WASHINGTON, D.C. — I caught the final Capitals game of the season on Saturday with MC Hamme and my co-worker Fred, a Western NY native. Fred was pleased to see the Buffaslugs win 2-0.
The Sabres fans were loud and proud. However, I had a few answers for all the “Let’s go Buff-a-lo” chants:
“Go back to Buff-a-lo”
“Where’s Thurman’s helmet?”
“Music city mir-a-cle!”
“no GOAL no GOAL”
“Wide right, wide right”
“Can’t beat Dall-as”
I couldn’t come up with a good 1998 one; I’ll have to work on that in the offseason.
Generally speaking, most Sabres fans shut up when I threw one of those out there. Some even laughed though there was one guy in a beer line who answered back “we’re in the playoffs, what do you got?”
I responded “three Lombardi trophies” and he shut up. Heh.
Other than that guy, I’d say the Buffaslug fanbase is much less annoying/dangerous than the Pengyunz fans. Others disagree though.
The game was pretty exciting, though the Caps kept refusing to shoot the puck in their own end for a while. Once they did, Buffalo’s goaltender Ryan Miller was stopping everything. It was that kind of game and year for the Capitals.
My Ovechkin banner disappeared while I was in a concession line. I was hoping to hold onto that to give to my boss a few weeks before my review.
The ‘tron teased the return to red, white and blue uniforms throughout the game. That is when they were not giving away prizes to seemingly every row other than ours.
I also made it out to Japers’ Rink’s post-game happy hour for a few minutes. I’ve enjoyed “crashing” those functions and will miss them in the offseason. Caps bloggers need to start coming to Nats games. It was great seeing some of the usual suspects, as well of Eric McErlain of the venerable Off Wing Opinion and surprise guest, James Mirtle. Yea, namedropping. I wish I could have stayed longer.
By the way, the second season of La Coupe Hauxer ended in a tie. If the Devils and Pengyunz don’t meet in the playoffs, I’m lobbying for a shootout (street hockey or broomball) decide the winner. Anybody in the D.C./Balmer area have a goal and some street hockey sticks they can lend out for an afternoon?
