RockTheRed

“To all the people who doubted us, stick it up their asses.” - Nick Backstrom

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

At the end of the day, this core group has won a Stanley Cup. That's hard to do. Most core groups don't do it. Ultimately, those guys get old & decline. The Caps will still be postseason contenders, but hard to count on much more. And that's okay.

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(4/4)

[Greg Wyshynski @wyshynski]

From the new NHL Stanley Cup commercial, we present a crime:

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

Oh no, Florida. That’s too bad.

[Samantha Pell @SamanthaJPell]

Nicklas Backstrom: "The hip's not going to be 100%. That's something we all know. Some days are good. Some days are less good. That's just life."

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

@HackswithHaggs @BDB_34 yes, but then again, I’m not Joe Haggerty, the greatest sports writer there ever was

[Tarik El-Bashir @Tarik_ElBashir]

Nicklas Backstrom is not sure what the next course of action will be for his hip. Rehab? Surgery? Sounds like it’s all on the table but he’s still hopeful of getting closer to where he needs to be. That said, “the hip is not going to be 100-percent.” #Caps

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

@HackswithHaggs @BDB_34 are YOU really crushing it?

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

@holterbees Greg and I agree, so I am not sure what point you think you are making? My entire thesis is "I am not mad my team lost"

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

The lamestream, fake news hockey media spent 15 years saying Ovechkin was a choker and ever since the Caps won the Cup they have been saying "well yeah, but he's only won **ONE** of them"

[Greg Wyshynski @wyshynski]

The Capitals/Ovechkin legacy takes are a special brand of terrible this morning.

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

The comparison is against Chicago and Pittsburgh, which is fair to an extent. They haven't achieved to that level, obviously. But the bar for success can't be "two of the great dynastic runs the sport has ever seen"

[ThePeerless @ThePeerless]

@RockTheRed 16 seasons since the 2004-2005 lockout, ten different winners. The days of dominance of the sort Montreal, Boston, Edmonton, and the Islanders had a generation or two ago are long over.

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

Winning the Stanley Cup is extraordinarily hard and if your sports column take is "The Ovechkin era underwhelmed because they didn't win multiple rings" you need to find a new job because you suck at your current one

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

Remember:

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[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

Oh, dear.

Florida was the better team. Hell of a series.

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY MAD AT THE OSHIE CONTRACT LMAO

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

PLAYOFF OSH !!!!!!!

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

Caps are a missed empty-netter away from almost certainly winning this series

Hockey is stupid.

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

lmao you HAVE to be shitting me.

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

Claude Giroux can go right to hell

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

NICK BACKSTROM OUR MOUNT RUSHMORE KING

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

The Panthers are not going to give it to you. You gotta take it.

[RockTheRed @RockTheRed]

That 4th line has been hauling ass all night. LFG