The team finished the opening month 6-5-1 and no shortage of fans are vocalizing their displeasure about the current state of affairs in Leaf land.
Those voices only got louder when Alex Ovechkin came to town and offered his honest assessment of the team:
I think for them, they are still a young group of guys and I hope they’re going to learn. It’s up to them how they want to do it and if they want to play for yourself, or if they want to win a Cup, they have to play differently.
There might not have been a happier person in the city than Mike Babcock when Ovechkin made those statements.