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This defensive line is overrated - will likely look great next week against terrible Bears team but get mauled by actual good teams. Let Chase walk this offseason cannot spend that kinda money.

5 years since the Cup.

Five years since the Capitals broke the drought.

Best day since Game 7 of the 2019 World Series.

Snyder, Shepard AND Laviolette gone!

The lowest point on the field honestly may be that Chiefs game where it was 38-10 and there were actually 500 people left at the stadium. Truly humiliating. The end of the Shanahan run was truly ugly. Off the field, suing that woman after the 2008 housing collapse was pretty despicable. Going after the park service guy as well. Those moments when you realize Snyder doesn't actually give a F about the fan base and will ruin the little's guy's career etc. to be petty. Once everything is signed sealed and delivered we will leave the past in the past. We have a few weeks to go.

This isn't a coaching thread so I'm not going to go deep on this but you've gotta be joking lol.

April 13, 2023 will go down in D.C. sports history. In the last 30 years, it is June 7, 2018, then October 30, 2019, and now this. There is hope to be a legitimate NFL franchise for the first time since the Clinton administration. This is a day many thought wouldn't come for a LONG time. We owe the journalism community, federal and state prosecutors, and the lawyers who signed the deals to bring on the old minority owners so much for getting us to this point. Get a stadium deal done in WASHINGTON, D.C. on the RFK site.

This is a case of not really "Recency bias" but more "a zillion years ago" bias. If Walter Johnson pitched in the 60s and 70s, there'd be so much more appreciation for him. But he pitched SO long ago it's hard for people to connect.

I didn't "have to", I just thought it was interesting and an easy way to explain era comparisons. It's pretty common to use analogies in conversations. If I go up to any random sports fan and say a player is second all-time in goals, that pretty much says it all. Everyone knows what a goal is, and if only one person, who happens to be Wayne Gretzky, is ahead of you, sports fans can grasp that. The discussion is not "is the NHL more popular than the other three leagues in the U.S." - nobody would argue that.

If Backstrom can play he is a third line center simple as that.

To non-hockey fans, putting this in perspective, this is like a modern player chasing Wilt's scoring records from when there were like 6 teams in the NBA. The NHL was a wide open 8 goal per game league when Gretzky played - Ovechkin has played at around 5.5-6 and change most of his career. What he's doing at his age, and for how many years is truly insane. Two more goals puts him second all-time in NHL history.

Hat trick and goal number 800 tonight. Standing ovation from the opposing crowd. Don't take this for granted.

Ovechkin is approaching 800 goals and No. 2 all-time, and Dan Snyder's sale of the Washington football franchise seems imminent. Not all is bad. Wizards will always be what they are though. Nationals need to sell ASAP.

THAT TOO!!!!

I will never take those titles for granted. You just never know. D.C. sports looks SO different now than it did in Fall 2019. That's for damn sure.

If Snyder is removed, we deserve a parade!

Yeah so....it's going to be a while before the next parade. Hope everyone attended while they could. The Nationals have a path to being good with new ownership and the Soto package panning out. Capitals are reaching the end of this core's relevance but maybe they can squeak one more run out before rebuilding. The NBA and NFL franchises will continue to be completely irrelevant for the foreseeable future.

It's frustrating how long it takes up to date information to trickle from virologists and immunologists to the ground. I got a test the other day and the guy giving it was telling all types of misinformation on rapid tests saying they aren't that accurate and only goof for when you have symptoms. This is of course completely wrong as rapid tests still detect Omicron's subvariants, and because of preexisting immunity, your viral load often peaks after your symptoms start resolving not when you initially feel sick like before vaccines/infection. The best time to use rapid tests now is after your symptoms peak not during the peak.

Seems like it just needs to be taken longer or at a higher dosage hopefully to completely rid the virus.

Lol couldn't help myself. It will always be the PHONE BOOTH.

After last night, Ovechkin ties for the most 50-goal seasons in NHL history and would have two more if not for COVID and the 2012 lockout. Also now the oldest player to ever score 50 goals in a season and is one of just eight players with over 85 points in a season at age 36 or older. Next season should be 800 goals and then every game at the MCI Center is going to be historic as the final chase to Gretzky begins.