Champions Do Come Through!

Morning after morning another challenge comes up

In the next game that must be won

Nothing much has changed at all

But a lot remains to be done

Folks who doubt our quest for ‘threedom.’

Have never grasped what’s demonstrably true

 We’ve been down this path before, and

Champions do come through!

None can buy the spirit that fills our heart

No one has done what we’ve had to do

Pain and fatigue, we’ve conquered before

And we will beat them this time too

Everyone knows we've paid our dues

And we’ve deposited more than we’ve withdrawn

So in our quest for a third Stanley Cup

We will keep on keeping on

The only back-to-back under the salary cap

And the first since 1997-1998

We will not turn around

Because a three-peat will not wait

We’ll drive ourselves to enormous lengths

We’ll suck it up and dig truly deep

Although at times we may bend a bit

We’ve made a vow that we will keep

So, now we’ve come to a crucial time

Against a recurrent and familiar foe

The Capitals have tried to play rough

And now it’s their time to go

We’ll take them down in game five

And we’ll finish them off in game six

All the while, Tom Wilson will sit

He won’t get to play more dirty tricks

Some may worry we’ve lost something

Some may think another team’s time is due

But we know how to get it done, and

 Champions do come through!

We’ll keep on striding along the road

Showing skill, spirit and courage too

We will persist in playing the speed game, and

Champions do come through!

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12:25 on 5 May 2018