I'm with you Rush.
But think about this....Which team would you rather watch play....
Your 1972 Capitals or your 2019 Capitals?
I'm old school but can't say the old Caps were that much fun to watch when they lost more than they won...and not just winning/losing, but not really competitive
Thanks Rich!
I hadn’t really considered that angle.
Actually, that really is the sobering, bottom line, point to my issue!
It helps to better the confidence in my decision to change my opinion.
BTW, 1972 was just a quickie reference, I chose, to signify a general era of good fundamental pro hockey.
I could’ve used the 60’s, or any old school hockey decade for my point.
Technically, I was a 10th grader in high school when the Caps came to DC, I believe it was 1974.
It was something like 8 wins in their first season, but I, like many here, have followed them from the start.
And you’re absolutely right! There isn’t any comparison, no matter what era of hockey, through all my complaints, that can touch that experience we had of winning the Stanley Cup!!!
It’s really a no brainer!!
My wife must be right when she says of me, “I really do appreciate it honey, when you do FINALLY GET IT !” (Then the Chinese side of her comes out, and she follows with a proverb), “Sometimes, many seasons of falling leaves must pass, before the seedling sprouts!” LOL 😁
Frickin’ Chinese, and their proverbs!!🤣🤣 She gets that crap from her mother! When we first met, I thought they were kinda cool, until they started slamming me with a few of them, every time we paid her mother a visit!
Although I can give my wife a little hell when we get back home, I have to just stand there and take it, when it comes from the mother-in-law! In their culture, it would be a MAJOR bad, to argue back with a mother-in-law, even in the lightest form!
Although the story is true, the reality is, it doesn’t really bother me at all. In fact my wife cracks up when we talk about it, because she knows I wouldn’t normally hold my tongue in a situation like that, And she has had to practice that very thing, with all of her elder relatives, for her entire life!!😆😂
Am I sometimes a late bloomer on certain things?
Guilty as charged!👍
Thanks Rich!
Rush