November 09, 2006
Remembering The Caps Of Old With Ron Weber
On Frozen Blog got a chance earlier this week to interview Ron Weber, the former play-by-play radio voice of the Washington Capitals. In total, Weber called 1,936 games. Amazing.
I always liked Ron's calls, and was sad to see him leave the organization at the end of the 1997 season. Whenever I think about Peter Bondra's five-goal game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, I think about Ron Weber.
Here's a snippet of the interview:
pucksandbooks: What’s the biggest change as you see it in the NHL today versus the league you nightly observed over the course of 20-plus years?
Ron Weber: I’d say the biggest change — and what I dislike — is they’ve fiddled around and ruined the historical comparison with points by awarding points for an overtime loss, and the shootout win. It just galls me. Last year the Capitals got to the 70-point mark, but seven [were] of the shootout win, and seven overtime losses. Back in Bryan Murray’s day, that would have only been 56 points. That to me . . . they’ve complicated and messed up the standings. Now it’s possible for a team that never wins to beat out a team that wins 40 games. That to me is the biggest change and it’s an awful one. It fouls up the comparisons in the standings.
Amen, brother.
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