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The Narrative: Shufflin’, A Must-Win (?), and Special Teams

1. Shufflin’

Having a lot of secondary scoring (and for the Caps, that basically means “anyone other than Alex Ovechkin who scores semi-regularly”) should mean that when a couple of guys aren’t scoring, other guys are, providing a relatively steady flow of offensive production overall. T.J. Oshie, Jakub Vrana, Nicklas Backstrom, Brett Connolly, Tom Wilson and Evgeny Kuznetsov all potted between 21 and 25 goals during the regular season, John Carlson, Lars Eller and Andre Burakovsky each chipped in another dozen (a baker’s dozen for those first two).