With all the hoopla surrounding Alex Ovechkin’s breaking the all-time NHL goal-scoring record (deserved hoopla, by the way), one might forget that hockey is a team game, and the Great Eight happens to play for one of the best teams in the league. The Caps finished with the most points in the Eastern Conference, worthy of a #1 seed and home ice through said conference playoffs.

Game One against the Montreal Canadiens (they used to dominate the sport) is tonight, and I couldn’t be more excited to see this “title defense,” seven years in the making. Yeah, let’s just forget the past few seasons of exactly zero playoff series wins and wipe that slate clean. I’m rockin’ the red today, and it’s hockey time around the DMV again.

Game on.