Before New York met the Washington Capitals in the second round, the Rangers’ Twitter account made a bold decision: they would abandon using uppercase letters (capital letters… get it?!) in their tweets for the duration of the series.

Cute gimmick, but then they blew it, and then the Caps scored.

During the second period, the Rangers sent out this tweet:

https://twitter.com/nyrangers/status/595385958759079936

Naturally, the patient and gracious people of Twitter were forgiving.

@nyrangers YOU USED A CAPITOL LETTER

— Johnny Baseball (@Smac12341) May 5, 2015

@nyrangers ITS A CAPITAL

— john naboye (@johnnaboye) May 5, 2015

@nyrangers ahh no using capitals in your tweets!

— Kate (Wilson) Grijns (@duxgirl) May 5, 2015

@nyrangers used a capital

— Yasir (@Yasiriously) May 5, 2015

@nyrangers cue the sad trombone.

— Bob Bullard (@BBullard7) May 5, 2015

@nyrangers you used caps! o.o

— don't give up (@LiipeFlu) May 5, 2015

@nyrangers ITS A CAPITAL LETTER

— Harry Lee III (@HGLIII) May 5, 2015

@nyrangers CAPITAL P. SO SHALL IT BE DONE

— Mathew Gledhill (@MathewGledhill) May 5, 2015

Nine minutes later, Jay Beagle scored to put the Caps up 1-0.

jay beagle banks one in off #nyr and into the net at 7:31 of the second period and #nyr trail 1-0

— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) May 5, 2015

Props to the Capitals for not playing along beyond this Snapchat photo. Having everyone writing in all-caps would be stupid and annoying, just like writing in all lowercase.

Full RMNB Coverage of Game Three