Keeping up with the Metropolitans: Week 26

With only one week left in the regular season, the Washington Capitals look to be on their way to a third straight Metropolitan Championship Banner again this year. The Capitals, however, are not going to be bringing home the President’s Trophy as they have done the previous two years, for what it’s worth. That honor has gone to a Metro Division team for three years running, with the Rangers having won it three years ago. That run will come to an end this year, as it will now be headed to last year’s Western Conference Champion Nashville Predators, most likely. Boston could mathematically pass the Predators, but the Predators currently have 113 points to the Bruins 110. Boston does have a makeup game against the Panthers after the rest of the league has finished all their scheduled games. That could be an important game for the President’s Trophy.

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