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Three-hundred fifty-eight days – simultaneously an instant and an eternity. We all still feel the sting of Joffrey Lupul‘s goal, and yet it seems as if that was a lifetime ago.
But whether we blinked and “here we are” or today is finally here doesn’t matter. What matters is that it’s game day.
The shot at redemption starts tonight. The chance to live up to potential starts tonight. The opportunity to be led by greatness young and old, for unlikely heroes to emerge and legends to be made – it all starts tonight.
And when it ends? It will have ended too soon, whether the calendar says mid-June or late-April. For some, it will be the end of a storied career. For most, it will be another off-season thinking about what might have been. Or maybe, just maybe…
When the Caps stood pat at the trade deadline nearly a month-and-a-half ago, one thought resonated:
Tonight, we’ll get a chance to see what, for today… it’s game day.