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New Caps GM suggested Leonsis change blogging style

Washington Capitals Introduce General Manager Brian MacLellan And Coach Barry Trotz

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 27: Majority Owner Ted Leonsis of the Washington Capitals, speaks during a press conference introducing new General Manager Brian MacLellan and head coach Barry Trotz, at the Verizon Center on May 27, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

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In the Seinfeld episode, George Costanza accused George Steinbrenner of turning the New York Yankees into “a laughingstock, all for the glorification of” the owner’s “massive ego.”

In real life, new Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan recommended that owner Ted Leonsis make changes to his blogging style.

Which one is funnier, we’ll leave that up to you.

If you have no idea why we’re making the comparison in the first place, read this.

Then read this, because Leonsis has confirmed what was originally reported by CSN Washington’s Alan May, writing in an email to the Washington Post that MacLellan “suggested that I blog about team; not about individual players. That I celebrate team success way more than individual success, and that that culture needs to start at the top. I agreed.”

Leonsis’s blog, Ted’s Take, has been a regular source of fodder for the media. Just last month he wrote that he “was wrong” about the Capitals not having any weaknesses, and went on to promise “a comprehensive review of what transpired this year.”

Ultimately, that review led to the firing of GM George McPhee and coach Adam Oates, the promotion of MacLellan into the GM position, and the hiring of Barry Trotz as the new coach.

And a new, team-centric approach to blogging, apparently.

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