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Thanks to PFT Commenter, the Washington Capitals are now 100% jinxed for the Stanley Cup playoffs

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the jinx is in for Washington Capitals. Tuesday morning, internet celebrity PFT Commenter got cozy with the Stanley Cup after the trophy visited his office. He made a tiny amendment to the cup, which will inevitably doom the team for the rest of eternity.

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By Elyse Bailey 6 years ago

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The New York Rangers Think They Already Won The Series

The biggest jinx since the Oil Painting. (Photo credit: Ted Starkey)

On Monday– many, many hours before the Capitals and Rangers took the ice for Game Five– the New York Rangers sent out an email encouraging its fans to buy tickets for the Eastern Conference Finals. But they left out one tiny little detail: they haven’t made the finals yet.

While we understand the need to sell tickets, this overdone graphic — which shows half the team doing a stick salute in Narnia or something, is pompous and ludicrous. The New York Rangers have lost their last two playoff series against the Capitals. You’d think they’d know better.

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By Ian Oland 11 years ago

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The Jinxiest Jinx Ever to Jinx: Aleksandr Reut’s “We are the Champions” Painting

Did you think this would be a slow news week? Maybe an injury update here or a scouting report there, but overall an uneventful period before the semifinals. Well, you were wrong. From the Internet’s very own disreputable flea market emerges what might become the cultural moment of the hockey season.

(Are we building this up too much?)

Artist Aleksandr Reut has crafted Washington Capitals – We are the Champions!, an exquisite 40″ x 32″ oil painting on canvas. This inspired (yet absurdly premature) work of celebratory art and its partner piece are available for bid or purchase on eBay right now. Starting bid is only $5,000, so crack open those piggy banks.

A 50-something Ukrainian ex-pat living in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Reut fills the daytime hours as an architect, but the muses compel him to high art. A decade-old profile from Harrisonburg’s Daily News-Record (reprinted here by brama.com) extols Reut’s passion for mixed media as a sculptor, but he tells me that it’s hockey that really inspires him.

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By Peter Hassett 12 years ago

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