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In the fight for the Stanley Cup you just have to put your head down, go full speed and hit anyone in your path…apparently including your own teammate as Dan Carcillo did to his Philadelphia Flyers teammate Jeff Carter last night against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 2 of the NHL Finals. Give it a look, it might be the best hit of the Finals you’ll see this year. Oh, by the way, the Chicacgo Blackhawks beat the Philadelphia Flyers and are up 2-0 in the series.
Some wisenheimer NHL fan had a nice idea to mashup the new Stanley Cup Playoffs ads with Evander Kane’s knockout of hated goon Matt Cooke from the other night. Watch it, its worth your time, even if you didn’t see the punch, which you should because its about time that Cooke got what was coming to him. If you don’t watch hockey and/or you don’t know who either Matt Cooke or Evander Kane are, well, one is a huge bag of douche and the other is now my hero. Bravo Kane, bravo.
Photo taken from Deadspin and by Fred Johnson, seriously nice photo dude.
-The team is incredibly well-rounded. With nine games left in their schedule, they have five players with 50 or more points. Two others have more than 45.
-What’s the basic premise in hockey? Score more goals than your opponent. At +81, their goal differential is ridiculous. The next closest is Chicago with +57. It’s the highest differential since the 2005-2006 season.
-They’re pretty great on the road. With 22 road victories, they’re tied for the most in the NHL. They’re also pretty good at home — their 27 wins on home ice is also tied for most in the league.
-Jose Theodore and Semyon Varmalov are not exactly reminiscent of Domink Hasek or Patrick Roy (although Theodore has been 17-0-2 since mid-January), but winning a cup with slightly above-average goalies has been done in the not-to-distant past. In 2005-2006, the Cup-winning Carolina Hurricanes had two goalies with GAA’s and Save %’s worse than both Theodore and Varmalov. Much like this season’s Capitals, those Hurricanes spread the wealth: they too had over five players with 50 points or more.
-Olympics heroics or not (and really, is it that hard to win a gold medal when Rick Nash and Jerome Iginla are your line-mates?), the Capitals have arguably the best player in hockey. And he’s not afraid to hit somebody.
-They show up for big games. Undefeated in three games against the Penguins this year. The Flyers? An imperfect 3-1, with the one loss coming in the third game of the season. In those four games against Philly: 23 goals scored. Three wins against playoff-bound Buffalo. Wins against Detroit and Chicago. The one team they’ve had trouble with all year, the New Jersey Devils, they beat 4-1 in their last meeting. The Caps aren’t afraid of anyone.
In a town that desperately needs a winner, the Washington Capitals have the opportunity to banish the misery of DC sports fans everywhere. At least until the Redskins start training camp…
