On June 12, 2005, a young aspiring attorney, striving mightily to blunt the panic and pain of studying for the bar exam, logged onto Blogspot for the first time and began writing about a subject that was nearly certainly guaranteed to never, ever be a source of either pain or panic. That’s right - he chose to write about Washington Capitals hockey.
The Rink shared a rookie season with Alex Ovechkin, and in every season thereafter shared the tremendous endorphin rushes of documenting a legend do legend things and then the soul-crushing despair of yet another all-too-early end to the season.