ANALYSIS/OPINION:
There is a quote that is often attributed to former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe that cautions against the seduction of success — “It’s hard to get up to do roadwork at 6 a.m. when you are wearing silk pajamas.”
In other words, it’s hard to become champion. It’s even harder to stay champion.
Wednesday night at Capitol One Arena, the Washington Capitals held a silk pajama party with 18,000 of their closest friends, celebrating the raising of the Stanley Cup banner, a piece of championship cloth that never hung at the old Capital Centre and, after 20 years, was still absent from the rafters of the old MCI Center.