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The Washington Capitals Win Their First Stanley Cup
New York Times ^ | June 7, 2018 | Ben Shpigel

Posted on 06/07/2018 8:11:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Across their 43 seasons, the Washington Capitals have dabbled in hapless hockey and exquisite hockey, boring hockey and effective hockey, but never had they played winning hockey through four playoff rounds, all the way to a grueling, glorious end.

It took a team hardened by those postseason lures but liberated from high expectations to complete a run as dazzling as it was cathartic, capping it on Thursday night by dispatching the upstart Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3, to win the first Stanley Cup in franchise history.

It was the Capitals’ fourth consecutive victory in the finals after a disorienting 6-4 loss in the opener that made little sense in the context of how they played immediately before and afterward. After twice shutting out the offensive powerhouse Tampa Bay Lightning to advance to its first Cup finals since 1998, Washington outscored the Golden Knights across these last four games.

The Capitals overwhelmed Vegas with the same elements that propelled them past Columbus, their nemesis Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay: stifling neutral-zone defense, superb goaltending by Braden Holtby and waves of prolific talent headlined by the superstar scorer Alex Ovechkin, who will no longer be labeled the best player never to win a Cup.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: capitals; dc; goldenknights; hockey; nhl; stanleycup; vegas; vegasgoldenknights; washingtoncapitals; washingtondc
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Finally!!!!! Go Caps! Congrats to Vegas for an amazing run. :D
1 posted on 06/07/2018 8:11:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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2 posted on 06/07/2018 8:13:47 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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Washington colludes with Russians to win Stanley Cup...


3 posted on 06/07/2018 8:14:30 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: EdnaMode

I fondly remember the days of Rod Langway, Mike Gartner, Al Jensen, Bengt Gustafsson, Scott Stevens, and others from the Caps teams of the mid 1980s.


4 posted on 06/07/2018 8:14:51 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: EdnaMode

Yea! The CRapitals get it done!

The Knights should be very proud. To be brand new and rise to these heights is fantastic.


5 posted on 06/07/2018 8:16:08 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: EdnaMode

Check off the end of the Canuck Olympics.

In about a week or so we will also be able to check off the end of the Inner City Olympics.


6 posted on 06/07/2018 8:16:17 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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Some kobs on the team already said not gonna visit WH if we win.

I think the time for sports teams to have the privilege to see the presient is over.

Its a stupid tradition and it has nothing to do with the president, and if they are now going to make it a circus with their personal politics to “send a message”, it is time for it to end, for all sports.

Sports are not that important and these narcissist spoiled dempgraphic hating millionaires who do not do anything other than play with various balls, doing nothing remotely meaningful with the “careers” they are graced with, do not have anything to do with potus.


7 posted on 06/07/2018 8:22:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Any blacks on the team? Can they go to the WH?


8 posted on 06/07/2018 8:23:35 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Congratulations to both teams for a job well done!


9 posted on 06/07/2018 8:25:37 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Formerly SandyInSeattle cuz I moved!)
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?????


10 posted on 06/07/2018 8:25:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I agree that it's a stupid tradition.

Which players said they won't visit the WH? Those from Russia?

11 posted on 06/07/2018 8:25:51 PM PDT by apocalypto
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Who’s gonna be the first politician to try to remotely take some credit for the win?


12 posted on 06/07/2018 8:27:44 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Early Washington Capitals pics.
13 posted on 06/07/2018 8:28:10 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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There actually is one.


14 posted on 06/07/2018 8:28:44 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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#11: "Which players said they won't visit the WH?"

Look at the team picture and a guess. It's not rocket science.
 

15 posted on 06/07/2018 8:29:45 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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Wasn’t rooting for them but the caps deserved to win this series. And the Cup for it. Nice to see their joy right now. Ovechkin is amazing. I always love watching the team win the cup. Glad it’s someone new.

My favorite night of the Stanley Cup was when the Kings won the second time in 3 years and before I went to bed I stood out on my balcony and looked over the ocean and the town of Manhattan Beach and knew that Cup was partying somewhere not far away. Sure enough by dawn on Instagram was a photo of the Cup shining on a lifeguard tower at the beach just a ways away. So nice.

I love this sport and I love this Cup. Congrats to the Capitals and their fans.


16 posted on 06/07/2018 8:32:49 PM PDT by Yaelle
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Smith-Pelly who scored the tying goal is black and said he won’t go. He called Trump racist and sexist.


17 posted on 06/07/2018 8:35:28 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Secret Agent Man

Hockey isn’t like that.


18 posted on 06/07/2018 8:36:59 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Huh. The swamp froze over.

Vegas v DC. Who does the devil root for? (Besides NJ)


19 posted on 06/07/2018 8:37:23 PM PDT by dangus
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No helmets?

Who was the last NHL player to have a grandfather exemption from wearing one?


20 posted on 06/07/2018 8:39:40 PM PDT by ak267
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