The New York Rangers Twitter account is fighting the Washington Capitals the only way it can: with terrible grammar.
As both teams prepare for the next round of the playoffs, the Rangers took a bold stance against the Washington Capitals by banning all capital letters from their tweets during the series. Good luck coming back from this one, Washington Capitals.
so we meet again #nyr— new york rangers (@NYRangers) April 28, 2015
The Rangers account went all lowercase on Monday night and has tweeted up a storm ever since. Though the team has not officially gave a reason for abandoning capital letters, it started after the Capitals beat the Islanders to secure a spot in the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Rangers. Coincidence? We think not.
zamboni comes out to resurface the ice..double on ice session for the #nyr today— new york rangers (@NYRangers) April 28, 2015
back to work! #nyr pic.twitter.com/chFWCk4Pdz— new york rangers (@NYRangers) April 28, 2015
#nyr lines at practice: nash-brassard-msl; kreider-stepan-miller; hagelin-hayes-fast; glass-moore-sheppard— new york rangers (@NYRangers) April 28, 2015
The Rangers and Capitals are notoriously a low-end rivalry in the NHL -- like the Shasta Cola vs. RC Cola of sports. Both teams have put up promising runs but have fallen short when it comes to winning a championship.
Since 2009, the teams have competed against each other in the playoffs four times, with the Rangers and Capitals both winning two of those meetings.
"playing caps again in playoffs creates something special..it's going to be tough series..we have to step up our game"-#nyr @HLundqvist30— new york rangers (@NYRangers) April 28, 2015
#nyr great adam graves has joined beard-a-thon! visit his page now to donate and support @gardenofdreams: https://t.co/KGL7En8XLY.— new york rangers (@NYRangers) April 28, 2015
Ranger fans also joined in on the caps-less Twitter campaign Tuesday night, using the #nocaps hashtag.
i'm joining this now #nocaps— Aidan Joly (@aidanjoly28) April 29, 2015
im so excited for round 2 to start #nyr #nocaps— Justin Faithfull (@JFaithfull_14) April 29, 2015
The Rangers' social team did not respond to Mashable's request for comment.