#carly1k

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Dying over:

Dylan Strome making silly faces to amuse John Carlson's baby during the Carly1K ceremony

Dylan Strome getting called "My Stromey Boy" by John Carlson's oldest kid

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Karl Alzner describes the first time he and John Carlson ordered room service ice cream as rookies roommates together when they made the NHL, and the rest of the Caps wax rhapsodic over his crossword skills.

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"We would spend so much time together, and so then it just became a thing where we’d just look out for each other, right? It was rule number one, like an actual rule in the ‘chum’ group, was ‘never leave a chum behind.' We would have to make sure we all left the rink at the same time, get on the bus at the same time. If one of them wasn't on the bus, you'd get off right away and you'd run and figure out where they were to make sure they were there. We'd always have to hold the door for each other, you know? You'd open the door, you'd walk through, you'd say 'thank you,' then you'd stand there and hold it while someone else is-- sometimes four people were holding the door for you as you were walking through. We had a list of like fifty different rules you had to follow, and then you had to remember them. And if you ever screwed up a rule, then you, you were a bad chum that day."

In honor of Carly1K, Karl Alzner recounts the origin of The Chums.

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Capitals: Did you think a Carlson/Carlton crossover would pass us by?

IT'S A BANGER.