When Alex Ovechkin embraced Josh Norman in a meeting of two of Washington’s biggest sports stars, the cornerback had a question for the Capitals’ Stanley Cup-winning captain.
The Capitals seemed to celebrate as hard as any champion in NHL history. When they get on the ice for the first practices of training camp Friday, they will be just one of 31 teams chasing a title all over again.
“We have to forget already about that and focus,” center Evgeny Kuznetsov said. “We have to move forward. When you taste that win, you want to do it over again.