The Washington Capitals have made the playoffs 23 times in 29 seasons. That’s the good news. Now here’s the bad news:
The Caps are the most underachieving, unlucky team in the history of North American sports. Name a team that has failed to live up to its seeding in the playoffs more often than the Caps. You can’t.
The Caps are like Sisyphus, who in Greek mythology, according to Wikipedia, was a “king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.”
Caps fans are like Charlie Brown, about to kick the football, when Lucy pulls it away—time and time again. (Will Charlie Brown ever get the little red-haired girl)?
If you arrived in town yesterday, you can say that the Caps aren’t the Chicago Cubs (no titles in more than 100 years) or the New York Rangers (no championships for the half century before 1994), but that misses the point.
First, the Rangers did win Stanley Cups before their drought. Second, no sports franchise has failed more often in relation to how long the team has been around. No team h ...
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