We learned something Very Important Tuesday night. Alex Ovechkin will sign your large, four-foot-tall oil paintings of himself, but for a price.
And that price, I’m guessing, is an equally as large, medium-rare steak.
Our predictions, including those of Keith, a coin, will be out later this week. For now, please put your eyeballs on the picks of ten (10) ESPN professional thinkers, all of whom think the Caps will beat the Toronto Maple Leafs — almost all in 5 games or fewer.
By Peter Hassett 4 years ago
Earlier today, a group of ESPN analysts predicted (with caveats!) that Philipp Grubauer would become a Vegas Golden Knight this summer. This afternoon ESPN kept the crystal ball thing going.
Big brains Craig Custance, Scott Burnside, and Rob Vollman all pick the Washington Capitals as Stanley Cup favorites.
Which, by my reckoning, means that the Caps have a 10- to 15-percent chance to win it all.
By Peter Hassett 4 years ago
Tuesday, EA Sports released their annual playoff simulation. And boy do I have some news: the video game engine predicted the Caps would win the Stanley Cup.
Really.
Photo: Saam
The Caps have won the Presidents’ Trophy and they’ve got the merch to prove it. None of this should be a surprise, yet why do I feel so uneasy?
By Peter Hassett 5 years ago
Look I’m not superstitious, but if I put my pants on right-to-left instead of left-to-right, I take them off, light them on fire, throw them in a trash can, and jump back in bed. Try again tomorrow, right? I hate it when people call me superstitious. No, I’m not superstitious.
[Realizes I forgot to dab 3 drops of shampoo in my hand instead of the customary 2, begins panicking.]
Okay, fine, I’m superstitious. But this is why I needed to share this with you. Over the weekend, my parents visited my house and handed me a light-blue tin can, which had an embossed gingerbread man design on the top. I had no idea what was inside, but my mother had this crazed, excited face like she had just won the lotto. I opened the tin can only to find the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life. At that moment I understood.
Photo: Tom Szczerbowski
In disturbing jinx news, the Washington Capitals are now Bovada’s odds on favorite (13/2) to win the Stanley Cup. This comes on the heels of several NHL.com analysts picking the Caps to win it all during the preseason.
Meanwhile, the Dallas Stars (7/1), New York Rangers (15/2), Chicago Blackhawks (9/1), and Montreal Canadians (12/1) round out Bovada’s top five.
The first puck of the 2013-14 season will drop in exactly 30 days, so we’re going to spend the whole month reminding ourselves of all the good things coming our way on October 1st. I thought I’d start with this little gem: Everybody’s healthy. For once.
Over the last two seasons, Mike Green, Brooks Laich, and Nick Backstrom have combined to play just 63.5% of games. Concussions and #brittlegroin have cost those players a combined 142 man-games, probably a big factor in the Caps’ struggles since 2011. After successful rehab for all three, we’ve got reason to think those troubles are behind us now.
By Peter Hassett 7 years ago
The NHL agreed last week to allow its players participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Up to eleven Washington Capitals could represent their countries in the two-week tournament, but the ultimate goal of Olympic gold just got a bit less awesome.
Chelyabinsk Region Culture Minister Alexei Betekhtin announced on Wednesday that gold medal winners on February 15th will receive a little something extra in their award: part of the meteor that crashed over the city a year before. According to R-Sport, only seven events will be awarding medals that day: the men’s 1,500 meter speedskating, the women’s 1,000m and men’s 1,500 short track, the women’s cross-country skiing relay, the men’s K-125 ski jump, the women’s super giant slalom, and the men’s skeleton events.
So no space rocks for hockey players.
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 4 years ago
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