Four members of the Capitals held Alex Ovechkin, his feet in the air and his face submerged in the Stanley Cup’s bowl as he sucked beer from it. As he was flipped back onto his feet, the crowd that had gathered at the Georgetown waterfront started chanting, “O-vi,” and Ovechkin pumped his fist along. By the end of the day, both forward Tom Wilson and defenseman Brooks Orpik had similarly been held upside down to chug beer from the hulking silver chalice.
It was June 9, 2018, just two days after Washington won a franchise-first championship.