Photos by Chris Gordon.
This season, the Capitals are celebrating their 40th anniversary. Since they weren’t able to raise any Eastern Conference Regular Season Champion banners last year, the team decided to add a new installation outside section 111 honoring the hat tricks in franchise history. The exhibition, in a neat touch, includes displays of headwear collected after 13 hat tricks at Verizon Center since 2008. Most of those, naturally, come from Alex Ovechkin, with cameos from Nicklas Backstrom and Troy Brouwer and departed Caps Alexander Semin and Mathieu Perreault. There’s currently space for three more hat tricks. How quickly those get filled will depend on whether teams keep leaving Ovi wide open at the near circle.
Below, take a look at some photos.
@russianmachine here's the hat trick display (angled to get the column pic in the shot) pic.twitter.com/CUgONkGN0y
— Josh Kipple (@joshkipple) September 21, 2014
@russianmachine 3 of 5 pic.twitter.com/6n1OCuVOxR
— Angela Murphy (@aksmurphy) September 21, 2014
@russianmachine 4 of 5 pic.twitter.com/8GCvQOW3ws
— Angela Murphy (@aksmurphy) September 21, 2014
@russianmachine pic.twitter.com/5JXFc3YYuQ
— Kacie Campbell (@kmyers1986) September 21, 2014
