When Slapshot stole the Declaration of Independence

D.C. is not only home to the Washington Capitals. It is also home to scandals, politics, controversy, and corruption that we will not talk about because we are a hockey blog. But there was one incident at the National Archives that involved our very own mascot Slapshot.

In a scene straight out of the Nicolas Cage movie National Treasure, the Capitals mascot heads to the US National Archives and then disgraced museum staff.

Once he did that he took the Declaration of Independence from the National Archives to Capital One Arena just in time for the puck drop of the Capitals game that night. But he had to jump through hoops (figuratively not literally) to go from the museum to the arena. One…