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During rookie season, Andre Burakovsky proved he belonged in the NHL

And so we’ve reached the end, the final day for our end-of-season profiles for every player on the Washington Capitals, a year-in-review of sorts looking at their statistics, story lines and such. The full list of published pieces can be found at the end.

Here’s the last full-length review, on forward Andre Burakovsky.

He insisted he didn’t belong in the stands, so as his rookie season wore on, forward Andre Burakovsky found himself expressing some version of this mantra on a regular basis.

He said it in early January, after Coach Barry Trotz had scratched the Washington Capitals’ youngest player eight times over the previous month.