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The Washington Capitals have long been divided when it comes to music. The Capitals captain, Alex Ovechkin, loves weird Russian techno and rap, most notably Drake. Nicklas Backstrom enjoys Tiesto and pop music. Brooks Laich digs classic rock. Mike Green dabbles between both rap and hard-rock, Jay-Z and Seether in particular.
Then there are some other Caps who jam to country music. That group includes Eric Fehr, who once detailed his love of the genre during his first go around with the Caps.
“When it comes to my music, you can tell I grew up on the farm,” Fehr was quoted by the DC Sports Bog as saying. “I really enjoy listening to country music. The guys on the team don’t let me put it on in the dressing room, but I’m pretty sure they’ll come around. Alex Ovechkin could be one of the biggest country music haters of them all.”
On Saturday night, Karl Alzner and Matt Hendricks showed they are country music aficionados too, going to WMZQ Fest held at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia. The show was headlined by Luke Bryan, who recently won the Academy of Country Music Awards’ Entertainer of the Year award and is best known for his boom boom single Drunk On You.
Alzner wore an awesome Killian’s Red t-shirt and a Nats hat. Hendricks wore a blue plaid button down shirt and a 42 hat, which Joel Ward approved of on Twitter before the show. In fact, Hendricks and his teammates chatted a bunch Saturday.
@matthendy26 stopped in St.Cloud for the night and was greeted by a whole team of wagons in the making! #hallwayministicks
— Braden Holtby (@Holts170) May 18, 2013
@matthendy26 also can’t believe there isn’t a statue here of you with your long golden locks and the flaming stick! twitter.com/Holts170/statu…
— Braden Holtby (@Holts170) May 18, 2013
@holts170 what a town eh bud? They just don’t make #wagons like that anymore not to mention my sweet mullet!
— Matt Hendricks (@MattHendy26) May 18, 2013
@jrandalward42 sporting the old 42 tonight pal, hope you like it! #jackie42 twitter.com/MattHendy26/st…
— Matt Hendricks (@MattHendy26) May 18, 2013
@matthendy26 #jackie42 fits like a Rawlings!
— Joel Ward (@JRandalWard42) May 18, 2013
“@jrandalward42: @matthendy26 #jackie42 fits like a Rawlings!” Na I’m a Mizuno kind of fella! Atta Boy
— Matt Hendricks (@MattHendy26) May 18, 2013
Good to see the guys having fun despite a disappointing end to the season– and making a bunch of Caps fans happy in the process.
I’ll end this post with some lyrics from Luke Bryan’s song Rain Is A Good Thing, because this guy knows how to write. Rain makes corn, Corn makes whiskey. Whiskey makes my baby feel a little frisky.
Full disclosure: I grew up on country music as a kid, though I love rock music now. Frederick, Maryland, mann.
