Six days – four wins - 18 goals for – 10 goals against – three games at home – all sell outs. Real sell outs.
We won against the Flyers, the Red Wings, the Penguins and the Coyotes.
Alex Semin is having a nice little run since Alex Ovechkin was named Captain. The team is on a nice little run since Alex was named Captain.
We are killing off power plays quite efficiently.
We are scoring on special teams now, too. I think we remain first in the NHL. No team wants to not play “smart hockey” and put us on the power play. The puck will end up in the back of their net.
And on day 7 - tonight, Sunday - we party and raise monies for local charities at Caps Care Casino Night.
This was a full week - a tough week - and perhaps the best regular season week in the club’s history certainly in the last 11 years since we acquired the franchise.
We now have 72 points in the standings and first in the East. Ironically, I think we had 72 points in Alex Ovechkin’s entire first season of play, ground zero of the rebuild. We have 195 goals scored, first in the NHL too. Perhaps we are on our way to a 300 goal season?
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