Hi everyone! Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! I hope you get to enjoy yourselves a relaxing weekend, and that summer-ish weather hits your town. As for me, the family and I will be heading to tiny Brockville, Ontario to enjoy some outdoor activities, ride a little train through the downtown core, and swim at the hotel pool. It will be the first time in almost three years that we will be spending the night someplace where we know absolutely no one. For our daughter Laura, it will be her first-ever overnight trip that doesn’t involve visiting friends or family, and for our son Emmett, he has very little recollection of having visited this same hotel way back in 2019. Needless to say, he is very excited to get going and will probably be up at the crack of dawn wanting to start packing his bags.

So, before we leave for our little weekend getaway, I just wanted to make a quick update to this site, and do a little promotion for my new book, When the NHL Invaded Japan: the Washington Capitals, the Kansas City Scouts, and the Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Cup, 1975-76, whose release date has been moved up to July 11! If you haven’t done so already, you can read all about the book here.

The book is all about the Capitals and Scouts’ first two NHL seasons and their April 1976 exhibition series in Japan, so I thought it would make sense to post an article about a very rare Capitals victory, this time at the expense of the California Golden Seals. The 19-24-4 Seals were just coming off a huge 5-3 win over Toronto, a fourth-straight win overall. The Seals were on literally the hottest streak in their history, and it seemed as though this would finally be the year they would claim a playoff spot, but alas, the victory over Toronto would be as close as they would get as their next match against Washington January 28 would become the start of a 9-game winless streak. The Seals played their heart out in D.C. that night, but came up short, and they never really recovered from the loss. You can read all about the game right here.

If you haven’t done so already, you can still cast your votes for this year’s inductees into the Seals Hall of Fame. Just click on the Jotform link here and make your choices. Only two weeks left folks, so get crackin’!

Until next time, stay gold!