What's A Kopitar?

On Wednesday night as I watched an Eastern Conference NBA playoff game, my Twitter feed exploded with dozens upon dozens of tweets.  Each one featuring a strange word...Kopitar.

I looked over at the trending topics and just about all of them were NBA & stupid hashtags.  #MentionSomeoneYouLove.  Ok.  #YoMama.  Nothing mentioned this Kopitar anomaly that was flooding my timeline Noah's Ark style.

(Yes 5+ NBA Players were trending, 3 NBA other things were trending, and 0 hockey things.  And the NHL was in the finals and NBA  was just a conference final...Just sayin...)

I began to look at the Twitter icons and quickly put together what had happened.  Something hockey happened.  Detective work!

I knew there was a Stanley Cup Finals game, but with the Wizards in the NBA Lottery, the Nats on, and the Caps being eliminated like 2 years ago (right?), I wasn't really paying more attention than checking the score once an hour on NHL's website.

So when Kopitar came flying out of my computer monitor I tweeted some fans to find out what his deal was.  Apparently he was the following: 'the bomb' 'a paralyzer' 'the man' and more.  According to some stats, he is leading (tied) the best postseason team so far the Kings in points

Why had I never heard of this guy before tonight?  I hadn't watched any playoff hockey, and I hadn't watched anything but Caps game.  But I do watch SportsCenter & several other national sports shows.  Why aren't they talking about him?

It is a strange thing to me that I don't know one of the top playoff performers on a team that will probably win the Stanley Cup.  I don't even know his first name.  So here are the questions:

Is it my fault?  Is it the national media's fault?  Is it the NHL's fault? Is it the sport's fault? Vote below:

Why have I never heard of Kopitar?

Caps West It Up

Washington Capitals 2, LA Kings 5

According to the stat sheet, the L.A. Kings do not have Wayne Gretzky on the roster any more.  However, the Kings still scored 5 goals and handed the Caps their 2nd straight overnight loss on the west coast.  While most fans bailed at 4-1, all getting their bras frozen, their faces inappropriately sharpied, and their pinkies set in warm water, I kept the Twitter #CapsSleepover alive and watched the remainder of the terrible game.

The Caps were so bad that even the Hawaiian singer that tricks girls into liking him using a guitar, Jack Johnson, turned the Caps upside-down, and the Kings played like they had eyes in the back of their heads.  Those are Jack Johnson songs right?

The Kings played physical hockey and capitalized on some classic Caps D-Zone turnovers while the Caps just had a nice free skate on the ice.  One Kings player even Tebowed after a goal.  I guess he didn't get the memo that the meme is doneski.  Only JC is allowed to Tebow.

For those of you who wasted your time watching a stupid BCS non-playoff style championship game that featured tons of everyone's favorite football play, the field goal, you wasted even more time staying up even later to watch the Caps get bounced.  Game ended 1:18am in DC.

Chimera got in a fight at the end of the game because he got hit hard a few times throughout the game.  The fight stopped a possible decent shot attempt by the Caps as well as put the Caps shorthanded which resulted in the dagger goal by the Kings.  It was down 3 with like 10 minutes left to come back.  Why is this a good thing?

Kings fans were good at getting chants together.  A nice "Refs You Suck" chant as well as an Addams Family version with "Caps Suck" instead of snaps.

Oh and Pat Sajak was there too...still no Vanna White this season...Wizards have lost 8 in a row, Caps have lost 2 in a row...Marjo had both goals...