We’re just a few days into the new year, which still gives us time to take one last look back at 2023 and pin some hopes on the year ahead for the boys in red, white, and blue.
Q1. Assign a new year’s resolution to a player or the team as a whole.
J.P.: I’d beg Spencer Carbery to resolve to not play Evgeny Kuznetsov and Alex Ovechkin together. (Really, I could’ve ended that sentence four words earlier and been fine with it). It simply does not work:
[via HockeyViz]
… but there’s a line combo for Ovechkin that absolutely does:
[via MoneyPuck]
I know I sound like a broken record on this point, but it couldn’t be more obvious or important (to the extent that any of this is actually important).