That was ugly.<\/p>\n
How many of you came back from the bathroom to find the Caps down 2-0 in the first period?<\/p>\n
How many of you didn’t make it back to your seats in time for the second period only to find the Caps down 4-0?<\/p>\n
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I couldn’t finish cussing about the first goal before the Penguins had scored a second goal.<\/p>\n
By the end of the second period it was 5-1 Penguins. What do you say to a team down that many goals with only one period to go before their season is over? I don’t think there’s much you can say.<\/p>\n
The crowd was ready, the Penguins were ready, but it really looked like the Capitals weren’t ready.<\/p>\n
And maybe that’s a good summation of the Caps’ season. They played great, but they just weren’t ready.<\/p>\n
I mean, let’s face it; we got our money’s worth out of the Caps this year. They played a lot of great hockey during the regular season. They broke all kinds of records, we got glimpses of the future with all of the call-ups from Hershey, we have found our franchise goal-tender, but in the end the Caps just weren’t ready to go all the way.<\/p>\n
It’s a real shame that the Caps last game of the season had to end with such a lop-sided loss. Their season was better than that, this series was better than that, but all that will be remembered from this round of the playoffs will be the 6-2 loss.<\/p>\n
On another note, I want to say how proud I am to be a Caps fan. You guys who went to Verizon did us all proud. The Caps lost 6-2, and unlike the last home game there was no garbage thrown on the ice, but instead a standing ovation for the team that kept us all happy for the past eight months.<\/p>\n
The players may not have earned it on the merit of this game, but they certainly have on the merits of this season.<\/p>\n
Now here’s what’s better about hockey than most sports…it starts all over again in just four months!<\/p>\n
With what we’ve seen from Hershey, we can expect the Caps to be exciting again next year, and maybe next year…they’ll be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"