Washington Capitals: Top 10 right wings of all-time

T.J. Oshie, Washington Capitals (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
T.J. Oshie, Washington Capitals (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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#2 T.J. Oshie

In one of the biggest trades in franchise history, a trade that may have won them the Stanley Cup three years later, the Washington Capitals sent Troy Brouwer to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for T.J. Oshie. The rest, as they say, is history.

Oshie was already well known around these parts with what he did for Team USA a year earlier. Red, white and blue simply looks good on the Oshbabe. He scored 26 goals and 25 assists for 51 points in 2015-16, his first season in Washington and had a hat trick in a playoff win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of the second round. Oshie would start killing the Penguins ever since as not even an injury could stop him.

The next year Oshie had a career-high 33 goals and 23 assists for 56 points. His numbers took a dip the next season but he had to overcome an injury. He still put up a respectable 18 goals and 29 assists for 47 points. In the playoffs that year he scored eight goals and 13 assists for 21 points to help the Capitals win their first ever Stanley Cup.

The next season Oshie scored 25 goals and 29 assists for 54 points and this past season had 26 goals and 23 assists for 49 points before the season was shut down. He also had three goals in eight playoff games inside the bubble in Toronto.