Alex Ovechkin reaches, after thirteen seasons of decpeciones, the dream of being able to play for the title in the NHL. The Vegas Golden Knights await you.One minute and two seconds were played in the seventh game of the final of the Eastern Conference of the NHL 2018 between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Washington Capitals when the second, the visitors, scored the first goal. The progressive reduction of the deafening crying of the start of the match had not yet begun when the Amelie Arena of Tampa released an "oooh" of disgust and fell into a strange silence. 1453 kilometers to the north, in a crowded Capital One Arena in Washington, joy erupted.In 62 seconds Alex Ovechkin had endorsed with facts what he had been saying all week with words. Far from fleeing his label of loser, a great player who never reached the great peak in the NHL, the great Russian figure of 32 years embraced his condition and crossed out this seventh game of "the most important of my life," the last great opportunity "and" to get nervous just thinking about it ". Too much sincerity.The one that gives, I imagine, thirteen years of being one of the best in the world in your sport and never having even reached the conference final, much less the final of the Stanley Cup. 1003 games of the regular season, 116 of the playoffs and 663 goals had happened in his life before that score that put his team 0-1 yesterday and that, in the end, laughs the starting point of his biggest night.They ended up winning 0-4 Capitals, but it is a result that can not be explained if it is not for that early zambombazo . Because the Lightning, from that moment, they launched towards the goal of Braden Holtby, one of the great heroes of the capital city at night.The duel turned bronco. Much. Grabs, torn shirts, fights, gigantic blows. He did not miss anything, as it could not be less in a duel of this relevance. The Tampa Bay, engaged in their endless attack, and without success, with a couple of failures that will chase them all summer of how clear the goal was, gave two timely errors in two counterattacks by the Capitals and Burakovsky made them in goal in both cases. The 0-3 was a slab that killed any spirit that will remain at home, the best team of the season in the Eastern Conference. The fourth goal, already in the aftermath, was an anecdote.The Washington Capitals, in the year in which no one had them, have reached the final of the Stanley Cup. When they seemed destined for reconstruction, when their veteran stars, especially Ovechkin, waited goodbye to the best of their careers , when they were given up for dead, as always, in the semifinals of confernecia before their historical black beast of the Pittsburgh Penguins, is when they have finished with all their ghosts.In the series to seven games for the title will be, from Monday, the other great story of the year: Vegas Golden Knights . The new team, expansion, which gets into the grand final in its first year of existence. What a contrast to a newly created group, which may think that winning titles is the simplest thing in the world because it has been to arrive and kiss the saint, with that of the old losers who have spent a lifetime suffering failure after failure in the playoffs Well that's the Stanley Cup this year, which will see one of the most unlikely champions to be remembered, whether they are the rookies Golden Knights or the Capitals and their legendary Ovechkin.
