The Washington Capitals ended our long national nightmare and finally re-signed Alex Ovechkin to a five-year extension on Tuesday. The deal will keep the captain with the Capitals through the 2025-26 season and allow us to stop anxiously scrolling through Twitter days on end, nervous this contract will never come.
The Capitals celebrated the signing on social media with an apt emoji tribute.
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🐐🐐🐐🐐— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) July 27, 2021
The post caught the attention of the Washington Football Team, who responded back with an emoji tribute of their own.
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🐐 🐐— Washington Football Team (@WashingtonNFL) July 27, 2021
The Caps also posted a photo of Ovi Jr. holding up his hand either to wave or signify the number of years Dad re-signed for.
How many more years, #OviJr? 🖐 pic.twitter.com/aqaEPO1olt
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) July 27, 2021
They also made infographics.
The Washington Capitals have re-signed captain Alex Ovechkin to a five-year, $47.5 million contract. Ovechkin – who sits in sixth place on the NHL’s all-time goals list – is the franchise leader in games played (1,197), goals (730) & points (1,320): https://t.co/NKQmjb3wBi pic.twitter.com/8jHO5hSREA
— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) July 27, 2021
These fancy graphics, too.
𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋.
The Washington Capitals have re-signed captain Alex Ovechkin to a five-year, $47.5 million contract.
Full Details: https://t.co/iLXnd3MUZy#ALLCAPS | #Gr8 pic.twitter.com/coS7gHTpS6
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) July 27, 2021
And of course, they released this fantastic tribute video.
It appears the Capitals were internally sitting on a bunch of promotion waiting for the deal to come down. Thank goodness it finally did.
