The Washington Capitals are throwing the world’s most epic trophy celebration. On Saturday night, over a full day after they claimed the Stanley Cup Thursday night and spent the night partying in Vegas, the team was still reveling.
The Capitals went to a Washington Nationals’ game Saturday afternoon, where captain Alex Ovechkin threw out the first pitch (and got it right on the second try) before giving a hilarious drunken interview alongside his teammates and continuing to drink and show off the Cup throughout the game. The party has only intensified from there. Jacob Bogage has an excellent running blog of the celebrations at The Washington Post, and there are plenty of other moments popping up ohn social media as well. Let’s start with Ovechkin doing a kegstand out of the Cup at Tony and Joe’s Seafood in Georgetown:
So the Cup made it out to Georgetown (via @tonyandjoes): https://t.co/VEYQkhgVQ8 pic.twitter.com/l6GuaWHbAc
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) June 9, 2018
After that, there’s this fountain insanity, with Ovechkin swimming around shirtless and getting beer poured on him:
Really can’t recommend this one enough (via @KGras13) pic.twitter.com/OBRZPBgW62
— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) June 9, 2018
Maybe a little further dancing in the fountains with fans, complete with beer sprays and “Seven Nation Army” chants?
https://twitter.com/KGras13/status/1005576934334582784
The Cup and members of the Caps then wound up at famed restaurant Cafe Milano, and ran into Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner:
The #ALLCAPS are at Cafe Milano and Ivanka & Jared are here. pic.twitter.com/eyNwZiMfcf
— Jason Perkins (@jperkalator82) June 9, 2018
And some of them stayed there later and led some enthusiastic renditions of Queen’s “We Are The Champions”:
@ikhurshudyan @dcsportsbog still singing We are the Champions pic.twitter.com/NLs1fvp27A
— ChrisBurger21 (@ChrisBurger21) June 10, 2018
Tattoos? Tattoos! Those are always a good idea:
https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1005582189080260608
Vrana got a tattoo, too 🤦🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/VGFx2lETsJ
— Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) June 10, 2018
If your team’s going to trust anyone with tattoos, though, might as well trust a Caps’ season ticket holder. And a whole lot of the team got in on this:
Apparently, not just Vrana and Bura and Holtby pic.twitter.com/CcT9iAwVZ8
— Erika M. (@rinkrebel) June 10, 2018
How about a bunch of Capitals’ players belting out Blink-182’s “All The Small Things” inside a party bus?
Inside the party bus!!! Just the best day. pic.twitter.com/9O4zmzC8s4
— Karl Johan (@fourthyeardke) June 10, 2018
The Capitals have waited a long time for this title, the first in their franchise’s since-1974 history, and many players like Ovechkin (with the franchise since 2004) have suffered a lot of heartbreak en route to this one too. And it’s cool to see just how much fun they’re having. And it may not end here…
Today we learned:
1) It is possible to drink for 48 hours and not die.
2) The only way the NHL is going to get the Cup away from Ovi is to take it back while he’s doing drunk snow angels in the fountains.
3) Stanley Cup Champ Ovi has exceeded all of our expectations.— Morgan Bagg (@MorganBagg) June 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/LSUcaligrl/status/1005509041433423872
I fully expect shirtless Ovi to be somewhere in the background of every single Caps' 'Day With The Cup'.
— mightymikeD (@brightblack76) June 10, 2018
One of the nice, humble Canadian boys takes the Cup to Blubberstick, Manitoba to hang out with his grandparents and the local community centre and there's a semi-naked Russian doing vodka shots off a moose in the background.
— mightymikeD (@brightblack76) June 10, 2018
Given how this bacchanal has gone so far, that may not be too far-fetched.
