Puck Newbies and Their First Viewing of 'Slapshot'

Early last autumn I chronicled the story of two young transplants to D.C. from hockey-indifferent origins who got swept up in Red Fever, and purchased a ticket plan for the Caps in 2008-09. More good news concerning that pleasant young couple John and Victoria: their puck disciple-dom progresses -- recently they went to a local movie theater to see 'Slapshot' for the first time. Credit the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring for making such an opportunity possible. For approximately two weeks earlier this spring the artsy theater in the heart of revitalized Silver Spring ran the sports classic concurrent with the Caps' participation in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Better: that theater sells beer and wine with its screenings, so John and Victoria could (and did) view the film with appropriate pucks sodas. Their indoctrination continues. And the occasion merited, I thought, a post-screening interview.  Why did you two decide to travel all the way to Silver Spring and att...