The Hockey Town Buildout Continues

Partly because the rest of the Washington sporting landscape is so bleak from a competitive standpoint, our favorite question is being asked these days in conspicuous volume: just how far along has Washington come in its appreciation for hockey -- is Washington in fact becoming a hockey town? Already in the new year I've appeared on Comcast's "Washington Post Live" to discuss the matter; later today WTOP's Jonathon Warner will air a 5-minute feature on the topic; and no less than the Washington Post is dispatching columnists to Verizon Center to survey the hockey scene and, in attempted whimsical fashion, try and make amends for their savage slight of the sport the past few decades.