Washington Capitals to honor St. Patrick’s Day this week

Ilya Samsonov, Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

The Washington Capitals will be going green this Friday against the New York Rangers, in an annual tradition. They’ll be taking the ice for warmups in special green jerseys to commemorate this year’s St. Patrick’s Day. Yesterday was officially St. Patrick’s Day and the team released the look of the warmup jersey. It is straight fire.

It is so fire in fact I might have to empty my bank account and bid on one. Just kidding. But if you do have the money you are encouraged to bid on one of these beauties which will be signed by the respective player after the game. There will be other auction items…