The only place in the Caps lineup that significantly changed from last season, the bottom six has been a mixed bag. For every good performance – like Lars Eller filling in for Evgeny Kuznetsov or Brett Connolly racking up points – there have been just as many problems – like the fella in the picture at the top of this story.
We’ll get to Andre below, but there’s a lot of struggling happening in the bottom six, and the Caps would be well served to address it.
As of November 24
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Next up: the blue line
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