With the 2019 All-Star Game and accompanying festivities taking place this weekend, it seemed as good a time as any to look back at the one and only time the game took place in DC - so we’ve enlisted unofficial Caps’ historian and friend of the Rink Glenn Dreyfuss to tell us a little more about the momentous event:
In 1982, the only year the Capitals hosted an NHL All-Star Game, guess which faces adorned the cover of the game program. Wayne Gretzky? Mike Bossy? Dennis Maruk, the Caps’ representative? No, no, and no.
Try President Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.