It’s Nicklas Backstrom’s Number Week, and the Washington Capitals celebrated their favorite soothsaying garden gnome by winning two of their three games. They did not celebrate Andre Burakovsky’s birthday, on which they lost by one goal in overtime to the sixth in the Atlantic Division Florida Panthers. When will this team learn what middle ground means?
In games three, four, and five of the season-record six game homestand, the Capitals faced Vancouver, Colorado, and Florida, and won somewhat predictably and lost as they usually do – after coming back two to three times in unpredictable and unexplainable ways and then falling flat on their faces at the last possible moments. While the Capitals in February are a lot easier to stomach than they were in early November, the last time they were five games into a homestand, there’s always room for improvement.
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