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Top Tweets from the Caps Convention

Found September 26, 2009 on On Frozen Blog: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Karl Alzner,  Nicklas Backstrom,  Brooks Laich
TEAMS: Washington Capitals

It became apparent to us fairly early on Saturday that the first-ever Capitals' Convention was taylor-made for Twitter tweets. So much is going on in so many convention hall rooms, with so much interaction between players and fans, bloggers and Caps' alumni and fans, bloggers and other bloggers, that we tried to fan out and cover as much as we could. But meanwhile we were following the tweets of individual fans spead out throughout the event, who were sharing their experiences in real time. A selection of some of our favorites:  25superstar My autograph session is Karl Alzner and Nicklas Backstrom. I may die. Ferrealz. #Caps HockeyJoeGM #Caps fans might like this. My friend is at CapsCon today and was getting Nylander's autograph . . . Which he had to do over cause he messed up tracytran Holy Crap, Ted Leonsis is on my seat when I stepped out (Cap-ology) #capscon #caps typicalsquirrel Got a Brashear stick at #caps convention!!! Lots of nylander and shultz s...
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