I can't believe I am about to say this about the very same Capitals' team whose myriad of playoff failures have made them a more consistent punchline than the league in which the participate, but I'm not even sure bad juju is enough to stop them now. Washington fans most certainly do not want shop owners tempting what's been considered an annual fate by shamelessly posting horrible omens in their own window. Still, with how hot Kuznetsov and company are currently running it's probably going to take a lot more than a minor cold spell to leave them desperately trying to clear their throats to avoid choking. Honestly, even if I wanted to push the narrative that the hockey gods might find such a presumptuous business move to be blasphemous, everything I have seen from the Capitals this postseason leads me to believe that even hockey's most holy have resigned themselves to it being the Caps year. After all, they already gave their best shot at interjecting by leading a tepid Tampa Bay squad on a three-game winning streak after an injured Nicklas Backstrom stupidly signed a broom two games into a series, and even that wasn't nearly enough for Lightning to strike dead a team whose previous playoff runs were basically fatalistic sprints to a Final Destination-esque finish. Between coming from behind after dropping down 0-2 to Columbus at home, having to purge of their own personal parasite in the Penguins, and clearing the Southern skies to win the Conference, this bizzaro-world Washington team has actually been able to endure adversity. Therefore, we've reached the point where even I have a hard time believing that the black magic of a Modell's is what's going to commit larceny on Alexander Ovechkin's legacy this time around.
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