Det är fruktansvärd handstil. The woman could fill a cathedral of male worshippers wearing a potato sack and mud mask.) Lisa Hillary was red literally from neckline to toe — eager to show off a new red paint job on her toes. Sportscasters Michael Jenkins and Dave Feldman brought their naturally red hair. I wore a smart looking red necktie.

You know who looked reddest of all? Peter Laviolette.

Our good friends from the Hershey Bears sure picked the right night for a visit. John Walton was blogging in-game and delightfully distracted from all those Bears’ injuries by the electric atmosphere in the rink. Tim Leone of the Patriot News was sharing with me his anticipation for next week’s Frozen Four, with the upstart, Cinderella Fighting Irish of Notre Dame having captured his former USC Trojan heart. Chris Poisal summed up the feelings of all from the farm: he came away impressed with this hockey team’s “swagger.” He told me during the second intermission that what he was seeing out on the ice Tuesday night reminded him a lot of the swagger the Hershey Bears had en route to their Calder Cup in 2006.

“This team is going to make the playoffs,” Poisal told me, “and once there, they are going to do damage.”

The game atmospheres feverish hockey fans fantastically improve correspond intimately to the magic their eyes consume. This new Red Army in town seemed Tuesday night unleashed as a fixture battalion on F Street. At times Tuesday, most especially when the home team delivered a glass-rattling check, they ascended to alarming realms of raucousness: with clenched fists they’d turn and pound on the glass partition separating them from the game’s media. It was, initially, somewhat scary — but scary good.

Chalk it up to excessive Red Hook.

Thursday night — and thirty months from now — I can envision the earth-toned-clad hockey fan arriving at the Phone Booth to looks of disdain from his impassioned puck peer in scarlet. Even Gang Green has gone red.

Let’s designate this Wednesday — mercifully for our panic-attack hockeyhearts a gameless day for the home team — a Code Red: meaning, ours is the team and sport white-hot in town, we its supporters now send screams of “Let’s Go Caps!” cascading through Metro tunnels and Green Turtles. Let’s bask in this red glow of victory all day and evening long, get dinner out of the way early and settle in before the TVs for a fresh set of Eastern conference showdowns. And even in our temporary, domestic R&R, dress for battle.

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11 Comments

  1. dave wrote:

    No-I unfortunately didn’t get a chance to deliver it. Imagine if I did-Ben Bradlee may have shown up!!

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 12:04 pm | Permalink
  2. pepper wrote:

    Is this all really happening? Is this team really continuing this terrific charge, like a wild cavalry on the open plains, trampling everything in its path, willing itself to the post season?

    Did our star LW really just tie the record for most goals ALL TIME by a LW?

    Did Brooks Laich really score his TWENTY-FIRST goal, a GWG, last night?

    Is Sergei Fedorov, this living legend of the modern NHL, really the calm and collected leader of OUR team that I just saw interviewed?

    Am I dreaming? Am I in Heaven?

    Though it could all come crashing down on April 6 through no fault of our own, “team of destiny” seems an understatement right now.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 3:00 pm | Permalink
  3. Kim wrote:

    Guess I need to buy that new red jersey sooner rather than later. I love my vintage Hunter jersey, but need to be down with the times.

    But, the harder question is which number? Even though I have a new white Ovechkin, I am starting to think a red version is needed. Then I will be set for future red outs or white outs.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink
  4. SpartyCuse wrote:

    Dont get another 8. Although he’s awesome, get somebody “different”. Somebody most dont have. Get a 91 or a 38. Or a 21.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 3:50 pm | Permalink
  5. SovSport wrote:

    I’d get a #28 :)

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
  6. OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki) wrote:

    SovSport is right, #28 Semin would be a good choice. Then again, so would #19 Backstrom, or #52 Green.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 4:29 pm | Permalink
  7. SovSport wrote:

    #52 is my wife’s fav player

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 4:53 pm | Permalink
  8. pepper wrote:

    Heck, go with Matt Bradley. You can’t go wrong with any of these Caps right now.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 5:06 pm | Permalink
  9. grapejoos wrote:

    #19 or #52…those guys will be around for a long time and have serious game.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
  10. TJ wrote:

    Heck, go for something *really* out there - get a #24. I spotted them on Sunday at the VC store when we took the kids to the Circus.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 11:33 pm | Permalink
  11. dmg wrote:

    The power of Red:

    http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2005-05-19-winning-color_x.htm

    Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 11:55 am | Permalink

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