Club seats.  I think I paid for tickets one time since we’ve lived here.

Video: The most adorable youth hockey goal celebration ever? – Puck Daddy – NHL  – Yahoo! Sports.

I probably would’ve lol’d had I been there.

Boy, talk about ups and downs. The first two playoff games have been rather intense, given that the Caps are supposed to have plowed through the Frenchies and be done with it already. Guess that’s why they play the game!

Also, discuss what a huge nerd I am:

The Caps won their eleventh in a row last night.

You know what is really strange to see – something I have never seen before? This:

The underlining is mine. Weird.

What sucks is that they’re really hot right now. We’d really rather them be hot going into the playoffs. You know, unless they can keep it together and rolling until the end of the season. With a two-week break for the Olympics. Color me unconvinced on that.

The last time the Caps won eight in a row, it was 1989.

And not just any eight in a row – eight in a row over good teams. Except Toronto.

On Frozen Blog › A New Level of Intolerable Violence Plagues Hockey.

The video at the link isn’t for the squeamish.

I think people who play hockey explicitly for their cheap-shotting and cheap-hitting skills should be put on a one-way rocket to Jupiter with no life support.

So the Capitals are first in the Eastern Conference now – truly first, in that the Devils were right behind them with a few games in hand. This is no longer true – we’re out in first. This hasn’t happened since 1999-2000, where the Caps ended up falling just short and finished with a number two seed in the playoffs, slotted against the goddamn Penguins, who ended up winning the series in five games, the final goal being scored by Jaromir Jagr off a bad deflection from Calle Johansson’s calf. Not that I’m bitter.

They’re solidly in first, and in serious contention for the President’s Trophy. Anna, the President’s Trophy is awarded to the team who has the best record in hockey at the end of the season. Usually the Sharks, who end up losing early in the playoffs – as that link states, only six teams with this trophy have ever gone on to win the trophy – so maybe we don’t want it.

They just finished up a tough swing against the Flyers, Red Wings, Penguins, and Coyotes. Normally I wouldn’t consider the Coyotes tough, but apparently they’re playing pretty well, currently slotted fifth in the Western Conference.

I honestly don’t know what to believe. Obviously, they’re a pretty good team right now, and that’s with them being banged up and missing a few players. Their goaltending is solid, while not excellent, and they’re not playing the best defense – but they score roughly twenty million goals a game. That’s a great formula for the regular season, and very entertaining to watch – but they’re virtually the same team as they were last year, with a hint of wizening. Winning in the regular season is nice, because honestly, outside the top three seedings for the playoffs, I have no idea what is going on with the rest of the league. I’m not even going to look.

I don’t want to think this is the year they could win a Stanley Cup. I’m afraid that as soon as I do start believing, the wheels will come off.

You know, because it matters what one single fan thinks. SHUT UP IT MATTERS

It’s weird that Caps games actually have fans at them now, fans like the Capstronaut.

And he got invited to the Uncle Ted’s box to watch a game. Neat.

I love the Caps. Mad props to Matt Bradley.

I think it’s a pretty easy decision to name Alex Ovechkin your captain. He’s the guy on that team, and will be for what… eleven more years? I don’t think the organization or players could have picked a better captain, I don’t think. I guess Chris Clark was OK – but it seemed like he was always injured, and was the captain from back in the mid 2000’s were the Caps were pretty terrible. Thank you for your effort, but please don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out!

What’s cool is that the team left themselves with about eight to ten million in cap space (ha) so they can afford to play at the trade deadline. If they don’t pick up a puncher or some big defensemen, there will be a lot of unhappy Caps fans.

But, to the title of this post – by naming him a captain, they’ve made my jersey incorrect. Jerks.