The Washington Capitals sit at first place in the Metropolitan Division.
It’s a good spot but there’s no telling that would be where the Washington Capitals would finish the regular season. Not with 69 games played and just 13 games left to decide the regular season.
There’s a lot you can takeaway with where the Capitals stand right now at a season that hit a pause button. The Caps are 41-20-8 for 90 points. That’s one point ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers, a team that dominated the Caps this season and won the last two meetings in D.C.
The Caps played one of their best games in Pittsburgh in a win over the Penguins and what we didn’t know was that it would be their last best game for a while. Before things got paused, the Caps fell short in a shootout contest to the Buffalo Sabres.
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The biggest thing you can take away from the season is the unpredictability of this team. The 2019-20 Capitals are good, so good that they were one of the league’s best at the start of the season before they cooled off when the calendar flipped to 2020.
John Carlson is enjoying his best season in a Caps sweater with 75 points, 60 assists and 15 goals. Alex Ovechkin has 48 goals and there was a chance he could even reach 60 with the way he was going on the chase to 700 goals.
Jakub Vrana is enjoying a career-high year with 25 goals and 27 assists. T.J. Oshie is on pace to tie a career-high in goals with 26 goals so far on the season. We already know what we’re getting in the future in net with the looks we’ve seen from Ilya Samsonov and Braden Holtby has continued to put up respectable numbers.
What would this team look like right now in an alternate universe with the playoffs going on? I think they would be a strong team ready to take the next step and make a deep run.
But then again, that’s just me.
No matter what, we just gotta keep staying safe. Hockey will hopefully be back before we know it and once it does we’ll appreciate things a lot more.
The Caps are nothing without the fans backing them every step of the way so if there’s a scenario where there’s games without fans we have to send our good vibes their way somehow.
If the season ended today it was another successful season for the Caps. Where would they go from here remains to be seen.