Plus: There wasn’t anything dominant about the Caps game by any means, but this was the kind of team win that always helps the team moving forward and able to build off of. It’s not always pretty and that’s okay, especially for a team with growing pains like the Caps.
Minus: The already very maligned Capitals who are missing Anthony Mantha, Trevor van Reimsdyk, Max Pacioretty, Nicklas Backstrom, and Joel Edmundson (and Nic Dowd just returned tonight), lost one of their promising young defensemen after two periods in Martin Fehervary. The hits keep coming to the Caps.