Caps fans wearing Deadguins shirts storm steps of National Portrait Gallery after Game Five win

May 7, 2017 12:10 am

Penguins fans that invade Verizon Center have an annoying tradition after every victory. The fans congregate at the steps of the National Portrait Gallery and chant Let’s Go Pens (and other terrible things), aggravating somber Caps fans as they return home.

But Saturday night, the Caps won.

Pens fans did not invade the steps. Caps fans defended them. And it was awesome.

Video

The steps have been defended pic.twitter.com/N0vRVvfE0L

— Capitals Outsider (@CapsOutsider) May 7, 2017

Video from @CapsOutsider

Reader Richard D. also sent a photo along to us of two Caps fans wearing Deadguins shirts, posing in front of the Smithsonian.

Here’s another picture.

Caps fans take back the steps pic.twitter.com/YFNVTeewU3

— carrie (@carabahniuk) May 7, 2017

This is so much more fun to see than this…

Here is your Pens Fans storming the steps pic.twitter.com/Zmhq6DzYRa

— Dan Kingerski (@Budmoonshine) April 30, 2017

And this.

Returning faithful fans to the steps pic.twitter.com/bUj1sCYxph

— Pens Knitting Lady (@PensKnittngLady) April 30, 2017

If the Caps manage to force a Game Seven and win, I have an idea. Let’s all go to the steps and chant Let’s Go Caps as loud as we can. There would be no better payback to all the years of playoff pain than to take Pens fans’ annoying tradition and use it against them.