Metropolitan Division Weekly Roundup: The Climbing Canes

The Capitals would be in buy mode to try to go back-to-back, but what more can they really add? They are rotating their healthy scratches because no one truly deserves to be there. Currently Nic Dowd and Travis Boyd have been rotating in and out every game because both are playing well when they are in the lineup. The only player who is being scratched regularly is Dmitrij Jaskin who they claimed off of waivers before the season.

Jaskin is by far the odd man out, but Todd Rearden believes that he is improving every day and deserves more playing time, but what can the Caps do? They have only $13,000 in cap space so they are unlikely to be able to really add another high dollar player. This…