A Bitter Bandwagoner Habs Fan's TSM: Third Time's the Charm

Pittsburgh Penguins vs Washington Capitals

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO HOPE FOR TONIGHT. SEND HELP.

SECOND LINE CENTRE LARS ELLER. MY LIFE IS MADE.

Oh boy, the odds are NOT in Washington's favour tonight.

First Period

• CAPITALS WHAT WAS THAT.
• Thank you Holtby. This is NOT a pretty game so far.
• DO NOT TOUCH LARRY. DO NOT.
• Ollie, I love you, but DO. Not. Touch.
• This is so sloppy. What are either of you doing. What is this garbage. You are both better than this.
• We're seven minutes in. There's been a power play. Each team has one shot. ONE.
• No one can pass, and this is the most irritating thing EVER.
• This is a lame power play.
• This period is almost over, and it was awful.
• WHAT ARE YOU DOING. WHAT ARE ANY OF YOU DOING???
• That was a terrible first period./

Second Period

• YAAAASSSSSSSSSS!!!! WHEN  NONE OF YOUR OTHER LINES ARE GETTING IT DONE, FOURTH LINE TO THE RESCUE.
• And now back to the surprisingly awful hockey.
• Ooh Larry with a defensive play, and then an offensive zone shift. :D
• Caps seem to have sorted themselves out a little.
• Maybe stop turning the puck over, Pens.
• Awww Larry.
• TANGER.
• I'm so conflicted about this.
• YOU CAN'T JUST LET MALKIN HAVE HIS WAY IN THE OFFENSIVE ZONE AND EXPECT IT TO END WELL.
• And now Pittsburgh has very much woken up.
• See this is the hockey we expected to see from the get go.
• Kuzy, you should have shot the puck.
• Rust probably should have shot there too.
• HOLTBEAST.
• Now THAT was hockey./

Third Period

• See, why couldn't they have been playing like this earlier??
• NICE defensive play by Orlov on Crosby.
• Jake, don't do that.
• Oh man that was a nice shift.
• Holtby is so lucky the Caps had his back. (On that play at least...otherwise it has been entirely the opposite.)
• Someone, DO SOMETHING.
• Uh oh...Kuzy is hurt.....we might have first line centre Lars Eller in a minute....
• Larry looking good.
• Oh Kuzy's back.
• WOWWWW Vrana did NOT miss by much./

OT

• AAAAHHHGGG WHY THIS.
• Give me OT hero Lars Eller from T.J. Oshie. Please give it to me.
• That was way, way, WAY too close for comfort.
• Oh geez. don't run over your goalie. Please do not run over your goalie.
• We were so close to Oshie/Vrana/Eller OT heroes..
• That's it. Just keep praising my Dane and his merry men.
• KUUUUUZZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
• THEY FRICKING DID IT.
• EVGENY KUZNETSOV SLAYS THE DRAGON.
• THE CAPS ARE GOING TO THE CONFERENCE FINAL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWENTY YEARS.
• ELLER IS GOING TO THE CONFERENCE FINAL.
• CAPS WIN 2-1 IN OT!!!!!!/

Highlight of the Game

.@Kuzya92 sends the @Capitals to the Eastern Conference Final. pic.twitter.com/NTlXaWXsy1

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