Celebration

The entire Capitals bench hugged Zdeno Chara after he scored his first goal as a Capital

When the Washington Capitals walked out for the second period, they were down 3-0. When left the ice for the second intermission, they were up 5-3 after authoring an insane comeback.

Zdeno Chara scored the final goal of the period — his first as a Capital — after ripping a shot from the point and cleanly beating an overwhelmed Semyon Varlamov.

What happened next was the best moment of the Capitals’ 2020-21 season so far.

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By Ian Oland 3 years ago

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Capitals sing ‘Baby Shark’ and give Nationals directions to fountains in celebration of World Series victory

THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS ARE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS! And the Washington Capitals are very, very, very, very happy about it. The team was holding their Halloween party during Game Seven, and when the Nats took the W, the Caps went crazy.

Champagne was sprayed, conga lines were formed, trophies appeared out of nowhere somehow, and the team melded the melodies of “We Are the Champions” and “Baby Shark” pretty dang well throughout.

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By Brennin Weiswerda 4 years ago

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Celebrating Nationals found a creative way to drink out of their new trophy just like the Capitals

The Washington Nationals swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS on Tuesday, clinching the franchise’s first trip to the World Series.

Before the playoffs began, outfielder Adam Eaton, a huge hockey and Washington Capitals fan, drew motivation from the Caps Stanley Cup run in 2018.

“They’re inspirational,” Eaton said. “[T]he way they partied afterward, I think everyone in this clubhouse would like to do as well. We’re not quite hockey players. I don’t know if we’re going to go swimming in fountains or anything but hopefully, that’ll inspire us to get there.”

Early Wednesday morning, Nationals players — some shirtless, others wearing oversized goggles — celebrated their first National League pennant. And like the Capitals did with their Cup stands, the Nationals came up with a creative way to celebrate and quickly get inebriated with their new Warren C. Giles Trophy.

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By Ian Oland 4 years ago

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The best moments from the Washington Nationals postgame celebration

After years of choking in the playoffs, the Washington Nationals won the NL Wild Card game after some clutch heroics by Juan Soto (and a very spin-y baseball). The comeback win, aided also by veterans Ryan Zimmerman and Stephen Strasburg, started a wild celebration at Nationals Park.

“The [Capitals] are very inspirational to us. They show what a bond of brothers, guys coming together as one can do in this city,” Adam Eaton said recently. “And the way they partied afterward, I think everyone in this clubhouse would like to do as well. We’re not quite hockey players. I don’t know if we’re going to go swimming in fountains or anything but hopefully, that’ll inspire us to get there.”

The Nats didn’t go swimming, but they sure did have a wild celebration last night that even the Caps would be proud of.

Here are the best moments.

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By Cara Bahniuk 4 years ago

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Justin Williams leads Hurricanes in fun post-game celebration, reminds fans that hockey ‘is still a game’

The Carolina Hurricanes currently lead the Metropolitan Division early in the season, and they are being led by their captain: former Washington Capital forward Justin Williams.

Williams had expressed frustration with the team’s performance prior to being named captain. He’s focusing on the positives now.

After an 8-5 win over the NY Rangers, the team gathered on the ice, and Williams led everyone in a slow clap. Then Williams charged towards the end boards and bodychecked the plexiglass.

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By Brennin Weiswerda 5 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin runs on ice in celebration after scoring from his office

The Caps’ lead didn’t last long. Three minutes after Jakub Vrana’s breakaway, Nate Schmidt got some lucky bounces (for him, not us) to tie the game. No worries, though.
Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin, Captain of the Caps, spit in the dust, whispered nyet, and did scored his 15th goal of the playoffs to put the Caps back up.

You’ll never guess where the shot came from.

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By Ian Oland 5 years ago

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GIFs of Alex Ovechkin celebrating on the bench before earning a trip to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time

Late in the second period when Andre Burakovsky gave the Caps a 3-0 lead, the team’s captain Alex Ovechkin began a celebration that would continue off and on throughout the third period of Game Seven.

Riding two goals from Burky and a second consecutive shutout from Braden Holtby, the Capitals eliminated the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-0. The team is now going to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in the Ovechkin Era.

The Great 8’s happiness was palpable.

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By Ian Oland 5 years ago

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Breaking down the Capitals wild celebration at the bench after beating the Penguins

Coming into Monday night’s game, the Washington Capitals had lost nine out of 10 series against the Pittsburgh Penguins and had never gotten past the second round of the playoffs during the Alex Ovechkin Era. Despite winning the Presidents’ Trophy in three of the last nine seasons and division titles in eight of the last 11, Capitals fans would label the year a failure when the team choked in the playoffs.

Evgeny Kuznetsov’s beautiful, clutch, exhilarating, perfect, overtime game-winning goal changed all of that. And the Caps bench erupted in one of the most raucous team celebrations you’ll ever see.

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By Ian Oland 5 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin’s two-goal game prompts Care Bear hug fest at bench

Alex Ovechkin‘s Capitals teams may have never advanced past the second round, but it hasn’t been because of Ovi. The Russian machine is nearly a point-per game player in the postseason, and is the team’s franchise leader in playoff goals (51). Ovechkin is also only the NHL’s seventh active player with 50 playoff goals.

So when the team’s captain scored twice in the second period, the Caps bench just needed to love on The Ovi.

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By Ian Oland 5 years ago

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10 GIFs of the Caps celebrating their Game Three overtime win

Monday night before the Caps entered overtime, I had one friend tell me they were vomiting. Another had to turn the game off because their nerves were getting the best of them.

“I can’t watch overtime,” my friend said to me in a text. “I’m too heartbroken already.”

After surrendering a two-goal lead late in the third period, the Caps won their first game of their second-round series against Pittsburgh, tallying the decisive goal 3:13 into overtime. Kevin Shattenkirk’s seeing-eye wrist shot found the back of the net.

While I screamed an angry expletive at my TV (because my favorite team seemingly does not know how to win games without conjuring extreme emotional distress), the Capitals were actually happy about the result.

Here are the fun GIFs to prove it.

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By Ian Oland 6 years ago

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