The Washington Capitals might be having a disaster preseason, but their promotion game is on point.
Saturday night before performing, Bruno Mars, wearing a Washington Capitals #24 jersey, posed with former First Lady Michelle Obama in the bowels of Verizon Center. The Washington Post’s Dan Steinberg was the first to report the photos.
The Caps won 4-2 in Montreal against Canadiens on Wednesday night, with Devante Smith-Pelly making his scoring debut for Washington. Meanwhile, at Capital One Arena, none other than two-time Grammy winner Ed Sheeran was rocking the red.
By Madeline Dement 6 years ago
On Thursday, Taylor Nolan, a reality TV star from both The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise series, posted a tribute to her father on Instagram. The first photo included Taylor in a Capitals shirt.
After suffering a torn ACL on April 28th, outfielder Adam Eaton returned to Nats Park on Friday for the first time since his surgery. A big fan of hockey, Eaton showed off his support for the local hockey team.
By Cara Bahniuk 6 years ago
One of the biggest grossing movies over the last year is Disney’s animated film Moana and it now has an amazing Caps connection.
The film, which Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson contributed his voice to, has grossed over $587 million worldwide, and received two Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (“How Far I’ll Go”).
The lead character Moana was voiced by 16-year-old newcomer Auli’i Cravalho, a native of Kohala, Hawaii. According to Disney, Cravalho, who was in her freshman year of high school, was the last person to audition out of hundreds of actresses. On February 28, Cravalho, wearing a stunning red dress, performed the film’s signature song at the Oscars along with Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Now that I’m done that context, here’s where I blow your mind. Cravalho owns a Capitals shirsey of fourth-line center Jay Beagle.
The Washington Capitals are getting promotion from the unlikeliest of sources. A day before former Law & Order SVU star Christopher Meloni was photographed wearing a Caps hat with Mariska Hargitay, Delegate Vivian Watts rocked a Caps lid while on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates in Richmond.
Watts, a Democrat, represents the 39th district, which is located in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County.
By Cara Bahniuk 7 years ago
The Washington Capitals are getting some free promotion from an unlikely source.
Wednesday night, current Law & Order SVU star Mariska Hargitay (Detective Benson) surprised fans when she posted a photo with her former co-star Christopher Meloni (Detective Stabler).
“And then that happened… Just when I thought Valentine’s Day was over,” Hargitay wrote.
Photo: @peteglowdc
Tuesday night, a third of the Caps roster traveled up to Boston for the team’s second preseason game in consecutive nights. Despite a third period goal from Nate Schmidt, the Caps lost 2-1 due to a David Pastrňák one-timer 12 seconds into overtime.
Meanwhile, Tom Wilson – a night after scoring the game-winning goal against Carolina – was back at Verizon Center, but this time to see tiny tattooed pop singer, Ed Sheeran, in concert.
Photo: AP
Rapper Kendrick Lamar gave a concert in Finsbury Park of North London on the fourth of July, which I suppose is celebrated a bit differently over there. That doesn’t matter. The point is this: Lamar, a California native, rocked a Washington Capitals Winter Classic hat at the concert.
By Peter Hassett 8 years ago
Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, and Dmitry Orlov were all that Fury premier tonight. And lo and behold, they actually got to meet Brad Pitt. AND give him a custom made Caps jersey too.
How cool is this? Oh man.
