TJ Oshie is finally back in the lineup after missing 16 of the last 17 Capitals games. Oshie suffered two different lower-body injuries in the fall that have kept him out approximately three-quarters of the season.
But now the Osh Babe is back and he brought his weird warmup superstitions with him.
We missed it!
By Ian Oland 1 year ago
The Washington Capitals are officially back, you guys!
The team held Media Day on Wednesday – its first official day of 2021 Training Camp. The team and its partners, such as NBC Sports Washington, took video and photos for future game broadcasts and promotions.
The Capitals shared a bunch of media throughout the day.
Here were our favorite posts.
The NHL named Tom Wilson and TJ Oshie’s butt tapps as the Best Pregame Ritual of 2020. Now they have some amazing imitators from a different sport over 2,290 miles away in Tempe.
Arizona State women’s lacrosse players, Mallory Martel and Emma Carlson, posted video of themselves performing Tom and Teej’s pregame superstition on Sunday. Both players were lacrosse stars in Maryland.
The video was shared by NBC Sports Washington’s JJ Regan and the Caps later responded to the video.
Tom Wilson missed his third straight game on Thursday after being suspended for seven games by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety. But that doesn’t mean his presence wasn’t felt on the ice.
During warmups, TJ Oshie continued the pair’s NHL-best pregame ritual even though Wilson, with his mauled paw, was watching from home.
By Ian Oland 2 years ago
It might just have been an intrasquad scrimmage, but TJ Oshie and Tom Wilson took it super, super seriously.
I know this because the two right-wingers brought back their NHL-best pregame ritual: bonking each other in the booty.
TJ Oshie and Tom Wilson may never win an individual NHL award, but together, they have created history.
Oshie and Wilson’s butt taps, where they whack each other in the derrière with their hockey sticks, has won the NHL’s Fans Choice Award as the Best Pregame Ritual.
I’m not sure if I should offer them congratulations or buy them each a bottle of Blu Emu numbing cream.
By Ian Oland 3 years ago
TJ Oshie has a lot of pregame routines and superstitions, none weirder than the butt slashing he does with Tom Wilson during warmups.
“We’ve got some different things going depending on if we lost last game,” Oshie said. “If we won we’ll do the same thing. So there’s a little bit of superstition there depending on what we tap, how hard we tap it, and how we do it.”
Wednesday night against the Flyers, Oshie was celebrating his 800th career game in the NHL. Tom had a special, tushyrific way to commemorate the evening.
TJ Oshie recently spoke to the Men In Blazers’ Roger Bennett and revealed the backstory behind his epic beer chug after the Capitals’ Stanley Cup championship in 2018.
Oshie also spent a majority of the interview explaining the how and why of the Capitals’ pregame rituals, including his butt slashes with Tom Wilson. Earlier this season, Oshie broke his stick over Wilson’s derriere.
By Ian Oland 3 years ago
In my-favorite-team-is-more-fun-than-your-favorite-team news, TJ Oshie broke his stick during his butt-slash routine with Tom Wilson before the Caps-Columbus game.
As Oshie wound up and swung, his hockey stick cracked over Wilson’s, uh, iron-like derrière.
Lost in routine, Tom Wilson cannot quit butt-slashing TJ Oshie. Last Saturday, Wilson did not let the frigid weather of the Stadium Series game break his ridiculous tradition with the Osh Babe.
By Cara Bahniuk 5 years ago
