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WASHINGTON, D.C. — <\/strong>I caught the final Capitals game of the season on Saturday with MC Hamme<\/span> and my co-worker Fred<\/span>, a Western NY native. Fred was pleased to see the Buffaslugs win 2-0.


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  • The Sabres fans were loud and proud. However, I had a few answers for all the “Let’s go Buff-a-lo” chants:
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    “Go back to Buff-a-lo”<\/p>\n

    “Where’s Thurman’s helmet?”<\/p>\n

    “Music city mir-a-cle!”<\/p>\n

    “no GOAL no GOAL”<\/p>\n

    “Wide right, wide right”<\/p>\n

    “Can’t beat Dall-as”<\/p>\n

    I couldn’t come up with a good 1998 one; I’ll have to work on that in the offseason.<\/p>\n

    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?”<\/p>\n

    I responded “three Lombardi trophies” and he shut up. Heh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  • Other than that guy, I’d say the Buffaslug fanbase is much less annoying\/dangerous than the Pengyunz fans. Others disagree though.\n
  • 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<\/span> was stopping everything. It was that kind of game and year for the Capitals.\n
  • 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.\n
  • 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.\n
  • I also made it out to Japers’ Rink’s post-game happy hour<\/span><\/a> 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<\/a> of<\/a> the<\/a> usual<\/a> suspects<\/a><\/span>, as well of Eric McErlain<\/span> of the venerable Off Wing Opinion<\/span><\/a> and surprise guest, James Mirtle<\/span><\/a>. Yea, namedropping. I wish I could have stayed longer.\n

    By the way, the second season of La Coupe Hauxer<\/span> ended in a tie<\/span><\/a>. 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?<\/p>\n

    ©MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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