Holy Shit! The Caps Finally Beat the Penguins! Yo, Pittsburgh, you SUCK!
Shhh. Shut your yapping mouths for a minute, Pittsburgh. Let me enjoy this moment.
The Washington Capitals have finally beaten the Pittsburgh Penguins. In Pittsburgh, no less. Which, you know, hasn’t happened since dinosaurs walked the Earth. (Note: I’m pretty sure that the Weekly World News reported a T-Rex sighting in southern Florida in 2002—which IS the last time the Caps won in Pittsburgh.) The same Penguins who beat the Capitals in the playoffs six times out of seven in an 11-year span. The same Penguins who have beaten the Caps nine out of the last 10 times since their respective superstars, Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin, entered the league in 2005-2006. The same Penguins who I hate with the flaming passion of a thousand suns.
Suck it, Pittsburgh.
Ovechkin scored two goals and had an assist—putting him in sole possession of first place in the NHL’s goal-scoring department. Viktor Kozlov had his second two-goal game in a row; rookie Nicklas Backstrom, meanwhile, had his second four-assist game in a row. Goaltender Olaf Kolzig stopped 10 out of 15 Penguins shots. Okay, so that’s not so great, but a win is a win—even when it requires a shootout, which was the case last night (following a spirited Caps penalty-killing performance during an extended 5-on-3 Penguins powerplay in overtime).
As Penguins fans will be lightning-quick to point out, “OH MY GOD Sidney Crosby is injured! Why hasn’t NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman put the 2007-2008 season on hold until he recovers? The league can’t have an All-Star Game without Secondary Sid!” Because, like, no other team in the league has to play through injuries. Like, say, the Capitals, who were missing their captain (Chris Clark), their second highest scorer (Michael Nylander, out for the season), and two of their top four defensemen (Shaone Morrisonn and Brian Pothier).
Okay, okay—so the Penguins were also missing their “number one” goalie Marc-Andre Fleury as well as forwards Gary Roberts and Colby Armstrong. Boo-fucking-hoo. Maybe the NHL's new moisture-proof jerseys will wick away your tears.
Did I mention that the Caps beat the Penguins? Hot holy fuck on ice.
Comments
Leave a Reply
You can follow any responses to this entry through its comments RSS feed.
11:55 am
Still waiting for Borlik's LOLCaps to spawn its own blog.
12:41 pm
It kinda left me froozen in place.
1:48 pm
You all have to get lucky once in a while. A joke to compare those bums that are injured for the Caps to Crosby.
3:29 pm
Bettman needs to be fired!!
http://www.FireBettman.com
3:42 pm
You guys are really classy. Have fun writing for an internet blog site the rest of your life.
7:45 am
The Pissburgh team and their leader second-assist Cindy and their fans are a bunch of crybaby's - always with an excuse. I haven't met one that wasn't wimpish.
8:47 am
You guys are just mad cause every time the Pens come to town you're outnumbered in your own building.
As a Pitt fan, one of the teams I most love to hate is the Caps...Here's hoping they start meeting in the playoffs again!
2:39 pm
Wow, all those years of sucking have made Caps fans bitter.
Sorry, Caps fans, but it IS a big deal that Crosby is injured. All of you, especially DlyJOE, would be whining about not having Ovechkin if he were out 6-to-8 weeks, and I would completely understand. He's a great player, just like Crosby. No disrespect to Clark and Nylander, but they're not in the same league with Crosby in terms of ability. There's no comparison there.
I will be the bigger man and say that I like what the Caps are doing. In fact, I think they'll win the Southleast division -- Oops, sorry, a little typo there -- I mean, the Southeast division. But seriously, the Caps are an upcoming team.
8:18 am
Ullman- Outnumbered in our own building??? You're delusional. 5,000 PISSburgh (IF you are lucky) fans and 12,000-13,000 Caps fans. yeah, outnumbered. IDIOT.
You are just jealous because your penwhines lost on your home ice. Of course I'd be mad too if I lived in PISSburgh or was from there. ALL of your pro teams suck and your town is the anus of America.
7:48 pm
Oh calm down. I was kidding. IDIOT.
1:21 pm
I almost cared about this article...then I realized it was written in the Washington City "Fucking" Paper