Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals to visit White House on Monday

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The Washington Capitals will go to the White House Monday to celebrate their Stanley Cup championship with President Trump, according to a team spokesman.

The Capitals won their first Stanley Cup in franchise history last June, defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in five games. It ended a 44-year Cup drought and a 26-year run without a major sports championship for the city of Washington, D.C.
Winger Devante Smith-Pelly, who is black, said after the victory that he would not visit the White House because things Trump “spews are straight-up racist and sexist.”

While several other title-winning sports teams have been disinvited or declined to attend White House celebrations, that has not been the case for National Hockey League champions. The Pittsburgh Penguins, the previous Stanley Cup champions, visited Trump at the White House in October 2017.

Last year, Trump said the then-Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles were not welcome at the White House, citing national anthem protests. But several key members of the team had said they would not attend before Trump withdrew the invitation.

The defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors decided to forgo a White House visit with Trump and instead met with former President Obama in January and stopped at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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[Leghorn21]

1. Good times!!

[Sneederbunk]

2. But they are always cold and have a bite or two missing.

[MuseRider]

3. Someone pulls the corners

off the cheese and licks the center of the ketchup blob.

[Sneederbunk]

4. But he autographs the boxes.

[MuseRider]

5. Really?

Would that not be funny!!

If so it would be great if they left them on the table after putting in the eyeballs to make the spikes look like Klansmen.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Keep an eye on Ovechkin.

I hear he's a good buddy of Putin's.

Kiddingnotkidding.

I don't doubt that Devante Smith-Pelly doesn't want to be anywhere near Trump. I imagine he's not to thrilled about being around the front office, either, since they demoted him to their AHL team about a month ago.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Smith-Pelly was demoted to the AHL.

Unfortunately.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Yes. I said that.

[Ilsa]

9. Why?

I know they won the championship. But I can't fathom why they want to go.

[wellst0nev0ter]

10. Yay! More Hamberders! n/t