The Washington Capitals exorcised their Pittsburgh demons last night in a thrilling overtime Game 6 win that has the Capitals in the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 1998. For reference, that is six years before Washington selected Alex Ovechkin with the first overall pick in 2004.
With Washington’s win, it guarantees the NHL will have a Stanley Cup champion that (at the very least) has not won a Stanley Cup since the lockout season of 2004-05 and a 75 percent chance it is a franchise that has never won a Stanley Cup at all.
But enough about those teams that get to actually keep playing this postseason.