Peerless couldn’t be here, but here are ten things I think about…
- Karl Alzner averaged 3:03 per game in shorthanded ice time in 2016-17 (tops on the club among defensemen) for a top-ten team in penalty-killing. Who gets those minutes this season?
- The Caps had 11 players with ten or more goals last season. Three of them (Marcus Johansson, Justin Williams, and Daniel Winnik) – the third, fourth, and 11th-ranked goal scorers – are gone. Altogether, six players (those three, plus Nate Schmidt, Karl Alzner, and Kevin Shattenkirk) accounting for 68 of 261 goals scored (26.