Sunday evening, the Hershey Bears traveled to a galaxy far, far away and hosted the Charlotte Checkers on Star Wars night at Giant Center. Like any good minor-league promotion, this included in-game theming, fan costumes, and, most importantly, Star Wars jerseys.
By Brendan Doyle 2 years ago
Over the last few years, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has dedicated much of his free time to raising money and awareness for sick, disabled, or orphaned children. Today, he’s at it again.
In an auction run by friend Lena Perminova, Ovi is offering to dress up as Darth Vader to raise money for a sick child. Darthvechkin will go to a party of the highest bidder’s choice along with several other people dressed up as Star Wars characters.
The auction started at $865, and, five hours later, reached $17,241. Yana Rudkovskaya has the top bid.
Ovechkin even filmed a 50-second commercial acting out a battle with fellow Star Wars characters.
On Thursday, Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens was released in theaters nationwide. To celebrate, CSN Washington’s Joe Beninati penned a brilliant cold open before Friday’s Caps/Lightning game. It’s almost as good as the Caps Super Friends bit he did in 2010, but please note: nothing will ever top that.
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Today is May the 4th, a.k.a Star Wars Day, so one intrepid Caps fan came to game three wearing a Chewbacca costume UNDER his Nicklas Backstrom jersey. RMNB reader Emily Ward first located Chewy while he was shopping for power converters in the team store. No, I do not know how he didn’t pass out from dehydration.
