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Enhance: Caps Fan Flips Bird at Nick Foligno After Overtime Game Winner

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Photo: Rob Carr

On Thursday in front of a less than capacity crowd at Verizon Center, Jason Chimera took a brutal penalty that led to Nick Foligno‘s game-winning overtime goal. The Caps lost to division foe Columbus. Old news, but I wanted to share the photo above by Rob Carr because it really captures Foligno’s excitement after the… hey – wait a minute!

Is that? It couldn’t be…

Let me fire up my vectoring program on the RMNB super computer. I’m going to need to enhance that upper-right quadrant.

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I guess the fans who actually showed on Thursday were very passionate. This man in the button-down shirt seems very upset, no? Though why is his date (or daughter? If so, my bad.) so happy? Neither are wearing any identifiable logos to point to which team they are rooting for. We may never know what’s going through this fan’s head.

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But that’s a good look.

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