Ten games into the Capitals‘ 2011-12 playoff run and emotionally and physically exhausted after the Caps’ triple-overtime loss in Game 3, it’s time for a little mindless eye-candy – the Top-10 Caps GIFs from the playoffs so far. These aren’t necessarily the top plays, just some great moments captured for posterity in GIF form (feel free to tell us where we’re wrong and add your own in the comments and we’ll be sure to make amends after another ten games have passed).
All of these are the result of Dimagus’s amazing and tireless efforts unless otherwise noted, so a huge stick tap to him… and away we go, after the jump.
#10: The dive that launched a thousand GIFs (including this beauty) in its raw form:
#9: It’d be tough to encapsulate Round 1 much better than with this collision between Alex Ovechkin and Dennis Seidenberg:
#8: The story of the playoffs for the Caps has been Braden Holtby, and here’s one of his finest stops so far (from Round 1, Game 5):
#7: Braden Holtby’s mom takes in the Round 2, Game 3 epic (with more GIFs from the game at SBNation):
#6: The bench empties after Joel Ward‘s Round 1, Game 7 series-winning goal (which can be found in GIF form here):
#5: Dale Hunter reacts to a Round 2, Game 3 Alexander Semin the same way we all have at times over the years (source unknown, but via @bubbaprog, h/t to Bald Pollack):
#4: Karl Alzner weeps for Milan Lucic in Round 1, Game 3 (via RMNB):
#3: Matt Hendricks‘ Round 2, Game 3 hit on Ryan McDonagh:
#2: Alex Ovechkin’s Round 2, Game 2 game-winning goal celebration at Madison Square Garden:
#1: Braden Holtby versus Rich Peverley, Round 1, Game 7:
