Per the press release from the Washington Capitals:
Washington Capitals chairman and majority owner Ted Leonsis will receive a ceremonial resolution from the D.C. City Council on May 6. Councilmember Jack Evans will present Leonsis and the Capitals with the resolution during the council legislative meeting, which is scheduled to being at 10 a.m. in the Wilson Building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The resolution, which will be signed by the entire council, congratulates Leonsis and the Washington Capitals on a terrific regular season and return to the Stanley Cup playoffs. It also declares that the week of May 5, 2008, is “Washington Capitals Week” in celebration of the team’s winning season.
City Council hearings are televised live on District Cable Channel 13 and on the Internet at www.dccouncil.us.
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While not wishing to take anything away from the Caps and their amazing comeback, am I the only one who finds this a bit sad? Can you see Montreal officially recognising Les Habitants just for having a plus .500 season? Toronto honouring the Leafs for making it to Round 1 of the playoffs an being beaten by last season’s cellar-dwellers?
That said, well done for making the DC Council realise hockey is even *played* in Washington!
Baby steps, Jean, baby steps.
IMO the recognition is more for the terrific post-Thanksgiving run (second-best record in the East) and excitement generated in D.C. that seemed greater than any time since the Cup run.
BTW, the way the Leafs have been struggling in recent years Toronto might just hold a ticker-tape parade if they make the playoffs.
My sense, too, is that this acknowledgement has far more to do with the Caps’ city-consuming surge and unprecedented thrill-run of victory in 2007-08′s second half than the mere appearance in the postseason. More a sense of an odds-defying feat taking the city by storm — the likes of which really we’d never seen. And as far as Toronto goes, given the state of management there, I’d wager that schools would shut down were the Leafs to make it to round one.
yesss I love it, my birthday is in Washington capitals week
Also keep in mind that the Caps are Washington’s 5th team, behind Redskins, Wizards, Nationals, and DC United. Hopefully games start being sellouts at Verizon Center, although that makes it more difficult for me to get tickets. But I guess that’s what CSN HD is for.
I find it sad not because the team is being recognized for so little, but because the D.C. City Council really probably has bigger things to worry about.
JKL,
I still think the Capitals are ahead of the United in terms of relevance and number of fans, and while they don’t have as many as the Wizards do, I think Caps the Capitals have a larger contingent of die-hards.
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