So I've been a Caps fan starting basically in the Ovechkin era not long after I moved here. There have definitely been better teams that couldn't get past round 2 and sometimes they were just unlucky. Starting with the game 3 double OT goal in Columbus that came from a lucky bounce, the Caps have been getting a lot of lucky bounces and the other team hasn't. In fact, if you look at the goal Tampa Bay didn't score last night, that should have tied the game but it somehow, inexplicably, did not go in. Tampa looked like an old Caps team in their unlucky breaks.
The persecution complex on the part of DC fans here is real and embarrassing sometimes. I hope the Caps win to end the whining of DC fans and to take that away as something for the fans here to bitch about.
This will be an interesting series as Vegas has looked unstoppable at times. But, if the breaks keep falling the Caps way, I think it will be a good series. There is some fight in this group.