The Washington Capitals have a tight-knit roster, but recently, something dastardly nearly threw that into disarray.<\/p>\n
In the most recent episode of the Capitals\u2019 Line Change Podcast<\/a>, Justin Sourdif, a guest alongside Capitals defenseman Declan Chisholm, discussed a prank he initiated, which he entitled \u201cChili Gate.\u201d<\/p>\n Sourdif utilized one of the team\u2019s (and Kevin Malone\u2019s<\/a>) favorite dishes to try to turn players further against fourth-line winger Brandon Duhaime.<\/p>\n Per the Line Change Podcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n Declan Chisholm: We had a recent [prank]. Was it Chili?<\/p>\n Justin Sourdif: Oh, I mean, yeah, we\u2019ll talk about Chili Gate.<\/p>\n Declan Chisholm: This was a big problem.<\/p>\n Justin Sourdif: So, Andre (the Capitals\u2019 team chef), he made, like, really good chili. Everybody loves it. They\u2019re taking some, and I tried to frame Dewey because guys were yelling, \u2018There\u2019s no chili left,\u2019 and I\u2019d filled up a big tub of it. I went and put it in his dry stall locker. I put it in his cabinet, and I took a picture of it sitting in his stall, and so everybody thought it was Dewey. I think guys caught on it was me now, but he got framed for it.<\/p>\n Declan Chisholm: Right away. What else happened, though? John was in there. Carly was a part of this, too, so he was dying laughing. I didn\u2019t even get to try any. I come in, and I see Sourds has got this huge tub, so like everyone was pissed that it was gone. Yeah, you blamed it on Dewey, but right away, I think Dewey threw you under the bus in the group chat.<\/p>\n Justin Sourdif: Yeah, though they didn\u2019t trust Dewey, they still thought it was him, so suspect number one was Dewey, and I was number two, and then Ralph Rice (Capitals\u2019 team security) was number three. He\u2019s going for seconds, so he got put in there in the team group chat. But it was this big thing, and yeah, John had a field day with it, too. The guys had a good laugh about that.<\/p>\n Sourdif\u2019s story is par for the course for a Capitals team that appears to love driving each other crazy, especially Duhaime, who usually is in the middle of the team\u2019s shenanigans.<\/p>\n Duhaime has been knee-deep in prank feuds since the outset of his NHL career, first going head-to-head with Marc-Andre Fleury in Minnesota<\/a>. Duhaime has continued his hijinks with the Capitals, with recent examples including his Halloween werewolf jump scare<\/a>, \u201cKick Me\u201d signs during the Hockey Fights Cancer skate<\/a>, and the reindeer icing co-conspiracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n