Three Players That The Capitals Need To Perform Well In The Playoffs

The Washington Capitals will need these guys to step up.

Come playoff time you need your best players to be your best players. To win Stanley Cups your top players need to perform well when the lights shine brightest. The Washington Capitals have been pretty fortunate in that their best players, namely Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, have both shown up and played great in the playoffs.

Looking at stat lines alone, Backstrom has maybe two playoff seasons where he didn’t produce like the team needed. He had two points in nine games in 2011 and three points in seven games in 2013. Ovechkin on the other hand had just one bad stat line in the playoffs. That also came in 2013 when he had just one goal and two points in the seven games.

Washington doesn’t need to worry about these two superstars. Regardless of what the national media has said over the years, these two, for the most part, have always gotten the job done. It’s the team as a whole that failed.

Now who else on the team needs to pull their weight to make this team great? There’s no need to get clever or tricky here. The players on this list will be pretty obvious. With that being said, well start with…