Peter Bondra and Olaf Kolzig at the team’s alumni event this past weekend. (Caps Outsider)
If you google “Olaf Kolzig” or “Peter Bondra” and “retired number,” you’ll find no shortage of blog content making a case for the Capitals to raise #37 and #12 to the rafters. Caps Outsider’s first article on this came back in 2009.
In their half-century as a franchise, the Capitals have only retired four numbers: #7 Yvon Labre, #5 Rod Langway, #32 Dale Hunter and #11 Mike Gartner. Once Alex Ovechkin hangs up the skates in a few years, #8 will join the list.