Capitals fans disgusted by Game 7 loss

Dan Steinberg of D.C. Sports Blog does a great job of covering all things sports related in D.C. (as you might guess) and I immediately clicked on his site to see his reaction to last night’s loss by the Capitals to the Canadiens. He decided to enter the concourse after the game -- a very brave thing to do -- and get the feel of the local crowd as they attempted to absorb such a heartbreaking loss.

As you can imagine things weren’t exactly happy among the fans, and while there were certainly a number of purely disappointed fans it seemed that most treated the lost with an air of disgust. Here are some exerpts:

“That’s the sound of 18,000 people vomiting,” Ben said, gesturing his head back toward the emptying stands.

“I pledge to never be optimistic about DC again,” Alex Keckeisen added on Twitter, and that was the night in nine words.

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“Welcome to D.C. sports,” one of them, named Dylan, told me. “Same thing, every year.” Or the guy whose eyes rocking red laser beams of disgust.

I’m not going to relay all of them, but he has a number of interesting stories from the post-game letdown, covering how the crowd gathered around donut stands who just started giving away all of their extra product. Most troubling, however, was the story of one 17-year old who was sporting an ice bag on his head after getting beamed with a Crown Royale bottle that was hurled from the upper deck.

The fans were upset last night, and the haunted faces of the fans in the stands are testimony to just how hard this city will take the loss.