Ugh. I don’t want to write this article. I really don’t. You can pretend this article doesn’t exist if you want. Just skip it. Don’t read the rest of this article. Starting… now.
We now know that if the Caps lose Game Six on Sunday night, Game Seven would be held on Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
I feel dirty just typing that.
By Peter Hassett 3 years ago
Photo: Bruce Bennett
No one knows the agony of games seven like fans of the Washington Capitals. The Caps, we’ve been told, are a team uniquely terrible at playing Big Games, which are bigger than small games, which don’t even get uppercase letters. Washington, led– perhaps only nominally– by Alex Ovechkin, are choking dogs. Or maybe they’re cursed. Basically, they’re cursed, choking dogs who are also lazy and don’t care about team accomplishments and they’re probably all going to go to Russia soon anyw—
Shut. Up.
The past is not always prologue. Sometimes the past is just trivia. Maybe it’s just painful trivia that provides writers a convenient angle from which to cover hockey, but it’s still trivia.
Tonight is game seven, gay sev to us in the know. It’s not the culmination of a franchise or some grand denouement for a city that needs a winner. It’s just an hour of hockey with one winner and one loser, an hour of hockey to determine if this is the end or not. That’s all.
By Peter Hassett 5 years ago
Your favorite player might play in the biggest game of the season. Smiling god/defenseman Nate Schmidt has been recalled from the Hershey Bears. If he plays in game seven on Wednesday, he’ll be filling in for Tim Gleason, who was beleaguered and banged up in game six.
Gleason wound up with four third-period shifts last night, but none after 10:57.
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) May 11, 2015
With Gleason out (but not necessarily because Gleason was out), the Capitals dominated the final ten minutes of that game.
When Nate Schmidt and Mike Green were on the ice together during 5v5 this season, the Capitals controlled 55.1 percent of the shot attempts.
By Peter Hassett 5 years ago
Tonight, the Capitals will play game seven against the New York Islanders. It will be the tenth time the club has played in a game seven in the playoffs. Of the nine that have come before, the Caps have won three.
| Year | Oh God What Happened |
| 2013 | Lost 5-0 to the Rangers |
| 2012 | Lost 2-1 to the Rangers |
| 2012 | Beat the Bruins 2-1 in OT |
| 2010 | Lost 2-1 to the Canadiens |
| 2009 | Lost 6-2 to the Penguins |
| 2009 | Beat the Rangers 2-1 |
| 2008 | Lost 3-2 to the Flyers |
| 1995 | Lost 5-0 to the Penguins |
| 1992 | Lost 3-1 to the Penguins |
| 1988 | Lost 3-2 to the Devils |
| 1992 | Beat the Flyers 5-4 in OT |
| 1987 | Lost 3-2 to the Islanders in 4OT |
Game seven (gay sev to those in the know) is a familiar, painful Capitals tradition– one that began in ’87 with the heartbreak that was the Easter Epic. No matter what happens tonight, the game will take years off your life. The anxiety is imminent, and it will certainly make you a worse employee and a lazier lover.
How are you preparing for the game? Are you wearing rad Caps gear? Is it radder than my my signed Bradley jersey? Are you making signs and taking them to the game? Got any chants in mind? What is your dog doing and is he/she cute?
Use this space to share your outfit, your plans, and your feels. We’ll get through this together.
By Peter Hassett 5 years ago
Photo credit: Elsa
Game Seven. You know the deal.
Jason Chimera dropped the puck to John Carlson, who fired a shot that Matt Hendricks tipped in. Tyler Seguin dove to knock in a loose puck behind Braden Holtby to tie the game heading into the third period. The game went into overtime.
And then it happened. You knew it would. Mike Knuble crashed the net and Joel Ward swept in the rebound. Caps beat Bruins 2-1 (OT).
By Peter Hassett 8 years ago
