his NHL Playoff hockey picks before, and also helped explain to us the NHL’s realignment plan. Now with the second round […]

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Video: Ozzy Wants You To Unleash The Fury… By Cheering On The Washington Capitals

Posted by on March 24, 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tqRGMzy_4k[/youtube] Is Ozzy Osbourne a die-hard fan of hockey? Probably not, but that wouldn’t stop the Prince of Darkness from promoting a NHL team. A new promo clip for the Washington Capitals features Osbourne, along with Wheel Of Fortune’s Pat Sajak, Meet The Press’ David Gregory, and (for some reason) Tom Green, asking fans to […]

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Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel Handicaps NHL PLayoffs

Posted by on April 13, 2010

As 2009 was drawing to a close, we asked Metal Blade Chairman/CEO and huge hockey fan Brian Slagel to write about his favorite pasttime other than metal. While it was only about a third of the way through the season, the teams he picked as the two most fun to watch (The Pittsburgh Penguins and the […]

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Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel On The Year (So Far) In Hockey

Posted by on December 16, 2009

Brian Slagel is Chairman/CEO of Metal Blade Records. He also loves hockey. While he can talk your ear off about metal (and has, at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival/Metal Insider Metal Summit), we thought we’d give him a forum to talk about his other passion. Here’s Slagel’s take on the season so far: Okay […]

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