So how did the Stars in 1999 compare?Īnd then there were Keane's jokes, although the exact season when each incident occurred has been blurred over two decades. In the past, scenes like that had gone unseen.īut with the arrival and popularity of social media such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, Washington's celebration was a public one. Oshie drinking beers through his T-shirt. The Capitals garnered attention last summer for their Stanley Cup celebration, with lasting images of Alexander Ovechkin happily sloshing around in Washington D.C. I was like 'Man, if I did that, I'd be crushed for a week.' I'd be unfunctional.' Most of them did it throughout the season, and they still showed up to play, and they played the same way every night. These guys, some of us had never seen anything like it. 'If you saw the guys on our team and hung with them drinking-wise, these guys were pros,' Modano said. There was also the infamous party at Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul's house that is noteworthy not only for the dent in the Stanley Cup but also the late start to the championship parade the next day. And then the roster changed, even if the core group of talent remained. Guys returned home, spreading out across the continent for the summer. It was one of those times when it was just the group, and that feeling of accomplishment of what we set out to do from the beginning.'Īfter that moment, the whole group - just the group - wouldn't be together again. You had Carbo and Hully puffing on cigars. 'Just sat there and enjoyed each other and acknowledged what we've been through. It wasn't a long time, but it was that last little time together.

I don't know if it was 15 minutes or a half hour. That really stood out for me is all of us spending that last time together, hanging out in the locker room just talking. Guys that had been through it before knew that this was kind of the last moment we could have just the team.

'We sat around in a circle and just hung out. 'I can't remember if it was Carbo or Keaner, one of them basically got everyone out of the locker room except for the players and the staff,' Jamie Langerbrunner said.

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