What Needs To Go Right For The Capitals To Compete Next Season

Every team, or at least every fanbase of every team needs to answer this question before every season. The answer to the question actually isn’t really an answer, it’s a series of questions. Oh life how funny you can be sometimes. It doesn’t really matter how good your team is. Every team will have some kind of goal.

It can be the end of a rebuild and wanting to take that next step. It can be taking that next step and now becoming a contender. Then of course it can be we’re a contender and we need to win this season.

Where do the Washington Capitals stand in their mindset? I don’t think it is much of a secret they want to be competing. They want to be a very good team and make deep playoff runs. Is this team good enough?

Well if one thing is for sure it’s this. This team has a lot of questions. Some teams have a lot of questions, others have just a few. The Caps definitely fall on the, “they have a lot of questions” side of the field.

For the Capitals to compete again they are going to need most these questions to have a positive outcome. Is that likely? Well, I suppose you can be the judge of that when we talk about some of the questions. But, the more questions and the more questions you need to go right the more unlikely it is things will go well. Lets just take a look at some of these questions.

I want to point out that I am writing this in early August. We don’t know exactly what this team will look like yet, so I will not go into a ton of detail here. We may revisit this later when we have a better idea what the roster looks like on opening night.

I also want to start with something that every single team in every sport will have to answer and get the easy one out of the way early.