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Quick-thinking Caps fans fold ’50’ balloon to make ’51’ as Alex Ovechkin scores 51st goal

Saturday evening, Alex Ovechkin finally scored his milestone 50th goal of the season. The 33-year-old Ovechkin hit the 50-goal threshold for the eighth time in his career and the first time in three seasons (2015-16). Then, less than two minutes later, he scored again to make it 51 goals.

Ovechkin scored his second goal so quickly, it caught one Caps fan unprepared.

Caps fan Andria had been in the middle of blowing up giant gold “50” balloons she’d brought to Amalie Arena in case Ovi scored his 50th. She didn’t even get the chance to finish blowing up the “0” balloon before Ovi scored again.

So Andria adapted and folded the half-blown balloon into a “1” for “51.”

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By Elizabeth Kong 4 years ago

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Selfies from the Capitals’ Red Carpet

Ahead of the Washington Capitals’ home opener against the Islanders tonight, hundreds of Caps fans lined F Street to take pictures and snag autographs from players at a red carpet event.

A few players took selfies with the crowd.

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By Ian Oland 7 years ago

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Caps Score While Goat Films “Let’s Go Caps” Chant Using Google Glass (Video)

Photo: Stewart Small

On Saturday night, the Washington Capitals continued their insufferable promotional push for their upcoming Skybox app on Google Glass by giving a pair of glasses to Craig Laughlin and Caps superfan William “Goat” Stillwell.

While Locker donned the glasses during the telecast, Goat put them on from his seats in the lower bowl and took a video from his own eyeballs during a cheer. Some fortuitous timing there, as something amazing happened while he was recording. You’re just going to have to click play and see for yourself.

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By Ian Oland 10 years ago

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Caps Superfans Unite: Brouwer Rangers Take us Behind-the-Scenes of the Arrowine Commercial

The gang. (Photo credit: @zoharfilm)

Editor’s note: The Washington Capitals fan base is a tight bunch. We have both super fans and normal people, but everybody comes together to watch the team blow a late lead. It’s a nice community like that. Recently, a few of those superfans shot a commercial for a local wine shop. We’ll let Nathan from the Brouwer Rangers take it away.

On a chilly, drizzly night in December, unbeknownst to all but a few fortunate souls, magic was happening behind the locked doors of an Arlington storefront. On Tuesday, that magic was revealed to the world in the form of this commercial for Arrowine, a local fine food and adult-beverage store. Give it a look. We’ll wait.

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By Ian Oland 10 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin, Other Caps Notables Meet Ovie The Bulldog (Photos)

While Alex Ovechkin is easily the most celebrated player on the Washington Capitals, someone else was the star of Caps Con.

Everyone say hi to Ovie the Bulldog.

On the top floor of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ovie’s human parents, Mike and Kim Robertson, set up shop with their leashed and well-behaved pup, greeting Caps fans on their way down to the convention. He made lots of friends.

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By Ian Oland 10 years ago

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Washington Capitals Welcome Fans Back to Verizon Center With Sloppy Play, Pepsi Products

Alex Ovechkin high fives fans on the way to the locker room after warmups. (Photos by Chris Gordon)

Caps fans, finally back at a game, watch warmups.

At 7:12 PM on January 22 six ounces of vulcanized rubber hit the ice at Verizon Center for the first time in 258 days. It was May 9, 2012 when the Washington Capitals held their last home game here, a 2-1 win over the New York Rangers in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Since then, there was a Game Seven in New York, a long summer, and an even longer fall. The almost four month long NHL lockout kept fans across the continent away from the game and for some separated them from their second home.

“I’m overjoyed to be back at Verizon Center because I feel like part of me was missing when they were gone,” said Caps fan Melissa Blum of Germantown, Maryland. “I grew up watching hockey and it’s my favorite thing so when it wasn’t there that was unfortunate. Now that they’re back so I’m happy.”

“It’s going to take a little bit of time to knock the fan rust off,” William Stilwell, better known as Goat, said. “This time of year I’ve usually gotten some yelling callouses build up but tonight it’s like boom, right into the thick of it. I’ve been doing a lot of screaming in traffic, things like that.”

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By Chris Gordon 11 years ago

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#RMNBParty4: The Photos

Photo credit: Chris Gordon

Thank you to everyone who attended RMNB Party 4: Judgment Day at Front Page Arlington. Thank you to Front Page for being such terrific hosts and putting up with our crowd. Thank you to Wes Johnson for rocking the microphone. Thank you to Mathieu Perreault for scoring the game-winner.

The turnout was terrific, the game was great, and it scarcely could have gone better. Our own paparazzo, Chris Gordon, was snapping pics all night long; here’s a sampling behind the jump. If you’ve got more pics to share, please link ’em up in the comments or share ’em on Twitter on the #RMNBParty4 hashtag. If you’ve got a story to tell about the party (love connections, anyone?), let us know that as well. Thanks again!

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By Peter Hassett 11 years ago

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Caps Fans and Bad Habits: We Can Do Better

(Photo credit: @clydeorama. Go check out Clyde’s site.)

Rituals bind us to one another. In a fan community, rituals take many forms. In the clothing we wear, the cheers we shout, the fives we high– that’s where togetherness happens. It’s like a wholesome mob mentality, and everyone’s allowed in the mob so long as they can do a couple simple things.

Problem is: sometimes those rituals get us into trouble. Some rituals become bad habits, and those bad habits have got to go. You know what I’m talking about: It’s all your fault, Who Cares?, RED!, and a certain nickname for Sidney Crosby. It’s not cool anymore. Let’s discuss.

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By Peter Hassett 12 years ago

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Have You Heard? The Caps Are Back.

I feel like I’ve seen this person before… (Photo credit: Mitchell Layton)

Fans enter Verizon Center before the season-opener. (Photo credit: Chris Gordon)

One hundred fifty-seven days. That’s a long summer for Caps fans. And Saturday night at 7:09 P.M. Eastern Time when six ounces of vulcanized rubber tumbled toward the ice sheet it was finally over.

“The atmosphere was great,” Alex Ovechkin told reporters after the game. “The fans push us forward all the time. It’s nice to play at home, especially the first game. I know everybody was missing hockey here so it’s nice to come back.”

The trademarks of Caps hockey were all there last night: Sam Wolk pursed his lips to his horn and let lout three loud blasts at the drop of the puck; Wes Johnson bellowed out the name of Alexander Semin (heavy on the “r”) after Washington lit the lamp for the first time this season on Sasha’s tally; William Stilwell, better known as the Goat, let out a thunderous roar of “Let’s Go Caps!” as he stomped the metal beneath his feet when shown on the big screen in the second period.

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By Chris Gordon 12 years ago

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