Whether his voice is booming with excitement throughout Capital One Arena following a Caps goal, or unleashing the fury to help spark a late comeback, PA announcer Wes Johnson’s vocal talents are on full blast during Caps games. But roughly an hour before the puck drops, he puts another talent to work: Doodling.
Killing time before games, Johnson started drawing game-related images on the outside of empty coffee cups he had finished drinking. Then people started asking him for the cups after the game.
“You get DNA with that, but good luck,” he said.
Johnson has since refined the operation.