ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Washington sports fans have been so hungry for the moment that will come Saturday night — witnessing a championship game here, in the District — that they’ve been showing up in ridiculous numbers at Capital One Arena just to watch on the jumbotron screen the first two games of the Stanley Cup. Didn’t matter that those games were played thousands of miles away in the Nevada desert.
For Game 2 on Wednesday night, nearly 15,000 fans abandoned their big screens at home and the comforts of their own living rooms to come to the arena to watch their team win 3-2 to even the series at 1-1.