2018 NHL Playoffs

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:45 am

Hopefully hear a lot more Panic At The Disco during the game than before.

Rams Fanny · Post by **Rams Fanny** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 3:45 pm

I think Vegas comes out and has their best game tonight. I think if Vegas wins tonight, the Caps better win at home in game 6 because i truly believe VGK wins game 7 at home. I hope all this comes true and will likely lose my voice tonight trying to will the first part to fruition.

But....

If it must be that the Caps hoist the Cup, I hope the third is a blowout (poetically 4-1) so we as a group can simply stand and cheer the last five minutes for this team for this ride. It has literally been unimaginable from the start to now for good reasons and bad and as unique a sports experience as any fanbase has had. I fully appreciate all its twists and turns.

I hope we break the tradition of booing the Commissioner. As a hockey fan, I understand it and have fully supported it but without him this year doesn't happen and he deserves our thanks.

If Ovie hoists the Cup tonight, I will cheer with the Caps fans because I am first and foremost a hockey fan and appreciate his and the team's struggle to finally get there.

Enjoy whatever the Hockey Gods choose to give us tonight.

Go Knights Go!

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:02 pm

So the Knights do a canned pregame video before every game with Vegas celebrities pumping the fans up and no joke about 90 percent of the Caps fans here booed Bryce Harper.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:43 pm

Fun first period

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:50 pm

So is that not interference bc of the two players battling in the crease. Seemed like the LV player kicked out Holtby’s skates.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:04 pm

No one knows what interference is. It's becoming like a catch in the NFL.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:12 pm

Of the GI calls in the playoffs that seemed the most cut and dried. There’s nothing Perron can do about getting tackled in the crease.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:34 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:12 pm Of the GI calls in the playoffs that seemed the most cut and dried. There’s nothing Perron can do about getting tackled in the crease.

I wasn’t saying it was GI, just clarifying that because Perron was engaged w a Cap in the crease that it would nullify the int.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:04 pm

This helps Washington more.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:18 pm

Congrats Nonlinear and others. Hope you’re having a GD blast with your fam.

Fun season. Is it hockey season yet?

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:19 pm

Congrats to nlfc and wlu_lax!

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:32 pm

Watching guys carry the Cup around the ice is seriously the coolest and most emotional thing in all of sports. Nothing else comes close.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:34 pm

Great season Caps fans. Congratulations on a well-deserved championship.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:05 pm

Over/under on Ovechkin’s tab at Hakkasan tonight set at $80K

Rams Fanny · Post by **Rams Fanny** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:05 am

Congrats Caps fans. Well deservered.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:46 am

Great too see long, long suffering fans get their reward!

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:02 am

Congrats boys.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 6:43 am

Been a while since there was a new champ.

Congrats, I guess.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:30 am

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:16 am

I have no voice. I cried like a god damn baby, hugging my son while they skated the trophy around the rink.

You guys are the epitome of what being passionate, not asshole sports fans are all about (even you mister d).

Probably shouldn't be at work today. I'm a total waste of space.

Holy shit, man.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:22 am

I can't even send the Stepan series winner back here because it would bring up sadder thoughts for me than you. Congrats.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:18 am

And, obviously, congrats to brian and rams butt on a ridiculously awesome year. I don't need to tell you guys shit about what you just experienced... To even be at the dance is something a lot of fans (caps fans up until last night) would kill for.

Fascinated to see where GMGM goes from here, five years ahead of a "realistic" vision of being a legit contender.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:23 am

The Tatar thing is going to fuck up his ability to be really cool and start firing off offer sheets.

Rams Fanny · Post by **Rams Fanny** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:04 pm

brian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:05 pm Over/under on Ovechkin’s tab at Hakkasan tonight set at $80K

Over wins. TMZ reporting $100k

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:16 pm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/c ... c046f2df33

Post by **brian** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:42 pm

Think one of you guys owes me an avatar at this point.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:42 pm

Jay Beagle is first player to lift a Kelly Cup (ECHL), Calder Cup (AHL), and Stanley Cup (NHL)

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:51 pm

brian wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:42 pm Think one of you guys owes me an avatar at this point.

I will let nonlinear pick but throw out suggestions of
1.) sad knight (found a good one on image search)
2.) Tom Wilson pounding someone
3.) The RMNB "We are Not Going to Be Suck This Year" or "White Russian in a Big Cup"
4.) Ovie Lifting the cup

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:57 pm

Red Wings logo

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:28 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:51 pm
brian wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:42 pm Think one of you guys owes me an avatar at this point.
I will let nonlinear pick but throw out suggestions of
1.) sad knight (found a good one on image search)
2.) Tom Wilson pounding someone
3.) The RMNB "We are Not Going to Be Suck This Year" or "White Russian in a Big Cup"
4.) Ovie Lifting the cup

Nah, you got it.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 4:15 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:20 pm I tried grabbing those tickets, which went online at 1pm.

Three of my family online, using laptops and phones (6 total.)

Shutout. Thing was probably "sold" out in less than 5 minutes.

It's gonna be weird for the Mystics to sit through a second half listening to Caps chants.

BTW my daughter was given a ticket by “a cute boy” to get into Cap One. She wound up in the front row and rushed the court at the end. She’s my damn hero.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:20 pm

Nobody posts this?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:41 pm

bfj wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:20 pm Nobody posts this?

See relations thread

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:44 pm

Partying after winning the cup looks like fun. Caps are drinking hard. Keg stands, lots of empties at the Nats game, jumping in fountains at the Georgetown Waterfront, tatoos, spraying people in Arlington with Champaign from the roof of Don Tito's.

Fantastic

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:19 pm

Yeah, according to twitter they’re doing this very right.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:05 pm

Post by **brian** » Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:21 am

Markets I would like to see win their first Stanley Cup, ranked:

1) Las Vegas
2) Buffalo
3) Winnipeg
4) Saint Louis
5) Minneapolis
6) Nashville
7) Phoenix
8) San Jose
9) Vancouver
10) Columbus
11) Miami

I spent more time on this than I should have and the rationale is mine and mine alone and obviously doesn't weigh the relative merits of some fanbases over others exclusively, though that was a factor.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:33 am

brian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:21 am Markets I would like to see win their first Stanley Cup, ranked:

1) Las Vegas
2) Buffalo
3) Winnipeg
4) Saint Louis
5) Minneapolis
6) Nashville
7) Phoenix
8) San Jose
9) Vancouver
10) Columbus
11) Miami

I spent more time on this than I should have and the rationale is mine and mine alone and obviously doesn't weigh the relative merits of some fanbases over others exclusively, though that was a factor.

Where is Seattle going to fall on that list? Does losing an NBA team factor in?

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:36 am

brian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:21 am Markets I would like to see win their first Stanley Cup, ranked:

1) Las Vegas
2) Buffalo
3) Winnipeg
4) Saint Louis
5) Minneapolis
6) Nashville
7) Phoenix
8) San Jose
9) Vancouver
10) Columbus
11) Miami

I spent more time on this than I should have and the rationale is mine and mine alone and obviously doesn't weigh the relative merits of some fanbases over others exclusively, though that was a factor.

This is a cool exercise. I'm not going to rank them this minute, but with no offense intended, I truly feel like you guys will appreciate a Cup after just a little bit more pain.

Post by **brian** » Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:02 pm

Well, I'm not rooting for Buffalo in a theoretical Buffalo/Vegas Stanley Cup Final, so it would be silly to suggest otherwise. That said, I was OK with Washington winning given how long the fans have suffered and that the team is mostly easy to root for, so I imagine it would be similar for Buffalo.