The Washington Capitals

Its been a couple days... weeks?  Can't remember.  Anyway.  Hockey season started.  I'm a diehard Washington Capitals fan.  Love my boys.  Its been a long time coming for us to have a playoff bound team.  10 or 11 years I want to say.  A lot of people give Alex Ovechkin (left wing) the full credit.  I agree he is definately one of the main reasons this team has been the South East Division champs 2 years in a row, but I'm also going to give credit to the rest of the team, especially the rest of the "Young Guns"... Mike Green (defense), Nicklas Backstrom (center) and Alexander Semin (left wing).  And Coach Boudreau is no slouch either.

Coach B, Big Daddy as I like to call him... came down from Caps AHL farm team the Hershey Bears after Thanksgiving in 2007.  The Caps were 30th in the league when he got here, and by the end of the 2007-2008 season the boys had done well enough to make it to the first round of the playoffs.  That year, he was named Coach of the Year by the NHL.  I actually cried with joy when he was awarded that Jack Adams Award.

That year as well, Alex Ovechkin went home from the NLH awards ceremony with the Hart Trophy (team MVP), the Lester B. Pearson Award (most outstanding player by vote of his peers), the Art Ross Trophy (league's leading scorer) and the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy (league’s top goal scorer).

Last year, the team knocked the New York Rangers out of the first round of the playoffs.  Unfortunately, they fell asleep during game seven of round two, this time against the Pittsburgh Penguins who went on to with the Stanley Cup.  A shame that Cindy Crybaby Crosby (Sidney Crosby) got that honour.  Hate that guy.  Ugh.

The team, the franchise... all involved... have become the darlings of this city, and rightly so. It's so nice to go to the arena and its full of red clad Caps fans (Rock the Red).  Last year they sold out 29 times.  That is full on amazing, considering 8 years ago we'd go to games and you could buy a seat 3 rows back for virtually nothing.

The boys have played 3 games so far, game 4 is tonight. They currently stand 2-0-1 and tonight play the NY Rangers.  Season 09-10... I smell a Stanley Cup.