The Washington Capitals have never won a Stanley Cup, meaning that each early summer since 1975, their fans have had to suffer through watching another team hoist the giant trophy. At SB Nation’s Caps blog, Japers’ Rink, they’re ready for all of that to come to and end in 2010.
Caps Fans Hope It’s Time The Mockery Ends
We see this spring’s NHL playoff adverts depict near tear-jerking moments for many hockey fans -- Bobby Orr “flying” through the St. Louis crease, for example -- and others that sicken Caps fans -- Super Mario’s and Crosby’s unfettered joys in victory. But none involving our red, white, and blue heroes. Except in mockery.
And with good reason: the Caps, as a franchise, has authored a mediocre history for itself to this point. As fans, we strain, cling desperately, to a few rays of sunshine piercing through a heavy canopy of cloud cover. Like Russian hockey fans might snicker at our country’s obsession with a single Olympic victory over their national team in 1980, much of the NHL fan world could scoff at the gargantuan pedestal that Caps country has constructed as a foundation for the memory of Dale Hunter’s playing days, much of which is owed to a single, first round series-winning goal over two decades ago. There’s Joé Juneau too, of course. But not much after that.
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During these next two months, let all of the waiting, the suffering, the disappointment, the missed open nets, the giveaways at the blue line, the seemingly unfair penalty calls against, the cruel twists of fate, the tragic endings that have repeated themselves many springs over, be gloriously washed away by a torrent of red rain.
Join the fans as they root on Ovechkin and company over at Japers’ Rink.
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