The kind who will offer a thought about that meme — starring himself — in the middle of the agony of overtime hockey. Because overtime hockey makes you want to paint your face blue, and grimace, and chew on unlit cigarettes, and maybe light one, in between gargling giraffe testosterone. [Capitals lose Game 2 to Maple Leafs on Kasperi Kapanen’s double-overtime goal]Anyhow, forget all that, because playoff overtime hockey is like jumping on a skateboard and flying down 20 flights of stairs. And when Caps fans chanted “Let’s Go Caps,” Maslakow was there to lead the “Go Leafs Go” rejoinder. Caps fans would have activated their performance-enhanced Tinker Bells in a piercing wave of happiness, and they would have felt so very alive.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2017 05:56 UTC