Cap Of The Day: Chris Simon

Exhibit A as to why Adam Oates is a Hall of Famer.

Putting together this post also made me wax nostalgic for a simpler time, when a Caps/Blackhawks trade involving Michael Nylander could actually happen.

but a terrible hockey card and a hideous uniform. Man those were bad.

What was more out of the blue: Simon’s 30 goal season or Brady Anderson’s 50 homer season? (Although Brady probably had a little chemical help)

anybody else still have their Chris Simon bobblehead? I found mine when I was cleaning out my basement over the weekend.

A few Simon memories stand out.

1) The hillarious commercial that he did with Bondra to get people to buy Caps tickets. The little old lady accidentally bumps Bonzai’s grocery cart and he tries to apologize. The little old lady begins admonosh Bonzai and Simon sees this. The sound track goes to the sound of his heartbeat and he runs with the cart, seeminly in slow motion, and plows over the little old lady….

2) At one game during the 2000 season, a young kid comes down to the Caps end at warm up, with a sign that asks, politely, if Chris Simon would be willing to give him one of his sticks. As the warm up comes to an end, Simon skates over to the glass where the kid is, and tells him to go over to the zamboni entrance, and when the door opens, he hands the kid the stick before heading back to the bench to get ready for the game.

3) Another one, from 2001, I think, Simon is on the bench in a game the Caps are winning and he goes to the bench, grabs a water bottle, and begins to squirt the water on his face and neck with his eyes shut. The problem is that he didn’t see he had grabbed a blue-flavored Gator-ade/Power-ade bottle, and basically covered himself with the stuff. His jersey was light blue for the rest of the game. Coach Wilson and most of the team were laughing their butts off.

S.O.B. line. I liked it.