The Stanley Cup Playoffs are officially underway. While it’s still several more days before the Toronto Maple Leafs start up, last night was the first game last night between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins and it was a very playoffs game.
Everything from the lighter touch at officiating to the intensity of the play was a big break from what we’ve seen in these final two weeks of the regular season starting quickly with Alex Ovechkin waking everyone up that these games mean a lot.
And there were the usual odd moments that get memorialsed in GIFS.