Those are pretty good numbers and a winning percentage that if extrapolated over a career would make for a hall of fame coaching career. The best numbers in the Capitals’ franchise history for a coach to start a career.

Mike does a wonderful job of providing perspective and answering blistering emails and rants on message boards. Read this article carefully. Thank you.

If anyone is to blame for our flame out in the first round it is me. Fish stink from the head down, so it is fair to criticize me as you have been doing. But it is not appropriate to ask for us to terminate key and talented people that deserve the opportunity to stay and see this journey through to its completion. I have received emails demanding that we fire George and Bruce, and trade Ovechkin and Backstrom. I feel your pain. I want to listen and internalize criticism, but trust me I won’t react to those emails!

We win as an organization. We lose as a unit. We are in it together and we are a tight knit, in-synch group. We have spent many years rebuilding a culture, a system, and a relationship with our affiliates in Hershey and South Carolina while implementing a system that is successful.

We need to tweak, change, and adapt to win and go deeper in the Stanley Cup playoffs. That is a process. It will be painful, but it is one that I am willing to take on, and one that we as a unit are all dedicated to see through.

We don’t quit, whine, finger point or hide. We aren’t anonymous. We are here for you. Go Caps.

We want to win for the benefit of the city and for our fans.We didn’t get it done.

It is hard to talk about. See this article.

But talk we must. If we don’t then we are NOT facing the music, we are dodging the media. We can’t do that, so talk we must. We talk too much. I know that, but if we don’t then we are criticized for hiding from the critics.

It is a weird dynamic. Talk and get criticized or don’t talk and get criticized. We deserve to have people’s critical input, so talk and blog we must.

As I have noted to everyone “win and everything takes care of itself.” I am proud of the folks and players that have spoken to so many people over the last week.

Our heart is in the right place and our fans are our priority.

Onward to improving the team. There isn’t much more we can say, but talk we must til you all say “shut up and get back to work.” I look forward to that day . Go Caps.