The Capitals last season finished 50-24-8 for a team record 108 points. At 19-5-6 this morning, over 82 games they project out to 52-14-16, and a tidy 120 points.
Serious Cup contender at such a stratosphere? We think so. That’s not to suggest that the Caps have a blemish-free roster, or vulnerable habits — they do. But 120 points is 120 points.
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A 120 point season is nice, but this team is not going to win the Stanley Cup unless it upgrades the defense before the playoffs. And that hinges on Michael Nylander going away so we can free up cap space. And that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. And that means, to me at least, no Stanley Cup.
Sounds great .. but let’s not count our chickens before they’ve hatched. The team is doing a fantastic job – let’s hope they keep it up – but we’ve still got a lot of season left to go.
Hey the D is a year older and wiser and the offense is able to score basically at will. A defensive acquisition at the deadline, whether an actual D-man or a shutdown forward, might just be the last missing piece…
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