Capitals parade 2018: Date, time, and other info for Washington’s Stanley Cup championship celebration

For the first time in 26 years Washington D.C. has a sports championship team, and the nation’s capital is ready to celebrate the Washington Capitals winning the 2018 Stanley Cup.

The Capitals beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 on the road in Las Vegas on Thursday night, finishing off the Stanley Cup Final in five games. It is the first championship for the Capitals, who joined the NHL in 1974.

The championship parade for the Capitals will be on Tuesday, June 12 in Washington D.C. It is slated to start at 11:00 a.m. Eastern and the parade will travel from 17th Street to 7th Street and and at the National Mall, according to the Washington Post.

Washington last won a championship in the four major sports in January 1992, when the Mark Rypien-led Hogs won Super Bowl XXVI. Since then there have been no Super Bowl trips for Washington’s football team, the farthest the Bullets/Wizards have advanced in the NBA playoffs is the Eastern Conference semifinals, the the Washington Nationals haven’t yet been able to advance past the first round of the playoffs.

The Capitals’ only other trip to the Stanley Cup Finals was in 1998, when they were swept by Detroit. For a quarter century the only championship teams Washington D.C. saw were visiting the White House, the ones who were invited anyway. But now in the Capitals, D.C. has their very own winner to trump the rest.

To say Washington D.C. is starved for a championship team is an understatement, which would explain why thousands of fans were already gathered downtown on Thursday, even before Game 5 began. A game that was in Las Vegas.

Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. was packed to watch Game 5 on the video boards in the arena.