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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Let the race begin!


Well no one said this was going to be easy.

After all, we are the Caps, easy is not a word that seems to fit into our vocabulary.

And if last night was any indication, we are in for one heck of a ride.

My mom and I made our way down to Verizon Center early, and pumped. Ready to get the playoffs to a great start. We expected it was going to be quite a game, and one we would come up victorious on.

From the get go it was a relatively evenly matched game, though I did think the Rangers had gotten some early breaks, for we could have easily been up by three if it wasn't for that damn good goalie of theirs. Lunquist. But then again, Nuevy as he is so easily referred to as is no sloth either and is finding himself to be quite the goalie in his own right. And neither of them were about to give up anything.

When it was still scoreless come midway through the second it was looking to be a long night.

I will say if you had never been to a playoff game at the phone booth, it is insanely crazy. One can barely hear their own thoughts, and for the better part of the game, it continued to be this way.

That is until the Rangers scored, taking them up to a 1-0 game. Only thing did the crowd go alittle quiet. I mean who can blame us, this is our home. Our arena and the visiting team was up.

Things were looking a little scary, I was fully prepared to let the first game go as in the third I watched the minutes tick down...I avoided the game, paying attention to my phone, to anything other than the game and the clock. But I did look up just in time to see Ovi, score.

Or did he?

It took a minute, as the goal was under review, but in the end, it was good. And the crowd went wild again, the game tied. And as the final minutes ticked, the game tied still, we found ourselves headed into overtime,

Ofcourse this wouldn't be a Caps game without us going into overtime this season.

We waited the full fifteen minute intermission, nerves pounding. This was no regular season overtime where you were happy at times just to get a point out of it. No this was do or die the winner would walk away one up on the series, the loser down one.

And lord did I pray that winner would be us...

It took just about the full twenty minutes, or rather eighteen and some change. The Caps dominated throughout the better part of the overtime. Still both goalies were sticking to it and neither were letting anything in....until that very last ninety seconds, when Alexander Semin took reigns, fired and found the net.

Game over.
Caps up and take an early series lead.

Now, if they could only win in a little less heart attack way...

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