Comments on: "It was like playing in a Canadian city"

By: meta;

meta; — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:20:01 +0000

and then a disappointing showing on a thursday night vs. the rangers? there were like 4,000 empty seats in that place. everyone wants to ‘say’ they’re a caps fan, but if it were anything remotely like a canadian city it would be an ATTENDED sellout every night. that’s the rub. it’s only like a canadian city when it’s 18000+. 14000 and it’s more like dallas.

By: Blackaces

Blackaces — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:32:49 +0000

Any chance the Caps can trademark the phrase ‘The Capital of Hockey’ and paint it on center ice, ala ‘Hockeytown’ in Detroit? Could be cool.

By: Dez

Dez — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:22:08 +0000

Seriously, the “It’s all Your Fault” chant is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. Especially when you chase one goalie for another. At that point do you start over? Do you do the chant twice, facing each keeper? Or continue on knowing that you sound dumber than before.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:16:28 +0000

The city has always been able to fill the stadium. Its just they won’t if the team isn’t winning. The ONLY thing I miss about those days was walking up and getting a $10 ticket 5 minutes before game time and then walk into the 100′s because the ushers didn’t care. The people in the stadium were fans or kids. Now you have bandwagoners talking about who the caps’ shootout line up will be when a playoff game enters OT. (Yes, that conversation was had behind me, by caps fans, in game 5 of the penguins series last year.)

By: keef

keef — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:51:45 +0000

Please don’t encourage that awful “It’s all your fault” chant.

By: hadc

hadc — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:05:16 +0000

Unfortunately, there were a couple little pockets of WT in the 400 level. A few people screamed “U-S-A” during O’Canada.