This has to be the strangest series in NHL history. Four games into the Eastern Conference Finals, and the visiting team has won them all? Has that ever happened before?
Many thought the Tampa Bay Lightning were Stanley Cup worthy this year. And they might just still be. Though it got a bit difficult to believe after they dropped the first two games of this series -- at home.
Nonetheless, as has been noted in this space before, everything Washington has a chokish air about it. True, the Wizards, though making the NBA playoffs, weren't expected to go far. They didn't.
The Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball have had talent galore for several years, but can't get out of the first round of the playoffs. Choke city.
How many times have the Washington Capitals of the NHL had a superior regular season -- even winning the President's Cup for the best record, and then choked in the playoffs? A few.
Both political parties in Congress, Trump, and the whole lot of the overpaid, clueless and pampered prima donnas in Washington DC, seem to choke every time they're faced with a major issue that will effect the populace. And how many millions of Americans choke, gag, or barf on a daily basis at their all-talk, do-nothing shenanigans?
OK, the Washington Generals, long the foils of the Harlem Globetrotters, were supposed to lose. Kind of like Wile E. Coyote of the old Road Runner cartoons. Or Elmer Fudd hunting that wascally wabbit. It was always written into the scripts. You knew how it was going to turn out, but hopefully got a few laughs along the way.
Not so with the current Washington Capitals. Those guys are good, and this is serious hockey business.
But c'mon. They took the first two games on the road against the favored Tampa Bay Lightning -- only to turn around and lose the next two at home?
This has yet another Washington choke written all over it.
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