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Priceless Capitals typo makes fans think team is playing Vancouver Canucks one night early

We all make typos, lord knows I make 300 a day, but the Capitals Instagram account made an especially funny mistake Wednesday evening. At around 9 PM, the team’s Instagram account told fans Late night hockey on Wednesday! #CapsNucks #ALLCAPS.

Except there’s only one problem: the Caps play the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.

Late night hockey on Wednesday! #CapsNucks #ALLCAPS

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Here’s a screenshot if the posting is edited or deleted.

As of the publishing of this article at 11:25 PM, the Instagram mistake remained up two hours later.

Here’s a sampling of the comments from fans.

  • Thursday?
  • It’s not on today
  • Damn they decided to play without notifying anyone! 😆😆😆
  • Ummm.. the game better not be tonight because I’m still on the plane to Vancouver! You mean Thursday, right? 😳
  • The schedule says Thursday @10:00
  • I thought it was Thursday
  • Why would they post this?
  • Social media person might need to go back to Hershey….
  • This doesn’t make any sense

#ALLCAPS indeed.

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