Capitals pick up some new fan cutouts, three pandas from the National Zoo

It was Panda-monium in the stands at the Washington Capitals game and it couldn't get any cuter.

The Capitals had cardboard cutouts of three pandas - Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji - residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute - in the seats at Capital One Arena for their game against the New York Islanders on Thursday.

The National Zoo approved.

Earlier in the day, the National Zoo shared a hype video of one of the pandas chowing down on a sticks [the non-hockey kind] and some "pucks."

The flat panda fans seemed to work too as the Capitals came away with a 6-3 win.