SportsPulse: The Capitals have won their first Stanley Cup. NHL insider Kevin Allen details what the championship means for Alex Ovechkin and Washington, D.C. USA TODAY Sports
LAS VEGAS — Nearly an hour after finally raising the Stanley Cup above his graying hair, Alex Ovechkin stood a few feet back from the trophy as it sat on the ice.
Ovechkin simply watched. Here came T.J. Oshie with his wife and two young daughters, kneeling for photos with it. Jay Beagle’s family stepped in next, his toddler son too short to see inside the Cup’s bowl but desperately curious to look inside.