Tonight the Capitals played one of their worst games all year.  Miserable on offense and defense alike; at least they’re consistent.  We had some bright spots from Alex Semin and Mathieu Perreault, but a systemic problem cannot have an exceptional solution.  The Senators beat the Capitals with 18.9 seconds left in overtime– 5-4.

Unfortunately, attending tonight’s game precludes us from writing a full recap, so we’ll try to sate you with some tweeple giving us a hard time for being unlucky.

thornbury @russianmachine Stop going to games!

DookFn RT @russianmachine: Welp, that just happened. <You are NOT allowed to attend playoff games.

pbsenerchia @russianmachine Was pulling for you to break the jinx. Alas, you are banned from the building throughout the playoffs – cept Wiz games.

Emily_Karol Dangit #CAPS !! And @russianmachine you are bad luck… FYI

capsforthecup @russianmachine and the streak lives.

elegantsoviet @russianmachine Perhaps you should forgo attending games from now on? 😉

Funployee @russianmachine I love you, but stop going to games. For real. xD

hmabb I blame @russianmachine. #caps 😉

Thanks to the lovely folks we met at my very first “tweetup.”  Shout out to Tony, a reader who turned 25 today and was getting drunk with his dad at the game. Sorry to the guy in 106 Y sitting behind me– I can’t help but stand when something crazy-awesome happens.  And thanks to Ian, K, and Megan, for being terrific company and putting up with my grumpiness.

We’ll have more reflections on the game, and some pretty awesome media, coming later.

G’night, all!