After the losses we had at the summer. After losing some heavy man-games on injuries. After slow start while bringing the kids up. We are first on the division, second on the conference. Basicly another good scretch of 10 games from pretty much clinching the playoff-spot. How can the grade be anything less than A-? Was someone expecting us to dominate every game in every statistics and eye-test there is?
Playoffs is a different animal and should be viewed as a "post-season fun activity". Capitals in-season looks to become another big success, business as usual. For a long time I havent felt this excited heading towards the playoffs too, as the team is still doing growth-process and has room to get better, instead like last couple years when they were static from the first day. Will we lose in the second round? Maybe. But happy to be there, with a team that has potential to go all the way, again. This Capitals franchise is a good winning product and with a little luck we will have our day, hopefully sooner than later.
Some people here appearantly would rather have a shot at drafting Dahlin though, than a shot at winning the Cup.