What happened Saturday night was virtually unprecedented in the last two decades of Washington sports. A pro team, playing at home, getting ever closer to a title, and with everything at stake, put on a clinical, oppressively dominating performance and never trailed while sending the home fans into spasms of ecstasy. If I’m using that phrase correctly. Which I think I am.
“They are cheering and screaming,” NBC’s “Doc” Emrick said as time ran down in Washington’s 3-1 win. “There are posters with Stanley Cups on them, saying ‘It’s ok to believe.’ Perhaps in past years it was against their better judgment. But judgment gets clouded by emotion, and also by success.”
“Most of the fans I see are in their 30s and 40s,” NBC Sports Washington’s Rob Carlin said during the postgame show. “This is a lifetime, they’ve never experienced anything like this … I mean, these are just great moments that you want to ingrain in your brain forever, and just enjoy this in every sort of way.”
