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 […]
The Washington Capitals’ mentors trip kicked off at Madison Square Garden on Saturday afternoon. Playing an equally unrested New York Rangers team with big Metro Division standings implications, the Caps had to dig deep to […]
With a four-game active win streak in tow, the Capitals left Washington last night and headed up to New York for a Saturday matinee with the Rangers. In spite of all reason and the explicit […]
Not many people would dispute that the Washington Capitals have some of the best high-end forwards in the NHL. Led by reigning Conn Smythe- and Rocket Richard-winner Alex Ovechkin, the Caps’ top-six forwards are a […]
I hope you had a perfect Thanksgiving Thursday. I hope you were well fed and surrounded by people who love you. I was both, but still yet I am unsatisfied. Still yet I hunger. The […]
Before Evgeny Kuznetsov went down with a concussion in game 19, the Capitals had a surprisingly stable squad of centers. Really, since Lars Eller joined the club in 2016, the team has been able to […]
There’s a simple method you can use to evaluate special teams at a glance. If you add a team’s power-play conversion percentage to their penalty-kill percentage, you get a number called a special-teams index. If […]
The Capitals have hit the twenty-game threshold with an overtime thriller in Montreal, Tom Wilson has returned to action, a bunch of players are hurt, and the standings are weird. In this episode of the […]
With their overtime win over the Montreal Canadiens, the Washington Capitals have completed their 20th game of the season. Twenty isn’t a magic number after which all the sample sizes are suddenly big enough and […]
Last week, upon Tom Wilson‘s return from what was effectively a 16-game suspension for injuring Oskar Sundqvist, his fourth suspension in roughly a year, I published a story in which I tried to articulate the moment […]
