One Capital achievement down, one to go.
Washington was the best team in the regular season, which won’t amount to a Capitol Hill of beans if Alex Ovechkin and Co., can’t parlay that into some playoff success.
The Caps haven’t been past Round 2 in Ovie’s first two post-season forays and the time is now for that to change.
Taking one last look at the regular season schedule, Washington was clearly the class of the field in a season that yielded its share of surprises. How many people had Buffalo winning the Northeast? Phoenix and Colorado in the playoffs? Yeah, right. Most thought Columbus and St. Louis were teams on the rise, not ones that would be feeling blue by early April.
The 82-game dress rehearsal is over; let’s see what surprises the second-season has in store.
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