Perspective: After Stanley Cup win, the Capitals now know what’s possible
The Capitals’ Braden Holtby, left, and Alex Ovechkin now know what is possible in the playoffs. By Barry Svrluga Barry Svrluga Sports columnist with beat writing experience on baseball, golf, the NFL, college basketball and college football Email Bio Follow Sports columnist April 10 at 10:19 AM We already know there has never been a Washington Capitals’ spring like last spring. Something about raising a chalice and a parade down Constitution Avenue and a party on the Mall.
“There’s just a belief,” said forward T.J. Oshie, among this generation of Caps who had never ventured beyond the second round of the playoffs before 2018. “There’s a reassurance in here that we have what it takes to get it done.”Oshie said that not yesterday nor last week, but a month ago. That matters. It shows the feeling that hung over this entire season. It was there when the Caps were winning seven straight games in November.
Hagelin wasn’t a Cap last spring, but he knows their pre-Cup-winning iteration from the other side. In both 2016 and 2017, Hagelin was a member of the Pittsburgh teams that bounced the Caps from the playoffs, first in six games and then in seven, en route to Cups of their own. Now, such thoughts aren’t as painful to review. They seem part of the process, necessary even, viewed differently in retrospect than they were in the moment.The path back to the Stanley Cup finals will be difficult. Carolina, which the Capitals swept this season, should be beatable. But beyond that lies either traditional nemesis Pittsburgh or the surprising New York Islanders, coached by the man who led the Caps to the Cup, Barry Trotz.
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