The Washington Capitals will be some
2,400 miles away for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final, but thousands of
fans will still pack the District to watch it — and the team’s owner is
making sure they can get home.
Ted Leonsis’
Monumental Sports & Entertainment has agreed to cover the $100,000
to keep Metrorail running one-hour later than normal — that is, until
about 1 a.m. The Capitals game starts at 8 p.m., but if the team defeats
the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the party will be hours long as D.C.
celebrates its first championship in many years.
This is the first time Metro has agreed to stay open late for an away game. But this is no normal away game.
As
it has for all previous away games, Capital One Arena will host a
viewing party Thursday night, but the free online tickets, made
available Wednesday at 1 p.m., were gone in minutes. More than 70,000
people logged in, Monumental said in a statement, when the tickets
became available.
The party will shift outdoors for many, to the jumbotron set up at Eighth and G streets NW, to The Wharf, the Bullpen outside Nationals Park, the U.S. Navy Memorial and elsewhere.
Also Thursday, the D.C. Circulator will run for free on all routes beginning at 6 p.m. and continuing to the close of service.
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